CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 25 October 2013

25 October 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

News and Information on Product Lifecycle Management

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Top Story

• Donald H. Brown, CIMdata Executive Consultant and founder of Collaborative Product Development Associates Dies

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Publishes PLM Geography Report
• PI Congress 2013 Featuring PLM Road Map 2013: PLM Past, Present, and Future: a CIMdata Commentary
  

Acquisitions

• ESI Group: Acquisition of CyDesign Labs. Inc., A Lead Innovator in Systems-modeling
• RTT Acquires Bunkspeed Inc. - New Addition Expands RTT´s Visualization Platform

Company News

• Altium Designer now Offered with Extended Reach in Poland
• AVEVA Expands its Sales Presence in Africa
• CMstat enters Technical Partnership with i-Infusion
• Dassault Systèmes Spins-Off Inceptra
• Enceptia Earns Autodesk Construction Specialization
• First Insight Joins the PTC® PartnerAdvantageTM Program
• ideation 2013: A Who’s Who of Fashion, Retail and Sewn Goods Companies
• Nexnet Shows Workflow and Waveform to Czech and Slovak Market
• SofTech Completes Sale of its CADRA Product Line

Events News

• AVEVA to present 3D Interactive Visualization at MKOPSC Symposium
• CimatronE's New Die Design Capabilities on Show at Blechexpo
• Connect with Cadence EDA Experts at ARM TechCon 2013
• Delcam to launch DentMILL 2014 software at DENTECH
• Geospatial Corporation to Exhibit at AU the Leading Autodesk Software Conference
• JETCAM Showcases Multiple new Products at Fabtech 2013
• Longview Advisors Announces 2014 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress
• Panso Solutions to Sponsor PLM World® Detroit Regional Users 2013 Conference
  

Financial News

• Accelrys to Announce Third Quarter 2013 Results on October 30
• Arena Posts Seventh Straight Quarter of Over 100% Customer Renewals
• Atos: Third Quarter 2013 Revenue
• Dassault Systèmes Reports Revenue Growth of 4% in Q3 and 6% YTD in Constant Currencies
• EMC's Third-Quarter 2013 Earnings Results Available
• Geometric Declares Q-o-Q Revenue Rise of 10%
• SAP Announces Strong Quarter with Double-Digit Growth – Leading the Transition to Cloud and In-Memory
  

Implementation Investments

• Barton Malow Company Selects Tekla Structures to Increase Efficiency and Drive Self-Perform Business
• Image Sensing Systems Selects Aras for Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management
• MSC Nastran, Patran and Adams are Crucial to Innovative Vehicle Design Studies at California State University, Sacramento
• Oxford Implemented Cloud PLM Software from WFX
• Techshot Leverages Autodesk Inventor on NASA Project with Help From Advanced Solutions
• ZW3D CAD/CAM Helps GAMECO to Smoothly Upgrade 2D CAD Design into 3D

Product News

• Advanced Solutions Premiers Learn & Improve
• Altair Extends use of Siemens’ D-CUBED Software
• AVEVA Electrical Interfaces with ETAP for Improved Engineering Productivity
• CAMWorks® becomes the first CAM Solution to provide end-to-end Seamless Integration
• CGTech Announces Direct Interface to Zoller TMS Tool Management Solutions
• Delcam adds Vector Creation and Editing Tools to $149 ArtCAM Express
• Infinite Skills "AutoCAD - Working With References Tutorial" Offers Specialized Training on Using Overlaid Drawings
• Mastercam X7 Lathe Increases Productivity on the Shop Floor
• MPDS4 REVIEW 1.2 Release: 3D Review Tool for Industrial Plants and Data
• QuadriSpace announces Pages3D 2013 for Document Authoring from 3D CAD Models
• STAR-CCM+ v8.06 Gets New Users Up and Running Like Pros
• TFTLabs offers Solidworks 2014 Support
• Ventilation Leader Systemair Makes North American Product Line Available Through Autodesk® Seek Web Service
  

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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