CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 19 September 2008

19 September 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• DP Technology Corp. Acquires BinarySpaces Software Technology GmbH

CIMdata News

• Ask the Expert: How Will PLM Evolve?
• CIMdata in the News: “Broadening the PLM Footprint”

Company News

• Bentley Launches Building Performance Group, Names Noah Eckhouse Vice President
• PTC® Global Education Program Sponsors U.S. Department of Energy “Real World Design Challenge”
• Surfware Adds Two Physicist/Programmers to Its Expanding R&D and Programming Staff

Events News

• Aras Sponsors 2008 International CMII Conference
• Call for Speakers: COE 2009 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair
• CD-adapco to Unveil New Technology for the Simulation of Floating Vessels
• Delcam and Renishaw to Hold CMM Five-Axis Inspection Seminars
• Delcam’s Complete New CAM Range on Show at BIMU
• ESPRIT 2009 at Micronora 2008
• MSC.Software to Host European Summit on Simulation in the Aerospace Industry
• PLM Automotive Symposium 2008 in Munich

Implementation Investments

• ANSYS Helps Speedo Take Home Medals at Beijing Olympics
• Delcam Crispin Software Prompts Success for New Orthotics Company
• Florida Department of Transportation Adds Autodesk's AutoCAD Civil 3D for Road and Highway Design
• Fresco Microchip Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ and Noise Analysis Option™ for Single-Chip Broadcast TV Receiver
• HEIDENHAIN Selects Valor DFM
• Ivory International Chooses NGC's e-PLM and e-SPS Software for Integrated PLM and Global Sourcing
• PTC® Pro/ENGINEER® Helps Cue Acoustics Excite Listeners with Contemporary Radio
• Sanyo Machine Works Selects Dassault Systemes' DELMIA Automation
• SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. Expands Investment in Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise to Industrial, Mining and Metallurgy Divisions
• Wartsila Embarks on its PLM Journey with Infosys Technologies

Product News

• Agilent Technologies’ New Electronic System-Level EDA Platform Helps Algorithm Developers, System Architects Cut Design Time in Half
• AWR® and Mentor Graphics® Unveil High-Frequency PCB Co-Design That Obsoletes File Translation
• Bentley and Tsinghua University to Support Sustainable Building Development in China
• CCE Updates its Mastercam Interoperability Product to Support Mastercam X3
• Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. Unveils SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2009
• DP Technology Releases ESPRIT 2009 CAM Software
• JETCAM Announces Dassault CATIA Integration
• LEDAS Releases 64-Bit Version of its Variational Geometric Solver
• NEi Fusion V1.4 Release Provides Designers with Easy-to-Use, Industry Proven Nastran Simulation
• Nemetschek North America Releases the Vectorworks 2009 Product Line
• OptiTex’s Colorful Future
• RAND Adds 3DVIA Composer Package to Rapid Deployment Program, QuickStart
• Right Hemisphere Software Powers 2D and 3D Viewing and Publishing for SAP PLM 7.0
• RLM Launches FashionManager™ Concept-to-Consumer Software Solution
  
• Siemens PLM Software and Nemetschek North America Announce the Launch of Vectorworks 2009 Featuring Parasolid
• Siemens PLM Software Announces New Releases for its D-Cubed 2D Component Software Solutions
• Siemens PLM Software Uses its D-Cubed Components to Drive Design Productivity in NX 6
• solidThinking Names FISHER/UNITECH its First Value-Added Reseller in the U.S.
• SolidWorks 2009 Delivers Dramatic Speed Increase Plus More Than 260 Customer-Driven Enhancements
• 3D Content Creation Made Even Easier With the Release of 3DVIA Shape 2.0
• Tacton and Cadmes Enter into Reseller Agreement for TactonWorks
• Think3 Signs Up Rashi Peripherals as Their National Distributor in India

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/polls/polls.html. 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:

Analysis:

The results of CIMdata's latest on-line poll show that just over 50% of responders indicated that their companies have not established metrics to track business, productivity or process improvements related to their PLM solution deployments. However 23% indicated that they had metrics for engineering and another 23% indicated that they had established metrics in other areas (enterprise wide 13%, and other non-engineering or manufacturing 11%).

CIMdata strongly recommends that companies use metrics to track and validate the impact of their PLM solutions on the business. Only by measuring changes can they quantify the return on their investment and identify areas and processes that have been improved, or those that need additional effort to be improved. Failure to measure can result in incorrect perceptions of the impact of PLM investments on the business and make it difficult to justify further investments. Further, the use of appropriate metrics helps communicate the benefits that PLM provides to individuals and managers within the enterprise that are being affected by PLM-related changes in processes and methods.

While many of the early metrics were focused on the engineering processes and departments, the trend to use enterprise level metrics that look beyond engineering reflects the knowledge that PLM can have a broader impact on a company. Metrics that look at enterprise performance can help management understand both the overall impact of PLM and how it should be positioned compared to other business investments.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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