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The event presents PLM industry trends, 2018 global PLM market growth, and major research topics.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 April 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of its 2019 North American PLM Market & Industry Forum—the first in a series of five global events. This year’s North American Forum was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 4 April 2019. There were 36 PLM industry participants representing 20 leading global PLM software and service providers.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forums represent the world’s premier event for software and service providers focused specifically...

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• Oracle is all-in on the cloud, hosting their cloud-native applications on Oracle-managed cloud infrastructure running on Oracle hardware.
• Oracle is “patient zero” in a major cloud applications outbreak, with the company now relying in-house on their expansive cloud suite.
• Oracle continues to elaborate their Oracle PLM Cloud offering, expanding it to “Digitally Connected PLM” leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

CIMdata attended the first Oracle Business Experience conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV, March 19-21, 2019. This new event attracted more than 6,000...

There are very few events that are designed exclusively for PLM Solution Providers in the PLM economy. CIMdata’s annual PLM Market & Industry Forum is one that comes to mind. Just consider how rare it is to get all the key PLM solution providers together in one place for networking and an open discussion on the state of the PLM industry—something that is at the heart of CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum.

This annual spring event...

This educational webinar will show how PLM can improve after-sales and service operations.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 19 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, "The As-Maintained BOM: Managing the Product Lifecycle After the Sale." The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Many of CIMdata’s industrial consulting clients have aspirations of improving profitability by capturing after-sales revenue including service, repairs, and upgrades. While a few companies are known for effective service and support operations, most only have a...

This major PLM industry event will take place in the Washington D.C. area in May.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 14 March 2019—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ North America & PDT North America 2019 which will take place on May 29 & 30 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA. The theme for this year's event is “PLM for Professionals—Product Lifecycle Innovation.”

Using a format that will offer a series of keynote and plenary sessions designed to facilitate conversations between conference speakers and conference participants, PLM Road Map & PDT NA...

This popular and proven PLM education program with over 500 graduates will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in June.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to the Mercure Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 17-21 June.

Recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering, with over 500 PLM professionals certified to date, the program helps prepare attendees to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom...

The conference will discuss key technology and business issues.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Berenberg Design Software Conference in New York City on March 14. The conference brings together software providers and investment firms to discuss the key technology and business issues they face in their solution markets.

Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation, "Getting to Markets of One," will focus on a key element of the Industry 4.0 vision, the ability to profitably serve individual customers their...

This webinar will discuss PLM challenges around variant configuration management.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 March 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Configuring Products That Delight Your Customers–Advanced Variant Configuration Management.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 18, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

In this webinar, sponsored by Siemens PLM Software, CIMdata will be joined by speakers from Siemens PLM Software and Siemens IEC in a discussion that will explore the current state of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) customers and advanced variant configuration management...

This webinar will discuss the platform implications of Digital Transformation.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 February 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President, Peter Bilello, will take part in a webinar to discuss the platform implications of Digital Transformation in today’s global enterprise.

Many large organizations are dealing with legacy systems that weren’t designed to support tomorrow’s digital processes. Driving digital transformation to meet the demands of processes with fast changing requirements is particularly challenging. Technical debt is holding organizations back from transforming their product-related processes, preventing them from getting ahead of complexity, and...

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Key takeaways:

• The rapid pace of technology change associated with scientific computing and digital engineering has led to a profound change in the skills that engineers need to effectively perform their roles. CIMdata believes that U.S. universities are not adapting engineering curricula quickly enough to meet the needs of industry, particularly for mechanical engineering.
• Today's engineers need to learn how to effectively apply digital (virtual) modeling and simulation technologies within the context of their core engineering courses, in hands-on applied research projects and co-operative education programs.
• The reward and recognition system for faculty at many universities...