CIMdata believes that Siemens pragmatic approach to delivering open SLM solutions provides the breadth and depth that enterprises need to create comprehensive, actionable digital twins and to help manage the complete service lifecycle across a heterogenous set of extended enterprise solutions and needs while protecting their service-related investments. Companies looking to optimize and expand their service capabilities should include Siemens’s SLM solution in their evaluation of solutions for implementing a flexible, adaptable, open SLM environment.
White paper describes advanced engineering narratives that will improve ADAS and AV development. The narratives highlight building trust with virtual engineering that exploits continuous verification and validation, continuous optimized system behavior, and comprehensive frontloading of vehicle engineering. Siemens is using these three narratives to drive their Xcelerator solution capabilities that in turn enable automakers to address competitive ADAS and AV engineering, manufacturing, and operational challenges.
This eBook introduces how Canvas GFX Envision platform provides companies the ability to offer product stakeholders throughout the value chain access to accurate design engineering and product information.
The eBook describes vehicle electrification engineering challenges met using Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) integrated and cross-discipline approach of their Xcelerator solutions.
eBook describing vehicle electrification engineering challenges met using Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) integrated and cross-discipline approach of their Xcelerator solutions. Siemens introduces Comprehensive Design and Optimization Simulation to aid designers with simulation and optimization as designs are created and refined. Siemens, a proven provider to the automotive industry, is keeping pace with the emerging electric vehicle automotive engineering and manufacturing challenges.
This whitepaper describes the expanded collaboration between Siemens Digital Industries Software and AWS to provide a cloud-based environment that includes a SaaS offering available from the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform powered by AWS.
This eBook describes the definition, evolution, and application of digital twins that Altair, a long-term successful simulation solutions provider, has delivered to many industries and businesses.
eBook that summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with Siemens and four other leading product lifecycle management (PLM) solution providers.
eBook that summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights Jama Software's perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with Jama Software and four other leading PLM solution providers.
eBook describes vehicle electrification engineering challenges and the capabilities of Siemens Digital Industries Software’s integrated and cross-discipline approach of their Xcelerator solutions.
eBook that summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights PTC’s perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with PTC and four other leading PLM solution providers.
White Paper is centered on SAP’s support for product innovation and sustainability enabled by their integrated business platform.
eBook that summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights Eurostep’s perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with Eurostep and four other leading PLM solution providers.
eBook summarizes the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program and highlights Aras’ perspective on the topic of digital threads. The CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group commissioned the research in collaboration with Aras and four other leading PLM solution providers.
The White Paper examines Siemens PLM Components, a suite of multi-platform component software solutions implemented to support the development of specialized design capabilities and design, simulation, and manufacturing utilities. Software programmers access component resources through an established application programming interface (API) to gain use of functions that would otherwise cost multiple person-years to develop themselves.
Digital Mock Up is a construct that provides the virtual 3D description of a product throughout its life cycle. The Digital Mock Up is enhanced by all the activities that contribute to describing the product. This eBook looks at the solution adopted in Teamcenter, the flagship PLM solution of Siemens Digital Industries Software.
This eBook introduces the Kubotek Kosmos 3D Framework, a suite of multi-platform component software solutions implemented to support the development of specialized design capabilities and design, simulation, and manufacturing utilities. Software developers access component resources through an established application programming interface (API) to gain use of functions that would otherwise cost multiple person-years to develop themselves.
This white paper defines the need for and characteristics of a solution suite that helps machine builders improve their effectiveness by supporting multi-disciplinary design, configuration management, and virtual commissioning. Siemens is both a leading provider and major user of advanced machine technology. Their Advanced Machine Engineering solution is introduced as a solution to the issues faced by the machine building industry.
eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
Summary from research conducted by CIMdata on enterprise BOM practices and plans of industrial companies.
Ebook focuses on the state of the art in applying digital twin technologies in industrial companies.
This eBook describes the need of manufacturers to better manage the many BOMs used throughout their extended enterprise and the benefits of an enterprise BOM approach. It will also describe Siemens’ solution to this problem and the results of a new CIMdata survey targeting industrial organizations to understand how end users learn about and adopt new technology and their status and plans for lifecycle product structure management.
The whitepaper describes vehicle electrification engineering challenges and the capabilities of Siemens Digital Industries Software’s integrated and cross-discipline approach of their Integrated E/E Systems Solutions.
Siemens Digital Industries Software ePowertrain integrated design solutions have been designed to keep engineers collaborating—improving decision-making across the lifecycle by keeping the right information available all the time to the disciplines creating new motors, batteries, and the electronics that control them.
This white paper focuses on global supply chain collaboration in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry.
To better understand sustainability in industrial companies. CIMdata partnered with PTC, a leading PLM solution provider, to conduct a survey focused on sustainability strategies and actions to date.
Sustainability has gone from one of many topics in corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs to a global imperative. Thus, PLM is essential to a systemic response. Leading software and service providers are defining the metrics, measurement approaches, and enabling technology needed by their industrial clients to help mitigate sustainability issues. To better understand how industrial firms address sustainability, CIMdata partnered with PTC to conduct a survey of industrial firms to determine their plans and actions on this critical topic.
eBook focused on Siemens Mechanical Bundle for Solid Edge and NX licensing. Siemens Mechanical Bundle allows a company to balance their product selection of Solid Edge and NX with the added benefit that geometric models between the two are interoperable without any conversion.
