CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 11 October 2013

11 October 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• Accenture Expands their Business Transformation Capabilities with the Acquisition of PRION: a CIMdata Commentary
• CIMdata Announces Successful Conclusion of PLM Road Map™ 2013
• PLM Road Map 2013

Company News

• Ideate Inc. Earns Autodesk Construction Specialization
• Intergraph® Wins Best Plant Design Software Provider at Asian Manufacturing Awards 2013
• Key Promotion Strengthens Altium’s Global Sales Team
• Lantek Energises its ‘Solutions’ Business Plan by Opening of a New Branch in Holland
• Mechatronics and EE Designers in Brazil Getting Closer to Native 3D PCB Design with Altium
• University Students Worldwide Strive to Enhance Products from Wheels to Golf Clubs in Altair International Student Challenge
• Zuken appoints Executive Director of SOZO Center
• ZWCAD+ European Forum 2013: Exploring New Value with Customers and Partners

Events News

• AVEVA Announces Speakers and Sponsors for AVEVA World Summit 2013
• BobCAD-CAM to Show New V26 CAD-CAM Software at Westec 2013
• Business Software, ERP-PLM Event for the Industry
• Carestream Health, Schrader Electronics, T-Systems and more to Present at Aras ACE 2013 Europe October 29 & 30
• SPRING Technologies to present latest NCEXPERIENCE® Developments at ENACC PLM Conference
• Surfcam Introduces 2014 R1 to German Market
• SURFCAM to Show Latest Release at South-Tec

Financial News

• Cadence to Announce Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results
• EMC to Announce Third-Quarter 2013 Financial Results
• OpenText to Report First Quarter Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Results
• TXT e-solutions: Revenues + 14% and Growing Orders in the first 9 Months 2013

Implementation Investments

• Blue Sky Solar Car Team Speeds Solar Race Car from Concept to Starting Line with Dassault Systèmes’ 3D Technology
• Centroprojekt Adopts AVEVA Solutions for Power and Pulp & Paper Projects
• Clover Canyon Selects Cloud-Based FashionManager PLM/ERP
• GETRAG FORD Transmissions Drives Innovation and Transforms Processes with Aras Global PLM Platform
• Hampshire Group Chooses Centric Software Product Lifecycle Management
• Pharmaceutical Machinery Leader Bausch + Stroebel uses Virtual Reality to gain Efficiency in Engineering Processes
• Volga NIPITEK Standardises on AVEVA Plant™ Software

Product News

• Autodesk Revit to Get Free TurboSite Plug-In
• CAD-CAM Software Company Releases New Dynamic Machining Strategies
• CADLearning Releases Autodesk Navisworks 2014 Course for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Professionals
• CES Selector 2014 Cuts Time and Effort for Materials Experts and Product Development Teams
• Delcam CRISPIN Launches New Shoe Costing Software
• From Standard to Stunning in Minutes: Luxion and Autodesk Partner to Transform Product Design
• Infinite Skills "SolidWorks - Sheet Metal Tutorial" Provides Specialized Training in the Sheet Metal Module of Popular 3D Design Program
• Luxion Releases KeyShot 4.2
• New GibbsCAM 5-Axis Porting Option Available
• Rotomation Selects CADENAS PARTsolutions to Provide Digital 3D Parts Content
• Siemens PLM Software: Latest Releases of the 3D D-Cubed Components

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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