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Seamlessly connecting the disconnected with an end-to-end, extended enterprise approach.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper focused on Configit’s end-to-end configuration lifecycle management approach titled “Configuration Lifecycle Management: Seamlessly Connecting the Disconnected.”

Product complexity is increasing, in part due to the incorporation of embedded electronics and software in today’s smart, connected products. This increase in the level of complexity must be handled by an efficient configuration management methodology with appropriate enabling technologies. Traditional configuration management approaches can no longer manage the complexity and disconnects that many companies...

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Key takeaways:

• The long-awaited merger of Geometric and HCL is complete, and the combined entity has the capabilities to support next generation products and evolving business models using a newly created dedicated service line known as GeometricPLM.
• HCL leverages the best of both organizations, the traditional PLM strengths of Geometric, with the IT and product realization expertise of HCL, providing customers and prospects end-to-end services for their product lifecycle needs.
• HCL’s capabilities include commercial software products to support product development such as CAMWorks, DFMPro, and GeometricEDGE, and is further strengthened by major investments made by HCL...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Cypress, California from December 4-8, 2017.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Southern California from December 4-8. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program helps prepare 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 program is facilitated by...

The presentation will share China-Euro Vehicle Technology AB’s PLM journey.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 19 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Erik Gräns, Director of PLM Development at China-Euro Vehicle Technology AB (CEVT) and PLM Solutions Development Lead at the Geely Group (Geely), will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ 2017. The event will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017 on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe will take place at the same location on October 18-19.

CEVT was founded in 2013 with the assignment...

Private and Public Volumes Focus on Detailed and Overall PLM Market Results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2017 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This two-volume report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly-evolving PLM market for calendar year 2016. The public and private reports discuss the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts that pertain to China; an important and quickly expanding...

Educational webinar will show the business value of managing the relationship of data and processes between the core enterprise software solutions of PLM and ERP.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Creating Value When PLM and ERP Work Together—ERP is PLM’s Most Important Customer.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The product development lifecycle is supported by a number of solutions that allow the data relevant to product design, production planning,...

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Key takeaways:

• The deployment of 3D model-based enterprise (MBE) processes is rapidly expanding across multiple industry verticals and the use of 3D PDF plays a central role in their effective implementation.
• Anark Corporation and International TechneGroup have formed a strategic partnership to provide users a production quality 3D PDF solution for 3D data and document publishing, including model-based definition (MBD), validation, and exchange through the integration of ITI’s CADIQ and Anark Core technologies supported by their combined implementation expertise.

The exchange of product design and manufacturing data between an OEM and its supply chain partners is...

The presentation will consider the fundamentals needed to implement a lightweight engineering backbone for digital transformation.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that, Dr.-Ing. Fabrice Mogo Nem will round out the keynote line up at PLM Road Map™ 2017 in collaboration with PDT Europe 2017. PLM Road Map 2017 will take place on October 17 at The Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. PDT Europe will take place at the same location on October 18-19.

In his presentation, “Lightweight Engineering Backbone for Digital Transformation,” Dr. Mogo Nem will consider how...

Key takeaways:

• M&A activities result in the need for an enterprise PLM backbone, unifying all product design assets across disparate business units.
• PLM transformations require large scale data migrations, which are often the highest risk, most over budget process in moving to a consolidated PLM platform.
• Using an open source toolset enables agility and multiple implementation options for PLM migrations; decreasing overall PLM implementation schedule risk and cost

In today’s economy, organizational realignments, mergers, acquisitions, technological upgrades, and security enhancements are all motivating factors for firms to consolidate and upgrade legacy and current PDM and other PLM-enabling...

Fifth Module of the 2017 PLM MAR Report Series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 September 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Geography Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2017 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2016. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

The PLM market grew to $40.6 billion...