CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 27 September 2013

27 September 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Company News

• Arena Ranked Top 5 & Most Affordable Supply Chain Collaboration Solution
• Autodesk Announces Appointment of Betsy Rafael to Board of Directors
• Autodesk Launches Technology Impact Software Donation Program for Nonprofit Organizations
• CTC Earns Autodesk Process Plant Specialization
• Hawk Ridge Systems Expands DS SolidWorks Partnership in Canada and Showcases SolidWorks 2014
• North America’s most Successful Solar Car Team Turns to Siemens to Pursue World Title
• PTC Continues as Exclusive CAD and Collaboration Sponsor of 2013-2014 FIRST® Tech Challenge Competition
• Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. and Autodesk Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring Building Information Modeling (BIM) Solutions to the Building and Infrastructure Sectors
• Twelve Universities Throughout China Receive In-Kind Software Grants from Siemens PLM Software
• WhichPLM Annual Review Names Centric Software Overall PLM Market Leader for Fashion
• xPLM Solution Opens New Innovation & Service Center in Böblingen, Germany
  

Events News

• 3D Systems Anchors TCT Show + Personalize with Metal 3D Printing
• Aras Sponsors AIAG Automotive Engineering and Technology Forum and Showcases TRUaras with Trubiquity
• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Webcast of Investor Day Event
• AVEVA sponsors India Nuclear Energy Summit 2013
• Delcam CRISPIN to show how to cut Footwear Time to Market at Marocuir
• Delcam’s latest CADCAM Developments on Show in Poland
• Design Excellence Forum to Showcase the Leading Product Design & Manufacturing Technologies
• ITI TranscenData Announces Sponsorship of PLM Europe 2013
• Knovel Virtual Conference Tackles Engineering Leadership, Education and Career Growth Challenges
• Lantek Shows Sheet Metal and Structural Steel Solutions at Northern Manufacturing
• Leaders in Infrastructure to Keynote at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2013Conference in London, Oct. 29-31
• Vienna, Austria Host City for CD-adapco's STAR Global Conference 2014
• Visitors to CMTS Booth #2525 to see the Latest Releases of WorkNC and SURFCAM

Financial News

• ESI Group: Results for the first half of 2013/14

Implementation Investments

• Delcam Software Flexibility brings Success for Base Patterns
• PTC Helps BISSELL Accelerate Product Innovation and Delivery
• Radan Takes Bolton’s Punching to Advanced Level
• ZODIAC AEROSPACE Chooses NCSIMUL Machine and NCSIMUL Player Version 9 from SPRING Technologies
  

Product News

• ARES Security AVERT Helps Autodesk InfraWorks Users Model and Assess Risk
• Delcam adds more Turning Options to FeatureCAM for 2014 Release
• Free TurboSite Plug-In For Autodesk AutoCAD
• i GET IT Adds Routsis, Premier Plastics Industry Training, to Online Engineering Knowledge Management Portfolio
• IMSI/Design Releases DesignCAD 3D Max v23
• Logical Operations and ASCENT Partner to Provide Specialized Training Materials for Autodesk’s Leading 3D Design Engineering Products
• Mastercam’s Design Tools Provide Flexibility and Ease of Use
• Mentor Graphics Announces New FloEFD Product with Radiation Modeling and Multicore Meshing
• OPEN MIND Technologies AG: hyperCAD-S is ready to go
• RuleDesigner Low Cost PDM Solution now Available for Pro/ENGINEER and PTC Creo Users
• Solair PLM: the Made-in-Italy Cloud-Based Solution
• Tata Technologies offers “Realistic Simulation” by Augmenting its Product Portfolio in India with Dassault Systèmes' SIMULIA®
• Team Design for OrCAD from EMA Design Automation Gets Hierarchy and Library Support
• ZWCAD+ Partners with Lightworks to Release Artisan: High-quality Rendering for ZWCAD+

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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