Product Lifecycle Management stories
Engineers now open CAD files in seconds instead of minutes, after a global file system reduced version conflicts across three continents.
Stand-alone spending remains tiny, but the sector is set to more than triple as firms struggle to stitch together fragmented digital twin tools.
Large firms are risking an average 2.4% of annual revenue on failed transformation and AI work as board visibility stays poor.
Trusted product data is becoming the key test for AI adoption, with 66% of manufacturers saying systems fail without it.
Manufacturers face credential theft and engineering-data loss after a tailored Windchill web shell tied to Clop exploited CVE-2026-12569.
The long-term arrangement should cut outages and speed up issue resolution across Knorr-Bremse's global SAP, engineering and PLM systems.
SMBs and managed service providers gain clearer patching and support timelines as Zyxel moves to meet rising cyber and regulatory scrutiny.
Most firms still cannot gather enough supplier information to meet looming EU Digital Product Passport rules, research shows.
Better product data control has cut catalogue production from 11 months to six, helping Portwest localise safety materials in 28 languages.
European firms needing secure, low-carbon compute gain a bigger home as the deal expands cloud, AI and dedicated HPC services under one roof.
Manufacturers could cut PLM training and support costs as the deal embeds in-app guidance and analytics into Windchill workflows.
Customers in medical, aerospace and AI data centre markets gain a wider production base as East West adds Vexos' sites in five countries.
Students at UniSC will gain hands-on access to Siemens engineering tools as Queensland pushes to build skills for advanced manufacturing.
Manufacturers could soon query live product data from AI tools, as Propel links its PLM platform to Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.
Product teams may get concepts to review in minutes rather than months as the new service aims to speed early decisions on brand fit and compliance.
UK fashion brands facing thinner margins may gain faster design and production cycles as Fynd rolls out its AI system.
Rising product complexity is slowing quotes and deliveries for most manufacturers, as only 7% reuse the same configuration rules across systems.
Growing pressure to prove AI decisions is pushing manufacturers towards tighter governance, connected data and MCP-based integration by 2026.
The contract bolsters Australia's push to build guided-weapons capability at home, with sensitive design data kept on local systems.
MGA insurers could cut product launch times from months to days as the software supplier targets faster configuration, testing and compliance.