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Finding PLM to Fit Midsized CPG Companies (eBook)

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Finding PLM to Fit Midsized CPG Companies explains how smaller Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies find themselves stuck between full-featured Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems that feel out of reach and less capable solutions including cloud-based file sharing or very basic data management applications. They know they can’t afford the errors and inefficiency inherent to informal data and

Dassault Systèmes Vision 2016+

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Dassault Systèmes is successfully transforming their business beyond PLM to become a platform provider. To be more precise, they are becoming a “business innovation platform company.” Our recent discussions show that they’re making significant progress on the 3DEXPERIENCE vision they laid out in 2012, and have been able to transform their business more than I originally suspected when the vision

Service and Parts Information SurveyCAD Survey Invitation: Looking at the Future of CAD

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How can future CAD tools become even better? Please share your thoughts in this short CAD survey. What challenges should future CAD tools solve? What are the problems with current tools? How should CAD tools evolve?  How should CAD tools change to meet tomorrow’s business needs? Could modern infrastructures benefit CAD tools? Should cloud technology impact CAD? These are the types of

Supplier Strategies to Win more Business

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Jim Brown presents on this Industry Week and Aviation Week webcast sharing insights into the new levers of competition for suppliers to the automotive and aerospace industries. He presents with Dassault Systemes Director of Automotive/Transportation Industry Michael Lalande and Aerospace and Defense Business Consultant Paul Granada who share deeper perspectives on their respective industries. Together they share practical ways that suppliers

Solving the PLM Impasse for Midsize Manufacturers – Guest Post on Dassault Systemes

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Jim Brown contributed a guest post to the Dassault Systèmes blog sharing some research on PLM for midsize manufacturing companies. The post explains how these smaller companies sometimes feel stuck between the need for a full featured PLM system to get their engineering and product development processes under control and less capable file-sharing systems that

Webinar on PLM For Auto and Aero Suppliers

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Jim Brown and Dassault Systémes‘ VP Kendall Pond will present on this Engineering.com webcast sharing insights on the value of PLM for aerospace and automative suppliers that have outgrown their informal data management approaches. Companies in the auto and aero supply chains can learn how to better manage data, processes, and collaboration with Product Lifecycle