DXC's expertise in de-customization and smart standardization of PLM and MES solution implementations applied to global engineering and manufacturing businesses is invaluable for such organizations to become nimble and modern, to improve their speed of innovation, and balance their production capacity to suit regional demands while reducing structural costs and optimizing their manufacturing footprint.

Siemens PLM Software moves generative design technology forward by enhancing topology optimization within its most recent software release of their flagship CAD solution, NX 12. CIMdata recognizes the effort Siemens has expended in the implementation of topology optimization and mesh geometry to provide their NX users with cutting-edge technology to help them advance their product design efforts and improve their competitive positions in the market.

CIMdata attended Autodesk’s 25th Autodesk University (AU) in Las Vegas on 12-16 November 2017. Approximately 10,000 attended, including customers, partners, analysts, media, and, of course, the Autodesk organization in force. What we saw at AU is just the beginning of Autodesk’s renewed vision and expansions of their generative design technology and CIMdata looks forward to seeing how customers leverage these new capabilities.

Siemens has teamed with Bentley Systems to deliver a solution that allows product engineers to complete the loop from design through to operation and monitoring performance on the factory floor. CIMdata applauds Siemens and Bentley for demonstrating the effectiveness of the digital twin and encourages them to continue the evolution of the concept to provide improved manufacturing, better quality, and cost performance for their users.

Global value chains are a fact of life in most industries today, and developing accurate cost estimates across global value chains often requires melding incompatible spreadsheets and costing processes. Working with leading customers, SAP developed the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution to help address these issues. Early successes in discrete industries are promising, and recent wins are from new industries such as consumer products, food, and fashion.

Over the years, CIMdata has kept track of several different methods of parts classification. Parts classification remains a challenging endeavor that progresses slowly while requiring considerable dedicated resources. CIMdata is convinced that Wipro’s machine learning driven parts classification solution offers a very effective tool supporting a fast and economic way of classifying parts.

SAP Leonardo is an excellent step for SAP in its business evolution. While they will continue to be a dominant on-premise enterprise software provider for some years to come, the future is in the cloud. The industry trends addressed by the Leonardo technologies are revolutionizing the global economy and companies trying to compete in it.

CIMdata believes that digital twin technology is just at the very beginning of finding its way into actual applications. Many solution providers are still developing appropriate offerings to effectively enable the ultimate digital twin use cases. CIMdata believes that Mevea’s end-to-end digital twin solution approach is matchless and very promising.

CIMdata recently attended Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Forum—North America in Florida. The Forum was informative about where Dassault Systèmes is and where it plans to go. The breadth of areas that can be supported by aspects of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is both broad and deep. CIMdata looks forward to the next new things Dassault Systèmes will bring into the PLM space.

CIMdata's insight into the recent IPO by CAE software pioneer, Altair Engineering.