CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 17 October 2008

17 October 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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2-5 DECEMBRE 2008, Paris Nord Villepinte - Hall 6 -France

At SCS Paris 2008 in collaboration with Thésame, CIMdata presents " Mechatronics Role in a PLM Strategy," on Wednesday, 3-December, from 10:00am to 12:00pm. As products continue to become more complex, and have begun to include a range of mechanical, electronic, and embedded software components. Successful PLM strategies and environments must provide solid support for product definition and management in this environment and must be able to handle the full product definition. This session will focus on the importance of managing the complete product definition, successful approaches taken by industrial companies, and the impact on their ability to deliver more competitive products and services to their customers."

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Acquisitions

• Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Electrical Computer-Aided Design ECSCAD Technology From Mensch und Maschine Group
• Cadence Expands Enterprise Verification IP Portfolio by 5X to Provide Industry's Broadest OVM Multi-language Offering

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Publishes a White Paper about Getting Started in PDM; “Companies of all sizes can take advantage of today’s PDM systems”
• CIMdata’s October Opinion Poll is “What is the Next Planned Area of Expansion of your PLM Solution?”
• CIMdata Announces the Results of its Opinion Poll on Which Offers the Greatest Inoperability Challenges with PLM Systems

Company News

• Actify Increases Global Presence in Europe
• Apriso FlexNet Achieves New SAP Certified Integration Status
• Cadence Board of Directors Creates Interim Office of the Chief Executive; Michael Fister Resigns
• CollabNet Names 25-Year Software And Technology Veteran as Vice President of Business Development
• COMSOL Joins PTC� Partner AdvantageT Program
• Dassault Systèmes Announces Accelerated Simulation Performance with Microsoft’s Windows HPC Server 2008
• Integware Announces Partnership with Best-Selling Author Gus Lee; Gus Lee joins Integware as Chief Learning and Education Officer
• IronCAD Signs P1 CAD in Sheffield as a Strategic Reseller
• New Discovery Channel ‘Prototype This’ Show Uses SolidWorks to Invent the Future
• OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Orlando, Florida
• Oracle Achieves Milestone with Availability of 200 Oracle Accelerate Partner Solutions
• Tacton Awarded Lino GmbH the Status of a TactonWorks Certified Service Partner
• Tacton Partners with Arion Data and Planning Group to Provide Sales Configurator Solutions in Spain and Portugal
• Z Corporation Joins Autodesk Developer Network

Events News

• COADE’s First CADWorx User Conference on October 20-22 in Houston to Feature Company President, Thomas J. Van Laan, and Greg Schwem, National Keynote Speaker and Funnyman
• Delcam’s Range of Signmaking Software on Show at VISCOM
• Delcam to Show New Design and Machining Software at Euromold
• Fourteen-Year Architecture Veteran Talks about BIM and How to Innovate with Elegance Across Dimensions
• i get it® Presentation at COE 2008 Automotive Workshop Will Focus on Knowledge Management as a Key to Productivity, Innovation
• MachineWorks Latest Machine Simulation at JIMTOF
• OPEN MIND at W8 in Birmingham: hyperMILL®: the Comprehensive CAM Solution for Flexible Production in Future
• Sescoi Provides Free Seminar and Free Software at the TCT “Rapid Product Development & Rapid Manufacturing” Event
• Sescoi to Demo Aerospace Productivity Gains at European Shows
• Top Innovators Gather in Boston for Invention Machine’s Worldwide User Conference; Keynote speakers include Johnson & Johnson’s Sheldon Sloan and innovation author Scott Kirsner

Financial News

• ANSYS, Inc. to Release Third Quarter 2008 Earnings November 6, 2008
• Apache Design Solutions Achieves Record Sales for the Twenty-Third Consecutive Quarter
• AVEVA Trading Update
• IBM Reports 2008 Third-Quarter Results

Implementation Investments

• Fukuoka IST Selects Synopsys as its Primary EDA Supplier
• Hammerhead Builds Customer Confidence, Reduces Errors and Delays and Improves Communication and Collaboration Using Integrated Arena PLM and Expandable ERP Solution
• Inauen-Schaetti Standardizes on PTC® CoCreate® for Ultimate Flexibility Throughout Design Process
• Magma Software Enables Impinj to Reduce Turnaround Time by 200 Percent, Power by 30 Percent and Area by 25 Percent On RFID ICs
• Mentor Graphics Veloce Deployed by Mitsubishi to Deliver High-Quality HDTV Video Decoder Chip
• Montblanc Luxury Goods Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Technology to Reduce Production Time and Further Enhance Quality
• Petrobras Standardizes on Intergraph® 3D Technology
• SigmaTEK Combines Technology With Service at Katmex
• Sonnax Designs Aftermarket Transmissions Products Better Than New with SolidWorks Software

Product News

• AspenTech’s Patented aspenONE Master Data Model Delivers Asset Lifecycle Management
• COMSOL Multiphysics® 3.5 Advances Simulation Efficiency and Productivity through High-Performance CAD and ECAD Interoperability
• Fishbowl Solutions Releases pubSchedule™ 2.0
• Lectra Presents its New DesignConcept Auto and DesignConcept TechTex; an innovative approach to product development
• LEDAS is Bringing the New Technology of Variational Direct Modeling to the Market
• Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route System Slashes Design Closure Times with Industry’s First Parallel Timing Analysis and Optimization Technology
• OptiTex Speaks the Language of Design – In Several Languages
• Siemens PLM Software Announces New Release of Solid Edge 2D Drafting
• Siemens PLM Software Announces New Releases for its D-Cubed 3D Component Software Solutions
• The MathWorks Announces MATLAB and Simulink Student Version 2008b

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:

For comparison here are the results from when we featured this poll in 2004

CIMdata Analysis

The latest CIMdata poll results identified that integration among CAD systems is the greatest interoperability challenge for companies (41% of responders). This is up from 23% four years earlier and indicates that managing CAD data from multiple sources across organization and the supply / design chain is growing in importance. As more companies outsource design to their partners, multi-CAD integration will remain a key success factor.

Integration with other PDM systems was identified as a leading challenge by 13% of responders – approximately the same as four years ago. This issue will continue as multiple PDM solutions are used throughout the design chain. However, as new architectures and standards are adopted, PDM to PDM integration, while essential, is becoming easier.

Several other interoperability areas were considered less challenging in the current poll versus four years ago. These include integration with enterprise resource planning systems and supply chain management. Each of these areas has been addressed by PLM solution providers during the four year period with both better integrations to third party solutions and incorporation of these functions within larger PLM solution suites. This has reduced the need/problems of integration for these areas.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
If you have a suggestion for a poll you'd like to see contact us at info@cimdata.com.

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