This whitepaper describes Siemens Digital Industries Software’s integrated and cross-discipline approach enabling accelerated product development within automakers, including the benefits automakers are realizing by using trusted simulations to make key product decisions earlier. Furthermore, the time consumed to build prototypes can be reduced once simulations are good enough to support the next set of product development decisions. With new drive lines and battery technology, not to mention the explosive growth in electronics and software, these capabilities allow automakers to remain fast to market.
This paper, written with SAP, highlights the issues faced by companies trying to improve the sustainability of their products and services, and more broadly across their entire operations. CIMdata and SAP believe that product lifecycle management needs to be central to the industrial response for manufacturing companies and can also help companies in many industries better assess the environmental impacts of their operations and to virtually test potential changes.
The products within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio such as Simcenter, NX, Line Design, Factory Design, Teamcenter, and Mindsphere enable engineers and operations staff to create and execute digital twins to simulate operations helping ensure fast, effective product launches and equipment commissioning. By doing this work on models rather than physical lines better outcomes are achieved at lower cost and shorter timespans.
The industry has seen major improvements in collaboration solutions recently and the same is true for Siemens. The Siemens’ Xcelerator Share solution works across all Siemens applications but is especially suited for Solid Edge users who must communicate with other product stakeholders.
Aerospace & defense companies are under extreme pressure to deliver safe products while meeting cost and schedule targets. The growing complexity of products is making certification of type, production, and airworthiness difficult to achieve without new processes and enabling technology. The digital thread and digital twin approaches enabled by Siemens’ solutions are helping A&D companies make certification processes predictable and achievable.
This eBook describes the broad capabilities available within the Mendix platform and how it can enable companies to accelerate business value.
This eBook introduces the key aspects of Cadence’s Intelligent System Design strategy, several typical industry applications, and its expected business benefits. It includes a discussion of the major elements of successfully implementing an integrated approach to cyber-physical system design and analysis leveraging the suite of solutions provided by Cadence.
eBook examines the importance of customer experience (CX) and how leveraging product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions can help ensure superior CX.
eBook describing why automakers, their supplier network, and city operations need to expand systems integration to make autonomous vehicles a reality. Autonomous Vehicles require multiple systems working together well beyond an individual vehicle. It discusses how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), a proven provider for the automotive industry, enables a highly integrated model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach that comprehends transportation systems development and operations.
This eBook focuses on a product’s digital twin as the up-to-date, single source of truth that enables a businesses’ varied departments to work cohesively together.
CIMdata whitepaper describes Dassault Systèmes methodology and related tools that help them plan and accelerate the implementation of business transformations.
This eBook focused on the complex problem of managing profitability in the automotive supply chain, identifies the characteristics of initiatives, solutions, and technologies required to successfully support this critical factor, assuring that product offerings will be profitable at a winning price. This is especially problematic for automotive suppliers due to complex relationships with their primary customers, the automotive OEMs. Campfire Interactive presents an especially compelling solution suite that enables its customers to win and maintain profitable business. The eBook also documents how several automotive suppliers are using the Campfire solutions to transform their business to new levels of profitability.
The whitepaper outlines the driving characteristics of A&D product development, an overview of an agile product development approach, an illustrative example of how one company applied agile development in A&D, and how Siemens Digital Industry Software’s technology and solutions enable this approach.
This whitepaper outlines the driving characteristics of A&D product development, an overview of an agile product development approach, an illustrative example of how one company applied agile development in A&D, and how Siemens Digital Industry Software’s technology and solutions enable this approach.>/p>
eBook highlighting the Onshape/Atlas part of PTC's portfolio of solutions.
Report summarizing the results of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program focused on the business benefits and challenges offered by the adoption of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) PLM delivery model. Partners in this research effort included Aras, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, and Siemens Digital Industries Software.
This eBook identifies the characteristics of initiatives, solutions, and technologies required for successful digital transformation. How Autodesk enables digital transformation and an illustrative case study of how one customer is using Autodesk solutions to transform their business are also presented.
eBook focuses on how Vertex Software’s platform enables business units throughout manufacturing companies to bring 3D data into their enterprise systems. With the Vertex Platform, manufacturers can build and deploy purpose-built, 3D digital twin applications with extremely low ownership cost in under 30 days.
eBook reviewing the results of an industrial PLM user study focused on quantifying the impact of PLM upgrades.
Japanese version of the PLM Upgrade Study eBook
Whitepaper highlighting the issues faced by companies that need to manage their smart, connected products through their lifecycle, the emerging technologies that will help power their business strategy, and where they will need to make investments to reap the most benefits.
With ever increasing product complexity and rapidly shifting customer demand, companies are under immense pressure to increase productivity and quality as they look to fulfill market demand. This requires a clear strategy and supporting technology for deploying Model-Based Definition solution. By facilitating the product’s digital twin and digital thread, companies can accelerate their overall product development processes to win market share. Siemens Digital Industries Software’s NX MBD solution can enable that journey.
This eBook defines the need for a modern SLM solution, the characteristics of such a solution, and describes Siemens’ strategy, program, technologies, solutions, and relationships to address the demanding service needs of OEMs, EPCs, O/Os, and product line builders.
This eBook describes the broad capabilities available within the Xcelerator portfolio and how it can deliver benefits across all enterprises’ facets.
