CIMdata Releases Whitepaper on The Sustainability Imperative

PLM is central to a systemic response across global value chains.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 24 February 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a whitepaper focused on the issues faced by industrial companies looking to enhance their sustainability efforts.

This paper, written with SAP, “The Sustainability Imperative,” highlights the issues faced by companies that are trying to improve the sustainability of their products and services, and more broadly across their entire operations. CIMdata and SAP believe that product lifecycle management (PLM) needs to be central to the industrial response for manufacturing companies and can also help companies in many industries better assess the environmental impacts of their operations and to virtually test potential changes.

Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, noted “News clippings from the world over illustrate the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation resulting from human activity. This is a global, systemic problem that requires a global solution. While many industries contribute to the problem, products are central to the solution, products that are sustainable by design. Digital twins and modeling and simulation are key to understanding the changes needed early in the product lifecycle so they have the most impact. A digital thread spanning the value chain is essential to gathering the necessary data to achieve sustainability objectives and is increasingly enabled by business platforms that can create, gather, manage, and help leverage disparate data sources. This is becoming critical as extended producer responsibility (EPR) regimes become pervasive that require value chain reporting by manufacturers in most industries. Leading companies are embracing these changes and are finding ways to enhance revenues and improve their environmental record.”

This CIMdata whitepaper is available at: www.sap.com and at: www.CIMdata.com.