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collaborative Product
Definition management
(cPDm): An Overview
An Overview of a Collaborative
Approach to Managing the
Product Definition Lifecycle
A CIMdata Report
collaborative Product
Definition management
(cPDm):
An Overview
An Overview of a Collaborative
Approach to Managing the Product
Definition Lifecycle
August 2001
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CIMdata provides worldwide strategic consulting and program support, in-depth research, and
education for both anizations and suppliers of technologies and services seeking
competitive advantage in the global economy, and within a constantly evolving e-business
world.
CIMdata helps anizations establish an effective collaborative Product Definition
management (cPDm) strategy, assists in the selection and deployment of cPDm technologies
and products, and anizations optimize their operational structure and processes to
implement solutions that manage the entire product or plant definition lifecycle. For cPDm
suppliers, CIMdata helps define business and market strategies, delivers worldwide market
information and analyses, provides education and support for internal sales and marketing
teams, as well as overall support at all stages of business and product programs to make them
optimally effective in their markets.
CIMdata provides world-class knowledge, expertise and best practice methods on cPDm
solutions that incorporate business processes, product data management (PDM), visualization,
collaboration, and collaborative merce (CPC). CIMdata also offers expertise in
related technologies such as CAD/CAM and NC.
In addition to consulting, CIMdata provides industry education through international
conferences in the US, Europe, and Japan that focus on management of the prod