CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 4 September 2009

4 September 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• Poll Results for Factors Impacting Product Success
• Opinion Poll: Which of the following PLM supporting areas would you say holds the most untapped savings potential?

Company News

• ESI Expands Its ISO 9001:2008 Certifications Worldwide with a Focus on Asia
• Jasper Names HASS Technology Distributor for China
• NEi Software Celebrates 15 Years of Providing Femap Support
• Online Contest for High School Teams Seeks to Inspire Love of Engineering
• Right Hemisphere Selects Nextspace as Global Education Partner

Events News

• aPriori 7 Delivers Signficant Expansion of Manufacturing Processes and VPE Configuration
• Boeing and Northrop Grumman Join Forces for First Joint Global Product Data Interoperability Summit
• CAM-TOOL v5.0 Official Launch
• Delcam to Show Latest Aerospace Machining and Inspection Developments
• Inforum 2009 Brings Together Infor Customers, Experts and Partners to Drive Business Innovation
• Intergraph® and Customers to Present SmartMarine® 3D Design Use and Successes at 2009 International Conference on Computer Applications in Shipbuilding
• Planit to Showcase Latest Releases of World Class CAD/CAM at EMO 2009
• Sescoi Participates in Die and Mold Seminars Across India
• Valor to Present at PCB West
• ZWSOFT Announces Success of First Global Partner Conference

Financial News

• Delcam Maintains Development Investment Despite Downturn

Implementation Investments

• ANSYS Harnessing the Power of Ocean Waves
• AVEVA Instrumentation Selected by AMEC
• Catalog Data Solutions Catalog adopted by Gates Corporation Industrial Power Transmission Business Unit
• Delcam’s ArtCAM Speeds Jewellery Design
• Emirate of Sharjah's Directorate of Town Planning and Survey Deploys Bentley's Cadastral Solution to Streamline Workflows
• Global Engineering Consultancy Atkins Achieves Significant Increases in Productivity Leveraging HyperWorks Simulation Platform
• High Modulus Achieves Exceptional Productivity Gains by Standardizing on the HyperWorks Virtual Design Suite
• Indian Institute of Science Selects COMSOL Multiphysics for Training in MEMS
• Japan’s Kyushu University Selects Intergraph® SmartMarine® 3D Design and Engineering Software for Education Program
• Mentor Graphics Catapult C Synthesis Selected by Fujitsu Microelectronics Solutions Limited for Design and Consulting Services
• Mentor Graphics Veloce Emulation System Adopted by MIPS to Accelerate Verification for Processor IP
• MIT and Stylus Automotive Have Chosen ThinkDesign to Design the Eco Friendly Car, VDS Vision 100, Designed for India
• ROWA Tunneling Logistics AG Standardizes On PTC® CoCreate® For Complex International Projects
• Shin Kurushima Dockyard Starts Implementation of Intergraph® SmartMarine® 3D
• Ubixum Achieves Product-Ready Design at First Silicon with Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer Solution

Product News

• ANSYS Launches Immersed Boundary Module for Rapid Design Evaluation
• ArchiCAD 13 Revolutionizes BIM Collaboration
• Cadence and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announce Broad, Multi-Year Technology Agreement
• CGTech Ships VERICUT 7.0
• Dynamic Machining in Mastercam X4
• 80/20 Inc. Empowers Distributors with 8020edge Widget Using VizSpace
• EVE's New Emulation System Supports High-Capacity Designs of Up to One-Billion ASIC Gates
• IBM Unveils Enterprise Content Management Software to Help Clients Increase Efficiency
• Lattice Technology Releases 3ds Max Converter V 4.0
• Lectra and AB-Inventech Sign Cooperation Agreement for the Expanding Wind Energy Market
• Mentor Graphics Launches Precise-IP Vendor-independent IP Platform for FPGA Design
• ROHR2 Update 30.3c; New Features and Improvements
• Siemens PLM Software Announces Version 5.0 OF Teamcenter Express cPDM
• SolidWorks 2010 Products: Work Smarter and Faster with Powerful New Capabilities
• ValGenesis, Inc., the Leading Provider of Validation Lifecycle Management Solutions to Regulated Life Science Companies, Today Announced Support for EMC Documentum v.6.5
• Z Corporation Brings Multicolor 3D Printing Capabilities to SolidWorks 2010 Users
• Zuken Announce the Availability of E³.WireWorks

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.

In CIMdata’s latest opinion poll, participants were asked to indicate how different factors impact product success. The following chart shows the percentage of respondents rating an item either highest impact (5) or second-highest impact (4).

The results show that bringing a completely new product or significantly improving an existing product can have the most impact on the success of the product in the market. It also illustrates the importance of good service and support on customer satisfaction. Interestingly, lower cost and longer service life, while important, were considered less an impact on success. This would indicate that respondents believe that customers are willing to pay more for new and improved products. This has been true in the past when a first-to-market product (or significantly improved product) has been able to command premium pricing until the competition can catch up. Green/sustainable design is considered less important than other factors, but CIMdata thinks it will grow in importance in the coming years.

When asked who sets priorities for new product design, customer requirements were most important. The following figure shows that after customer requirements, sales and marketing, and design and engineering have an equal role in setting product design priorities. It is interesting to note that reacting to competition was considered less important and than sales and marketing, or design and engineering. However, requirements and priorities from those two groups often reflect competitive factors, e.g., sales and marketing requesting a product feature already available in their competition.

Corporate management was rated the least important when compared to the other factors in the poll; however, many of their priorities may have already been included in sales and marketing requests. The bottom line is that creating new and improved products that meet or exceed customer expectations and requirements is still the best path to success in today’s highly competitive markets.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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