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The Simulation & Analysis market grew by 13.1% to nearly $6.5 billion in 2018.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata Simulation and Analysis (S&A) Market Analysis Report. This report deepens the S&A market analysis conducted as part of the CIMdata 2019 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The well-known PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during calendar year 2018. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical...

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• 3D printing increases creative freedom while cutting the cost of making complex products.
• 3D printing is reinventing manufacturing by moving production closer to the end-consumer, opening possibilities for new business models.
• Wipro’s 3DAssess uses proprietary algorithms to automatically check 3D models for potential geometry, topology, and wall-thickness related issues to validate the overall integrity of the models to be 3D printed.
• Wipro’s 3DAssess automatically performs manufacturing feasibility assessment through integrity checks, types of material used, type of 3D printers used, manufacturing techniques, and the optimum number of parts.
• Wipro’s engineering and process consulting service helps integrate...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Rise of Simulation.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

A decade ago, CIMdata's Dr. Keith Meintjes gave a keynote address at a Hewlett-Packard simulation conference. His presentation, "The Rise of Simulation," traced the history of commercial simulation (CAE) tools and made some predictions. In this webinar, CIMdata will take a look at the forces that have driven the current state of product and...

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• Infor continues to make rapid progress on their cloud vision and has the customer success to show for it.
• Their multi-tenant CloudSuite offerings, built on Infor’s strongest ERP solutions and delivered by industry, have significant customer uptake and interest.
• A rich platform of shared services, Infor OS, broadly enables Infor CloudSuite offerings with business intelligence, AI, and common user experience capabilities.
• Recent equity investments have turbocharged development, helping the company make rapid gains in product capabilities and reach.

Infor held their annual Infor Innovation Summit event at their Chelsea offices in New York City on June...

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On May 22, 2019, CIMdata attended Siemens Spotlight on Innovation 2019 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, FL. The Phillips Center is a Siemens smart building technology partner^[1] and is a showcase for various Siemens offerings. During the meeting Siemens claimed it had over 4,000 employees working in the greater Orlando area. During the morning of the one-day event, Siemens conducted a briefing for analysts while the afternoon session included several presentations that highlighted how users of Siemens technology and...

Contributing to Aerospace Innovation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Siemens Empowers Aerospace Design with NX and Fibersim.”

The air transport industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. Given its predicted growth and the pressure on operating costs in the aerospace and defense industry, intense competition is driving the pace of technological innovation. To increase production rates to meet the high demand from commercial and defense clients, airframe manufacturers need to improve their operational and manufacturing performance. To be competitive, airframe manufacturers look to...

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• The attendees were very open in sharing their positive experiences with the DFMPro solution.
• HCL introduced new Thermoforming and Casting modules in DFMPro.
• HCL shared their vision of a future where knowledge capture will be automatic based on actual product operating conditions.

CIMdata attended HCL’s DFMPro annual users meeting, DFX Insights’19, in Detroit on April 16, 2019. The one-day event was focused on HCL’s DFMPro software solution created to help designers check their product designs for manufacturability and assembly, allowing problems to be found and corrected early in the product design process. DFMPro offers a...

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Dassault Systèmes continues to expand their business, announcing their acquisition of Medidata, a US-based leader in clinical technology used to bring new treatments to the market. The all-cash offer of $5.8 billion is about nine times revenues and marks their largest acquisition to date.^[1] This is a high multiple but not inconsistent with other acquisitions by PLM market leaders. It is also just over the company’s pre-announcement market cap.

The acquisition of Accelrys in 2014 provided the core of a new brand for Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA.