CIMdata to Join a Webinar Addressing PLM Upgrade Bottlenecks

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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, November 12, 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar titled “192 Hours to 30: How Keysight Validates Its Own ENOVIA Upgrades.” The webinar, sponsored by Keysight Technologies, will be held on Thursday, November 19, and will be broadcast in two time zones to promote global participation. The webinar will address one of the most persistent bottlenecks in enterprise engineering: the cost, risk, and friction associated with validating PLM software upgrades. Keysight will share verified benchmarks showing that automated validation reduced validation cycles in its internal digital thread environment from nearly five weeks (192 hours) to under one week (30 hours). Sandeepak Natu, Director of CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Practice, will provide external industry context, explaining why organizations often defer critical PLM upgrades—leading to accumulated technical debt and security vulnerabilities—and how modern AI-driven validation methodologies are reshaping lifecycle management for complex, highly customized engineering systems. This webinar will appeal to engineering and digital thread leaders, PLM and CAE system owners, QA and validation teams responsible for keeping PLM current, and anyone who’s ever postponed an upgrade because of validation costs. Webinar attendees will learn: • Why PLM upgrade validation takes so much time, and why the part most teams automate last should be first. • How AI-driven validation handles the configured, customized UI that breaks traditional test scripts. • What the move from 192 hours to 30 actually involved, including what went wrong along the way. • Where to start if you want to try the same in your own environment. To learn more and register for this webinar, please visit: https://sw-online-events.keysight.com/series/how-keysight-de-risks-plm-up/landing_page?t=1