CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 16 August 2013

16 August 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

News and Information on Product Lifecycle Management

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata’s PLM Certificate Program Returns to Norway

Acquisitions

• Accenture Expands Product Lifecycle Management Expertise with Acquisition of PRION Group
• Deloitte buys Asparona, Tango

Company News

• Altium, Desktop EDA Partner for ECAD, MCAD Integration
• CD-adapco Recognized for Work on Porous Electrodes within Lithium Ion Battery
• GibbsCAM User Takes Gold at Skills Canada CNC Programming Competition
• IFS Announces Services Partners in Montreal and Minnesota
• Infor Partners with CAD Service to Enhance EAM Proposition
• Novedge and 3DA Systems Partner to Distribute 3D PDF
• Stratus-X Joins the Aras Partner Program
• TCS’ goIT Program Introduces Students in Midland, MI to the Excitement of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Fields
• TCS to set up Software Development Campus in Indore’s “Super Corridor”

Events News

• 3D Systems Attends Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI 2013) Conference and Exposition
• AVEVA Presents and Exhibits at MEPEC 2013
• CNC Software, Inc. and InterCAM Showcase Mastercam X7 at EMO 2013
• Delcam to show new multi-axis PartMaker module at EMO
• Edgecam, WorkNC and Surfcam Combine at EMO
• Mentor Graphics Announces Program for the 13(th) Annual Automotive Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum (IESF 2013)
• OPEN MIND with hyperMILL® 2013 and hyperCAD®-S at EMO 2013 - CAM and CAD in collaboration

Financial News

• Actify Achieves Record Year With Close to 40% Growth
• Agilent Profit Falls, Tops Sales Estimates
• CENIT AG: Half-Year Results 2013 at the Same Level as Previous Year
• Cimatron Reports Record Second Quarter Revenues of $11.0 million in Q2 2013
• Delcam Achieves Record Half-year Sales in 2013 First Half
• SAP profit up 10 percent in second quarter
• TXT e-solutions: in 1H 2013 Luxury and North America drive Revenues
  

Implementation Investments

• aPriori Selected by FMC Technologies for Enterprise Product Cost Management
• Boundary Systems uses Windchill Bulk Upload Tool and Methodology by Etrage
• Freescale uses Cadence Encounter RTL-to-GDSII flow to tapeout 28nm 1.8GHz communications processor
• Six to Compete on Potential $243M Navy Systems Engineering Contract
• Space Station adopts Matlab and Simulink for NASA project
• Système U Selects Product Lifecycle Management System From Centric Software

Product News

• 3D Systems Launches Cubify
• CSC’s Integrator Software now Autodesk® Revit® 2014 Compatible
• Infinite Skills Releases "Advanced Revit Architecture 2014 Training Video", a Course That Gives a Detailed Insight to Autodesk's BIM Application
• ITC Infotech launches solution for fashion industry
• Latest Release of NGC's PLM, Supply Chain Management and ERP Brings Speed and Efficiency to Product Development, Supply Chain Execution
• New Application Available In Latest Version of Agilent Modelling Software

• Oracle Launches Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Mobile for Agile
• Sigmetrix CETOL 6 v8.3 Analyzes Tolerances in SolidWorks

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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