This eBook describes the need automakers and their supplier network have for a modern systems engineering approach. It also explains how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), a proven provider for the automotive industry, is enabling a highly integrated model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach known as Software & Systems Engineering (SSE).
A core part of Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, Teamcenter X is a modern, complete, fully functional, SaaS implementation of Teamcenter designed to enable companies to create and maintain an interoperable, highly accessible, and open ecosystem of applications and models. Teamcenter X provides the Product Innovation Platform that forms the foundation of a Manufacturing Enterprise innovation platform (MEIP). Teamcenter X’s cloud delivery enables companies to startup, grow and scale as rapidly as their business needs demand, all within a highly secure environment, managed and updated automatically by Siemens.
This white paper defines the need for and characteristics of a solution suite that helps machine builders improve their effectiveness by supporting multi-disciplinary design, configuration management, and virtual commissioning. Siemens is both a leading provider and major user of advanced machine technology. Their Advanced Machine Engineering solution is introduced as a solution to the issues faced by the machine building industry.
This eBook describes Upchain’s guiding principle and vision for PLM—one where PLM acts like an operating system that is always on, always there, never to be worried about, and never in the way of getting the work done.
This eBook defines the need for and characteristics of a configurable Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation Platform. It also describes an example of how Siemens Digital Industries Software is delivering such a configurable solution for manufacturers with its Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software platform and applications, services, and domain expertise.
This eBook defines the need for and characteristics of a configurable Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation Platform. It also describes an example of how Siemens Digital Industries Software is delivering such a configurable solution for manufacturers with its Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software platform and applications, services, and domain expertise.
This eBook defines the need for and characteristics of a configurable Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation Platform. It also describes an example of how Siemens Digital Industries Software is delivering such a configurable solution for manufacturers with its Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software platform and applications, services, and domain expertise.
This eBook defines the need for and characteristics of a configurable Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation Platform. It also describes an example of how Siemens Digital Industries Software is delivering such a configurable solution for manufacturers with its Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software platform and applications, services, and domain expertise.
CIMdata enlisted several leading PLM solution and service providers as sponsors of this research: ANSYS, Dassault Systèmes, and HCL. The extended research program team collaborated to help identify the crucial issues facing companies addressing these issues.
Physna is an AI-powered geometric deep learning technology. The software uses proprietary algorithms to codify 3D models into detailed data that is understandable by software applications and powers 3D geometric search. The addition of machine-learning adds a powerful dimension as users search their product data repositories.
This CIMdata eBook highlights the key issues facing organizations embarking upon a digital transformation journey. Entitled “Speeding Your Digital Transformation Journey” the eBook seeks to frame the discussion around the key concepts, like digitalization, digital transformation, digital twin, digital thread, and the rest using standard terminology, supporting the discussion with selected data from the survey results and quotes from interviews conducted.
This eBook seeks to frame the discussion around the key concepts, like digitalization, digital transformation, digital twin, digital thread, and the rest using standard terminology, supporting the discussion with selected data from the survey results and quotes from interviews conducted.
This is the third eBook published as part of a CIMdata multi-sponsor collaborative research program on digitalization / digital transformation in industrial companies.
CGTech continues to expand the boundaries of NC verification with their Force capabilities and support for additive manufacturing combined with their established subtractive verification techniques.
This eBook defines the need for Capital Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM), the characteristics needed for a CALM solution, describes how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) has partnered with Bentley Systems to develop and deliver a CALM solution, and highlights how that solution uniquely addresses the needs of the Energy and Process industry.
This eBook defines the need for Capital Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM), the characteristics needed for a CALM solution, describes how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) has partnered with Bentley Systems to develop and deliver a CALM solution, and highlights how that solution uniquely addresses the needs of the Energy and Process industry.
This eBook defines the need for Capital Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM), the characteristics needed for a CALM solution, describes how Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) has partnered with Bentley Systems to develop and deliver a CALM solution, and highlights how that solution uniquely addresses the needs of the Energy and Process industry.
This product review details the full range of VERICUT’s functionality, beginning with the capture of NC programs and related data from a CAM system, verifying and simulating CNC machining, and creating shop floor CNC machine set-up information and documentation. The product review also details the features, functions, and benefits of the VERICUT software module Force as applied to optimizing and improving the run-time of NC tool paths. The goals and characteristics of CGTech’s training and support capabilities as well as CGTech’s go-to-market strategy round out the topics.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of the generative engineering approach, the potential application domains, and the promised business benefits. It includes an outline of the foundational elements necessary to successfully implement a generative engineering strategy and highlights the integrated suite of PLM solutions provided by Siemens as illuminated by several real world customer applications.
This eBook covers Siemens answer to the complexity of designing and manufacturing composites is the Fibersim portfolio of solutions. The Fibersim solution supports design methodologies that capture the specifications from design and analysis and guide designers through the manufacturing process.
This eBook covers Siemens answer to the complexity of designing and manufacturing composites is the Fibersim portfolio of solutions. The Fibersim solution supports design methodologies that capture the specifications from design and analysis and guide designers through the manufacturing process.
This eBook covers Siemens answer to the complexity of designing and manufacturing composites is the Fibersim portfolio of solutions. The Fibersim solution supports design methodologies that capture the specifications from design and analysis and guide designers through the manufacturing process.
