CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 27 March 2009

27 March 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• “PLM is vital for today’s systems engineering” by Ed Miller, President of CIMdata

Company News

• ANSYS Expands HPC Capacity for Enhanced R&D
• ASCON Announces the Winner of LT Modelling Contest
• COADE President/CEO Van Laan Interviewed in Pump Engineer Magazine Discussing Today’s Challenges for Plant Designers and Engineers
• Configit Partnership with 2C change
• DP Technology Corp, Developer of ESPRIT CAM Software, Gears up in Europe
• Lake Superior State University Increases Use of Dassault Systèmes DELMIA software for Undergraduate Robotics Program
• Logica Builds Internet Based Platform for New Generation Car
• SAP Announces Availability of 2008 Annual Report and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filing on Form 20-F
• Schott Systeme Retain 2008 Pricing for High End CAD/CAM
• Siemens PLM Software Expands CADIMP Relationship
• Surfware’s SURFCAM Gallery Contest Winners Announced
• TraceParts Catalogs Library Reaches Autodesk Inventor 2010 Product Certification
• Valor Appoints Southwest Systems as Representative in Mexico

Events News

• CGTech Announces European VERICUT Users Exchange Events for 2009
• Cimatron to Demonstrate New Version at WESTEC 2009
• COADE Discovery Tour Scheduled for April 2nd in Bogota, Colombia, to Feature CADWorx Plant Design Suite
• Delcam to Focus on Customer Success at EASTEC
• Delcam to Promote CAM Software and Services at MetalTech
• ESPRIT 2009, by DP Technology, at the MicroManufacturing and NanoManufacturing Conferences& Exhibits, Bloomington, Minn., April 1-2
• ESPRIT 2009 by DP Technology at the 11th China International Machine Tool Show Beijing, China, April 6-11
• KOMPAS-3D for Mechanical CAD at Hannover Messe in Hall 17 Stand F59
• Lectra Announces its Latest Innovations for the Textile Industries at the 2009 IMB Trade Show, April 21 to 24, in Cologne, Germany Hall 8.1, Booth A/010—B/019
• Manufacturing Webinar Delivers 6 Easy Steps to Revolutionizing Your Manufacturing Productivity
• ODA Announces ODA World Conference Agenda and Keynote Speaker
• PTC To Host Webcast: What’s New in Pro/ENGINEER
• solidThinking, Inc. Connecting with the Design Community at IDSA Conferences March 27-May 3 Nationwide
• Valor to Feature Manufacturing Visibility and Management Software Tools at APEX 2009
• Webcast: Real Savings Through PLM-Enabled Collaboration: A Review of Industry Experiences

Financial News

• Sopheon Preliminary Audited Results For The Year To 31 December 2008

Implementation Investments

• ASUSTek Computer, Inc. to Accelerate Electronic Product Innovation with Dassault Systèmes Realistic Simulation Solutions
• Autodesk Inventor Helps Designers Focus on World's Largest Telescope
• Brown Shoe Drives Global Product Development with PTC Footwear Solution
• CAF Streamlines Decision Making with Infor PM 10
• Finnish Paint Manufacturer Teknos Chooses IFS Applications to Modernize its Business Processes
• GKN Aerospace Purchases Simulayt's Advanced Fiber Modeler Fiber Simulation Software
• Infor Gets to Work on PLM at Dimensions Clothing Ltd
• Infor Keeps Amey on Right Track with Asset Management Solution
• Iv-Oil & Gas Expands Use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Solutions Set
• Mentor and NXP Achieve Major Milestone in Silicon Test Partnership
• Mentor Graphics Provides Innovative CHS Electrical Systems Design Tools for Truck OEM
• Rossignol Schuss Down with PTC
• Satyam to Implement SAP at Vijay Dairy & Farm Products (P) Ltd.
• Sequans Speeds Tapeout of 65-Nanometer Mobile WiMAX Single Die Baseband Chip with Cadence Low-Power Solution
• Stantec Improves Collaboration and Saves Time on Ohio Power Plant Project with COADE
• Summit Microelectronics Selects Berkeley Design Automation AFS Nano™
• Western Electronics Uses Arena Software to Control Revisions, Reduce Errors and Improve Customer Documentation Management

Product News

• Autodesk 2010 Design and Engineering Software Product Line Now Available
  
• AVEVA Extends AVEVA NET Portal Further in Plant Operations
• Blue Ridge Numerics Introduces CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010
• Bluebeam Releases Bluebeam PDF Revu 7.0 for PDF Markup and Editing
• Eurostep Develops Software for STEP AP233 with a Beta Release of the AP233 Toolbox for the Java Platform
• For the Well-Being of the Patient: CAM Solutions from OPEN MIND
• GHS Transition for Chemical Manufacturers Facilitated with Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution
• IMSI/Design Launches Significant TurboCAD Professional V16 Upgrade Collaboration
• LMS Releases Enhanced Data Processing Solution for Accelerated Durability Testing
• mental images Introduces mental mill
• New Release of NEi® Nastran V9.2 Finite Element Analysis Software Focuses on Productivity and Realism in Engineering Simulation
• Software Helps Apparel Companies Streamline the Production Process
• VISTAGY’s New FiberSIM® 2009 Software Significantly Enhances the Composites Design-to-Manufacturing Process
• VISTAGY Introduces First Comprehensive Engineering Solution for Design, Assembly and Validation of Aerostructures

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:

Over the past several months, many of our industrial clients have asked us how the current economic climate has impacted the status of PLM implementation initiatives. In order to better understand the current situation, CIMdata is in the process of analyzing, releasing, and reporting the results of a set of CIMdata Polls concerned with this topic. January’s CIMdata Poll asked participants how the current stressful economic times have impacted their PLM programs. As reported last month, 63% of the participants reported that their PLM program has been negatively impacted in some manner. Last month’s CIMdata Poll asked poll participants what was most important regarding their PLM initiative. In this poll, CIMdata sought to understand the main concerns held by PLM technologists during the current stressful business climate. The results proved to be rather interesting.

As illustrated in the graph of the poll results, just over half of the participants indicated that they were concerned that management wouldn’t, or perhaps doesn’t, view their PLM initiative as strategic to the business during these stressful economic times. One could easily argue that if a company’s management team views PLM to be strategic to its business, then they would be less likely to cut its budget, remove resources, limit training, put it on hold, etc. However, the January poll indicates that the majority of programs have already been negatively impacted. This points to the apparent need to better educate management on the importance of PLM and how PLM can benefit the company during stressful as well as non-stressful business cycles. Finally, it is interesting to note that the questions that asked about specific budget-cutting effects were not selected in any large percentage, as compared to the non-budget issues. This re-enforces that the poll participants are much less concerned about tactically-oriented budget cuts that can be lived through, than they are that management doesn’t view PLM as strategic to the business. CIMdata’s recommendation based on these results is that PLM teams should continue to regularly update their management teams on the benefits being realized by the business due to continued use and adoption of PLM.

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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