CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 25 November 2009

25 November 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Company News

• ESPRIT Reseller Auton Sistemi Signs Agreement with Achelon S.r.l.
• InterDyn BMI to Resell PTC® Leading PLM Solutions to Customers in Automotive, High Technology, Industrial Equipment and Life Sciences Industries
• Think3 Supports Approach to Multisensory Modeling in Funded Project
• VISTAGY Partners with Maxoft to Expand its Presence in the Growing Korean Composites Market

Events News

• Cimatron to Display Latest Die Design Solutions at BLECHEXPO
• CimatronE Selected to Highlight Automation at EuroMold
• Dassault Systèmes Helps French Pavilion Become First World Expo Participant to Launch True Interactive 3D Pavilion
• Delcam to Launch New PowerINSPECT at Euromold
• ESPRIT by DP Technology at EuroMold 2009, Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 2-5
• Exciting 3D Printing Advances from Objet Attract EuroMold 2009 Attendees
• ProSTEP iViP Symposium 2010 - Register Now and Save
• PTC Announces Direct Modeling Webinar
• Sescoi’s Technical Sessions Launch WorkNC V20 across the USA
• Sivan Design Announces Version 2.0 Release of its 3D Simulation Software Civil Simulate
• SURFCAM V5 to Showcase at Euromold 2009
• TopSolid’Mold 2010 on its Way

Financial News

• Autodesk Increases Profitability in Third Quarter Fiscal 2010
• HP Reports Fourth Quarter 2009 Results
• Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q3 2010 Financial Results Thursday, December 3, 2009

Implementation Investments

• Circa Corporation Transforms Business System with Fully Integrated BlueCherry® Suite
• Delcam’s PartMaker Boosts Efficiency at Medical Device Manufacturer
• Digital Imaging Systems Achieves First-pass Silicon Success With Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer
• Hynix Standardizes on Magma's FineSim Pro and FineSim SPICE for Full-Chip Verification of Large Memory Designs
• Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS Adopted by Toshiba Corporation for Verification and Yield Improvement of Advanced Flash Memory Designs
• Oil & Gas Contractor Seawell Expands Further with IFS Applications
• SolidWorks Helps U.K. Pipeline Company Design Flexible Pipelines That Go With The Flow

Product News

• CD-adapco and Access Unveil STAR-Cast, a Mould Breaking Tool for Casting Simulation
• Dassault Systèmes Announces New Release of Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA
• Dassault Systèmes Unveils Collaborative Innovation Initiative for Consumer Packaged Goods
• Lectra Announces the New Version of Romans Cad
• LEDAS Improves Parametric Design in SketchUp
• LMS International Releases Feature-Packed LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 9
• Magma Releases Hydra 1.1 - Enhanced Hierarchical Design Planning Solution Adds Out-of-the-Box Reference Flows and Advanced Technology to Deliver Better Floorplans Faster
• Mastercam X4: Spotlight on Lathe
• Omnify Software Offers RapidStart PLM for Small and Mid-size Manufacturers
• Symphony Services’ Product Line Management Services Raise R&D Organizations’ Effectiveness and Profitability
• Synopsys Expands DesignWare Data Converter IP Portfolio with 40-nm Solutions
• TopSolid Earns the “Compatible with Windows 7” Logo
• TowerJazz and Tanner EDA Announce Process Design Kit (PDK) Collaboration for Power Management Device Design
• VERICUT® Enhanced to Read NX Part Files Directly

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.

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The results for the last opinion poll are:

The responses to last month’s question (Which area of the business would you expect to receive the most value from PLM, but which hasn’t had PLM applied to it yet) were quite interesting. The difference between the highest and lowest answers was 8% - not a significant difference when looking at the various potential answers. However, the answer receiving the highest rating (26%) was “Enterprise Content Management.” Slightly behind the first answer was “Systems Engineering Support” with 23%. Again, not a significant difference between these top two rated areas of potential value that are not supported by PLM capabilities in the responding companies.

The third and fourth rated areas, both with approximately 18% response, were “Enterprise Simulation Management” and “Manufacturing Operations Support.” The area receiving the last place rating (16%) was “Field Configuration Management.” In all of these cases, the ratings reflected reasonable demand for PLM support for the area. In fact, PLM support for these areas is clearly available and PLM is known to provide significant benefit in each. The next question is, “what are we going to do about it?” There is clearly an opportunity to gain additional value by expanding the use of PLM into new areas of the business.

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