PLM Industry Summary Sara Vos, Editor Vol. 21 No. 19 - Friday, May 10, 2019 Contents CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 2 CIMdata President Peter Bilello Published in CATIA Community - PLM View: Why Digital Twins Require Digital Threads _________________________________________________________________________2 Key Sponsors for PLM Road Map and PDT North America 2019 Announced ________________________3 Secure Collaboration with Augmented Reality in PTC’s Creo and Windchill (CIMdata Commentary) _____4 Acquisitions _______________________________________________________________________ 8 Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare _______________________________________________________________8 Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 9 Capgemini enters partnership with Autodesk __________________________________________________9 CyberX Selected as “Hot IoT Security Startup to Watch” Based on Named Enterprise Customers, Strength of Team, and Investors ___________________________________________________________________9 Delegation of French Dassault Systemes due in Armenia to discuss joint projects ____________________10 ERM Partners with Altair to Dramatically Improve Business Models for Deploying Vehicle Telematics and Asset Tracking ________________________________________________________________________11 Hexagon Launches Online Shop for Manufacturers in EMEA ___________________________________11 Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division Breaks Ground on New Center of Excellence in Greater Detroit _______________________________________________________________________________12 Hitachi Vantara Appoints Catriona Fallon as Chief Financial Officer ______________________________13 HP and Siemens Deepen Additive Manufacturing Alliance to Advance Digital Manufacturing __________14 Philippines' Top-ranked Aeronautical University FEATI helps protect the future of aerospace engineering 15 Platform Science Partners with Noregon to Add Vehicle Fault Diagnostics to Connected Vehicle Platform 16 SIMalliance Reports Continued Strength of Global SIM Market in 2018 with Estimated 5.6 Billion Shipments and Gives First View of eSIM Volumes ____________________________________________17 Spatial and Continuous Composites Announce Strategic Partnership ______________________________18 WEX Elects Daniel Callahan to Board of Directors ____________________________________________18 Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 19 EnterWorks is Premier Sponsor of IDEA eBiz 2019 Conference _________________________________19 Oracle Media Days: A Winning Cloud Apps Strategy, Cloud Security, and Innovation ________________20 XPLM to Participate in PTC Liveworx _____________________________________________________22 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 22 CENIT in the 1st quarter 2019 ____________________________________________________________22 Xilinx Reports Record Revenues Exceeding $3 Billion For Fiscal 2019 ____________________________23 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 23 Chinese Womenswear Brand HOPESHOW Goes Live with Centric PLM __________________________23 Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 24 ASCENT Unveils 2020 Autodesk Courseware Roadmap _______________________________________24 Ashampoo PDF Pro 2 - The complete solution to create and edit PDF documents ____________________25 Bentley MicroStation V8 SELECTseries 10 (SS10) Provides Flexibility to Help Organizations Sequence Their Upgrade from V8 to the CONNECT Edition ____________________________________________26 Centilytics empowered with AUTOMATION and INVENTORY in the new release; advances CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE efficiency __________________________________________________________26 China Mobile International Launches iSolutions Cloud-Network Integration Platform ________________27 Copyright © 2017 by CIMdata, Inc. 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CIMdata, Inc. 3909 Research Park Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Tel: +1 (734) 668–9922 Fax: +1 (734) 668–1957 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.CIMdata.com CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Datacolor Launches New Color Lifecycle Management Solutions for the Textile and Apparel Supply Chain ____________________________________________________________________________________29 EnterWorks Announces Extension of its Multi-Domain Experience Management Platform with MxM for SAP, Complementing the SAP Experience Landscape _________________________________________29 Flatirons Solutions and Cortona3D Partner to Make Aircraft Maintenance More Interactive ____________30 GeoTools-CADPower V20 Released: ZWCAD Platform added __________________________________31 HP Leads Digital Manufacturing Forward with Powerful New 3D Printing Solution, Industrial Alliances, and Global Production Network ___________________________________________________________32 Infratech Launches Courses in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit and more ______________________________34 New Kubernetes OperatorHub for Red Hat OpenShift to enable hybrid cloud flexibility for enterprises ___34 New WORKPLAN 2020 ________________________________________________________________37 PlanGrid Delivers BIM Data in 2D and 3D Directly to Mobile Users in the Field ____________________39 Selerant Launches Out-of-the-Box PLM Solution for Cosmetics Manufacturers _____________________40 Siemens Asset Performance Management (APM) for Power Plants Named as Winner of 2019 Solution Award for Excellence in Asset Management _________________________________________________41 What's New in Onshape's Latest Update ____________________________________________________42 CIMdata News CIMdata President Peter Bilello Published in CATIA Community - PLM View: Why Digital Twins Require Digital Threads 6 May 2019 The concepts of the digital twin and digital thread have been around for decades. Industry insiders generally agree they should be joined to maximize their value and justify the effort of keeping them current—clear and concise, for example, and valid. Yet the gaps between them seem not to be closing. It's always awkward to insert definitions into an article this early. Given the misinformation about digital twins and digital threads that's “out there,” however, good definitions reveal key differences between digital twins and digital threads, why they must be joined, and why doing so is a persistent challenge. The digital twin is a virtual representation of an enterprise's product, or any physical asset, e.g., manufacturing equipment, one twin for each unique physical product and all that defines it. The digital twin represents the product as of a specific point in time and from then on through the end of the asset’s lifecycle. A digital thread is the communication framework that allows a continuous data flow and integrated views of an asset's digital twin. As an integral part of the digital twin, the digital thread gathers, secures, and maintains information about the configuration of the asset or product. This is why the digital thread should be part of the digital twin; it is what ensures that the digital twin is always accurate. A digital thread's lifecycle begins when its accompanying digital twin is conceived and extends through the end of usable life of that product. Information in the both digital twin and the digital thread is holistic—end-to-end within itself as well as Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary connected to the product's environment via factory and other networks of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT). Digital twins are ubiquitous. By whatever name (or even no name), there are thousands of them in every business unit. In even small enterprises, there are probably tens of thousands of them. As LNS Research recently observed, digital twins “are found throughout the asset lifecycle, from design and engineering to operations, and across the value chain from demand forecasting to planning and scheduling to distribution.”* Both the digital twin and the physical product it represents are directly affected by design validations, minor modifications, last-minute changes, material substitutions, changes in warranty agreements, revised regulations, and much else, which can be tracked in the digital thread and made visible in the digital twin. The specifics of digital twins and digital threads differ widely, of course, but many of their underlying considerations are similar; both are nourished many of the same information flows, especially if they are enabled with PLM. A digital twin without a digital thread is an orphan, disconnected from the decisions and processes that impact it. Whether the product is a drill bit or an airliner, its virtual representation will undoubtedly struggle to be complete without a digital thread. When information flows between them are synchronized and unimpeded, every business unit gains… To read the rest of the article, please click here. Click here to return to Contents Key Sponsors for PLM Road Map and PDT North America 2019 Announced 10 May 2019 CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep have today announced the key sponsors for the upcoming PLM Road Map and PDT North America 2019 conference. The participating sponsors are Aras, CMstat, Configit, IpX, Vertex, and XSB. The event will take place on 29-30 May at the Tysons Corner Marriott in Virginia. “We are excited to have these solution providers choose to sponsor PLM Road Map and PDT North