CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 16 May 2008

16 May 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Mentor Graphics Acquires Assets of Ponte Solutions—Technology to be Integrated into Calibre DFM Solutions
• Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Synplicity, Inc.
• Synplicity Announces Shareholder Approval of Agreement of Merger With Synopsys, Inc.

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• Only TEN Days Left to Register Your Input on the Most Important Criteria in Your Company's PLM Evaluation and Selection Process
  

Company News

• Anark Announces Sale of Entertainment Division and Series 4 Expansion Financing
• BE Careers Network and The CAD Academy Team to Offer Students Bentley Civil Engineering Software
• Centric Names Industry Veteran Dave Guercio to Top Sales and Services Role
• Collaborative Multi-Company, Multi-Disciplinary Jet Engine Design
• Dassault Systèmes Opens Chengdu Office, Expanding Operations in China
  
• Liberty Technical Advisory Board Expands Under the Auspices of IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
• Mentor Graphics Offers Personalized Web Support Portals; First to Earn Certification under the SCP eService Standard
• Siemens PLM Software: Key Milestones Achieved During its First Year
• Synopsys Donates Proven VMM Methodology Library and Applications to Accellera

Events News

• Announcing IP Talks! 2008: Meet With Leading IP Suppliers at DAC
• Autodesk Showcases Design Innovation Technologies
• Cimatron to Exhibit Advanced Machining Techniques and Newly Released CAD/CAM Capabilities at EASTEC
• CIMdata’s Ed Miller Is Keynote Speaker at PLM World, June 4, 2008 on the Challenges Presented by the Expanding Scope of PLM
• Delcam to Launch New PowerMILL at IMTS
• 45th Design Automation Conference Panels Cover Industry’s Varied Interests, Challenges, Direction, Future
• Geometric to Unveil DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER at PTC World 2008
  
• GibbsCAM Featured at Mori Seiki Innovation Days
• ProductDossier Participates in Two Upcoming Trade Shows
• Record Number of Attendees Expected at EMC World 2008
• Siemens PLM Software Announces Siemens PLM Connection Americas 2008
• Si2 to Host 4th Integrated Design Systems Workshop at DAC 2008
• 2008 European P2E Conference - Delivering on Strategies Call for Speakers
  

Financial News

• Autodesk Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Revenue of $599 Million
  
• Avatech Solutions Reports Third Consecutive Quarter of Profitability and Net Income of $1.0 Million
• Cimatron's Q1/2008 Results Release Scheduled for May 20, 2008
• Sopheon plc Interim Management Statement
• Valor Shows Significant Increase in Profitability and Another Quarter of Record Revenues in Q1/2008

Implementation Investments

• American Icon Char-Broil Chooses Arena PLM to Help Introduce the Gas Grill All Over Again
• Burt Hill Receives Revit BIM Experience Award for Sustainable Design of Major Education, Healthcare and Commercial Projects
• Delcam Software Helps Crosby Composites Produce High-Accuracy Parts
• DiaSorin Seeks Unified Risk Assessment Using Dyadem Software
• HiSilicon Selects Synopsys as IP Vendor Of Choice for SoC Designs
• Mentor Graphics Announces 20th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards Program Winners
• Moriroku Streamlines Design Process and Increases Productivity with Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA PLM Express
  
• PTC Signs Memorandum of Understanding on Education Cooperation with Chinese Ministry of Education
• Renesas Adopts Cadence SOC Encounter for Large Scale Complex Chips and Flip-Chip Design
  
• Shanghai Dianji University Receives In-Kind Software Grant with a Commercial Value of US$46 Million From Siemens PLM Software
• ‘Snakehead’ Camera System, Designed in SolidWorks, Soars in New Bond Film
• Socle Technology, Inc. Adopts Cadence Low-Power Solution to Address 65NM Power Efficiency Challenges
  
• Spiegel Brands Goes Deep in the Supply Chain with Yunique PLM
• Sulzer Pumps Ltd Selects PTC® Product Development System to Improve Global Collaboration
• Synopsys HSIM-XA Adopted by STMicroelectronics for Its Advanced Smart Power Technology
• VISTAGY Partners with 3T to Provide Innovative Composite Bicycle Components
  

Product News

• Bentley Announces Innovative Discovery Subscription Program for GenerativeComponents
• Bentley AutoPIPE Receives European EN 13480 Approval
• Berkeley Design Automation Delivers Over 2x Superior Price/Performance Versus All True SPICE Accurate Circuit Simulators
• Comet Solutions, Inc. Joins Siemens PLM Software Partner Program
• CoWare and Agility Team to Accelerate the Simulation of Complex DSP Algorithms
• CYA Technologies Announces CYA SmartRecovery and CYA Recycle Bin for the EMC® Documentum® 6 Enterprise Content Management Platform
• DesignAdvance Releases CircuitSpace v2.2 - Unveils New Cross-Probing Technology
  
• Edgecam 12.5 Improves Automation of NC Programming and Increases User Control
• EMC Empowers Broad Range of Organizations to Reap the Benefits of XML
• Enterprise Informatics Releases eB Nuclear Performance Improvement
• Flomerics EFD.Lab Simulation Software for Autodesk© Inventor© Users Offers Enhanced Usability and Increased Performance
• Magma's FineSim SPICE Circuit Simulator Qualifies Designs Targeting for TSMC's 40- and 65-Nanometer Process Technologies
  
• Operation Technology, Inc. – ETAP® Joins Intergraph® SmartPlant® Alliance Program
• Revit Architecture and Autodesk 3ds Max Design Software Accelerate the Building Design Process
• Right Hemisphere Transfers Deep Creator Product Development to Esperient Corporation
• SAP and TechniData Release Market’s Most Comprehensive Solution for Achieving EU Chemical Regulation Compliance
• Synergis Engineering Design Solutions Authorized to Sell Autodesk Industrial Design Solutions
• Synopsys Adds 30 New Titles to DesignWare System-Level Library
• The MathWorks Simplifies Development of Parallel Applications in MATLAB
• think3 Hits the Market with New Suite of CAD and PLM Solutions 2008.1
• UMC and Mentor Graphics Introduce Foundry Design Kits (FDK) for Mixed-Mode and RF Technologies
• VeriSilicon Joins Power Forward Initiative to Accelerate Advanced Low-Power Design
  

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/research/polls/polls.php. Each week the results of the previous poll will be included in the CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to help you stay on top of trends in the PLM industry.

Take a moment to visit the site and vote on our current poll.

The results for the last opinion poll are:

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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Analysis
CIMdata’s latest opinion poll indicates that a significant majority of those responding see their company’s PLM effort, including the development of its strategy, being led by one of the following three groups: engineering, manufacturing, or corporate management. While CIMdata is somewhat surprised to see that 38% of the respondents indicated that manufacturing is driving their PLM initiative we are encouraged by this because we believe that this is an indication that many companies understand the value and necessity of accurate and complete product definition information being available to manufacturing. This may also indicate a growing acceptance of digital manufacturing and those PLM enabling solutions that support manufacturing engineering as various computer-aided design and analysis tools have supported product engineering.

It is no surprise that 34% of the respondents indicated that their company’s PLM initiative is being driven by engineering. For many years engineering has been the prime driver for the implementation of PDM, CAD, and a number of other PLM enabling aolutions.

Finally, it is important to note that the third largest driver was corporate management. This points to a trend that CIMdata has seen for some time; a trend towards companies considering PLM more and more as an enterprise initiative. CIMdata expects this trend to continue as PLM is seen by companies in multiple industries as a true enterprise business strategy.

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