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• CIMdata believes Dassault Systèmes has made significant progress simulating the entire Additive Manufacturing (AM) process. Since their acquisition of ABAQUS, Inc., in 2005, the company has transformed the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools from evaluating discrete items to simulating the entire AM lifecycle.
• The briefing highlighted the significance of simulating everything from raw material to end-use production ready parts, not only prototypes.
• Dassault Systèmes is clearly focused on the Industrialization of AM.
• Companies are in transition from static-electronic to live-digitally connected processes, and companies need to eliminate silos and unite all functions into...

The presentation will share how PLM can be used as a platform to digitalize manufacturing.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 29 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will make a keynote presentation at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s EU Industry-The Digital Change Conference. The conference will take place on 31 May in Paris.

Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation, “Product Lifecycle Management as a Platform to Digitalize Manufacturing,” will provide an update on the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market, which includes simulation and analysis and a range of other solutions. He will also...

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• A global stalwart in mid-market enterprise resource planning, IFS is taking on today’s market challenges, relying on the cloud, and delivering on IoT and AI.
• EQT, their private equity owners since 2015, have continued to invest in the company, its products and ecosystems, and M&A, extending their years of strong financial performance.
• IFS’ investments, particularly on the cloud, seem perfectly timed to hit the cloud adoption wave evolving enterprise software.
• With these investments, and the work in IFS Labs and R&D, the company is well positioned for the years ahead.

CIMdata recently attended the IFS World...

How to fully leverage Additive Manufacturing from one-off prototypes to end production.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook titled “Industrializing Additive Manufacturing.”

Hobbyists and early adopters used Additive Manufacturing (AM) machines to make freeform organic shapes they couldn’t make any other way. Now, driven by investments by industrial companies seeking to improve engineering processes and make better products faster and cheaper, attempts are being made to use AM for industrial end-use product production. Big challenges remain such as materials, regulatory compliance, speed, price, and reliability,...

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• Industrial companies such as Audi, BMW, Microsoft, and Schaeffler are using the Aras PLM Platform to solve complex problems in support of their digital transformation programs.
• The Aras PLM platform continues to grow in breadth and depth as execution against their public product roadmap continues.
• Aras is starting to deliver on last year’s announcement on support of Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO), an important and often extremely profitable lifecycle phase.
• Last year’s $40M investment by Silver Lake and GE Ventures has enabled Aras to significantly grow their staff, including a doubling of the product management...

This educational webinar will explore the industrial additive manufacturing landscape.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Barriers & Solutions to Industrializing Additive Manufacturing.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Huge advances have been made over the past five years to bring the prospect of final production-ready Additive Manufacturing (AM) parts closer to reality. Numerous examples prove that it is possible but at what cost? How much investment in terms of human...

The presentation will provide an update on the PLM market.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 22 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, will make a keynote presentation at ESTECO’s International Users’ Meeting entitled, “Trends in Product Development and Manufacturing.” The meeting will be held on 23 and 24 May in Trieste, Italy. Mr. Przybylinski’s presentation will take place during the afternoon of day 2 of the event, on 24 May.

In his presentation, Mr. Przybylinski will provide an update on the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market, which includes simulation and...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of PLM Road Map North America 2018. The theme for the event was Charting the Course to PLM Value Together: Expanding the Value Footprint of PLM and Tackling PLM’s Persistent Pain Points. The event took place at the Tysons Corner Marriott, near Washington, Dulles. 2018 marks the 25th year that PLM Road Map has been in operation. The event comprised presentations made by PLM users representing several industry verticals interleaved with short vignettes about key topics of interest presented...

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• SAP Infodays for PLM’s focus on PLM and advances in the portfolio makes it a much more informative event for SAP customers than other venues.
• SAP is rapidly enhancing their PLM offering with support for authoring tools spanning the full product lifecycle, enhanced by elements from SAP Leonardo.
• Customers are driving this innovation pace, helping define necessary enhancements.

CIMdata attended the SAP Infodays for PLM event, held in St. Leon-Rot, Germany on 8-9 May 2018. This session brings together SAP customers, primarily from Germany and Central Europe, SAP partners, and SAP staff to highlight on-going...

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• A successful CAD collaboration visualization solution must be cost effective, easy to use, and platform independent.
• HCL’s Glovius solution meets all three business challenges and delivers important capabilities into the hands of downstream users of design data within the organization and the supply chain.
• Glovius directly imports CAD and standard CAD formats without needing a license to any CAD solution.

Collaborative visualization holds the promise of transforming product development—reducing time to market, improving product quality, and enhancing product capabilities to best satisfy customer and market needs. Initial entry into collaborative visualization begins with the ability...