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Key takeaways:

• Smooth product launches require early identification and resolution of manufacturing, assembly, serviceability, quality, and cost issues, well before production
• Design for eXcellence^[1] is a strategy successfully used to ensure that products meet customer requirements such as manufacturing cost, quality, reliability, and serviceability
• Companies are using Geometric’s DFMPro solution to assess CAD models to identify DFX issues in the early design stage before any physical parts are produced, minimizing engineering change orders (ECOs) and rework, shortening the design to production cycle, and improving product quality

Macro Trends in Manufacturing

The pressures on manufacturers are...

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Recap of Position Paper Part 1 of 3: The combination of scarce resources and globalization are driving an upheaval in innovation and end-to-end lifecycle management. These changes are coalescing into business strategies that include the platformization of PLM. The Iron Triangle of better / faster / cheaper, along with clever fixes, are being superseded. Skeptics overlook many enterprise-level lifecycle benefits and overestimate the remaining challenges.

Key takeaways:

• Ideation, or idea generation, the essence of creativity, is the fundamental rationale of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and end-to-end lifecycle management...

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Key takeaways:

• As industry moves toward “up front” systems engineering, the use of optimization and probabilistic technologies will become increasingly important for choosing the “best” design to meet multi-domain system level performance requirements
• Altair’s physics-based simulation solvers all have a multi-physics capability with embedded optimization capabilities, they may also be run together in a co-simulation if that is required to better capture detailed physics
• Access to increased computational resources via both desktop and mobile devices connected to scalable cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions will make it practical for more engineers to leverage performance modeling and...

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Key takeaways:

• New digital technologies and processes are revolutionizing the way products and services are developed, and are also impacting workplaces, workforces, business channels, business models, and customers.
• Social product development is beginning to show significant success in ideation, problem solving, and knowledge management, enabling companies to collaborate with suppliers, consumers, customers, and other interested parties to capture input for new products as well as for enhancements to existing products
• Using advanced analytics, Big Data technology and processes can transform data into actionable insights, which can help improve products and business processes, yielding improved...

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Key takeaways:

• In the automotive industry, PLM is a critical, extended-enterprise business solution
• Siemens PLM Software has extensive automotive domain expertise and embeds much of that within their solutions tailored for both OEMs and suppliers
• Siemens PLM Software is the enterprise PLM backbone for many major OEMs, providing comprehensive, scalable, and mission-critical solutions that help automotive manufacturers realize innovation

PLM in the Automotive Industry

The effective use of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has become a key success factor for manufacturers in all industries. CIMdata defines PLM as a strategic business strategy enabled by information technology. It spans activities...

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Key takeaways:

• The global economy is undergoing fundamental changes in production, demand, and even the definition of what is a product, according to Autodesk, and their strategy is focused on democratizing the solutions needed in this evolving world
• Autodesk is in their third era of delivering product development solutions: documenting (Autodesk disrupting with AutoCAD), optimizing (with solutions from many other solution providers), and now in an era of connection, where that word is laden with social and technical meaning
• Autodesk recognizes they must, in part, sow the seeds of their own “destruction” to ensure long-term growth...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes continues to enhance its 3DEXPERIENCE Platform messaging and how it supports doing business in the age of experience
• Dassault Systèmes continues to build out its platform with the release of additional “experiences”
• Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is being adopted by companies in multiple industries

On November 11-12, 2014, approximately 900 Dassault Systèmes clients, prospects, partners, and employees gathered for the 2014 North American 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (with many more participating via a live video feed). Mr. Bruno Latchague, Senior...

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Key takeaways:

• Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) generally avoided traditional product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, perceiving them to be rigid in processes and governance, high in cost, and neither consistent with nor supportive of the entrepreneurial mindset that helped SMBs become successful in the first place
• SMBs often either use ad hoc approaches such as email and network drives for product lifecycle processes, or adopt solutions of their larger enterprise partners—both approaches put SMBs at a disadvantage in the marketplace
• Kenesto’s hybrid cloud-desktop platform addresses SMBs’ key technology and business needs
• In Kenesto, project teams and users...

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Key takeaways:

• 1,800 PTC customers, partners, and employees convened in Stuttgart at PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 and LiveWorx, on November 18 and 19
• The acquisition by, and integration into PTC of ThingWorx and Axeda, two leading Internet of Things (IoT) solution and service providers, help PTC boost realization of their IoT vision and strategy
• PTC’s IoT Roadmap shows a solid foundation and framework, towards seamless integration of IoT into their overall Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) portfolio

CIMdata recently attended the PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 and LiveWorx events in Stuttgart, Germany. These parallel events were held at the...