CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 24 October 2008

24 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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CIMdata News

• One More Week to Vote in CIMdata’s October Opinion Poll is “What is the Next Planned Area of Expansion of your PLM Solution?”

Company News

• Altair Adds Leading Industrial Design Software solidThinking to Its HyperWorks Enabled Community
• Geometric Appoints AUTOLINE as Resellers
• ‘Listen to the shapes’; Think3 Supports Approach to Multisensory Modeling in Funded Project
• NGC® Expands to Indian Market through Reseller Agreement with Technopak
• Open Text Expands Content Lifecycle Management Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• PTC Underscores Commitment to STEM Education Program and Expands Partnership with FIRST
• Siemens PLM Software Sponsored Race Teams Take the Top Six Spots at Martinsville Speedway; Continue to Lead the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase for the Championship

Events News

• COADE and EMT-R Participate at Oil Gas Chemistry – 2008 in Samara, Russia
• COADE and EMT-R Participate at SOFTOOL-2008, Russian Exhibition on Information Technologies and Computers, Held September 20 – October 3 in Moscow
• COADE Sponsoring and Speaking at Plant-Tech 2008, the European Forum for Plant Information Management, November 18-19 in The Hague, Netherlands
• Delcam to Work with 30 Partners at JIMTOF
• Gerber Technology Introduces Two New Software Solutions for their PLM Suite at the 10th Annual Gerber Software Users Conference
• IMAGE Custom Engineering Solutions Introduces ICES BOM for CADWorx at COADE’s CADWorx User Conference in Houston
• KOMPAS-3D V10 Gained Great Respect at HAUS + TECHNIK 2008 and MUT 2008 in Germany
• LMS Introduces Unique Fuel Cell System Simulation Solution
• MSC.Software Teams With Alenia Aeronautica and Italian Airforce for International Conference on Virtual Test and Engineering Simulation in Aerospace and Defense
• NEi Software Presents New Nastran Modal Analysis Tools at Shock and Vibration Symposium
• Primavera® 25th Annual Conference Will Bring Users to Las Vegas Nov. 16-19, 2008

Financial News

• Cadence Announces Accounting Review and Postpones Release of Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Webcast
• EMC Reports Third-Quarter Financial Results; Achieves 13% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth
• Geometric’s Q2 Operating Profit Doubles
• Mercury Computer Systems Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Revenues of $49.1 Million
• SofTech Announces First Quarter Financial Results for First Quarter FY 2009

Implementation Investments

• Advance Thermal Warms to Swift ROI on CAM & Nesting Investment
• AMECO Beijing Implements PTC Arbortext to Improve Aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Efforts
• Cadence Helps Staccato Launch Ripcord2 Single-Chip, Ultra-Wideband IC Family
• Catalog Data Solutions Selected by Plastic Products Inc. for Online Bushing Configurator and CAD Downloads
• Exmark to Implement aPriori for Product Cost Management
• Nobiskrug Signs Agreement to Implement AVEVA Marine
• Software Boosts Prototyping and Short Batch Runs

Product News

• Delcam Launches New FeatureCAM Release
• GibbsCAM 2009 Shipping to Customers; Early Customers Very Pleased by New 3D High Speed Machining for SolidSurfacer
• Graphisoft Delivers MEP Modeler for ArchiCAD 12
• KeyCreator Version 8.0 Delivers Performance, Productivity Enhancements
• MSC.Software Announces R3 Release of FluidConnection to Enable Efficient, Automated CFD Simulation Processes
• NuVentures Announces Release Six of PDMLynx Product Data Management Software

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:

Here are the results from when we ran the poll in 2004 for comparison.

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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