The journey to digital transformation is essential, challenging, and continuous. By addressing the complexities of product design, regulatory requirements, and organizational silos, companies can unlock the full potential of digital threads.

HCLTech’s expertise in building robust, scalable solutions positions them as a key partner in helping organizations navigate this dynamic landscape and achieve sustainable, long-term success. CIMdata recommends that companies wishing to enhance their digital thread consider HCLTech in their evaluation and selection process.

CIMdata attended Autodesk University 2024 held in San Diego, CA, and attended by nearly 12,000 global industry professionals. Overall, CIMdata viewed the event as a significant indicator of the company’s commitment to a data-centric, AI-powered design future, aiming to provide a more holistic and integrated experience for those companies needing to enhance their connectedness and collaboration across the product lifecycle.

Commentary looks at the capabilities of Autodesk Fusion Manage, a cloud-based PLM solution. CIMdata recommends that companies wishing to deploy a flexible, open, cloud-based PLM that can grow as their business requires, consider Fusion Manage in their evaluation and selection process.

Accenture is applying its business knowledge across multiple industry verticals, with its depth of capabilities acquired from specialist design and engineering firms and considerable skill in genAI to help software-defined product companies, to embed genAI in their offerings, and help their industrial clients to shorten the time to value with this game-changing technology.

SSI ShipbuildingPLM provides a platform for ship designers, builders, and services organizations in which they can create, manage, and maintain the critical information that is required to support many use cases for this very demanding industry. It supports many forward-looking concepts that are required to help shipbuilders and navies modernize digitalization of their operations.

CIMdata believes that SSI’s ShipbuildingPLM solutions are well conceived and built to support both civil and military ship design, construction, and support operations using a suite of tools and processes tailored for the shipbuilding industry. Any shipbuilding enterprise that is trying to transform their digital capabilities should include SSI when evaluating and selecting shipbuilding solutions.

CIMdata believes that companies that can embed sustainability insights early in the development process and across their supply chain have a competitive advantage in the marketplace—enabling them to improve their efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability, which leads to long-term profitability. CIMdata recommends companies wishing to address their sustainability goals, reduce their PCF, lower their costs, and streamline their supply chain and logistics operations include Siemens Teamcenter Product Cost Management and Supply Chain Management solutions in their evaluation and selection process.

Content Migration Manager for CAD Solutions from Siemens enables migration of complex parametric, history-based parts, assemblies, and associative drawings from CATIA, Creo, SDRC I-DEAS, and SOLIDWORKS to NX with intelligence intact. This is a big deal, as recreating parametric data and associative drawings can take a lot of time, impacting budgets and schedules.

CIMdata attended Oracle CloudWorld 2024, held at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV on 9-12 September 2024. According to Oracle staff, more than 15,000 people attended this four-day event. The information covered in this Commentary is a small fraction of the content presented at CloudWorld; it focuses on PLM or PLM-adjacent topics.

Based on CIMdata’s industrial consulting and market research, companies are increasingly turning to the cloud to help support their lifecycle processes. GoEngineer worked with their partner, Dassault Systèmes, to bring cloud PLM capabilities to companies of all sizes. For one fixed price, customers start with core capabilities like Engineering Item Management, BOM Management, Change Management, and Configuration Management.

Companies need new, robust digital solutions that enable the design, packaging, and manufacturing of the latest innovative battery subsystems. Hexagon’s suite of simulation, manufacturing, and gigafactory visualization solutions provides a foundation to address the needs of battery manufacturers as the competitive environment intensifies. At the 2024 Battery and EV Show recently held in Detroit, Hexagon demonstrated these capabilities to many interested engineers and managers. CIMdata has seen the breadth of Hexagon’s solutions across the key disciplines that will lead battery energy storage engineering for stationary and mobility products. CIMdata recommends that companies looking to improve their battery engineering and manufacturing agility include Hexagon solutions in their evaluations.