CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 6 September 2013

6 September 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• Catalysts: Accelerating PLM Value: A CIMdata Commentary
• CIMdata Brings the PLM Industry’s Premier Education & Training Program to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
  

Acquisitions

• Accelrys Acquires Environmental Health and Safety Leader ChemSW
• Dassault Systèmes Acquires Safe Technology Limited
• SofTech Agrees to Sell CADRA Product Line

Company News

• 3D Systems Repeats Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List
• Aras and IHS Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Cloud-based Component Engineering Embedded in PLM
• GRAITEC Expands into Indian Market
• intrinsim Extends its Resources with AMCBridge
• LEDAS Attracts Ever More Software Development from Global CAM Market
• TCS’ CEO & MD, N Chandrasekaran, Receives Honorary Doctorate from the Netherland’s Top Private Business School
• Zuken appoints Vice President of Marketing for Americas

Events Nes

• Aras to Present at Boeing and Northrop Grumman 2013 GPDIS Conference on Using 3D PDF to Integrate PLM Visualization with Secure Social
• CGTech to Highlight latest VERICUT Developments at Advanced Engineering 2013 Events
• ModuleWorks and Bosch show Real-time CNC Simulation at EMO 2013
• ModuleWorks to show 2013.08 CAD/CAM Components at EMO
• Registration Now Open for Aras ACE 2013 Europe Conference
• Synopsys to Present at the 2013 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference
• Three 2014 Vero Releases to Unveil at UK’s Northern Show

Financial News

• Oracle Sets the Date for Its First Quarter Fiscal Year 2014 Earnings Announcement

Implementation Investments

• Belmont Technology Selects Software Components from Siemens
• Dutch Company Basil Selects WFX Cloud PDM / PLM Software
• iBASEt Selected to Implement Solumina's Manufacturing and Supplier Quality Software at Cirrus Aircraft

Product News

• 3D Systems Quickparts Enhances Its Instant Quote Functionality
• Cincom Acquire Adds CAD Capabilities to Its List of Integrated Tools
• Fast and Dynamic Industrial 3D Plant Design with MPDS4 Version 5.2
• Infinite Skills "Learning Autodesk Inventor 2014 Training Video" Teaches Fundamentals to Learn to Model and Present Projects
• Intergraph® Increases the Power of Image Compression
• MathWorks Announces Release 2013b of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families
• MecSoft Compatible with Geomagic Design 2014
• New AVEVA Activity Visualisation Platform brings the power of Industrial Gaming to the plant industries
• Siemens New Industry Catalyst Series Designed to Further Enhance ROI for PLM
• TFTLabs offers Autodesk Inventor 2014 Support
• ZW3D 2013 SP Released with Improved 3D CAD Modeling
  

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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