Industry Summary Articles

Founding sponsors among leading PLM solution providers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the initiation of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program focused on how a Product Innovation Platform is a critical enabler of an enterprise’s digital transformation (DT).

In many companies, senior leaders view DT as a strategic initiative that may or may not be related to their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) efforts. Their PLM messages themselves may be limited in scope to their current implementations and need an expanded vision—the Product Innovation Platform. This collaborative research program is designed...

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Key takeaways:

• People who design and sustain products will benefit by using the virtual world to extend and improve the real world.
• The 3DEXPERIENCE extends well beyond manufactured product support.
• Product innovation platforms (such as Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform) enable innovation.
• Platforms don’t innovate, people innovate, but the platform is a critical innovation foundation.
• Dassault Systèmes continues to expand and enhance their cloud offering.

Dassault Systèmes’ North American 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM 2019 was held in Las Vegas from 13 to 16 May. This year’s theme was “Industry Renaissance: Sustainable Innovation and Business for a Sustainable World.” Mr. Dean Marsh, Managing...

First Module of the 2019 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 4 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata 2019 Executive PLM Market Report. This report provides an executive-level view of CIMdata’s comprehensive analysis of the PLM market, with summary charts on the overall market and on specific PLM solution segments (including the chart below). It also includes perspectives on current trends in the PLM industry and how they may affect current suppliers and investments.

Distribution of 2018...

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Key takeaways:

• Today’s complex, smart, and often highly configurable products require an end-to-end digital product innovation platform that can be extended and scaled as the business evolves.
• CONTACT Elements is a highly modular product innovation platform that supports the design and operation of smart products by enabling the end-to-end digital thread and resulting digital twins.
• CONTACT Elements’ architecture is built on a robust set of open and de facto standards, including REST, Python, SQL, HTML 5, XML, and LDAP.
• CONTACT Software offers a robust set of proven applications that leverage CONTACT Elements, including its PLM-enabling solution (CIM...

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Key takeaways:

• Aras’ mission is simple—Great, Good, Important—great for shareholders, good for stakeholders, and solving important problems.
• Recent investments of $110M from top tier investors are helping support Aras’s 55% annual growth rate, acquisitions, headcount increases to almost 500 people, and internal process retooling.
• Customer presentations from Microsoft and GM described the scale and scope of problems that can be solved with Aras Innovator.
• Aras continues to focus on the product lifecycle from requirements and systems engineering through simulation, design, manufacturing, to MRO.

CIMdata attended the Aras ACE 2019 user conference in Phoenix from...

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CIMdata is very pleased to learn how Siemens US is supporting veterans as they return to civilian life after their dedication and service in the United States armed services. During the recent Siemens Spotlight on Innovation, Ms. Barbara Humpton, CEO Siemens US, described Siemens programs and initiatives for training and hiring U.S. veterans. These include:

• The Siemens PLM USA Veterans Initiative Program, which provides free PLM training to veterans of the US Armed Forces.
• An application that helps veterans determine how their military skill classifications can be applied to civilian jobs and careers.
• A commitment to...

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On May 8, 2019, CIMdata met with Siemens Digital Industries Software marketing leadership to be briefed on the latest and coming capabilities for NX—Siemens’ flagship mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) solution. During the briefing, Siemens focused on what they consider to be six major areas of differentiation:

• Productive modeling environment
• Generative design & integrated validation
• Electromechanical design
• Collaborative design management
• Industrialized additive manufacturing
• Immersive visualization

CIMdata was impressed with the current NX capabilities and their planned future evolution. Already in place is “NX Continuous Release.” Siemens’ objective is to eliminate the current distinction between a major release and maintenance releases. Instead,...

The presentation will discuss the trends driving change in the global PLM market.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will deliver the keynote address at the SAP Product Lifecycle Management Forum in Chicago, Illinois on June 11.

Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation, "PLM is Dead, Long Live PLM," will consider the trends that are driving change in the global PLM market, which for 2018 is estimated at $47.8 billion a 9.4% increase over 2017. Mr. Przybylinski will also be on hand during the event to moderate...

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Key takeaways:

• PTC’s standard out-of-the-box (OOTB) configuration of Windchill helps manufacturers improve collaboration across their global operations by enabling central management of data from multiple computer-aided design (CAD) systems and tracking changes to engineering bill of materials (EBOMs).
• PTC’s OOTB Windchill implementation ensures consistent future upgrades by leveraging REST and OSLC standards, as well as industry best practices gleaned from years of collaboration with customers.
• PTC’s OOTB Windchill implementation future-proofs customers by helping them leverage new capabilities immediately while supporting future process and technology changes.
• PTC with its OOTB Windchill implementation offering shoulders the responsibility of keeping...

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Key takeaways:

• Vertex Software enters the Collaboration market to share product data across the extended enterprise.
• The Vertex solution exploits cloud technology to deliver high speed rendering and BOM structure breaking free of device and scaling dependence.

Vertex Software LLC, located in Ames, Iowa, was founded in 2017 with a goal “to transform how people and companies share and collaborate with 3D product data across the extended enterprise.^[1]” The founders have already distinguished themselves as innovators in manufacturing visualization in their prior years with EAI (Engineering Animation Inc.), the...