This eBook describes the Oracle PLM Cloud solution, which enables lifecycle processes from concept through commercialization and supports real-time collaboration across supply chains by leveraging data stored within the enterprise product record. It also describes the Oracle PLM Cloud capabilities able to support business platform and digital transformation needs across industries and multiple enterprise software domains.
This paper discusses the impacts new and evolving technologies are having on product services and the management of the service lifecycle. Multiple technologies are enabling companies to significantly change how they are delivering service and are creating new, innovative, and profitable service business models.
This paper offers an overview of the responses in five major global economies in which CIMdata delivers its annual PLM Market & Industry Forum: The United States, Germany, India, China, and Japan. Each country is pursuing the Industry 4.0 vision with a strategy unique to their situation. CIMdata believes that Industry 4.0 and the digitalization trend sweeping business are really two sides of the same coin.
Digital twin technologies are maturing rapidly and being used in specific industrial applications where there is a well-understood business case with measurable ROI. CIMdata believes that digital twin technology and business processes are in many ways still at the very early adoption stages.
New eBook offers insights into how an integrated systems environment can be used to support all aspects needed for complex mass customized products throughout their entire lifecycles.
This eBook describes how PLM enables digital transformation and why a lifecycle approach to product definition management is important to digital transformation programs. The eBook reviews how PLM affects speed to market, product cost, and product quality. It also notes how critical traceability and impact analysis processes are to digital transformation in Food & Beverage companies. It then closes with CIMdata’s viewpoint of how SpecPDM can help F&B companies successfully implement their digital transformation program.
Generative design and additive manufacturing have been maturing for many years in R&D activities and are now moving toward widespread use. Designers using them often come up with startlingly new products. However, industry has just begun to converge these innovative technologies to gain their full benefits. As convergence progresses, their synergy will be leveraged in surprising and even astounding ways.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
This eBook, translated into Polish, introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
This eBook introduces the key concepts of Generative Design and specifically Topology Optimization. It includes a discussion of the generative design workflow and overcoming the formidable issue of importing the faceted geometry output of generative design algorithms into CAD using Siemens Convergent Modeling technology.
The eBook highlights the key issues facing adopting organizations. Entitled “Making the Connection: The Path to Cloud PLM” the eBook seeks to frame the debate about cloud-based applications using standard terminology, supporting the discussion with selected data from the survey results and quotes from interviews conducted.
This CIMdata eBook confronts the trend toward engineering designs comprising a high percentage of procured-in content, and the organizational issues of cross-functional coordination, especially between engineering and procurement.
This CIMdata eBook introduces some key AM concepts such as Design for Additive Manufacture (DfAM) to identify opportunities to improve both existing and new designs, new organizational considerations including using a Vee Model to map out the end-to-end AM workflow, provides example use-cases of AM, and highlights the often-overlooked area of security.
SpecPage, a leading PLM solution provider focused on the Food & Beverage industry, has advanced capabilities including a real-time compliance solution that help companies grow profitably while managing risk and delivering the expected ROI.
This whitepaper describes how for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in multiple industry segments, including automotive, product complexity is increasing well beyond their ability to support it with traditional configuration management approaches and technologies. The whitepaper describes Configit’s end-to-end, extended enterprise approach that enables sales and marketing, engineering, production, and supply chain partners responsible for complex and highly-configurable products to efficiently handle a large number of options and variants in a highly collaborative and efficient manner.
Many solution providers are still developing appropriate offerings to effectively enable the ultimate Digital Twin use cases. CIMdata believes that Mevea with its end-to-end Digital Twin solution approach is already delivering tangible business value to its customers.
The final report from a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to enable product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and processes in industrial companies.
In this eBook, CIMdata describes what a model-based enterprise is, why it is an important trend, and how it creates business value.
This CIMdata authored Share-A-space Program Review describes Eurostep’s solution to this problem domain and provides a review of Share-A-space’s ability to support the real life challenges faced when working within a complex and ever changing extended enterprise across a product’s lifecycle.
For most companies, product complexity is increasing well beyond their ability to support it with traditional configuration management approaches and technologies. For years, companies have tried to fill gaps and close the data and process loops that exist throughout their products’ lifecycles. Unfortunately, most have taken this on as a data management problem, and to some extent it is, but it is so much more. Ultimately, it is only by adopting a new and efficient end-to-end configuration lifecycle management methodology and associated enabling technologies, like those offered by Configit, that today’s companies will continue to be successful.
This eBook describes how the Aras PLM Platform stacks up against CIMdata’s Product Innovation Platform requirements. The platform measurements are categorized into Strategic Imperatives and Foundational Characteristics. Measurement scores and how the Aras product is differentiated are included in the eBook.
This eBook describes how the Aras PLM Platform stacks up against CIMdata’s Product Innovation Platform requirements. The platform measurements are categorized into Strategic Imperatives and Foundational Characteristics. Measurement scores and how the Aras product is differentiated are included in the eBook.
This eBook describes how the Aras PLM Platform stacks up against CIMdata’s Product Innovation Platform requirements. The platform measurements are categorized into Strategic Imperatives and Foundational Characteristics. Measurement scores and how the Aras product is differentiated are included in the eBook.
This eBook describes how the Aras PLM Platform stacks up against CIMdata’s Product Innovation Platform requirements. The platform measurements are categorized into Strategic Imperatives and Foundational Characteristics. Measurement scores and how the Aras product is differentiated are included in the eBook.
