Configuration management is a fundamental capability requirement for any product produced in series and any complex machine. To this end, Siemens’ cloud-based, advanced machine engineering solutions supporting end-to-end product lifecycle development are critical to ensuring a company’s success amid a competitive landscape.

On 17 November 2022, PTC announced Its intent to acquire field service provider ServiceMax, a cloud-native, product-centric field service management (FSM) solution provider. ServiceMax provides a suite of cloud-native FSM capabilities built on the Salesforce platform. CIMdata believes this acquisition will strengthen PTC’s closed-loop product lifecycle management (PLM) offerings by extending the digital thread of product information further into downstream enterprise asset management (EAM) and FSM capabilities, and provide their customers with expanded options for better managing their in-use physical assets.

In CIMdata’s opinion, the UberCloud Engineering Simulation Platform offers an impressive suite of capabilities to enable simulation-driven design by enabling multi-disciplinary analyses and web-based collaboration for globally distributed product development teams. The ability to integrate best-in-class CAE tools and complex simulation workflows from different software vendors and across engineering disciplines can significantly increase engineering productivity and ultimately enable physics-based digital twins for use in R&D, product design, manufacturing, and in-service operations.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending IFS Unleashed 2022, the IFS user conference, in Miami Beach, FL on October 10-13, 2022. For IFS, this was a return to an in-person event for the first time since 2019, and approximately 1,500 attendees filled the halls, exhibit space, and meeting rooms at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

ShareAspace iAIM provides a proven and performance minded solution that seeks to overcome the lifecycle data challenges rampant across the AEC/EPC-O/O industry. This solution should be considered by those who want to overcome the issues commonly found in the AEC/EPC-O/O value chain.

Linx-AS is a long-established consulting business focused on helping SAP customers develop formula-based products that implement PLM and EH&S solutions. Overall, CIMdata is impressed by Linx-AS’s focus on SAP, the breadth and completeness of its software and service offerings, and its many impressive reference customers. CIMdata recommends process manufacturing businesses planning to implement or extend SAP’s PLM solutions to consider Linx-AS.

CIMdata attended the first in-person Autodesk University (AU) since 2019, held in New Orleans, LA on 27-29 September 2022. Over 9,000 people attended in-person, with thousands more expected to attend virtually around the world.

The digital logistics solutions as part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio helps enable proper logistics planning and execution and is fully connected to the digital thread created by Xcelerator’s cloud architecture. Beyond planning, its modeling capabilities provide the tools needed to address supply chain disruptions helping logistics professionals react efficiently and effectively. Companies that need to incorporate efficient logistics into their digital thread to support transportation planning and execution should review the digital logistics solutions from Siemens.

In CIMdata’s opinion, the pSeven product portfolio provides an excellent suite of capabilities that enable simulation-driven systems development via effective MDAO process automation and web-based collaboration for product development teams. It also provides robust design exploration capabilities that work across multiple domains in the enterprise such as physics-based digital twins for use in R&D, product design, manufacturing, and in-service operations.

On September 14, 2022, Aras announced a strategic OEM licensing partnership with AVEVA (OTC: AVEVF) that includes AVEVA licensing Aras’ SaaS product innovation platform.