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Now in its 24th year, this event will take place in conjunction with PDT Europe in Gothenburg, Sweden

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ 2017 which will be held in collaboration with PDT Europe. Both events will take place on October 17-19 at the Clarion Hotel Post, Gothenburg, Sweden.

PLM Road Map 2017 brings together the perspectives of thought leaders within automotive, aerospace & defense, and other industries who are evolving their company’s PLM solutions to support new business opportunities and value propositions...

Measuring Organizations’ PLM Readiness

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on Tata Technologies’ PLM Analytics assessments that help companies understand where they are in their PLM journey.

This eBook describes Tata Technologies’ PLM Analytics program which is designed to provide insight and guidance for developing a PLM strategy within an enterprise. Organized into four components (see the figure below), the first level enables a company to start with a quick overview assessment to identify issues and potential directional priorities for their PLM program. With each successive tier,...

Paper sets the bar for assessing the lifecycle management capabilities of a platform.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 13 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new position paper entitled, “Product Innovation Platforms: Definition, Their Role in the Enterprise, and Their Long-Term Viability.”

In this position paper, CIMdata offers an enhanced understanding of platforms in terms of their long-term viability specifically focusing on answering the following questions:

• What is a practical working definition of a product innovation platform?
• How is the long-term viability of a product innovation platform measured?
• What makes product innovation platforms vital to...

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Key takeaways:

• With a “system of systems” approach, Product Innovation Platforms are enabling next-generation PLM.
• The robustness of Product Innovation Platforms is measured with five imperatives and seven strategic characteristics.
• It never makes sense to develop tomorrow’s products with yesterday’s tools.
• Industrial companies need to review and update their PLM strategy and enabling solutions to be successful.

In the more than 30 years that CIMdata has been covering the PLM market, the landscape...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ aspires to the role of catalyst and enabler for realizing critical structural transformations across industry value chains that will allow customers to maximize benefits and profits from economic disruptors like the current trends such as smart, connected products and digitalization.
• Dassault Systèmes’ is driving their 3DEXPERIENCE platform to the next level, positioning the platform as an operating system that powers their portfolio and their customers’ operating models, as well as being a business model that powers their marketplace and their customers’ value networks.
• Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform revenues in 2016 grew 30%...

Considering the challenges in preparing students for Industry 4.0.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on research recently conducted on PLM education, at all levels, from high school through university. Industrial companies are experiencing a very serious gap in new employees’ understanding of PLM and their lack of practical experience using a multitude of concepts that exist in the PLM realm. The result is slower PLM adoption and delayed financial and other benefits. The general lack of PLM education is being aggravated because academic institutions are...

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Key takeaways:

• Consumer Product (CP) companies have used PDM and PLM for years to support product design and manufacturing, but functions to deliver a consumer-ready product to the distribution channel or retail shelf have historically been siloed.
• In consumer product companies packaging, labeling, and artwork are critical to getting a saleable product to market quickly.
• Most product development oriented PLM solutions do not support merchandise and line planning; therefore, category and brand managers have limited visibility of those factors.
• PTC’s FlexPLM, based on the Windchill platform, is a proven solution for retail and consumer products that can...

A CIMdata eBook in Partnership with Mackevision Corporation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on how a programmatic approach to marketing visualization can promote artistry and creativity, improve efficiency, and drive deeper customer engagement.

The ways in which consumers engage with brands and make product choices has changed radically. Prospective customers are far more likely to use online resources to research and compare products before ever visiting a “brick and mortar” retail environment, and increasingly consumers are willing to conduct the entire purchase experience online. This...

In this free educational webinar participants will be provided with a high-level review of obsolescence research and requirements being undertaken by the CIMdata administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 July 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Managing PLM Solution and Data Obsolescence.” The webinar will take place on August 10, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT).

Managing the risks associated with PLM solution and data obsolescence within the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry, and other industries, is a large and growing problem. The long lifespan of...

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Key takeaways:

• Like a TED conference with an Additive Manufacturing (AM) theme, speakers came from government agencies, industrial companies, academia, and tech startups, hosted by Dassault Systèmes, to deliver the current state and future vision of an end-to-end AM design to manufacturing lifecycle.
• Problems such as repeatability, warpage, cost, time, and lack of education all present barriers to adopting AM to make production parts. Fortunately, the solution providers, material makers, standards and academic institutes which spoke at the event are rallying to help customers make AM parts for end use.
• Dassault Systèmes demonstrated their 3DEXPERIENCE suite...