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, 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, more extensive knowledge is obtained leading to a detailed execution roadmap. Using the results of this methodology helps companies close their PLM value gap.
Educational organizations must prepare tomorrow’s leaders for tomorrow’s realities as embodied in Industry 4.0, systems engineering, SDPD, and similar initiatives. The education of the next generation of workers for industrial companies is a critical element, and having them cognizant of the capabilities inherent in a PLM strategy is critical to ongoing success.
Learn how a programmatic approach to marketing visualization can promote artistry and creativity, improve efficiency, and drive deeper customer engagement. This eBook presents CIMdata’s perspective on the importance of advanced visualization to improve brand engagement with consumers.
Tata Technologies has developed a four-component PLM Analytics maturity assessment program designed to provide insight and guidance to customers about the state of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) within their enterprise. This four-component approach enables a company to start with a quick, low-cost assessment that will identify issues and potential directional priorities for their PLM program. With each successive component, they obtain more extensive knowledge about their current situation, leading to a detailed execution roadmap to guide them. Using the results of the PLM Analytics methodology helps companies close their PLM value gap.
This eBook is 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. The eBook seeks to frame the debate around cloud-based applications using standard terminology, supporting the discussion with selected data from the survey results and quotes from interviews conducted. The eBook also takes a look at PTC's PLM Cloud.
Educational organizations must prepare tomorrow’s leaders for tomorrow’s realities as embodied in Industry 4.0, systems engineering, SDPD, and similar initiatives. This includes the need for educators as well as engineering and manufacturing leaders to understand the impacts and value of PLM in driving new economies, markets, and technologies. The education of the next generation of workers for industrial companies is a critical element, and having them cognizant of the capabilities inherent in a PLM strategy is critical to ongoing success.
The value of the platform approach comes to full fruition when it enables systems engineering thinking and model-centric processes—thus, enabling Model-Based Systems Engineering. Implementing a successful systems engineering practice is a complex task and must be undertaken as part of a platform as it relates to the corporation’s processes and product feasibility. The underpinnings of the mentioned value can be delivered by operating within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. All of the functional requirements, design models, and simulation results and decisions are properly captured, managed, and made available for future use and reference. Platformization of the enterprise based on a design engineering innovation foundation is key for staying competitive in today’s business environment. It is the foundation for sustainable and profitable growth in our fast-paced, ever shifting, and technologically complex, connected, and mobile world.
CIMdata eBook discusses how an integrated information platform can improve results and reduce risks on large-scale projects.
This program review addresses elements of the full range of Tebis software functionality, beginning with capturing and importing customer product and component data through to final assembly; and for die making beyond assembly through to tool tryout and correction. Additionally, this review addresses Tebis Consulting, the Tebis AG department that provides manufacturing related consulting services. Tebis AG’s present and future outlook, as well as their software go-to-market strategy, round out the topics covered in this review.
Design engineers face many challenges. Often key to their use of a CAD design solution is their ability to manage an ever growing volume of data that derives from the increasing complexity of product models, large multi-configuration assemblies, and multiple product revisions. They must then share their product designs that may include disparate CAD data with an ever growing audience of product stakeholders ranging from external supply chain designers to the non-technology savvy business and support organizations within their companies. Siemens PLM Software rises to these challenges with Solid Edge ST9 integrated with Teamcenter. Solid Edge ST9 integrated with Teamcenter is a solution product developers can expect to provide a competitive answer to today’s market’s demands.
The need for innovative model-based design and analysis technologies that can connect performance analysis data, processes, and knowledge across functional domains is becoming critical as product complexity continues to grow even while product development cycles continue to be shortened by competitive and regulatory requirements. VCollab is one such innovative technology.
Report detailing multi-sponsored research to create an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) Solutions guide to help accelerate the development of the global EIM market for the benefit of both solution providers and industry.
The goal was to address the existing concerns—as well as preempt the emerging concerns—of industrial companies about implementing EIM. Through a series of thought leadership interviews with representatives from sponsoring solution providers and chief innovation executives from Electrolux, Givaudan, GOJO Industries, Henkel, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, and Sanofi, CIMdata defined and socialized a common framework of terminology, solution approaches, implementation challenges, and benefits. Through this effort CIMdata expects that industrial companies will become more familiar with enterprise innovation enabling technologies and will feel more prepared to invest in the next generation of solutions that are designed to increase their ability to innovate more effectively and sustainably.
Co-sponsors of the research effort are eZassi, Planview, Siemens PLM Software, and Sopheon. By downloading this report you agree that your information may be shared with sponsors of the research.
In today’s global economy, industrial companies face competitors from around the world. Customers demand increasingly complex products that require new approaches, new value chains, and new enabling technologies. To meet this changing world, many companies apply product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions. CONTACT Software, a German company with a global strategy, has been successful through their laser focus on their customer’s success. This paper focuses on how CONTACT is evolving their offerings and strategy to empower companies to compete in a global economy demanding increasingly complex products.
This paper focuses on issues in product development and variant management, and how Product Line Engineering and IBM and their partners can help industrial companies develop and manage smart products across the product lifecycle.
This white paper reviews the fundamental definitions of cloud computing, punctuates their salient differences, and highlights the characteristics of world-class cloud platforms while reviewing the capabilities of the company who was the originator of multi-tenant cloud PLM—Arena Solutions.
