Industry Summary Articles

The Development of Cyber-Physical Products requires “Intelligent System Design”

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 November 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Enabling Innovation across Engineering Domains.” This eBook introduces the key aspects of Cadence’s Intelligent System Design strategy, several typical industry applications, and its expected business benefits. It includes a discussion of the major elements of successfully implementing an integrated approach to cyber-physical system design and analysis leveraging the suite of solutions provided by Cadence. Why is this information highly relevant to you and your company?

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Key takeaways:

• Digital transformation is a significant trend within manufacturing companies and requires new more automated ways of working that leverage digitalized information.
• While technology is available to transform to a model-based enterprise (MBE) strategy by leveraging implicit and explicit knowledge stored in 3D CAD models, most companies still use drawings and a variety of siloed repositories as their sources of truth thus breaking the digital thread.
• By employing a Design for X (DFx) strategy within a MBE, companies can evaluate, verify, and validate designs by leveraging the knowledge embedded in 3D CAD models. This not...

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Key takeaways:

• The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) reduces the effort needed in assigning part classifications to product models.
• Teamcenter supports the fundamental ISO/IEC standards which in turn provide support for the advanced ECLASS master data standard for part classification.
• Systemic robustness ensures Teamcenter can support other standards like IEC, UNSPSC, etc., in the future.
• Newer advanced classification methods can coexist with traditional basic classification procedures in the same Teamcenter instance so users can adopt Advanced Classification at their own pace.

Classification is, by definition, a systematic arrangement of part models in groups or categories according to established...

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Key takeaways:

• The effective application of physics-based modeling and simulation is seen as a critical core functionality in the product development decision-making process.
• The need for innovative model-based design and analysis technologies that can connect performance analysis data, processes, and knowledge across functional domains is critical as product complexity continues to grow even as product development cycles continue to be shortened by competitive pressures.
• Rapidly generating CAE analysis results and sharing a compressed 3D file representation in a web-based, interactive, and visual environment is an industry best practice today.
• Unfortunately, the vast majority of engineering organizations still...

This webinar represents the kick-off for CIMdata’s Sustainability Research Initiative.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 26 October 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Sustainability and PLM.” The webinar will occur on Monday, 15 November 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

The time of humans as the dominant species has been but a blip since the Big Bang. But human activity has had an outsized impact on the planet, particularly since the Industrial Revolution. The result of this impact is becoming all too clear, and it has...

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On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, Aras Corporation announced that Mr. Roque Martin will immediately take over the CEO role from founder Peter Schroer. Mr. Schroer will assist with the transition and continue his position on the Aras Board of Directors.^[1]

Aras has been a CIMdata PLM Mindshare leader since 2017 and is well known for their innovative business model and solution architecture. Mr. Schroer founded Aras in 2000 with the vision of creating a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that could be easily configured and updated as...

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Helps achieve sustainable practices right and meet “Mission Zero” goals

Key takeaways:

• Automotive market demands have shifted and are focused on being more sustainable or “green,” while the classic competitive pressures of cost, time to market, and quality continue to increase.
• Electronic and software content continues to grow within automotive products as a cost-effective way to address market demands, but they add significant complexity to product development and production processes.
• Battery- and fuel cell-based propulsion systems required to meet zero emission goals require many new technologies to be leveraged and produced at scale.
• ESI’s virtual car prototypes help...

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CIMdata enjoyed attending Mendix World 2021: a virtual event delivered the 7th through 9th of September 2021. Mendix^TM, a global leader in low-code application development, was acquired by Siemens AG in August 2018. It is a strategic component of Siemens Digital Industries Software’s solution and technology portfolio—Xcelerator. Mendix is being leveraged throughout the portfolio, with a particular emphasis on enhancing and extending Teamcenter and MindSphere. At the same time, use of Mendix is continuing to expand within multiple industries and is not limited to working only with Siemens solutions.

This webinar is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar offerings.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 October 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Next Step: Being Prepared for the Next Disruption.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 18 November 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

We are currently experiencing a rapid acceleration of PLM-related digital transformation. PLM professionals should be keenly aware of digitalization’s promise, as well as the processes and technologies that enable it. To stay ahead, PLM professionals must look to the next disruption...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk University 2021 was an excellent virtual event highlighting the company, its strategy, and its solutions.
• While the sessions collectively spanned Autodesk’s many products and business segments, the highlight was the strategic importance of the Forge platform to the company’s future.
• Autodesk moved to the cloud earlier than many PLM solution providers and the cloud-native Forge platform is central to both its technical and business future.
• The company emphasized that its journey to reimagining its extensive technical capabilities as APIs and microservices built on Forge will take time but the early returns are exciting.
• Key will...