Free educational webinar focused on managing simulation as a strategic capability, will take place on February 11, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 5 January 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Simulation Governance: Managing Simulation as a Strategic Capability.” The webinar will take place on February 11 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will propose that simulation is demonstrably superior to hardware-based test and development in a number of key ways.

The webinar will be an hour long and those attending will: gain an understanding of what Simulation Governance is; learn about the best...

2016 schedule will kick-off in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 7-11.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 December, 2015 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that the first CIMdata PLM Certificate program of 2016 will take place at the Kensington Court Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from March 7-11. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The three- or five-day program prepares PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and...

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Key takeaways:

• Manufacturing enterprises need flexible, scalable PLM environments that can adapt to their changing business needs
• Infor PLM Accelerate is built on third party technology that Infor has significantly extended; they have also incorporated Infor’s intellectual property into the solution
• Infor has used their ION^® (Intelligent Open Network) platform to integrate PLM Accelerate with Infor technology and business solutions such as ERP and they plan to incorporate other solutions such Infor Ming.le^TM and Infor Configure Price Quote
• Infor PLM Accelerate is a cost effective, scalable, flexible solution designed to meet the needs of growing manufacturers

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Manufacturing companies...

Report provides a classification for Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces publication of a report based on multi-sponsored research to create an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) Solutions guide to help accelerate the development of the global EIM market for the benefit of both solution providers and industry. Co-sponsors of the research effort are eZassi, Planview, Siemens PLM Software, and Sopheon.

The goal of the research was to address the existing concerns—as well as preempt the emerging concerns—of industrial companies about implementing EIM. Through a series of thought leadership...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk stayed on message about the future of making things, positioning Fusion 360 and Autodesk 360 at the center of their product innovation platform
• Autodesk announced Forge, an initiative to accelerate cloud solution development for their platform, consisting of a platform-as-a-service offering, a developer program, and a $100 million investment fund
• Inventor 2016 introduced AnyCAD, an approach for importing foreign CAD models into Inventor without data conversion unless the user needs to edit the models

Autodesk University 2015 opened to the fanfare of the Star Wars theme and a phalanx of Imperial storm troopers escorting...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces new research on “CONTACT Software: Focused on Customer Success.”

In today’s global economy, industrial companies face competitors from around the world. Customers demand increasingly complex products that require new approaches, new value chains, and new enabling technologies. To meet this changing world, many companies apply product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions. CONTACT Software, a German company with a global strategy, has been successful through their laser focus on their customer’s success. This paper focuses on how CONTACT is evolving their offerings...

Free educational webinar focused on the importance of defining and developing a sustainable PLM strategy, will take place on January 14, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Developing a Sustainable PLM Strategy.” The webinar will take place on January 14 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will address the evolving nature of a typical enterprise and how PLM strategies should be defined and implemented in a sustainable manner—one that naturally addresses change.

According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s President, Peter Bilello, “Implementation of PLM is like...

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Key takeaways:

• Effective, early product costing, especially for manufacturers in the automotive, industrial machinery, and high-tech industries is becoming more critical to a company’s ability to propose, deliver, and service the products that are key to their long-term profitably
• Effective lifecycle costing must incorporate the mechanical, electronic, and software components of today’s increasingly complex products as well as production, service, and other factors
• The SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution enables companies to better manage product costs and quotations in line with strategic targets, especially during the bid and early development phases where design is evolving and...

Attendees will be the first to learn about CIMdata’s analysis of 2015’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 December 2015 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm announces its international 2016 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and program. Approaching their twenty-sixth year, these one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on March 31; Amsterdam, The Netherlands on April 7; Pune, India on April 11; Shanghai, China on April 15; and Tokyo, Japan on April 21.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is the premier industry event series designed exclusively for PLM solution providers,...

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Key takeaways:

• Smart, connected products are becoming the norm in a wide range of manufacturing industries
• Companies must blend and manage software development tools within their existing PLM environments to strive for a single source of truth
• Acquiring Polarion Software provides Siemens PLM Software with cloud-based application lifecycle management solutions and software development expertise to extend their current PLM portfolio

Over the last few decades, manufactured products have become increasingly “smart” as the level of electronics and software have grown. The ubiquity of Internet access and the availability of cheap sensors and computing power make it easy...