NC Market Grew 7.3% in 2014

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 June 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the 2015 CIMdata NC Market Analysis Report (MAR), the twenty-fourth annual study of the global Numerical Control (NC) market. CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide NC software and related services market grew by 7.3% in calendar year 2014. The estimated end-user payments grew from $1.64 billion in 2013 to $1.76 billion in 2014. The market growth rate reflects solid overall NC spending, continuing the recovery from the downturn in the global...

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Key takeaways:

• Portfolio, product, and process complexity issues are easy to identify and difficult to quantify but have real impact throughout the product lifecycle
• Actively managing complexity enables resources to be allocated to higher value activities such as developing profitable product differentiation and more efficient product production
• Identifying and eliminating sources of non-value-added complexity is not enough, applying a targeted governance strategy and supporting processes can prevent complexity from creeping in
• Accenture’s end-to-end product complexity management solution focuses on managing product portfolio, design, and process complexity to reduce costs, drive efficiency, and improve profitability

The Business Impact of...

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Key takeaways:

• With continued lower oil prices, the Oil and Gas Industry is focusing on efficiency and robust supply chain management by harnessing digital technologies and automation
• Through examples, this session demonstrated Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions and Sogeti’s services to create product design and delivery efficiencies that are being sought by the O&G Industry
• Designing right the first time” requires strategic focus on collaboration intent, having robust decision making processes, addressing cultural barriers, and adopting the right digital technology solutions to support product development and design collaboration

The “Doing More with Less: Minimizing Waste and Cost” Executive...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from September 21-25.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 3 June, 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Boston area from September 21-25. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The three- or five-day program prepares 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. A team of...

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Key takeaways:

• The theme this for year’s Aras ACE conference was “RETHINK PLM” which inspired attendees to reconsider how PLM can be implemented to support rapid changes due to changing business and technology needs
• Peter Schroer, Aras CEO posed several questions that he was contemplating to rethink PLM: What if mechanical is no longer the big driver for PLM? What is the true intellectual property of a complex product? How will Cloud impact product development?
• Aras grew its revenue by 80% in 2014 (and has grown an average of 45% over last five years), added 35...

CIMdata Publishes Review of CGTech VERICUT

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2 June 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm released a new product review for CGTech’s numerical control (NC/CNC) simulation, verification, and optimization solution suite, VERICUT. This product review presents CIMdata’s perspective on VERICUT, a geometry-oriented CAM software solution used to simulate CNC machining to detect errors, locate potential collisions, and identify areas of inefficiency within NC programs. The suite of VERICUT modules includes the newly-developed VERICUT Force, a physics-based NC program optimization strategy licensed to CGTech by United Technologies Corporation. This paper touches on the business case...

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Key takeaways:

• Alongside the development of their 3DEXPERIENCE PLM Platform, Dassault Systèmes has also invested significantly in setting up an appropriate business ecosystem
• A long-term client-supplier relationship has resulted in a strong partnership between Dassault Systèmes and Miele, a leading home appliances company, which resulted in the decision to jointly walk the journey towards realizing the 3DEXPERIENCE
• The partnership between Dassault Systèmes and Fraunhofer IPT-EM makes the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and methodologies more accessible to mid-size companies

CIMdata recently participated in a two-day PLM analyst meeting and briefing from Dassault Systèmes, in Germany. During these two days of...

Ravi Iyer’s presentation will provide detail on an industry-leading initiative—mapping the software to the product structure.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2 June 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Ravi Iyer, Cisco Systems’ PLM Implementation Leader will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the High Tech Electronics Community, which takes place on June 16^th at the Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California.

In recent years, we have seen that most of the products specific to the high tech industry have become increasingly complex, as software features have grown with...

Leading PLM solution and service providers to sponsor PLM conference.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 27 May 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announced today the key sponsors for its upcoming PLM Road Map for the High Tech Electronics (HTE) Community conference are Aras Corp., Arena Solutions, Autodesk, LeverX/SAP, and Siemens PLM Software. The event, which takes place on June 16 at the Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California, is a strategic conference that focuses on how companies successfully define and employ PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and deployment...

Free educational webinar, focused on how to make innovation a systemic capability within the organization, will take place on June 25, 2015

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 May 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Innovation in the Digital Age.” The webinar will take place on June 25, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT).

Using a systemic innovation case study from Procter & Gamble, the webinar will describe use cases appropriate for PLM and Collaborative Innovation (CI). The webinar will also show how PLM and CI solution providers have an opportunity to connect and...