CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 5 April 2013

5 April 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata's PLM Market & Industry Forums
Formerly known as CIMdata's Vendor Forums, our PLM Market & Industry Forums are a series of international events that offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity for PLM solution providers to come together and examine the industry's performance, gauge its progress, and set the vision for its future.

Where & When?
Event Dates and Location:
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Sheraton - Ann Arbor

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - Frankfurt, GERMANY
Steigenberger Hotel - Bad Homburg

Friday, April 19, 2013 - Beijing, CHINA
Venue to be announced.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - Tokyo, JAPAN
Myojin Kaikan
Sotokanda 2-16-2, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

Event Website: http://www.cimdata.com/news_events/forums/2013/market_industry_forums.html

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Acquisitions

• ANSYS, Inc. Announces Acquisition of EVEN – Evolutionary Engineering AG

Company News

• Accelrys Announces the Scientific Innovation Lifecycle Leaders Awards
• Applied Software Wins 2013 Autodesk Platinum Club Award
• Bricsys Announces New Sales Point for South Africa
• CNC Software, Inc., Developer of Mastercam®, Celebrates 30th Anniversary
• EDA Consortium Reports Revenue Increase for Q4 2012
• IronCAD, LLC Announces Expansion of Worldwide Headquarters
• ThomasNet Launches North American Manufacturing Scholarship Program
• ZWSOFT Global Partner Conference 2013 Successfully Concluded

Events News

• 2013 Global Product Data Interoperability Summit Expands, Now Open to More Vendors
• Access Manufacturing Systems to feature CAMWorks 2013 at EASTEC
• Analog Devices Announces Design Conference 2013
• AVEVA Sponsors 12th World Copper Conference 2013
• AVEVA Supports Calgary’s Oil & Gas Industry
• Delcam CRISPIN to Show Shoe Design Software at Chinese Footwear Expo
• Delcam FeatureCAM Turning and Turn-mill Options on Show at Turning Days
• EDA Industry to Recognize Dr. Chenming Hu with the Phil Kaufman Award at DAC 2013
• Final Lineup for 2013 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress Announced
• LFM Software Announces New Laser Software Products at SPAR 2013
• PROLIM Global Corporation to Sponsor Aras ACE International Conference
• Registration Now Open for Smartgeometry 2013 Conference Taking Place April 19-20 in London
• SURFCAM to Show at HaasTec 2013
• WebMediaBrands’ Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo Features Three Keynotes, Comprehensive Tutorials, and Exhibitors 3D Systems, MakerBot, and Stratasys
  

Financial News

• CENIT AG: Executive and Supervisory Board will Propose an Extra Dividend

Implementation Investments

• Brooks Brothers Standardizes On TEXbase for Materials Quality and Compliance Management
• Hispano-Suiza, a Subsidiary of the SAFRAN Group, Extends its use of NCSIMUL Machine from SPRING Technologies
• Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Selected for Use by Leading Clean Energy Technology Firm
• Tableware Manufacturer Selects Integrated PLM/ERP from Visual 2000
• TGRWA Invests in CSC’s Fastrak
• Tofas Selects aPriori Product Cost Management Platform to Drive New Cost Efficiencies

Product News

• 3D Printing Inspires New Working Style in CAD/CAM Software Industry
• AI MAXTools Signs 3-Year License Renewal with Agilent Technologies
• ASCON Releases a New Application for Conceptual Design on Mobile Devices
• Bentley Releases OpenRoads Technology across InRoads, GEOPAK, MXROAD, and Country-Specific PowerCivil Products
• BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the new v14.0.3 Release of the ANSA & µETA Pre- & Post-Processing Suite, with Enhancements and Code Corrections
• BobCAD-CAM Launches New Education and Resource-based CAD/CAM Software Website
• CADLearning Releases Enhanced eBook on AutoCAD 2014 New Features
• Dell Introduces Automated Workstation Software to Improve Application Performance
• InfiniteSkills "Learning Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2014 Training Video" Targets Program's Design Power for Electrical Engineers
• IQMS Announces SolidWorks PDM Add-in
• Latest Release of Siemens’ Syncrofit Reduces Airframe Design Processing Time by 40 Percent
• Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. Releases Chinese-Language Version of Vectorworks 2013 Software
• RGK Russian Geometric Kernel Celebrates First Full-Featured Version
• TransMagic Releases New R10 Products for Windows 8

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 most recent poll focuses on the use of PLM enabling solutions to support service in the field. The results for the last opinion poll are:

It is clear from this poll that the respondents do service their products in the field. Many of them (over 73%) manage some or all of their product service information in their PLM-enabling solutions. This is a good finding, as it implies that these companies are leveraging the intellectual assets developed during product development for downstream applications like field service. One big issue facing field service is the configuration of what is being serviced. What is in place in the field is often very different from the product originally delivered to the customer. These changes can accumulate from actions by both the customer and the company that originally provided the product. What is important is that these changes are tracked so that the service team can have the right information, right tools and right parts to take the necessary service actions. Nearly 38% of the companies responding manage all as-maintained product information, and over 62% manage some as-maintained configurations, which illustrates that there is still significant room for improvement.

While companies maintain service information in PLM, it is not the system used to define service plan in all companies, with just under 23% saying they define them in PLM. The poll did not ask, but many ERP systems have such capabilities, or they could be relying on the world’s most common PLM-enabling solution, Microsoft Excel.

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