CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 13 March 2009

13 March 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Company News

• Autodesk Honors Four Value Added Resellers on Silver Anniversary
• Autodesk Platinum Club Recognizes Outstanding Partners for Fiscal Year 2009
• CADCAM Pioneer Donald Welbourn Dies
• Cambridge University Students Racing to Design Solar Car in SolidWorks and SIMULIA Abaqus Software
• Hagerman & Company Celebrates 25 Years as Autodesk Value-added Reseller
• Kineo CAM Extends its Partnership with Profactor GmbH
• LEDAS Opens Driving Dimensions Labs
• NxRev Selects I-Cubed for Windchill® Migration Offering
• OptiTex Expands Online Access to Features
• Oracle Invests in Partner Growth and Success With Expanded Application Partner Enablement Programs
• SiS Joins Power Forward Initiative To Assist In Delivering Power-Efficient Computing Platforms
• solidThinking Adds Javelin Technologies to Growing Roster of Value-Added Resellers
• Synergis Launches e-Learning for Autodesk Software Users
• The Board of Directors of MSC.Software Names Ashfaq Munshi Interim CEO and President

Events News

• Avatech Solutions Presents Autodesk 2010 Webcasts Series
• Delcam to Hold Aerospace Seminar at Dormer Tools
• Delcam Italia to Show Complete CAM Range at Eurostampi
• Delcam Italia to Highlight Five-Axis Machining Strategies at MECSPE
• Delcam to Show Broad and Capable CAM Range at CIMT
• DP Technology, Creator of ESPRIT CAM, to be a Sponsor and Exhibitor at the 2009 Industry and Innovation Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, March 17-18
• New Wind Energy Solution, LMS Virtual.Lab Aerodyn Wind Loads, to be Presented at EWEC 2009
• Simulation Webinar Powers Renewable Energy Projects
• World’s Leading Architecture, Engineering, and Research Organizations to Showcase Best in Generative Design at Upcoming SmartGeometry 2009 in San Francisco

Financial News

• ESI Group 2008/09 Annual Sales: €70.2 Million - Strong Resistance of the Recurrent Installed Base - Operating Margin Impacted by the Fall in the New Business

Implementation Investments

• Apache and NXP Collaborate to Address 45nm Power Integrity Challenges for Advanced Digital Processor Design
• Autodesk and Permasteelisa to Streamline Processes for Innovative Curtain Wall Structures
• B. Braun to Deploy Content Management Company-wide Using The Open Text ECM Suite
• Blue Highway Selects Invention Machine Goldfire to Fuel Product Pipeline and Sustain Breakthrough Innovation
• Ciba Implements Sopheon’s Accolade® Solution to Help Focus Innovation Investments on Most Promising Projects
• ENOVIA: Leading Aquaculture Group Akva Selects Integrated Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft Solution
• Ford Motor Company Continues Rich History with MSC.Software
• IBM and Dassault Systèmes Help European Automaker Create Digital Design Infrastructure to Speed Up Delivery of Fuel Efficient Cars
• IFS Applications to Integrate Business Processes for Global Opto-Electronic Manufacturer
• Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Tool Family Supports Altera’s Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGA Devices
• NACCO Materials Handling Group Reduces Product Costs with aPriori
• Sapa Selects Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter as Its Corporate-Wide PLM Solution
• TATA Autocomp Systems Ltd. Expands its Deployment of Mentor Graphics Electrical Systems Design Tools
• ThyssenKrupp Tallent Ltd. Adopts Altair's HyperWorks Enterprise Simulation Solution for Automotive Chassis Design
• Tundra Semiconductor Selects Synopsys as Its Primary EDA Partner

Product News

• ACUSIM Software & Intelligent Light Offer Custom OEM Version of FieldView™ CFD Post-Processing within AcuSolve™ Solution Environment
• Bentley Systems’ V8i Now Supports 3Dconnexion 3D Mice
• CEI Announces More Powerful Version of EnSight Lite
• COADE Announces April Release for New PV Fabricator for Automated Deliverables for Pressure Vessel and Heat Exchanger Design
• COADE CADWorx Plant Now Localized for Japanese Market
• Delcam CRISPIN Extends CADCAM Range for Footwear
• E³.Panel from Zuken: it’s a Whole New World with Integrated 3D
• Exchange Plug-in Updated for Vectorworks 2009 and CINEMA 4D R11
• Fastrak Building Designer v9 Released in the US
• FlowmasterLink for MATLAB V2.0.1
• Geometric releases DFMPro version 2.0 for SolidWorks®
• Lectra Offers Innovative Approach to the Development of Upholstered Furniture
• LEDAS Takes 3D History-Free Parametric Design to the Next Level by Releasing Driving Dimensions 1.0 Plugin for Google SketchUp
• New DFMA® 2009 Software from Boothroyd Dewhurst Targets Environmental Compliance
• NX and Pro/E Data Can Now be Used Seamlessly Within CATIA V5
• Remcom Licenses Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed 2D DCM
• Synopsys DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY and PCI Express 1.1 PHY IP First to Achieve Compliance in UMC's 65-Nanometer Process Technologies
• VX Evolution; Slash Manufacturing Costs and Design Time

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:

Over the past several months, many of our industrial clients have asked us how the current economic climate has impacted the status of PLM implementation initiatives. In order to better understand the current situation, CIMdata is in the process of analyzing, releasing and reporting the results of a set of CIMdata Polls concerned with this topic. January’s CIMdata Poll asked participants how the current stressful economic times have impacted their PLM programs. As reported last month, 63% of the participants reported that their PLM program has been negatively impacted in some manner. Last month’s CIMdata Poll asked poll participants what was most important regarding their PLM initiative. In this poll, CIMdata sought to understand the main concerns held by PLM technologists during the current stressful business climate. The results proved to be rather interesting.

As illustrated in the graph of the poll results, just over half of the participants indicated that they were concerned that management wouldn’t, or perhaps doesn’t, view their PLM initiative as strategic to the business during these stressful economic times. One could easily argue that if a company’s management team views PLM to be strategic to its business, then they would be less likely to cut its budget, remove resources, limit training, put it on hold, etc. However, the January poll indicates that the majority of programs have already been negatively impacted. This points to the apparent need to better educate management on the importance of PLM and how PLM can benefit the company during stressful as well as non-stressful business cycles. Finally, it is interesting to note that the questions that asked about specific budget-cutting effects were not selected in any large percentage, as compared to the non-budget issues. This re-enforces that the poll participants are much less concerned about tactically-oriented budget cuts that can be lived through, than they are that management doesn’t view PLM as strategic to the business. CIMdata’s recommendation based on these results is that PLM teams should continue to regularly update their management teams on the benefits being realized by the business due to continued use and adoption of PLM.

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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