CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 21 June 2013

21 June 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• PTC Live Global 2013: a CIMdata Commentary
• Rethinking Application Support: a CIMdata Commentary
• The Experience Economy: An Update on Dassault Systèmes: a CIMdata Commentary

Acquisitions

• Stratasys to Acquire MakerBot

Company News

• AMC Bridge and Sight Power Sign Partnership Agreement
• Arena Ranked Top 10 PLM Solution
• Autodesk Inks Agreement with Turkey’s Ministry of Education
• Delcam Turkiye Introduces Turkish Website to Promote CADCAM Software
• GRAITEC Announces Reseller Agreement with VR CAM Technologies in Malaysia
• HydroChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation’s Standard Design and Application for the Pumped Storage Power Station Project Wins 2012 Bentley Be Inspired Award
• Ideate, Inc. Expands Tech Expert Team with Four Hires
• Intergraph® Announces 2014 Geospatial Challenge
• MSC Software Provides CAE Technology to Engineering Training Program in Mexico
• New Industry Report Identifies PTC as the Leading Provider of PLM Software to Global Aerospace & Defense Manufacturers
• OPEN MIND holds International Sales & Tech Symposium
• SAP Named a Top Workplace in the Bay Area
• SPRING Technologies, Panasonic’s new “ISV Partner”
• TCS Joins US2020 as Founding Leadership Partner

Events News

• 3D Systems Brings Latest 3D Content-to-Print Solutions To Atlantic Design and Manufacturing Show
• 3D Systems Showcases Latest 3D Content-to-Print Solutions At DMS
• Delcam India to Highlight Five-Axis Developments at IMTOS
• GibbsCAM Demonstrates 3 Times Faster Machining With VoluMill
  

Financial News

• Infor Reports Q4 Double-Digit Growth
• Oracle Doubles Dividends; Cloud SAAS Revenues up 50%, Engineered Systems up 45%

Implementation Investments

• Altair's PBS Professional Deployed on Cray XC30 Supercomputer at JAIST
• Composites Design Consultancy Frewer Engineering Selects Altair's HyperWorks Simulation Platform to Improve Quality of FE Models
• Consilium Marine and Safety AB Chooses Aras and the Minerva Electronic PLM solution for Global Product Lifecycle Management
• Deltamarin Poland Chooses ZWCAD+ for More Efficient Vessel Designs
• Eriez Selects ImageSite™ Manufacturing - Extending Autodesk Vault with Integrated Manufacturing Document Release, Distribution and Collaboration Functions
• MBDA Selects PTC To Maintain Innovative Edge
• ZW3D Helps Lap Keung Improve Metal Components Designs for Luxury Brands

Product News

• Altair Partner Alliance Welcomes SEAM and Deepens its NVH Capabilities
• Altium Releases Enhancement Focused Update to Altium Designer and the AltiumLive Ecosystem
• ASCON Adds Support for All Primary MCAD Formats to KOMPAS-3D
• Boothroyd Dewhurst Launches DFA 10 Product Simplification Software
• Bricsys Announces Beta Version of BricsCAD BIM Module
• Dassault Systèmes Launches “Co-Design to Target,” a New Industry Solution Experience for Aerospace & Defense Programs
• Delcam’s new PowerSHAPE offers extra “Design for Manufacture” Functions
• Design Engineers Generate Dramatically Lighter Concepts with Minimal Stress using solidThinking Inspire® 9.5
• Geometric Releases V6 xPDM Adapter for Teamcenter™
• Lectra’s Design to Cost Approach gives Companies the Power to Anticipate Real Costs Earlier in the Design and Product Development Phases
• MSC Nastran 2013 Breakthrough Integrated Fatigue Analysis Optimizes Designs for Weight & Durability
• SmartCAMcnc Announces New SmartCAM Product Line Release Schedule
• The BIMobject® App Now Released for ArchiCAD

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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