CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 1 November 2013

1 November 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata Publishes PLM Industry Report
• CIMdata Publishes “PTC Creo View”
• Conflict Minerals: The Tipping Point for Compliance? A CIMdata Commentary

Acquisitions

• Accenture to Acquire Leading Product Lifecycle Management Company − PCO Innovation − To Help Clients Take New Products to Market Faster and More Efficiently
• Addnode Group Acquires the Operations of CAD-Expert Oy
• AMETEK Acquires Creaform, Inc.

Company News

• AVEVA Delivers the Benefits of Engineering and Design for Lean Construction
• Bentley Announces Winners of 2013 Be Inspired Awards
• Boston University College of Engineering Receives 50 Seats of GibbsCAM
• Infor Raises $76,000 for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• JETCAM Signs new Dealer in South Korea
• Knovel Launches Software Engineering Subject Area
• Nuage Announces Wilma Flanagan as New Chief Executive Officer
• Tech Soft 3D Adds Dave Opsahl as Vice President, Corporate Development
• Three Additions to the Alphacam Family
• Wichita State receives in-kind Grant from Siemens PLM Software
• Zuken and CONTACT Software Establish Joint Venture for Engineering Data Management

Events News

• Agenda Announced: NAFEMS Simulation Data Management Industry Experience Forum
• CNC Software, Inc. and Colla, Ltd Showcase Mastercam X7 at Mashex 2013
• NGC's Panorama 2013 User Conference Features an All-Star Lineup of Fashion Industry Experts and Speakers

Financial News

• 3D Systems Reports Q3 2013 Results
• 9-month Figures 2013: Nemetschek continues its Profitable Growth Course
• Accelrys Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results
• Agilent Technologies to Release Fourth-Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results
• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Financial Results Conference Call
• Cimatron's Third Quarter 2013 Results Release Scheduled for November 12th, 2013
• Lectra: First Nine Months of 2013: Growth in Revenues, Income from Operations and Net Income
• Trimble Reports Third Quarter 2013 Revenue of $556.5 Million, GAAP EPS of $0.21 and Non-GAAP EPS of $0.39

Implementation Investments

• Daikin Applied Achieves Multimillion Dollar Performance Gains on New HVAC Compressor Designs via 3D Inverse Design
• Kenneth Cole Productions Selects Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM to Manage its Footwear and Apparel Lines
• Nicole Miller Rolls out NGC’s Fashion PLM and SCM Software
• Wayne Brothers Selects Tekla to Reduce Risk, Drive Value in Concrete Construction

Product News

• 3D Systems Launches Cubify Design Advanced Consumer Modeling Software
• Altium Introduces TASKING Software Platform Builder for ARM Cortex-M
• Arena Solutions Launches Four New Products with Fall 2013 Release
• ASCON Releases KOMPAS-3D V14, Most Powerful Version Ever
• AVEVA Continues its Future of Plant Design Initiative by Launching AVEVA E3D Insight
• Bentley to ‘Complete Its Reach’ in Software Services
• Bricsys Announces BricsCAD V14
• Delcam Speeds Set-up and Inspection in new PowerINSPECT Software
• Delcam Upgrades Dental Design Software
• Granta Continues Launches GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway™ Version 2.0
• MathWorks Introduces Support Packages to Generate Code Optimized for ARM Cortex -M Processors from MATLAB and Simulink
• MecSoft Releases VisualCAD/CAM 2014
• New SpecWave Composer Extends Value of ProjectWise, Bringing Automation and Rigor to Specification Creation, Control, and Compliance

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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