This paper provides the reader with an overview of Arena Solutions' PLM portfolio. The paper discusses the issues facing manufacturing organizations across all industries and the need to have scalable, flexible PLM environments for internal development and collaboration across the value chain. It describes Arena Solutions’ history and overall program approach to addressing these issues. It further presents information about each of Arena's PLM solution components as well as three case studies highlighting how customers have used Arena's solutions to achieve important business benefits.
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 offered by VERICUT, providing its customers a means of asset protection for their machinery, equipment, and raw material—minimizing unnecessary and avoidable rework, improving profitability, increasing on-time delivery, and realizing greater overall customer satisfaction.
“Can your current processes and tools support today’s complexity?” Often asked by today’s leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies—few feel confident with their answer. It is well understood that maximizing brand value is a competitive necessity; unfortunately, many companies do not possess the end-to-end capabilities to do so in a consistent and repeatable manner—and in many cases their survival depends on it. This paper discusses why companies in the CPG and similar industries (e.g., food and beverage) require an end-to-end and fully connected approach to delivering their brands. Additionally, this paper discusses how requirements and lifecycle portfolio management as well as building out product and innovation platforms, play important roles in a company’s success.
John Mannisto, Engineering Director for Simulation-Based Design at Whirlpool Corporation, makes a strong case for companies to adopt “new age” behaviors and social technologies to collaborate more effectively globally. Unless a global company uses all its knowledge, it is losing out. This paper is based on John Mannisto’s presentation at PLM Road Map™ 2014.
CIMdata has recently executed a survey on model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The survey was targeted at expanding knowledge about where and how companies that design a wide variety of products have deployed MBSE to support and enhance their product development processes and to discover associated business value. This report provides both background information on MBSE as a strategy, its benefits, and application of technologies as well as some key results from the survey.
Tata Technologies has developed a tiered PLM Analytics maturity assessment program designed to provide insight and guidance to customers about the state of PLM within their enterprise. This three-component approach enables a company to start with a quick, no-cost overview assessment that will identify issues and potential directional priorities for their PLM program. With each successive tier, they obtain more extensive knowledge about their current situation, leading to a detailed execution roadmap to guide them. Using the results of the PLM Analytics methodology helps companies close their PLM value gap.
Geographically distributed engineering, design, and manufacturing teams position a company to satisfy product demand across international markets. The strategic advantages of global product development (GPD) are many, but often there are no clear guidelines for the specific processes, tools, and functional capabilities necessary to accomplish effective GPD. Seven key areas have been identified as essential to achieve competency in GPD. This paper takes a deeper look at and highlights both the tactical capabilities of each area as they benefit GPD and the PTC Global Product Development solution’s matching features.
As companies move to digital product development, simulation plays an increasingly important role in supplying information to support product design decisions. In fact, simulation is the fastest growing component of PLM. Simulation & Analysis Governance is a strategy to manage simulation for maximum effectiveness over the full product lifecycle. S&A must be recognized as a strategic capability that companies should develop and foster. This extends from the executive suite where the policy is set and supported, through product and manufacturing managers who are the customers for S&A, to simulation practitioners, who are responsible to deliver simulation on time and with quality. Formal efforts to improve organizational awareness and to improve technical capability should be put in place.
Competing in global markets means complying with global standards. Compliance regimes have blossomed, expanded, and evolved, a process that will not stop. In fact, they will continue to expand and get more complicated. Companies need flexible solutions to support their value chains that can change along with the regulations. Based on the experience of current Dassault Systèmes customers, the ENOVIA MCC offering can help them navigate this ocean of often conflicting regulations to deliver compliant products to markets around the world without cost overruns or launch delays.
Companies thrive on innovation, but how do they assess and plan their actions to meet corporate strategic objectives? Enterprise innovation management (EIM) solutions are helping global companies bridge the chasm between corporate strategy and purposeful action across a wide spectrum of business operations. EIM helps strategically define necessary product and process innovation, including product development actions executed through product lifecycle management (PLM), and other enterprise strategies. EIM and PLM working together can help ensure that product innovation meets both corporate strategic objectives and lifecycle requirements.
This paper reviews the capabilities of PTC Creo View and its ability to pair mechanical and electronic product data for full product visualization and interaction.
Remote 3D graphics technology allows high performance computing hardware, used to support 3D design, to be implemented and managed centrally to provide support to physically distributed professionals. Sophisticated servers supporting CPU and GPU virtualization allow information technology to be managed effectively and allocated dynamically across different types of computing technology including mobile technology. This technology addresses a variety of business issues including data security, collaborative design support, 3D data access on mobile devices, engineering desktop consolidation, disaster recovery, and sharing expensive computing resources across distributed locations efficiently. IBM, Citrix and NVIDIA, long-time partners in desktop virtualization, have developed solutions that combine powerful infrastructure (server, storage, networking, and software) and cloud computing technology with advanced remote desktop software that uses server-based 3D graphics hardware to support professionals needing remote access to advanced graphics capabilities.
Analysis of CIMdata survey results indicates a small fraction of A&D companies achieve significantly greater value from their PLM investment than others in their industry. Initial characterization of this group of PLM value leaders is presented.
