CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 12 April 2013

12 April 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata Announces Successful 2013 North American Market & Industry Forum and Releases Its 2012 PLM Market Analysis
• PLM for Recipes & Formulas: a CIMdata Commentary
• SAP 3D Visual Enterprise: a CIMdata Commentary
• SAPinsider 2013: Leading the Way in In-Memory Applications: a CIMdata Commentary
  

Acquisitions

• TCS to Acquire IT Services Firm ALTI for € 75 Million to Help Drive Long-term Growth in France

Company News

• 3D Systems and Hawk Ridge Systems Announce Partnership for 3D Printing
• CADD Microsystems Honored for 25 Years of Collaboration and Achievements with Autodesk
• CAMCAD Technologies Named Top SURFCAM® Reseller in North America
• Delcam joins Coventry Manufacturing Technology Centre
• Edgecam Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
• IMAGINiT Technologies’ Singapore Office Earns Platinum Award at Autodesk’s One Team Conference
• K3 Business Technology Group to Distribute Visual PLM.net in Europe
• MecSoft Announces New Corporate Website
• Nemetschek Vectorworks Proudly Sponsors Architectural Record Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest
• Siemens and Bentley Extend Collaboration to the Process Industry
• Siemens Recognized by General Motors as a 2012 Supplier of the Year Winner
• Stratasys Announces Winners of 2013 Extreme Redesign Contest
  

Events News

• AVEVA Exhibits at Power-Gen India and Central Asia 2013
• CGTech to Showcase VERICUT Aerospace Applications at IDEF13in Istanbul, Turkey
• CNC Software, Inc. Showcases Mastercam Swiss Expert and Previews Mastercam X7 at OrthoTec 2013
• Delcam to Launch New PowerINSPECT in China at CIMT Seminar
• Delcam to Show PowerSHAPE Solid Modelling and Point Cloud Tools at Develop3D Live
• Gentex Corporation to Present at Aras ACE 2013 Conference April 30 – May 2
• Hagerman & Company to Host BIM Solutions for Healthcare Seminar
• Hagerman & Company to Host Industrial Machinery Seminar
• Nidec Motor Company to Present at Aras ACE 2013 Conference April 30 – May 2

Financial News

• 3D Systems Announces Conference Call and Webcast to Discuss First Quarter 2013 Results
• Bentley Systems Releases 2012 Annual Report Online
• Dassault Systemes Schedules First Quarter 2013 Results Webcast and Conference Call for April 25, 2013
• EMC to Announce First-Quarter 2013 Financial Results on April 24; News Release to be Available on EMC’s Corporate Website
• Infosys: Q4 Revenues Grew by 1.4% Sequentially; FY13 Revenues Grew by 5.8%
• Wipro Limited to Announce Results for Fourth Quarter and Year Ended March 31, 2013

Implementation Investments

• CSC Jinling Shipyard Improves Efficiency of Multi-site Collaboration with AVEVA NET
• Lectra Fashion PLM Supports Nali by Streamlining Collection Development
• Wall Decor Firm Advances to Visual 2000 Integrated PLM/ERP

Product News

• Anark Announces New Capability for Transforming CATIA with PMI into free to view, 3D PDF and HTML Engineering Release Documents
• Bentley Releases OpenPlant V8i (SELECTseries 5)
• BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the New v14.1.0 Release of the ANSA & µETA Pre- & Post-Processing Suite
• Brand New GstarCAD8 Global Release
• Capvidia Releases FormatWorks 2013
• Dassault Systèmes Launches “HT body”, a New Industry Solution Experience for High Tech Companies
• Delcam Adopts KeyShot as Rendering Solution
• Intergraph® Launches SmartPlant® Cloud to Speed up Project Execution, Reduce Costs and Improve Operating Plant Performance
• Japan: Cooperation between CONTACT Software and TECOSIM Bears Fruit
• KEY to METALS Expands Material Property Library Exclusively for Altair Partner Alliance Users
• Latest Free CAD Release – MEDUSA4 Personal Version 5.1.2
• NCSIMUL Machine 9, SPRING Technologies’ Latest Solution, Offers "Touch'NC" Simulation to the Shopfloor
• Nemetschek Vectorworks Announces Release of Vectorworks Nomad 2.0
• New Autodesk Homestyler App Transforms Your Living Space into Design Playground
• PTC Continues Commitment to Automotive Industry with Enhanced Safety Standard Certifications
• Ricardo Software Embeds HEEDS Technology in IGNITE System Modeling Tool
• Safety Drives the Digital Plant Upgrade, says AVEVA
• SAP Aligns New Solutions with “Industry 4.0” Innovation to Steer Customers Through Improved Production Process
• STARC Certifies MATLAB and Simulink as Preferred Tools in New STARCAD-AMS Design Workflow
• ZWCAD+ 2012 SP2 Released
  

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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