Free Webinar on Sustainability & PLM

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This presentation is part of CIMdata’s educational webinar series. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 October 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Sustainability Investment Imperative: Where PLM Delivers the Greatest Impact.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 12 November, at 11:00 a.m. (ET) and will last for one hour. Sustainability has not gone away; it has evolved. Corporate reporting requirements have been recalibrated, yet atmospheric CO₂ continues to rise. Product-level requirements, such as Product Carbon Footprints (PCF) and Digital Product Passports (DPP), continue to advance, and energy security, critical materials, and supply-chain resilience have become board-level concerns. Attendees at this webinar will: • Understand why sustainability remains a business imperative despite shifting political priorities. • Learn how to determine how much to invest in sustainability and where those investments deliver the greatest return. • Understand how to measure the business and environmental value of sustainability investments. • Discover how integrating sustainability into engineering decisions lowers your product’s PCF and cost. • Understand the product-data foundation needed to meet customer, market, and regulatory requirements without rebuilding information each time. • Learn how supplier data ecosystems and Digital Product Passports extend PLM beyond the enterprise. • Gain a realistic view of where AI can accelerate product sustainability. • Leave with a value-based roadmap for directing sustainability investment. According to Mark Reisig, a CIMdata Executive Consultant and Sustainability Practice Director, “Sustainability investment should not rise and fall with political fashion or reporting deadlines. The companies that gain the most will direct investment toward the products, engineering decisions, and lifecycle stages where they can create the greatest environmental and business value. PLM provides the product context and digital thread needed to make those investments measurable, repeatable, and defensible.” Mark Reisig has over 40 years of experience in digital transformation, information technology, and engineering in the energy, aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, shipbuilding, high-tech electronics, medical devices, and food & beverage industries. He has led digital initiatives in PLM, plant design, computer-aided design, and master data management for global businesses. Mark comes to CIMdata after an extensive career in PLM with GE, Federation, Oracle, Auto-trol Technology, Kraft-Heinz, Catalytic, Day & Zimmermann, and most recently, Aras, where he was the Vice President of Product Marketing. This webinar will examine how much companies should invest in sustainability and where those investments deliver the greatest environmental and business returns. We will show how PLM, with its product context and digital thread, enables companies to direct investment toward the products, engineering decisions, and lifecycle stages that matter most, and to make those investments measurable, repeatable, and defensible. During the webinar, attendees can ask questions about the topics discussed. To find out more, visit: https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/educational-webinars/webinar-the-sustainability-investment-imperative-where-plm-delivers-the-greatest-impact . To register for this webinar, please visit https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1862927191805102165 .