CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 8 November 2013

8 November 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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• CIMdata Hosts Free Webinar, “How to Claim the Benefits of PLM for Your Business”

Acquisitions

• Autodesk Announces Intention to Acquire Delcam
• Autodesk Announces Intent to Acquire Delcam, Leading Provider of CAM Software
• Autodesk Expands Expertise in Automotive Surfacing with Acquisition of VSR Technology
• The IGE+XAO Group Announces: The Takeover of its Danish Distributor

Company News

• ACE 2013 Europe Draws Global Audience for PLM User Conference
• Alphacam: “Vero’s Fastest Growing Brand”
• Altair Expands Mediterranean Presence with Offices in Greece and Israel
• AVEVA Strengthens its Relationship with Newcastle University
• CAD Masters Earns Autodesk Process Plant Specialization
• Cadlog Joins Omnify Software Partner Program
• GRAPHISOFT's BIMx Docs Ranked Third out of Top 10 Apps for Architects
• Infor Names Nicole Anasenes as Chief Financial Officer
• InfoStretch Formalises its Partnership with Atos
• Join ZWCAD Touch Photo Competition and Win a Prize
• Lectra Appoints B T Nagesh as Director, Lectra India
• ModuleWorks Celebrates 10 Years With VISI
• MSC Software and the UK National Composites Centre (NCC) Support Manufacturing Companies in the Drive for Product Innovation
• Trimble Names Chief Financial Officer

Events News

• 3D Systems to Launch Groundbreaking Products at EuroMold 2013
• GibbsCAM Supports Full Range of MORI SEIKI Machines at DMG MORI Manufacturing Days
• JETCAM Showcases Multiple new Composite Products at UK’s Advanced Engineering Show 2013
• PROLIM Sponsors SIMENS PLM Conference at Detroit, MI

Financial News

• ANSYS, Inc. Reports Record Third Quarter Results Highlighting Strong Margins and EPS
• CENIT AG: After 9 Months Slight Increase in Results Compared to the Same Period Last Year
• PTC Announces Q4 and FY’13 Results
• Stratasys Reports Record Financial Results for the Third Quarter of 2013

Implementation Investments

• Edgecam Bridges the Skills Gap For WFEL
• Ramboll Standardizes on Intergraph SmartMarine® Enterprise for All Oil and Gas Projects
• Women’s Apparel Designer, Jude Connally, Selects BlueCherry Enterprise Suite to Improve Design to Delivery Process, Support Continued Growth

Product News

• Advanced Solutions Releases BIMAssist for Revit
• AIA to Offer Authorized 3D CAD Models of National Aerospace Standards
• ASCON’s C3D Geometric Kernel Deployed by Third-Party Developer
• Autodesk Continues to Deliver Integrated CAM to SolidWorks Users with HSMWorks 2014
• Autodesk Provides 3D Design in a Browser, an Industry First
• Axis Camera Families now Available for Autodesk Seek While New Axis Camera View Add-in Provides 3D Camera Perspectives for Autodesk Revit Users
• BSE-in-NX to be Released
• CVISION Releases PdfOptimizer for EMC Captiva 7.0
• Dimensional Control Systems Uses D-Cubed 3D DCM
• hyperMAXX® now also for 2D Machining
• IGC updates Brava! for IBM Content Navigator
• ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation of Japan Joins the Aras Partner Program
• Matereality Version 7 Provides Role-Focused Productivity Tools for Materials Engineers, Scientists, and CAE Experts
• MSC Software's New Release of Marc Significantly Reduces Run Times and Expands Nonlinear Material Modeling for Elastomers & Composites
• Tech Soft 3D Releases HOOPS Exchange 7.0 and HOOPS Publish 7.0
• ZWCAD+ 2014 SP1 Released for a More Solid and Flexible Workflow

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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