This paper explores OPEN MIND Technologies offerering of a comprehensive CAD/CAM solution, ranging from 2- up to 5-axis machining.
This paper explores the trends and challenges faced by the transportation and mobility industry, the type of applications and technologies needed to help meet those challenges, and Dassault Systèmes’ solution offerings positioned to address the issues.
CIMdata conducted an on-line survey to understand the divide between PLM technology potential and implementation value achieved within aerospace and defense companies.
This paper describes how SAP 3D Visual Enterprise solution affords the ability to interact with 3D images of products, business information, and facilities to accelerate decision making within and across the full range of business domains.
This paper will focus on many of the improvements made by PTC in the last few years, mainly covering PTC Windchill 10.0 and PTC Windchill 10.1, which became available in April 2012. Research for this paper was supported by PTC.
This paper will focus on many of the improvements made by PTC in the last few years, mainly covering PTC Windchill 10.0 and PTC Windchill 10.1, which became available in April 2012. Research for this paper was supported by PTC.
This paper will focus on many of the improvements made by PTC in the last few years, mainly covering PTC Windchill 10.0 and PTC Windchill 10.1, which became available in April 2012. Research for this paper was supported by PTC.
This paper focuses on the intersection of PLM and what has come to be known as “Big Data,” and how search-based techniques are showing promise to help address the big data problem.
This paper reviews business issues associated with data and 3D applications that can now be addressed by remote access technology. This paper also includes an overview of virtualization. Research for this paper was partially supported by IBM and Citrix.
This paper focuses on how some of their key customers are using 3DS solutions to address important problems in developing complex products, using complex supply chains, to support global markets.
This paper discusses how the importance and the use of simulation in product development are increasing, as companies are making more product development decisions based on simulation.
This paper identifies and discusses a number of functional capabilities within CAD solutions that have proven to be of critical use for leading-edge users. Research for this paper was partially supported by PTC.
This paper identifies and discusses a number of functional capabilities within CAD solutions that have proven to be of critical use for leading-edge users. Research for this paper was partially supported by PTC.
This paper CIMdata identifies and discusses a number of functional capabilities within CAD solutions that have proven to be of critical use for leading-edge users. Research for this paper was partially supported by PTC.
This paper identifies and discusses a number of functional capabilities within CAD solutions that have proven to be of critical use for leading-edge users. Research for this paper was partially supported by PTC.
This paper describes the added value of this new solution for Solid Edge customers, and how the Microsoft SharePoint platform enables them to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and immediately benefit from the integration of design data and processes with their other business processes.
This paper describes the added value of this new solution for Solid Edge customers, and how the Microsoft SharePoint platform enables them to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and immediately benefit from the integration of design data and processes with their other business processes.
This paper describes the added value of this new solution for Solid Edge customers, and how the Microsoft SharePoint platform enables them to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and immediately benefit from the integration of design data and processes with their other business processes.
This paper describes the added value of this new solution for Solid Edge customers, and how the Microsoft SharePoint platform enables them to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and immediately benefit from the integration of design data and processes with their other business processes.
This paper will present some of the issues facing manufacturing companies, especially those who are small to medium sized, and how SolidWorks has provided support for these issues with manufacturing support solutions.
This paper discusses many of these issues and how Infor10 PLM Process (Optiva) is enabling its users to achieve business goals profitably.
This paper describes the eQube-MI solution's capabilities and how industrial companies have been using eQube-MI to facilitate their application migration and integration needs.
This paper focuses on the major business issues faced by companies in the industrial machinery market, and the keys to success in applying PLM-enabling solutions to achieve business and market success.
This paper presents the challenges that companies face in deploying modern, productive simulation lifecycle management (SLM) environments, defines the key necessary elements of such environments, indicates the benefits that SLM can deliver, and describes how Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA SLM product suite responds to those needs.
This paper focuses on the needs and challenges that companies are currently facing in quickly deploying flexible BI solutions and their use in PLM. It also presents eQ Technologic’s “Rapid-BI” solution (caleed "eQube®-BI)
Paper details the use of SpaceClaim Engineer as a tool to prepare CAD model geometry for finite element meshing prior to analysis.
Paper reviews the solution suite of Visual Components (www.visualcomponents.com) that allows companies to improve their methods of transforming their product designs into real products.
This paper describes the challenges companies are facing, why and how they need to work smarter, how a SOA-based enterprise information and process management approach enables a smarter business, and how IBM and Siemens PLM Software have teamed to form an alliance that leverages the strengths of each to enable companies to accelerate their business.
This paper considers the challenges that companies are currently facing, defines a SOA-based unified PLM architecture approach, describes the benefits that it can deliver, discusses factors companies should consider in evaluating whether to transition to a unified architecture, and discusses approaches to such a transition.
Describes ten critical questions to ask PLM solution suppliers. These questions, which have been defined and validated based on CIMdata's experience and specific research performed for this white paper, are often overlooked or glossed over when executing a PLM evaluation and selection program.
Traces the roots of Siemens PLM Software's next generation Teamcenter "unified" platform—from a set of integrated PLM enabling applications to a new extended enterprise enabled four-tier unified architecture that incorporates the latest in technology and business functionality.
Forecasts that the PLM market changes during 2009 as industrial companies are still reacting to the global economic downturn.
Find out how PLM-enabled collaboration provides savings and supports the requirements for multiple industry verticals, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics/high tech, and fabrication and assembly.
