CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 13 September 2013

13 September 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• Future-Proofing Your PLM Investment: a CIMdata Commentary
• SolidWorks 2014 Revealed: a CIMdata Commentary
  

Acquisitions

• 3D Systems Acquires The Sugar Lab
• PTC Expands Technology Deployment Options with Acquisition of Hosting Provider NetIDEAS
• SAP Extends the Power of Predictive Analytics to Unlock Big Data with Acquisition of KXEN

Company News

• Aras Expands Executive Team and Announces New Job Openings
• Delcam hosts Asian Technical Summit in Thailand
• Geometric Makes Equity Investment in Anark Corporation
• James Coppinger Joins AMS as Director of AEC Solutions
• Tekla Announces Winners of the 2013 Tekla North America BIM Awards

Events News

• CGTech to show VERICUT 7.3 Software at SOUTH-TEC
• CONTACT OpenWorld 2013: Success through Innovation
• Delcam’s complete CADCAM range on show at Northern Manufacturing
• Delcam to launch new feature-based CAM at Manufacturing South West
• EDA Consortium Celebrates 50+ years of EDA with “EDA: Back to the Future” Reunion Dinner and Auction Event
• GibbsCAM 2013 to be featured in Willemin-Macodel EMO Exhibit with Live Multi-axis Machining of Parts Programmed with GibbsCAM
• Hitachi and KOSO to Present PLM Strategy at Aras ACE 2013 Japan
• MachineWorks New Developments Displayed at EMO Hannover
• ModuleWorks and ISG show Offline Simulation at EMO 2013
• ModuleWorks and MAL to show MACHPRO Toolpath Optimization at EMO 2013
• WESTEC 2013: NCSIMUL Machine 9 Brings Realistic, High Performance, and Mobile NC Simulation to Manufacturing

Financial News

• ESI Group: Revenue for the 1st half of 2013/14

Implementation Investments

• Brooks Sports Selects PTC PLM Footwear and Apparel Technology
• Grupo Karim’s Selects NGC’s Fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management Solution
• MAN Diesel & Turbo standardises on AVEVA software for Integrated Engineering & Design

Product News

• Altair Launches Private Cloud Appliance for CAE
• AMC Bridge Releases New Version of CADtoEarth Add-in for Autodesk Inventor
• AMS Launches Services-based AEC Solutions Division
• Autodesk Delivers More Flexible, Pay as You Go Access to Design, Engineering and Entertainment Creation Tools
• AVEVA PDMS Delivers Major New Piping Capabilities
• Dassault Systèmes Launches “Smarter, Faster, Lighter,” a New Industry Solution Experience for High Tech Products
• Dassault Systèmes Unveils the SOLIDWORKS 2014 Product Portfolio
• Datakit releases CrossManager© 2013.4
• Gibbs and DMG / MORI SEIKI Expand Collaboration on Post Processing
• Knovel Launches New Cloud-Based Platform
• Kubotek USA Readies for KeyCreator 2014, Kubotek Validation Tool 2014 and Kubotek ECO Manager 2014
• New PCB Design Libraries for Linear Technology feature Altium 3D CAD Data and Real Time Supply Chain Information
• Project Management Tool Opens Door to Efficiency and Organization for HyperWorks Users through Altair Partner Alliance
• zSpace and Dassault Systemes Transform 3D Training and Learning
• Zuken Makes Electrical Designs Come Alive and Identifies Errors
• ZWCAD+ 2014 Official Release: Complex CAD Design Made Easy and Fun
• ZWCAD Architecture 2014 Beta: Built for Immediate Architectural Productivity

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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