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Key takeaways:

• PTC continues its evolution in support of IoT, demonstrating the convergence of the digital and physical worlds. Its IoT support, with ThingWorx at the heart, links the physical world to the digital twin while their Augmented Reality capabilities bring data in the digital twin onto the physical world.
• PTC clearly described their vision for IoT and PLM, and demonstrated how they support tight connections between digital representations and physical products using their platform.
• PTC is building out ThingWorx as a comprehensive IoT platform and is now adding applications that provide focused business functionality and...

Complimentary webinar will look at the data security technologies that are needed to support Industry 4.0 and global data sharing.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 October 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Chris Gregory, CIMdata’s PLM Success Practice Manager, will participate in a webinar, titled “The Industry 4.0 Challenge is on: Keeping your Intellectual Property Safe,” on November 14, 2017.

The webinar, sponsored by NextLabs, will share how the next generation of digital rights management protects data across the extended enterprise. Attendees will learn about best practices and the most effective strategies for:

• Ensuring only authorized...

CAM Market Grew 6.9% in 2016

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the 2017 CIMdata CAM Market Analysis Report (MAR), the twenty-sixth annual study of the global Computer-Aided Machining (CAM) market. CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide CAM software and related services market grew by 6.9% in calendar year 2016. The estimated end-user payments grew from $1.81 billion in 2015 to $1.94 billion in 2016. According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s VP of Research, “The CAM results were solid in 2016, with few...

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Key takeaways:

• Product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions have been adopted in many industrial sectors, including the retail, footwear, and apparel (RFA) segment, well beyond PLM’s origins in aerospace and automotive.
• Successfully implementing PLM in RFA firms requires deep RFA industry experience and process knowledge, and access to the levers of power in the executive suite of RFA firms.
• Accenture offers access to the latest PLM technology, a deep bench of savvy RFA professionals, and a long history of successful PLM implementations.
• Accenture is also expanding the boundaries to social, analytics, crowd sourcing, predictive analytics,...

Presentation will offer attendees insight into large-scale model-based systems engineering at The Boeing Company.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Mark Williams, a Lead Project Engineer for The Boeing Company's Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) organization, will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s upcoming workshop at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois. The workshop will take place on June 6 and 7. In addition to Mr. Williams’ presentation, attendees will hear from: DMDII’s CTO, Brench Boden; renowned rapid product development expert, Dr. Andreas...

First Publication from Collaborative Research with Leading PLM Solution Providers

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of an eBook on cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) adoption, the first deliverable from a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to PLM strategies and processes in industrial companies.

This research program focused on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of PLM, defined by CIMdata as the category of data and process management solutions at the core of most industrial PLM implementations. In 2016, CIMdata estimated the...

Special report will be published in the Times of London in late June.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that it will be a publishing partner with Raconteur for its upcoming Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) special report.

In this partnership, CIMdata is working with Raconteur to create a 16-page report that will illustrate the value of PLM as a business strategy and transformation tool. It will also serve to educate senior members of the business community as to why an effective PLM strategy should be recognized as a competitive weapon.

The...