Readers will find an overall description of collaboration between the ECAD and MCAD disciplines and presents issues and benefits as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the ECAD-MCAD collaboration solutions of PTC and Mentor Graphics.
Explains how PLM may be one of the major deciding factors in determining which companies are able to weather the current economic storm and be in the best competitive position when global markets rebound.
Presents the challenges that companies are currently facing, defines a unified PLM architecture approach, describes the benefits that it can deliver, discusses factors companies should consider in evaluating whether to transition to a unified architecture, and discusses approaches to the transition.
Explains the key components of PDM that mid-sized companies should care about, how PDM can address their critical business issues, and the most critical best-practices related to the planning and implementation of a PDM system.
Describes Nissan Motor Corporation's successful approach to PLM
Describes Nissan Motor Corporation's successful approach to PLM
Describes Product Lifecycle Management’s (PLM’s) market trends in 2007 leading into 2008.
Describes Product Lifecycle Management’s (PLM’s) role in supporting the automotive industry’s Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process framework.
Analyzes the impact on the overall PLM Market of Siemens AG’s Acquisition of UGS.
Provides an analysis of one of the significant challenges faced by companies in the fabrication and assembly (F&A) industrial segments as they prepare to launch a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) program including what role their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system should play in enabling PLM.
Provides an analysis of one of the significant challenges faced by companies in the fabrication and assembly (F&A) industrial segments as they prepare to launch a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) program including what role their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system should play in enabling PLM.
Presents the new role of product-related simulation as a visible and accessible component to significantly improve the overall product development process, pressures motivating its use and the value and future of ESM.
Discusses new concepts and capabilities to support quality product designs more quickly.
Explores some of these new advances and examines the vehicle and business risks associated with implementing mechatronics into a company’s product design processes and describes how Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) can help mitigate the risks and improve the mechatronic design processes.
Describes the role of a Mockup Visualization and Publishing (MVP) solution in the effective dissemination of product information within multidisciplinary product development teams and offers details about the capabilities of Seemage’s MVP Solutions.
Focuses on how Force Transformation, the complete reorganization of warfare tactics, human resources training and deployment processes, procurement policies, and product development practices, is mandating new Aerospace and Defense (A&D) product development processes and is driving the need for effective electro-mechanical product development solutions.
Provides a perspective on Digital Manufacturing; the pressures that motivate its use, an introduction to Digital Manufacturing and its role, and an overview of the benefits companies have experienced from its use.
Explores how visual data solutions have evolved to provide access to all product design information in a way that is easily accessible, streamlining the work of many people and producing incredible benefits for the organization and allowing companies to exploit visual data in workflows beyond viewing and mockup.
Describes the evolution of PDM systems and their growing applicability to mid-size manufacturing companies in multiple industry segments and explains the key components of PDM that mid-size companies should care about, and how PDM can address their critical business issues. Also explains what mid-size companies need to do to get started with PDM, and how to assess the suitability of the different PDM systems on the market.
Presents some of the experiences of companies who have been using Digital Manufacturing in the context of a broader PLM initiative to improve their product development processes.
Provides a focused review of two of the primary market segments within the overall Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market: 1) High-End Mechanical Computer-Aided-Design (High-End MCAD) and 2) collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) for the discrete manufacturing industries.
Discusses some of the benefits experienced by companies who have been using Digital Manufacturing for some time in their product development process and within the context of a broader PLM initiative with a specific focus on Fiat Auto.
Discusses the business motivations for integrating PLM and ERP, factors that should be considered, and various approaches and methods that can be used to perform the integration.
Describes the trend toward flexible, focused solutions is good for customers and the PLM industry alike. The approach makes it easier for all enterprises to improve product lifecy- cle activities, especially mid-sized manufacturing enterprises.
Discusses Federation services that provide convenient and rapid data access for organizations that have to conduct their product development activities in a distributed environment. A federated approach enables these organizations to automatically maintain their product information in multiple geographic locations so that it can be quickly accessed without the need for moving large blocks of information on an on-demand basis.
Describes the evolution of the Product Data Management (PDM) market of the 1980’s and early 1990’s to the comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market of today to provide a coherent record of the beginnings and growth of this important software industry and the extent to which PLM is being utilized today.
Describes benefits achieved from digital manufacturing implementations at twelve companies in the automotive, aerospace, and shipbuilding industries in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Describes PLM's vital role in industry to support current changes and challenges and includes a definition of PLM and an overview of how companies can benefit from PLM solutions.
Describes PLM's vital role in industry to support current changes and challenges and includes a definition of PLM and an overview of how companies can benefit from PLM solutions.
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Presents an overview of a collaborative approach to managing the product definition lifecycle.
The Guide is designed to help potential PLM users evaluate the applicability and payoffs of PLM in their enterprise, and to help existing users of PLM monitor the impact it is having on their product programs.
The PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, leading PLM providers, revenue analyses for geographical regions and industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
These reports offer country-specific analyses of the PLM market. Their focus is on PLM investment and use in industrial markets. Reports cover Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This report presents CIMdata’s overview of the global simulation and analysis market, one of the fastest growing segments of the overall product lifecycle management market, including profiles of the leading S&A firms.
This report presents CIMdata’s overview of the worldwide CAM software and services market. It also includes a discussion on the trends in the CAM industry and updates on the top CAM solution providers.