CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 5 July 2013

5 July 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Dassault Systèmes Completes Apriso Acquisition

Company News

• 3D Training Institute (3DTi) Joins the Ranks as One of the First Live-Online Training Companies to Become an Authorized Training Center (ATC) for Autodesk, Inc.
• Cimatron Helps US Tooling Industry Qualify Skilled CAD/CAM Workers
• Cloud Hosted PDM Provider EpiGrid Signs SolidWorks Reseller Cimquest to Partner Network for Enhanced Implementations
• Edgecam Workflow’s Touch Screen Demo
• Ideate, Inc. Designated to Offer Autodesk BIM 360
• Infor Distribution Grows More Than 120 Percent in Three Years
• Innovation in the Taiwanese Machine Tool Industry
• NC Tech Appointed as Reseller of Delcam for SolidWorks in Mexico
• NCEXPERIENCETM becomes Connected and Mobile at Paris Air Show 2013
• New WorkNC Dental Shines Out At China Show
• Siemens again Named Top PLM Software Provider in China
• Zuken Congratulates Quadra Solutions on fifth European CADSTAR Distributor of the Year Award

Events News

• 3D Systems Anchors Chicago’s First Inside 3D Printing Conference
• CGTech EMO Hall 25, Stand J30 Hannover, Germany September 16-21

Financial News

• Altium Announces Sales and Revenue Update for Year to June 2013
• Infosys to Announce First Quarter Results on July 12, 2013
• OpenText to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results on Wednesday, July 31, 201
  

Implementation Investments

• Altair's Open-Architecture CAE Suite Improves Development Processes at L&L Products Europe SAS in France
• aPriori Wins Jungheinrich as New Customer
• Crocs Selects Centric Software PLM to Manage Footwear Product Development
• Delcam Software gives Faster Footwear Development for Macboot
• Grupo Cortefiel Selects Centric Software for Product Lifecycle Management
• Kamstrup Chooses Aras with the Minerva EHT solution for Global Product Lifecycle Management
• Rapha Races into Cloud PLM, Provided by WFX

Product News

• CADLearning Announces AutoCAD 2014 Course for Individuals, Students, Faculty
• Datakit Offers New & Updated SolidWorks Converters
• Delcam Launches Website for Robot Machining
• Javelin Update: Figuring It Out, e = mc2
• LEDAS Labs Starts with Cloud-Based Geometry Comparator
• New CAD/CAM CNC Simulation Software Gives Machine Shops Greater Advantage
• Support for 2014 Versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D and Autodesk Revit Solutions Now Available

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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