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iPoint’s MFA & LCA software enters the construction sector

We are proud to announce that iPoint-systems has joined the international non-profit association ECO Platform as a member. ECO Platform aims for mainstreaming life cycle assessments (LCA) for buildings and infrastructure projects by provision of reliable product data in an affordable and effective way. With our LCA tool Umberto and iPoint Product Sustainability, iPoint is an important addition to the ECO Platform.

A main objective of the platform is to promote and contribute to sustainable development, including a low-carbon economy and resource efficiency in the construction sector, by coordinating the development and provision...

By making the PLM Certificate Standard Program^® available as a virtual-live offering, CIMdata is responding to the demands of PLM Professionals seeking access to this globally acclaimed program.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 7 October 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that the PLM Certificate Standard Program^® will be offered this coming December as part of the firm’s Virtual-Live PLM Certificate Program offerings.

Early in 2020, CIMdata added the virtual-live PLM Certificate Core Program^® to its PLM Leadership curriculum. This move provided a way for the broader PLM community to experience CIMdata’s world-class PLM education opportunities...

An e-Works^[1] comment on the PLM industry in China

In 2020, China's GDP increased 2.3%, the slowest pace in more than four decades. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, China's PLM market showed strong resilience with a growth rate of 9.4%.

Fast recovery from COVID-19

According to a report from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the world economy in 2020 shrunk by 4.3%, over three times more than during the global financial crisis of 2009. The Chinese economy grew 2.3% in...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 6 October 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Craig Brown, Executive Consultant, will make a presentation in the Advanced Manufacturing Track of Future.Industry 2021. The presentation will take during day 2 of the event on Wednesday, October 20th. The presentation, “How Key Technologies are Converging for a Smarter, More Connected World,” will share findings from a recently conducted survey that asked respondents to share their experiences with digital design tools.

Future.Industry is a virtual event that will explore...

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Key takeaways:

• The shift to smart, connected products in a wide range of industries revealed the need for systems design thinking to tackle ever-rising complexity while ensuring products meet performance and safety requirements.
• Engineering, manufacturing, and service methodologies and processes need to evolve to take advantage of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) practices.
• Integrated MBSE provides engineers and managers the ability to see the effects of field results in context of a living product—it facilitates digital twins.
• Organizational adoption of MBSE methodologies requires training, coaching, and systems engineering skills as part of a transformation project.
• Accenture’s MBSE Practice and...

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

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 5 October 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Why an mBOM Alone Isn’t Sufficient.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 28 October 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Many of CIMdata’s industrial clients regard the mBOM (manufacturing BOM) as the single source of truth for product structures. The thought process is, “We build the product from the mBOM, so it must be...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 4 October 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will participate in a panel discussion to kick off day 2 of Propulsion 2021. The panel discussion will consider the premise, PLM & QMS - Better Together or Apart?

Propulsion 2021 is a virtual event for manufacturing and business leaders responsible for delivering products in a design anywhere, build anywhere, sell anywhere world. Attendees will learn how winning companies embrace new...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 29 September 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2020 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These additional reports follow the release of the 2020 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2020 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across various industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2020, and forecasts PLM investments for...

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Key takeaways:

• Onshape optimizes the development process by providing advanced, instant collaboration between designers, suppliers, and product stakeholders.
• Users gain remote access to Onshape through a browser with no hardware restrictions.
• Onshape offers the agility to explore alternative design solutions.

Recently the world experienced a dramatic upsurge of web-based communication. Teachers leverage cloud-based tools to instruct their students; office workers meet in web-based meetings to conduct their business. Already a factor in industrial collaboration, cloud-based interaction solidified as the preferred mechanism for engineer-to-engineer and OEM-to-supplier information exchange. Yet, most industrial collaboration solutions only support asynchronous collaboration—a contributor...

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CIMdata Highlight

In a recent briefing to CIMdata, Siemens Digital Industries Software^[1] showcased technical innovations that enable customers to create and leverage an executable digital twin (xDT^[2]). An xDT is a smart, connected virtual representation of a physical asset, including its behaviors, that senses what is happening to it, applies a simulation or algorithm, and then optimizes and updates itself. It processes sensor information (at the edge or in the cloud) to recognize its environment and then adjusts to those...