Position Papers

This educational webinar will expose the potential risks and propose pragmatic steps to mitigate, and potentially prevent, threats of cyberattacks.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Securing the Additive Manufacturing Digital Thread.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

The highest number of incidents of cyberattacks occur in the manufacturing industry. Attacks like malware, trojans, viruses, worms or bots are often introduced through the ubiquitous email, the most common method of sharing...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Santa Clara, California from December 3-7, 2018.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 September, 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Santa Clara, California from December 3-7. 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 individual evaluations of achievement. The...

This presentation will offer an alternate view of the Systems Engineering "V" in a Model-Based Engineering Environment.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 21 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Donald Farr, a Senior Technical Fellow on the Systems, Support, and Analytics Integrated Technology Team at Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T), will make a presentation at PLM Road Map EMEA 2018. This one-day event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. The events will take place on 24 & 25 October at Le Meridien Hotel, Stuttgart, Germany. The theme for PLM Road...

This webinar will show how additive manufacturing is redefining Lean within the work environment.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that James White, Director for Additive Manufacturing Strategy, will take part in a webinar to discuss how additive manufacturing (AM) is redefining Lean within the work environment.

In this webinar, “Lean Manufacturing Renaissance Enabled by Additive Manufacturing,” Mr. White will define how major companies like Boeing and Apple navigate the second wave of Lean.

Mr. White has over 30 years of PLM, Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, and general manufacturing industry experience. He...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses now available

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of ten additional country-specific 2018 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2018 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2017 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2017, and forecasts PLM investments...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) is building a comprehensive set of increasingly integrated solutions, creating a ubiquitous innovation platform that customers can leverage to develop new products, systems, and business models.
• Siemens has expanded the view of generative design to include mechanical/geometry, electronics systems, and generative architecture-level view. in what they’re calling Generative Engineering.
• Siemens closed loop digital twin strategy is the broadest and deepest in supporting their customers’ digital transformation. Their approach to autonomous mobility expands their digital twin strategy, from the virtual and physical product to the driving experience. Thus, companies can pursue...

The presentations will take attendees through Moog's additive manufacturing journey and will look at Blockchain in the context of additive manufacturing and product lifecycle management.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 14 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. James van Oss, A&D PLM Strategist and Architect in the Aircraft division of the Space and Defense Group at Moog, Inc. and Mr. Peter Kerl, Engineering Systems Manager, at Moog, Inc., will each make a presentation at PLM Road Map EMEA 2018. This one-day event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. The events...

The presentation will consider PLM’s role in the digital revolution.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 13 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Mikko Jokela, Head of the Engineering Applications Centre of Expertise at ABB, will present at PLM Road Map EMEA 2018. This one-day event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. The events will take place on 24 & 25 October at Le Meridien Hotel, Stuttgart, Germany. The theme for PLM Road Map is “Digitalizing Reality—PLM's role in enabling the digital revolution.”

To enable digitalization opportunities and benefits requires fully-fledged, end-to-end...

The presentation will consider what is needed to achieve value from product lifecycle management (PLM).

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 12 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Daniel Dubreuil, the Chief Digital Officer for Products and Services at Safran, will make a presentation at PLM Road Map EMEA 2018. This one-day event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. The events will take place on 24 & 25 October at Le Meridien Hotel, Stuttgart, Germany. The theme for PLM Road Map is “Digitalizing Reality—PLM's role in enabling the digital revolution.”

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The presentation will explain why it is necessary for OEMs to design and network horizontal systems at the upper level of system architecture.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 11 September 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that noted PLM expert, Dr.-Ing. Martin Eigner will make a keynote presentation at PLM Road Map EMEA 2018. This one-day event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. The events will take place on 24 & 25 October at Le Meridien Hotel, Stuttgart, Germany. The theme for PLM Road Map is “Digitalizing Reality—PLM's role in enabling the digital...