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Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conferences.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Eurostep, organizer of PDT, have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map EMEA and PDT Europe conferences. The participating sponsors are Aras Corporation, ESI, ESTECO, Granta Design, HCL Technologies, Oracle, and TCS. The events will take place on 24-25 October at Le Méridien Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany.

“We are honored to have these leaders in PLM solutions and services choose to sponsor PLM Road Map EMEA 2018 and PDT Europe...

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Key takeaways:

• Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) has a deep understanding of the verification and validation challenges faced by the automotive industry related to safety certification of autonomous vehicles.
• Siemens offers numerous solutions for simulating accident scenarios, active safety sensors, sensor-fusion, systems-of-systems, system-on-chip, functional safety, vehicle dynamics, and robust control.
• Simulation offerings by Siemens accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) by: i) generating a large set of realistic accident scenarios, ii) reliably simulating the response of complex systems, and iii) optimizing system-performance while minimizing energy consumption.
• Simulation offerings by Siemens are not only helping manufacturers develop safe...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk continues to build out their product innovation platform vision to enable an integrated “Design-Make-Use” lifecycle view.
• Their Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle solution is empowering a range of industrial companies to improve their products and processes, including more support for engineering work-in-process.
• Autodesk is expanding the use of generative design technology to other manufacturing processes and other domains, like AEC.

CIMdata had the pleasure to attend the 5th annual Autodesk Accelerate event in Toronto, Canada in September. As in past events, the crowd of approximately 275 was a good mix of Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle customers, prospects,...

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Key takeaways:

• Infor, a leading enterprise software company, has seen dramatic growth with their CloudSuite strategy, delivering cloud-native multi-tenant applications using Amazon Web Services.
• They are rethinking enterprise processes and applications and deploying new Infor Go capabilities that deliver mobile and cloud apps that work in concert to support anytime, anywhere access to Infor offerings.
• Their work in analytics with their Birst acquisition and their Coleman initiative are bringing augmented intelligence to the point of work.

On September 24-27, 2018, Infor, a leading enterprise software firm, held Inforum 2018, their annual customer event, in Washington, DC. Infor...

The sessions will take place on October 9 & 10 in Novi, Michigan. 

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Dr. Keith Meintjes, a CIMdata Executive Consultant, will host two sessions at the Lightweighting World Expo, which takes place at the Suburban Collection Showplace, in Novi, Michigan from October 9-10. The sessions Dr. Meintjes will host are concerned with vehicle exterior design and manufacturing.

Through a variety of strategies, automobile manufacturers are removing hundreds of pounds of mass from their products, while maintaining interior space and meeting...

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Aras, a leader in the enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) software market, recently announced^[1] its core tenets for managing simulation data in anticipation of exponential growth in demand for simulation at all stages of the product lifecycle. The company projects a growing wave of simulation and analysis driven by increasing product complexity, competitive pressures to reduce time to market, and enabling technologies such as IoT and Digital Twin.

As part of this simulation and analysis strategic initiative, Aras has also just announced the acquisition of Comet Solutions...

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Key takeaways:

• SAP’s vision for the Intelligent Enterprise is expansive, spanning their traditional portfolio and SAP Leonardo, all powered by their digital platform, SAP S/4HANA.
• SAP has made great strides in their intelligent product development (IPD) offering, combining organic development with key partnerships, like with ANSYS on predictive engineering, to support their vision for networks of digital twins across the lifecycle.
• Their support for systems engineering, advanced variant configuration management, mechanical design, and electrical design continues to improve, with managing software assets coming soon.
• SAP’s cloud-first development strategy for SAP S/4HANA positions SAP and their customers to...

Product Data Should be the Foundation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 October 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on how PLM enables digital transformation for companies in the Food & Beverage (F&B) industry.

This eBook describes how PLM enables digital transformation and why a lifecycle approach to product definition management is important to digital transformation programs. The eBook reviews how PLM affects speed to market, product cost, and product quality. It also notes how critical traceability and impact analysis processes are to digital transformation in Food & Beverage companies. It then closes...

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...