CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 27 February 2009

27 February 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata’s President Ed Miller Presents “Mechatronics Role in PLM Strategies” at EMM 2009
• “PLM isn’t just for big companies anymore” by Ed Miller

Company News

• ASME and Autodesk Survey Shows Mechanical Engineers Increasingly Focused on Sustainable Design
• Aspen Technology Announces CFO Transition
• Bentley’s “Be Employable” Initiative Provides Free Software and Training to Help Sustain Infrastructure Professions
• Bentley Extends Focus From Plant Creation to Value Creation
• COADE to Resell Leica CloudWorx for Accurate Piping “As-Builts” from Laser Scanning
• Delcam’s ArtCAM Forum Tops 10,000 Members
• DP Technology, Maker of ESPRIT, and Autodesk Italy Become Marketing Partners
• Heike Auerbach Appointed to Lead T-Systems in North America
• INCAT Surpasses 4,000 Employees Worldwide
• Industry's First Low Power Verification Methodology Manual, Authored by ARM, Renesas Technology and Synopsys, is Now Available
• Lectra Appoints Mark Lyness Managing Director of Lectra UK
• Mentor Graphics Appoints General Managers
• New Geomagic Labs Website Shares Emerging Technologies with Community
• No Engineer Left Behind: A Recession Busting Initiative for Displaced and Unemployed Engineers
• OVM Extended to Efficiently Manage Coverage Metrics
• Rob Enslin Named President of SAP North America
• Surfware, Inc. Announces the Opening of the Surfware Demo and Training Center
• think3 signs Master Distributor Agreement with thinkUSA, Inc.
• usb GmbH Launches European Training Center for Aras Enterprise Open Source PLM Software Solutions

Events News

• CGTech Announces 17 North American VERICUT Users’ Exchange Events
• Cimatron and American Machinist Web Seminar Explores the Role of Lean Strategies in Battling the Economic Downturn; Registration is now open for February 26th webinar
• COE Extends Early Registration Discount for 2009 Annual Conference
• ESPRIT 2009 by DP Technology to be Exhibited at Industrie Lyon 2009, Lyon, France, March 10-13
• ESPRIT 2009, by DP Technology, to be Exhibited at Design &Manufacturing South, Charlotte, N.C., March 11-12
• Hankook Delcam to be Biggest and Best for CAM at Intermold

Financial News

• Arena Solutions Announces Record Growth in New Bookings and Net Retention for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008
• Autodesk Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year Fiscal 2009 Financial Results
• Centric Achieves Record Year, 60 Percent Sales Growth
• Magma Beats Guidance for Third Quarter With Revenue of $30.7 Million
• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter Results
• MSC.Software Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2008
• Nemetschek Holds its Ground in Times of Crisis

Implementation Investments

• AMD Selects Cadence Incisive Palladium Series To Verify Complex Graphics Design
• CB&I Expands Use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Materials
• Deuce Snowboards Uses PTC CoCreate to Design Revolutionary New Multi-Edge Snowboard
• Hatch Associates Saves Time and Money on Pueblo Viejo Mining Project With Bentley Software
• Homeowners Go Green with Wind Turbines Designed in SolidWorks 3D CAD and Simulation Software
• Jaguar Land Rover Chooses MSC.Software's SimEnterprise Solutions to Optimize Their Simulation Processes
• Klippan Safety AB Selects Technia and Q-checker to Enable Product Data Quality (PDQ)
• Magma's Talus Selected by IDT as Standard RTL-to-GDSII Platform for Low-Power, High-Performance Chips
• MIPS Technologies Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform and AFS Nano™
• ORLEN Projekt Upgrades to SmartPlant 3D Design and Expands Use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Solutions
• QThink Design Services Adopts Magma's Titan and Talus to Implement Next-Generation Mixed Signal Designs
• Samsung Heavy Industries signs USD3m agreement with AVEVA
• Sargent & Lundy Reduces Drawing Production and Distribution Requirements by 85 Percent With Bentley Navigator
• Selete Selects Mentor Graphics Calibre nm Platform for EUV Flare Compensation
• Sondrel Adopts Magma's Titan Chip Finishing
• Superior Sound Amplifies Quality of Life for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• TransMagic Helps Superlift Raise Productivity
• Triple Eight Race Engineering Drive Increased Simulation Accuracy with MSC.Software's Multi-Discipline Simulation Solutions
• Vaillant Group Deploys PTC Product Development System to Drive Innovation and Streamline Global Collaboration
• ZiiLABS Tapes Out With Magma's Quartz Physical Verification Products

