CIMdata Releases ROI for PLM Deployments in the Food and Beverage Industry

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 April 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper focused on Configit's end-to-end configuration lifecycle management approach titled "Configuration Lifecycle Management: End-to-End Configuration Management is a Necessity."

This whitepaper describes how for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in multiple industrial segments, including automotive, product complexity is increasing well beyond their ability to support it with traditional configuration management approaches and technologies. For many companies, the increased product complexity is being driven by the rapidly-increasing amount of embedded electronics and software, and the desire for more individualized vehicles delivered to the global market in shorter timeframes. Additionally, 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.

Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata's President, stated, "For years, OEMs have tried to fill gaps and close the data and process loops that exist throughout their vehicles' lifecycles. Unfortunately, most of them 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 enabling an efficient end-to-end configuration lifecycle management methodology and associated enabling technologies like those offered by Configit that today's OEMs will continue to be successful."

To learn more about this important resource, please download and read the complete whitepaper at www.CIMdata.com.

For more information, contact:

Cheryl Peck, Director of Marketing
c.peck@CIMdata.com
Tel: +1 734.668.9922

In Europe, the Middle East & Africa contact:
Gerard Litjens, Vice President EMEA
g.litjens@CIMdata.com
Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666

About CIMdata

 CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise's ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies.

CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and providers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia- Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata's services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CIMdataPLMNews, or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA, Tel: +1 734.668.9922. Fax: +1 734.668.1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666.