CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 14 November 2013

14 November 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata is publishing the PLM Industry Summary Thursday, November 14, due to scheduled systems maintenance planned for Friday, November 15.

CIMdata News

• Visualizing the Future at the AVEVA World Summit: a CIMdata Commentary

Acquisitions

• Nemetschek Acquires leading MEP Solution Provider

Company News

• Autodesk Powers 3D Explorer for Smithsonian Institution
• CONTACT and KOSTECH Intensify their Partnership in Asia
• Delcam to lead Additive Manufacturing Project for the UK Jewellery Industry
• Infor Partners with Nagarro to Drive Growth in India
• Lectra Honors Faculty and Student Achievements at the ITAA Conference in New Orleans
• MakerBot and Partners are Leading the Charge to Crowd Source a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in Every School in America
• Sustainable Energy Plant Design Software at Nextgen 2013

Events News

• Dassault Systèmes’ Customers Pioneer Industry Changes with Products and Services That Deliver New 3D Experiences
• Delcam, Seco and Roemheld Combine for high-efficiency Machining Seminar
• Free Thermal-Fluid Simulation Training Offered to Mark Growing Usage in the US and Demonstrate Advantages of Flownex Simulation Environment
• Rand 3D Sponsors Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Customer FORUM

Financial News

• Cimatron Reports Best Ever Third Quarter with Record Q3 Revenues, Operating Profit and Net Profit
• HP to Present Live Audio Webcast of Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call
• Synopsys Announces Earnings Release Date for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013
• TXT e-solutions: 2013 nine-month revenues grew +16.2%, EBITDA +9.2%

Implementation Investments

• Camper Chooses Centric Software Product Lifecycle Management
• Dassault Systèmes and Idex Solutions Congratulate North American Eagle Driver Jessi Combs for Breaking the Women’s Land Speed Record
• Russian State Nuclear Corporation NIAEP-ASE Uses Intergraph® SmartPlant® Fusion to Capture and Manage 3D Model Data
• TAIYO YUDEN Chooses ZW3D to Boost CNC Machining Productivity

Product News

• 3D Systems Announces Geomagic Capture: First Integrated Scan-Based Design and Inspection Solutions
• BOXX Workstation Earns CATIA Certification, Demos at 3DExperience 2013
• CADsoft Consulting Offering Solutions for Transportation
• ESI Releases a new Version of ProCAST
• Infinite Skills’ "SolidWorks - Mold Tools Tutorial" Offers Advanced Study in Specialized Area of Mechanical Modeling
• MathWorks Introduces LTE System Toolbox for MATLAB
• Nemetschek Vectorworks Releases Localized Versions of Vectorworks 2014 in Europe
• SPRING Technologies Announces NCSIMUL DNC 8.20: Connecting and Monitoring your CNC Machines is now so easy
• Verenia Joins the Aras Partner Program
• Workflow Just Got Even Faster
• ZWCAD+ Achieves Seamless Integration with Windchill

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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