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This PLM-focused event will take place in November in Paris, France.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Bromma, SWEDEN 12 June 2025—CIMdata and Eurostep are delighted to share the details about the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT Europe 2025 conference, scheduled to take place at the Renaissance Hotel in La Defense, near Paris, France on 5th and 6th November. This premier PLM-focused event, under the theme “PLM’s Integral Role in Digital Transformation From Strategy to Execution: Elevating PLM to an Enterprise Business Solution, the PLM Professional's Road Map to Success,” promises an engaging exploration of the critical enablers of Product Lifecycle...

CIMdata’s Mark Reisig will address attendees at Hexagon Live, taking place in Las Vegas, NV.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 11 June 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation, announces that Mark Reisig, Sustainability Practice Director, will present at the upcoming Hexagon Live conference. The event will take place from 16 to 19 June in Las Vegas, NV.

In his presentation, "Emerging Trends in Sustainable Business Practice," Mark will examine trends shaping sustainable practices, such as reducing product carbon footprints, improving supply chain visibility, and creating eco-friendly products. The presentation...

This annual educational webinar will share results from CIMdata’s 2025 global PLM status and trends survey.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 10 June 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2025 PLM Status & Trends.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 July 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

This eagerly awaited annual webinar will provide insight into CIMdata’s global PLM Status & Trends research survey...

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Key Takeaways

• Hitachi's unusual position, being referred to as both a global industrial conglomerate and a digital services provider referred to as “One Hitachi,” enables Hitachi Digital Services (HDS) to test and refine solutions internally before offering them to clients, ensuring practical and proven innovations.
• HDS emphasizes collaborative engagement with clients, leading to deeper trust, better business outcomes, and scalable transformation.
• HDS' strategic directions (Vision 2027 and Lumada 3.0) focus on sustainability, innovation, and the convergence of IT, OT, and AI to lead global industries through the next wave of transformation.
• HDS is redefining AI...

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Key Takeaways

• Applying AI techniques to requirements’ engineering and management throughout product development enables OEMs to enhance knowledge application and establish end-to-end traceability that speeds product development and upgrades.
• Modern product engineering needs integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) and PLM environments, with AI to improve visibility of regulations and safety standards and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the complete product lifecycle.
• PTC’s enterprise ALM solution portfolio (Codebeamer, Pure Variants, and PTC Modeler) powers model-based systems engineering, requirements management, product line engineering, risk management, test management, and whole product engineering workflows.
• PTC’s ALM solutions are integrated with...

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Driving Environmental Sustainability with CONTACT Software

Key Takeaways

• Embedding sustainability in PLM enables the integration of environmental factors into lifecycle activities, including Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), along with sustainability-related material and supplier data, supporting informed decision-making and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• CONTACT Software enables the aggregation of CO₂-equivalent (CO₂eq) emissions using PLM data across development phases while supporting variant management and PCF calculations. It integrates sustainability-related materials data to provide a transparent view of cost and environmental impact.
• CONTACT Software enables strategic procurement, resulting in better decision-making by seamlessly integrating supplier data with environmental...

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Making Variability a Competitive Advantage in the High-Tech & Electronics Industry

Key Takeaways

• Product platforms, product variants, modular design, and software-defined features are common, proven strategies to efficiently meet diverse and changing customer demand improving top and bottom-line value in many industries, but especially in high-tech and electronics.
• Ensuring product architecture, designs, and production methods share a common approach to managing product variability enables maximum efficiency and reduces risk of errors.
• Software-defined products (i.e., products where features and options are implemented by enabling capabilities via software activation) are becoming more common and used to drive...

This annual educational webinar will focus on the PLM market results for 2024.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 13 May 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is excited to announce an upcoming free educational webinar, “2025 PLM Market Update.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 12 June 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will run for one hour.

The PLM Economy, CIMdata’s term for the global ecosystem of software and services providers that assist industrial companies in achieving their PLM objectives, has grown strongly over the past decade. This webinar will focus on the results for...

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Key Takeaways

• Applying AI techniques to requirements’ engineering and management throughout product development and use enables OEMs to enhance knowledge application and establish end-to-end traceability that speeds product development and upgrades.
• Modern virtual engineering ecosystems need integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) and PLM environments enabling AI to improve visibility of regulations and safety standards and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the complete product lifecycle.
• PTC’s enterprise ALM solution portfolio (Codebeamer, Pure Variants, Modeler, and RV&S) powers model-based systems engineering, requirements management, product line engineering, variant management, test management, and engineering workflows.
• PTC’s ALM solutions are integrated...

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25 Years of Innovation and a Future-Ready Digital Thread

Key Takeaways

• Aras celebrated their 25th anniversary, at the Aras Community Event (ACE) in Boston, March 31-April 3, 2025, with nearly 500 attendees from over 150 organizations.
• Aras is focused on helping customers create digital threads and the event showcased Aras’ technology, plans, and how their clients are implementing and leveraging the platform to create their digital threads.
• Everyone is interested in AI and Aras did not disappoint, their keynotes described their vision of how AI will enable a future-ready digital thread and how AI is...