Product News

• Agilent Technologies Announces High-Frequency/High-Speed EDA Release for Integrated Circuit, Package and Board Co-Design
• AspenTech Announces Availability of 7.1 Release of aspenONE® V7 Engineering Software
• Cadence Extends the Open Verification Methodology Beyond SystemVerilog to Include SystemC and e Language Support
• Cadence Incisive Verification IP Portfolio Delivers 'All-in-One' Flexibility and Higher Value for SoC Developers
• CCE’s EnSuite Updated With Useful Features for Manufacturing Support and Supply Chain
• CFdesign HPC Module From Blue Ridge Numerics Accelerates Flow and Thermal Design Studies Without Breaking the Bank
• Dassault Systèmes Delivers New Solutions for Simulation Automation and Optimization
• EMSigmaPro™ Launched for Product Environmental Lifecycle Management
• GibbsCAM Certified by Autodesk for Inventor 2010
• Intergraph® Introduces Validation, Transformation, and Loading module for SmartPlant® Enterprise for Owner Operators
• Intergraph® SmartPlant Isometrics with INOVx Creates Piping Isometric Drawings from “As-Built” Plant Models
• KKM SOFT Releases iConfigure – Product Configurator for Autodesk Inventor Professional 2009
• Korean and Italian Versions (Beta) of ZWCAD 2009 to be Released
• Lattice Technology Announces XVL v10, Lightest 3D XVL Format Ever
• LEDAS Helps CAD/CAM/CAE Developers Efficiently Model Large Assemblies with LGS 3D Geometric Solver Version 1.5
• Magma's Latest Version of Talus Vortex Delivers Industry-Best Quality of Results for Advanced Designs
• MapleSim Connectivity Toolbox to Help Enhance and Extend Simulink Models
• New IFS Solution Helps Businesses Cut Cost and Carbon
• OptiTex in Arabic
• QMC and Covisint to Provide OEMs With Global Supply Chain Visibility
• Synopsys, Powerchip and Nikon Collaborate on 42-nm Flash Memory Optimization
• Tech Soft 3D Announces the Release of HOOPS® v17.0
• Transoft Solutions Launches the Revolutionary Roundabout Design Software, TORUS
• Zuken Implements Mechatronics Design Strategy and Launches New 3D Modelling Solution

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 results for the last opinion poll are:

In the light of these current uncertain economic times, it is of no surprise that many companies are drastically curtailing spending. What is of interest is where companies are cutting spending (i.e., from which projects or what types of projects). In order to find out, CIMdata recently conducted an opinion poll that asked participants how the current stressful economic times have impacted their PLM programs. When discarding the "None of the above" responses, approximately 63% of the remaining respondents reported that their PLM program has been negatively impacted in some manner (e.g., 14% reported that their project was stopped, 9% reported that their project’s scope had been reduced, and 15% reported that they have experienced a reduction of resources available). These responses all point to the fact that a large percentage of the participant’s PLM programs, like many other business initiatives we read about in today’s news, have not been immune from the budget cutting knife. This in itself is not that interesting.

However, what is significantly more interesting is the fact that the vast majority of the participants indicated that their programs are continuing forward in some manner. In fact, it should be noted that 37% of the poll’s participants indicated that their PLM program has been positively impacted (e.g., almost 17% indicated that their program’s speed and/or importance has increased and approximately 14% indicated that they have seen absolutely no impact). These are very positive results, and ones that our upcoming polls will focus on in order to gain additional insight into how the current uncertain economic times are impacting PLM’s adoption.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
If you have a suggestion for a poll you'd like to see contact us at info@cimdata.com.

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