Siemens’ Teamcenter SLM solution enables companies to create an effective collaborative and closed-loop feedback environment among product design, manufacturing, and service. It also enables OEMs, EPCs, and production line builders to plan for service optimization as they design and produce their products, and Owners/Operators to optimize their service time and activities.

Oracle's cloud-based business platform includes a comprehensive set of solutions that many discrete manufacturing companies have identified as necessary to support their innovation initiatives. With Oracle’s platform customers can leverage a single data model architecture which standardizes and structures a continuous, end-to-end innovation process offering real-time and connected data for cross-organization stakeholders. This approach helps companies make data-driven decisions faster, proactively identify and mitigate risks, and respond to market shifts with more relevant innovations.

Siemens is introducing a set of Quality Management capabilities built upon Teamcenter’s lifecycle collaboration backbone solution including defining and managing a Bill of Quality.

On 20 July 2021 Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) announced an agreement with SENER Group to acquire the FORAN ship and marine structures design, analysis, and manufacturing planning platform. FORAN is well known in marine and offshore circles, and particularly in shipbuilding as one of the premier ship design and analysis solutions currently available.

Ansys knows that coupling between different physical phenomena becomes more complicated in three dimensions and as new load cases are discovered. Their expertise and track record in mechanical and electrical products is well known. They are ready to help chip designers understand the physical couplings as they architect new kinds of 3D-IC layout and packaging.

On June 9 and 10, 2021 Dassault Systèmes (3DS) held a virtual industry analyst event. Dassault Systèmes expanded their vision in 2020 from things to life, with an increased emphasis on life sciences, healthcare, infrastructure, and cities. Virtual twins play a key role in each sector.

On May 26, 2021, Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) conducted their virtual Realize LIVE and User2User events. Event sessions covered a wide variety of topics and customer use cases. This commentary provides highlights of some of the sessions that CIMdata attended and is by no means an exhaustive review of all that was presented.

By combining the Electronic System Design solution with their proven multi-physics simulation solutions, being continuously improved by AI/ML, Altair has now positioned itself with tools and techniques to model, simulate, and analyze products and their connection with smart IoT devices and services—be they robots, cars, or home appliances and gadgets.

Siemens Digital Industries Software recently announced the release of Simcenter™ Studio, a web application that allows engineers and data scientists to create workflows in computational notebooks that enable generative engineering of complex systems.

TCS’ agile approach has been matured based on the imperatives of a variety of customers including automotive and industrial OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Agility is a significant capability outcome for manufacturers who adopt Neural Manufacturing which has seen accelerated adoption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.