Leveraging AI, Semantics, and Ontologies within your PLM Integration Strategy
A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with Tom Gill, Principal Consultant, CIMdata
12 February 2026
11:00 EST | 08:00 PST | 17:00 CET
Have you encountered the following challenges while trying to bridge data silos?
- The Integration Value Gap: Your PLM initiative is behind schedule, over budget, and failing to deliver on the promised value due to disconnected systems.
- The "Swivel-Chair" Effect: Your business processes are slow because data is trapped in silos, creating breaks in the digital thread.
- Brittle Connections: Your existing technology cannot adapt to new requirements.
- Strategic Uncertainty: You lack a clear roadmap for integrating Semantic Technologies and AI into your PLM environment and need direction.
Integration strategy is a core element of successful PLM environments, as product definitions are shared across many data sources. Properly connecting data and maintaining the necessary connections is fundamental to configuration control and efficient business process execution. In this webinar, CIMdata will explore how Semantic Technologies and Ontologies can be used to bridge data silos, thereby creating a “single logical source of truth.” We will also examine how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can be used to facilitate the data mapping.
This webinar will provide a practical roadmap for bridging data silos by leveraging Semantics, AI, and Machine Learning to create a single logical source of truth.
Attending this webinar will help you to:
- Quantify the Impact: Identify and understand the business value of connecting data silos.
- Deconstruct the Complexity: Understand why integrating data and systems is complex, and based on current product complexity, can lead to failure.
- Evaluate Approaches: Learn about the leading approaches to improving PLM, and Enterprise data and system integration.
- Build Your Roadmap: Define and understand the critical implementation elements required to deploy a modern, PLM integration strategy.
- Master Modern Methods: Understand the benefits of modern data and system integration approaches.
- Future-Proof Your Digital Thread: Understand why modern integration approaches are used to improve digital thread connectivity.
- Leverage AI/ML, Semantics, and Ontologies Realistically: Hear about typical use cases for leveraging AI, Semantics, and Ontologies in an integration strategy.
Who should attend?
This webinar will benefit people from many parts of an organization, including:
- PLM Strategy & Digital Transformation Leaders: Individuals responsible for justifying and managing enterprise initiatives who are struggling to realize the promised value of a connected digital thread.
- Enterprise & Solution Architects: Technical leaders tasked with moving away from brittle integrations toward a flexible, future-proof data architecture.
- Engineering Operations Managers: Those overseeing teams currently bogged down by manual data reconciliation and seeking to reclaim engineering capacity through automation.
- PLM Solution Provider Professionals: Employees in sales, marketing, and implementation who need to articulate the strategic advantages of Semantic Technologies and AI/ML to their industrial clients.
During the webinar, you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.