CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 23 December 2009

23 December 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Company News

• Mastercam 2010 Innovator of the Future Competition Gives Teachers a Chance to Accelerate Their Students’ Careers
• Russian Sigma Technology Collaborates with XC Engineering of Italy
• Surfware, Inc. Announces New Direct Sales Account Manager, Rick Richardson
• Tony Wood Named Vice President of Marketing at TradeStone Software
• Top five SolidWorks Value Added Resellers in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia Merge to Become PLM Group

Events News

• ‘Avatar’ Director James Cameron Headlines SolidWorks World 2010
• Cyon Research Announces COFES Russia Seminar in Partnership with LEDAS
• Cyon Research Announces Keynote Speakers for COFES 2010
• Delcam to Show Solid Doctor for Data Repair at SolidWorks World
• Delcam Donates £100,000 in Training to UK Users
• 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Extends Speakers Bureau Deadline

Financial News

• Aspen Technology Announces Financial Results for the First-Quarter Fiscal Year 2010

Implementation Investments

• Think3 and GE Lighting India Work Closely to Design the Latter’s Products on Fixtures

Product News

• CNC Software, Inc. Unveils Mastercam® X4 for SolidWorks®
• Delcam Releases PartMaker 2010 for Latest Machine Tools
• IMSI/Design Launches DoubleCAD XT Pro v2 in Same Calendar Year
• Santa and His Elves Deliver Release of Tech Soft 3D's HOOPS® v18.0
• So What Did 2009 Bring for Schott Systeme?
• Tech Soft 3D Announces the Release of HOOPS® v18.0

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:

CIMdata’s most recent poll asked participants to indicate where they expected to receive the most value from PLM. Not surprisingly, design engineering was the highest rated (34% of responders). Design engineering was the first adopter of PLM and has the most deployed and mature use of PLM solutions. PLM solution suppliers have provided tailored applications for design engineering departments in many industries and these can provide significant benefits to those organizations.

System Engineering (and Requirements Management) was rated second with a 21% share of responders. This reflects the awareness of increasing product complexity and the need to consider the entire product (mechanical, electronic, and software) as a whole unit to be able to make better design decisions. Requirements Management reflects the need to understand the “voice of the customer” and track those requirements to the product design decisions. CIMdata expects that Systems Engineering and Requirements Management will continue to become more and more important in driving product development.

With a 20 % share, Enterprise Simulation Management is becoming an area that can deliver major, sustained benefit. As companies continue to compress the development lifecycle and try to reduce building physical prototypes, being able to manage the simulation and analysis processes and data becomes more important. Using PLM to manage simulation and analysis more effectively is an area that more companies will focus on in the future to complement the management of the design information.

Digital manufacturing (16% of responders) is also growing in importance, though more slowly than earlier predicted. As digital manufacturing solutions become more widely available, the ability to more effectively bridge design engineering and manufacturing should produce quantifiable benefits for companies.

While field service (7% of responders) received the smallest number of votes, this is an area that is just beginning to utilize PLM methods and solutions applied to it. However, the potential impact is huge in some service-based industries and this area should gain visibility and value. Over time, this area will grow in importance.

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