CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 3 May 2013

3 May 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA	May 13– 17, 2013	Registration Info
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CIMdata News

• CIMdata 2013 PLM Market and Industry Forum Successfully Held
• CIMdata Completes 2013 Market & Industry Forum Series
• CIMdata Conducts Workshops on Simulation & Analysis and Systems Engineering
• Inforum 2013: a CIMdata Commentary

Acquisitions

• 3D Systems Acquires RPDG

Company News

• Alphacam Measures Success
• Arena Posts Five Straight Quarters of 100% Net Renewal
• Business Growth and Content Expansion Top Knovel's Successes
• Business up by 24% at Lantek for Q1 2013
• CCS Dresden, a Subsidiary of xPLM Solution, Signs Key Partnership Agreements with Dassault Systèmes to Develop Applications Based on CATIA
• Design Students at ACS Egham International School Use Stratasys 3D Printing to Test Ideas in Reality
• DeSL Continues Global Expansion with the Opening of New York City Office
• GRAITEC Continues its Expansion with the Opening of a New Office in California, USA
• PTC Congratulates Aeronautical Dolphins and RamGT as Winners of the 2012-2013 Real World Design Challenge
• Siemens Announces U.S. Job Training Initiative for Veterans
• U.S. CAD Announces Vince Aman as Senior Director of Sales and Marketing

Events News

• CGS Announces Opening of INSIGHT 2013 Customer Conference in Atlantic City
• Datakit will be Visiting Control Messe 2013
• Delcam Announces Programme for 2013 Orthotics Technology Forum
• Delcam Malaysia to Show Latest CAM Developments at METALTECH
• Delcam to Show Electrode Solution at Amerimold
• Delcam to Focus on Five-axis Developments at Advanced Manufacturing
• FISHER/UNITECH to Display Latest 3D Printing Technology at Design-2-Part Show
• The vdR Group Sponsors Aras' ACE International Conference April 30 - May 2

Financial News

• 3D Systems Reports Q1 2013 Results
• Accelrys Announces First Quarter Results
• Agilent Technologies to Host Webcast of Second-Quarter Fiscal 2013 Financial Results Conference Call
• ANSYS Delivers Record Revenue and Earnings for the First Quarter 2013
• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Financial Results Conference Call
• Geometric’s Revenues Cross the 1000 Crore Mark
• Lectra: First Quarter 2013: Net Income and Free Cash Flow Strongly Positive, Balance Sheet Particularly Solid
• Nemetschek Increases Profitability in the First Quarter 2013
• Stratasys Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter Financial Results
• Trimble Reports First Quarter 2013 Results

Implementation Investments

• Europe’s Largest Mouldmaker Specifies Delcam Software for Tooling Manufacture
• Life is good® Selects YuniquePLM to Support Rapid Growth and Manage Diverse Product Offerings
• MARE Designs in SolidWorks Software to Illuminate the Oceans’ Unknowns
• Phyken Media Creates 3D Magic for Mobile Game “Wizard Ops Tactics” with Autodesk Maya

Product News

• Aras First to Provide Embedded CAD to 3D PDF Converter in PLM Platform
• Autodesk Certifies GibbsCAM for Autodesk Inventor 2014
• Bluebeam Software Releases International Versions of Revu 11
• CAD Training Online Becomes Autodesk's ATC Online Training Center
• COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b Released
• CSC Releases Orion v18
• Delcam’s new PartMaker Offers Improved Multi-axis Milling
• Easy-to-learn ZW3D 2013 Lite Helps You Master 3D Design in 3 Hours
• Edgecam’s New Global Customer Community
• EON Reality Releases EON 8
• Ideate, Inc. Announces 2014 Release of Ideate-Developed Software Concurrent with Autodesk Launch
• IMAGINiT Technologies Releases Scan to BIM™ 2014 Software
• IntelliCAD Technology Consortium Announces Release of IntelliCAD® 7.2b
• Lectra Announces Diamino® V6
• Made in IBM Labs: IBM Scientists Unveil Prototype That Will Put 'Smart Mobility' Into Maintenance, Repairs and Operations
• Manufacturing Technology Company Educates CNC Machining Industry
• MyCadbox™ Web 3D Glimpse offers 3D Viewing on any Browser
• NCSIMUL Player 9: When NC Programming becomes a Fully Immersive, Collaborative and Mobile Experience
• New Alphacam Simulation Brings Real Results
• SAP Offers New Simplified Experience for Rapidly Deploying Enterprise Technology
• SpaceClaim and InspectionEasy Announce OEM Agreement to Streamline the Inspection of 3D CAD Models
  

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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