CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 5 February 2010

5 February 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Synopsys Acquires VaST Systems Technology Corporation

Company News

• Agilent Technologies’ Collaboration with CMC Microsystems Provides EDA Tools to Universities and Colleges Across Canada
• AIA Board of Directors Approved Statement on Interoperability
• BlueCielo Appoints New CEO to Support Next Phase of Growth
• D-Cubed 2D DCM in Applications Which Use DWGdirect from the Open Design Alliance
• KETIV Technologies Announces a New Office in Portland, Oregon
• Kubotek USA Donates Software for SkillsUSA Championships Contest
• NIHON AUTOMOBILE COLLEGE Adopted ThinkDesign to Educate Mechanical Engineers for Next Generation Eco-Cars
• PTC Expands Global CoCreate Partner Network to Service Expanding Customer Base

Events News

• Announcing the COE 2010 Conference Keynote and Important Registration and Hotel Deadlines
• BOXX Demos World's Fastest SolidWorks Workstation at SolidWorks World 2010
• CGTech to Exhibit Latest Release of VERICUT at WESTEC
• COADE Webinar on Feb. 4 on new CAESAR II Loop Optimization Wizard
• Delcam Launches Integrated CAM for SolidWorks
• ESI Will Speak at IQPC Innovative Seating Conference 2010 in Frankfurt
• ESPRIT 2010, by DP Technology, at Industrie 2010, Paris, France March 22-26
• i GET IT® Announces New Features and Promotion at SolidWorks® World 2010
• Infosys at the 4th Annual Pharmaceutical PLM Conference on March 3-4, 2010
• L’éditeur Lascom présent sur la 3ème journée du PLM
• Live Webcast: Mathcad for Mechanical Engineering
• Mastercam Demonstrates How to Save Time, Money, and Tooling with Dynamic Machining at WESTEC 2010
• National Instruments and Tektronix Announce Embedded Design Seminar
• Sescoi Continues with Popular Series of Indian Productivity Seminars
• 3Dconnexion Announces the Next Step in Intelligent 3D Navigation for SolidWorks Users
• Zuken Returns to SolidWorks World 2010 with E³.WireWorks

Financial News

• Arena Wraps Up 2009 with Strong Growth in Annuity Bookings despite Deep Global Recession
• Aspen Technology Announces Date of Second-Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results Release, Conference Call and Webcast
• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join its Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results Conference Call Tuesday, February 23, 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time
• Avatech Solutions to Report Fiscal 2010 Second Quarter Results on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
• Cadence Reports Q4 and Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results
• Magma Schedules Third Quarter Earnings Call and Webcast for Feb. 25, 2010
• Open Text Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results
• Presentation of IFS Year-End Report for 2009
• SpaceClaim Records Significant Sales Growth in 2009
• Synopsys Announces Earnings Release Date and Conference Call for the First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010
• UK Small and Medium Businesses Overcome Economic Challenges with PTC® Windchill®

Implementation Investments

• Aeroflex Realizes 60x Performance Improvement Using Synopsys CustomSim Solution
• ASIA Company Reduces Wire Harness Design Cycle Time Using Mentor Graphics CHS Tools
• austriamicrosystems Expands Reliance on Cadence Technology to Achieve Seamless Mixed-Signal SoC Designs
• BBA Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® 3D for Metals and Mining Projects
• Delcam’s PartMaker CAM Helps Orthopaedics Firm in the Philippines
• DLR and ONERA Select LMS as Ground Vibration Testing (GVT)
• Entrepreneurial Dutch Manufacturer Selects Valor’s Quality Management System
• Infor to Spark Lean Manufacturing Gains at C/G Electrodes
• Kensey Nash Selects PTC Windchill® for Product Lifecycle Management
• Mid-Continent Group Selects Camilion Authority Suite®
• Siemens PLM Software Technology Used for Collaborative Development of Award Winning Ford Vehicles
• Sopheon among Winners of Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) Contract
• VOX Amps Up New Designs with Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Showcase Software

Product News

• Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System 2010 to Support Emerging IBIS-AMI Modeling Standard
• Alibre Announces Permanent Price Cuts
• Aras is First PLM Software Solution Certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
• ArchiCAD 13 Swiss, Chinese, and Taiwanese Versions Released
• Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation System 9.1 Addresses Industry Productivity Crisis for Complex System-on-Chip Design
• COADE Releases CAESAR II Version 5.20 Updates
• Euklid CAD/CAM is Latest Application to Benefit From Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed 2D DCM
• Flow Science Announces Consultancy Agreement with AlchemCast (Birmingham, Alabama, USA)
• Gerber Technology Releases AccuMark® Version 8.4
• iPhone®/iPod touch® app Lets Users Upload and Review MPDS4 Plant Designs and 3D Models on the Go
• Mentor Graphics Enhances Signal and Power Integrity Solution with Full-Wave 3D Analysis
• New aPriori 2010 Product Release Introduces Turning & Mechanical Assembly Costing
• New Class of Enterprise Planning Solution from Planview Empowers Organizations to Optimize Business Performance
• New Software Version Revolutionizes Modeling Processes
• Online Tech and Campfire Interactive Sign Managed SaaS Hosting Agreement
• Performix Joins OSIsoft Partner Program
• Razorleaf Corp. Announces the Release of CADFIT File Inspection Tool; Free Utility Extracts Data From Solidworks Files and Highlights Problems
• Sescoi’s WorkPLAN Enterprise ERP Software Achieves Certified Integration with SAP® Applications
• SolidWorks PhotoView 360 and Luxology’s modo 401 Open New Doors for Mechanical Engineering Designers
• SYSTIME and Oracle Unveil Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture Process Integration Packs for Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• Tekla Announces Latest Version of Tekla Structures

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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