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Industry Summary Articles
星期四, 24 1月 2019 08:53
Can Your Enterprise Architecture Support Digital Transformation? (Commentary)
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Key takeaways:
- Non-linear growth in product complexity and global competition are driving the need for digital transformation.
- Surviving and thriving in today’s world require a modern enterprise architecture that creates a digital thread that properly manages digital twin configurations across the full lifecycle so effective decisions can be made.
- Compromises in legacy or monolithic architectures inhibit fast, accurate impact and traceability analysis, two critical decision processes in today’s fast paced innovation-driven business world.
- The Aras PLM Platform provides a strong foundation for digital transformation initiatives and...
星期三, 23 1月 2019 09:43
Validating Autonomous Vehicles through Simulated Driven Miles (Commentary)
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Key takeaways:
- MSC Software brings to Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence (Hexagon MI) a deep understanding of the challenges faced by the automotive industry in developing safe and reliable autonomous vehicles without physically driving billions of miles.
- Hexagon MI offers numerous simulation tools as part of its autonomous road vehicles development platform, VTD, for representing vehicle dynamics, traffic and road scenarios, active safety sensors, and motion-control intelligence.
- Hexagon MI’s simulation offerings have been widely applied in the development of automated vehicles to: 1) study realistic traffic conflict scenarios; 2) produce reliable vehicle response simulations at different levels of...
星期二, 22 1月 2019 10:55
CIMdata Releases White Paper on Industry 4.0
The white paper focuses on efforts in Germany, India, China, Japan, and the United States
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 January 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of a white paper focused on Industry 4.0, a German-defined initiative that has been taken up in countries around the world.
The Industrie 4.0 initiative started in 2006 as one point in a 10-point high-tech German strategic plan and has consistently promoted the Internet of Things and services since then. Their effort recognized the importance of social platforms, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT)...
星期二, 22 1月 2019 00:00
Industry 4.0—A Regional Update
Over the last several years, the information technology (IT) world has dramatically changed due to several strong influences including social, mobile, big data/analytics, and the cloud (SMAC). Some would add the IoT to this list. The next big thing seems to be digitalization, which leverages solutions addressing the SMAC and IoT trends to help companies fundamentally transform their businesses. According to a recent survey, top-performing businesses are currently spending 34% of their IT budget on digital transformation, with 44% planned in 2019.
星期四, 20 12月 2018 11:13
CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on Driving a PLM Center of Excellence
This free educational webinar will explain the roles of a PLM Center of Excellence and how it can be used by organizations to achieve PLM success.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 December 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Driving a PLM Center of Excellence.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, January 10, 2019, at 12:00 p.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.
As companies continue to realize the value of a comprehensive PLM strategy to support their businesses, they invariably run into problems governing increasingly complex PLM solution suites....
星期二, 11 12月 2018 13:01
CIMdata Publishes “Evolving from Digital Prototypes to Physics-Based Digital Twins”
The Key Role of Modeling & Simulation in Enabling Closed-Loop Lifecycle Performance Engineering.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 December 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a whitepaper titled “Evolving from Digital Prototype to Physics-based Digital Twins.”
While the concept of a digital twin has been around for several decades, since the early days of NASA, it has gained a great deal of attention within industrial manufacturing companies over the last several years with the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the context of Industry 4.0. While the use of physics-based...
星期二, 11 12月 2018 10:46
Evolving from Digital Prototypes to Physics-Based Digital Twins
With the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things and millions of smart, connected systems, the concepts of digital twin and digital thread are gaining rapid acceptance across many industry segments and promise to revolutionize the way that companies design, build, and maintain tomorrow’s complex cyber-physical systems and interconnected “systems of systems.” The physics-based digital twin is enabled by digital modeling and simulation technologies supporting closed-loop lifecycle performance engineering and will be key to realizing the promised business benefits of digital transformation.
星期二, 11 12月 2018 09:29
CIMdata Announces its 2019 PLM Market & Industry Forum Series
Attendees will be the first to learn about CIMdata’s analysis of 2018’s PLM market results.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 December 2018 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, announces its 2019 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and theme. The one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on April 4; Frankfurt, Germany on April 11; Pune, India on April 15; Beijing, China on April 19; and Tokyo, Japan on April 24.
CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is designed exclusively for PLM software providers, PLM service providers, PLM systems integrators, and PLM...
星期三, 05 12月 2018 10:07
The Opportunity of Better: Autodesk University 2018 (Commentary)
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Key takeaways:
- Autodesk has just about completed their business model transition from perpetual licensing to subscription.
- “The future of making” is still central to their vision, with automation and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) playing significant roles.
- Autodesk sees the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) market as a huge manufacturing opportunity in the next 10 years.
CIMdata had the pleasure to attend Autodesk University 2018 (AU 2018), held in Las Vegas, NV on November 12-15, 2018. Over 11,000 attendees could gorge on over 650 classes, many presentations, and other sessions. Autodesk also stated that thousands of others attended...
星期四, 29 11月 2018 13:09
HCL Enables After Sales Monetization through Digital Thread (Commentary)
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Key takeaways:
- After-sales operations are complex, often a business within a business as a silo not tied to product development and manufacturing.
- Fast access to accurate product data is critical but far from the only requirement to improve after-sales operations. Warranty activities, repair development engineering, technical publications, supplier management, field services, and shop support are all critical elements that need to be incorporated.
- While many capital and durable equipment companies see after-sales service as an untapped profit opportunity, the reality is few are realizing the opportunity. For most it is still an immature business without a...
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