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Educational webinar will offer a successful strategy and tactics for achieving this goal.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 12 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Rip & Replace or Embrace & Extend to enable a PLM Platform.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

As the platform concept becomes better understood, companies need to assess how well their current PLM solution can meet their needs into the future. The platform model promises a better way to provide capabilities...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ DESIGN In the Age of Experience event was inspiring and a significant number of their clients showcased how they are using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to change the way they innovate and design.
• Dassault Systèmes’ four pillars of design in the age of experience include: Designing Experience, Design is The Business Plan, Design is Tribes, and Design is Science Driven.
• Dassault Systèmes is delivering solutions that seek to enable innovation by providing the data, tools, and time needed for individuals and groups to think and find new and innovative ways to do...

Presentation will discuss a practical set of computer-aided innovation tools that assist engineers and manufacturers in increasing their innovation skills.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Andreas Vlahinos, Principal at Advanced Engineering Solutions, will make a keynote presentation at the upcoming Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois, on June 6 and 7.

In his presentation, Computer-Aided Innovation Tools, Dr. Vlahinos will describe and demonstrate a practical...

The Challenge in Preparing Students for Industry 4.0

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new whitepaper focused on research recently conducted on PLM education 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. What companies need isn’t always what is being provided by educational institutions. This is not just an issue at the university level, education for tomorrow’s work environment must start much...

Presentation will consider the technical skills and capabilities required to change the way in which we work.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 2 May 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Mark Meili, Director of Modeling and Simulation at Procter & Gamble, will make a keynote presentation at the upcoming Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to DMDII, in Chicago, Illinois, on June 6 and 7.

In-silico is a term that describes science done on a computer as opposed...

Presentation will highlight the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Digital Thread across the DoD and industry organizations.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Mr. Brench Boden, Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) and a Senior Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Product & Manufacturing Innovation Driven by Digital Design & Simulation: Challenges, Strategies & Best Practices for Business Success Workshop. The workshop will take place at the UI LABS Innovation Center, home to...

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Key takeaways:

• Aras is positioned as a platform that implements digital threads to enable digital twins and digital transformations to support lifecycles of complex systems of systems.
• Aras announced the release of, or updates to, several major applications and supporting frameworks including: Technical Documentation (Tech Docs), Quality Management System (QMS), and Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP). They also previewed new solutions to support Extended Classification and Variant Management.
• Tony Affuso, former CEO of Siemens PLM Software, is now on the Aras Board of Directors.
• Aras continues to invest in its PLM Community, with support for GitHub and the...

Educational webinar will offer a pragmatic step-by-step plan to implement PLM to manage Additive Manufacturing parts.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 April 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Essential Role of PLM in the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing into Mainstream Production.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Over the years, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been primarily used to produce models, prototypes, and one-off parts made of non-production ready materials, so governance of enterprise solutions, such as...

Two leading PLM global events will co-locate in Gothenburg, Sweden on 17-19 October 2017.

Stockholm, Sweden and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 18 April 2017—Eurostep, the long-time producer of PDT Europe, and CIMdata, the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, are pleased to announce the co-location of PDT Europe 2017 and PLM Road Map 2017.

The two events will be held in conjunction with each other at Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. Participants can choose to attend one of the events or both with a discount. PLM Road Map will take place on October 17, while PDT Europe takes place on...

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Key Takeaways:

• CIMdata believes Dassault Systèmes has made strong progress in developing a platform that enables their customers to leverage simulation to achieve “sustainable innovation.” The base platform includes data management and process automation tools that enable the creation of apps that can be managed and shared to support collaborative workflows.
• The simulation technology of Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand emphasizes multiscale and multiphysics capabilities that enable an integrated approach to model-based systems engineering along with other PLM applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.

CIMdata recently attended SIMULIA’s analyst event at its headquarters in Johnston, RI. The fact...