CIMdata PLM Industry News 30 July 2010

30 July 2010

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CIMdata News

• What percentage of your product design is currently being done in 3D? (Poll Results)

Company News

• B4L Consulting and Technology Joins Aras PLM Partner Program
• Equalis Launches First End-to-End Community Website Dedicated to Math-Centric Endeavors
• Gerber Technology Honors 32 Clients Named Among Top 50 Apparel Companies
• Visual 2000 Partners with xLM Solutions for VisualPLM.net Implementation Services
• Zuken Appoints Quadra Solutions as New Benelux CADSTAR Distributor

Events News

• European Dental Seminars Showcase WorkNC Dental CADCAM
• Gibbs Founder to Present Top Tips for Reducing Manufacturing Costs
• MAG Demonstrates Low-Torque, High-Rate Metal Removal for Titanium Roughing at IMTS
• 1,000mph Car to Take Center Stage in ITI TranscenData Events
• Oracle OpenWorld’s Early Bird Discount Extended to July 30
• Sescoi Brings its Updated and Integrated Range of CAD, CAM and Manufacturing ERP Software to IMTS

Financial News

• Arena Sees Continued Strong Growth in Second Quarter With 24% Increase in Subscription Sales
• Cadence Reports Q2 2010 Financial Results
• Camstar Reports Q2 Revenue Growth – Brings on New Customers across Life Sciences and High Tech
• Catalog Data Solutions Announces >50% Growth Driven By Industrial Suppliers Increasing Their Online Marketing Presence
• Dassault Systèmes Reports Second Quarter Results with Strong EPS Growth
• LECTRA : First Half 2010 Financial Results
• LECTRA : Second Quarter and First Half of 2010 Financial Report Available
• Nemetschek Increases Forecast for 2010
• PTC Announces Q3 Results, Initiates Q4 Guidance and Maintains FY’10 Targets
• PTC Q3 Fiscal 2010 Prepared Remarks
• SAP Reports 16% Growth in Software and Software-Related Service Revenues for the Second Quarter

Implementation Investments

• AMEC Expands its Use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise and Selects SmartPlant Foundation for Engineering Information Management
• Autodesk Helps APTwater Increase Availability of Clean Water
• Autodesk Software Part of New Beginning for Quadriplegic Engineer
• Autodesk Software Speeds Nanotech Research Development at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Chrysler Group LLC Contracts with Siemens PLM Software for Product Design and Development Platform
• Continental to Standardize on PTC’s Windchill® Platform for Global Product Development
• Foveon Switches to Galaxy Custom Designer Solution to Accelerate Time-to-Tapeout
• Global Defense & Transportation Leader, Cubic Corporation, Selects Pilgrim Software’s SmartSolve® as its Next Generation Compliance, Quality and Process Automation Platform
• Joe Gibbs Racing licenses D-Cubed 3D DCM from Siemens PLM Software
• Juliet Apparels Ltd., the Largest Bra and Lingerie Manufacturer in India, Chooses Tukatech
• Kraftsman Tooling Saves 35% Administration Time and Anticipates 30% Growth in Turnover Thanks to MyWorkPLAN
• Mahindra Engineering Showcases Virtual Product Development Expertise and Innovation with MSC.Software Engineering Solutions
• New Case Study Describes CEDO’s Success Using Intergraph® CADWorx® and CAESAR II® on Piping Design Project
• NIBCO Stays Ahead of the Flow® With 3D CAD Catalog from PARTsolutions
• PT.NISCONI Moves Forward with AVEVA
• Realtek Semiconductor Selects Cadence Design Systems as its Strategic EDA Solutions Provider
• Synopsys' Design Compiler Graphical Shortens Design Schedule at Oticon
• Telairity Selects Magma's FineSim SPICE to Accelerate Circuit Simulation of Video Compression ICs
• Terrafugia’s “Roadable Aircraft” Engineered with Virtual Prototyping from ANSYS
• Zebra Technologies to Implement aPriori for Product Cost Management

Product News

• ANSYS Releases Ansoft Designer 6.0 With Solver On Demand Technology Integrating HFSS and HSPICE
• Autodesk Embraces Software as a Service with New Inventor Optimization Technology Preview
• CAD Schroer’s Releases MPDS4 Plant Design & Factory Layout 5.0
• CCE's EnSuite Updated to Support CATIA V5 R20, Solid Edge & 3D PDF
• ESI Announces VA One 2010
• Lectra Extends its Leather Offer with the New PLF and PLH Ranges
• MDT Launched for Use with ZWCAD
• Mentor Graphics Collaboration with National Instruments Speeds Time to Market with Faster Test Bench Development
• ModuleWorks and Siemens PLM Software Announce ModuleWorks Bridge for Parasolid
• MSC.Software Releases MD Nastran 2010
• New AVEVA Plant Supports Microsoft Windows 7 and Delivers Performance and Functional Enhancements
• New Validation Tool™ ECO Product Offers Flexible and Accurate Reporting to Effectively Manage Model Based Design Changes
• Newly Released Update for Bentley Substation V8i Reduces Cost of Ownership, Leverages Power of ProjectWise
• OPEN MIND Technologies AG: Complete Integration in the New Autodesk Inventor 2011
• "Q up" PDF Publishing and Processing with Bluebeam® Software's Powerful New PDFin' Machine, Bluebeam Q™
• Synopsys First to Deliver High-Performance Audio IP in 40-nm and 55-nm Process Technologies

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:

In CIMdata’s latest opinion poll, participants were asked to indicate to what extent their company was using social computing and other Web 2.0 technologies in its product development processes. Two-thirds (66%) of the poll participants indicated very limited to no current use of these technologies. An extremely low percent (9%) indicated that they use these solutions a great deal and 25% indicated some use. In general, these are disappointing numbers for those have predicted an explosion of the use of these technologies within a corporate environment. As we know, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites have grown rapidly. The use of them is widespread throughout much of today’s social media-savvy younger generation, but they are not yet readily accessible within today’s corporate product development environments.

CIMdata believes that there are two primarily factors that are limiting the overall deployment and use of social computing technologies in today’s corporate product development environments. The first factor is that the social computing technologies that are offered by today’s PLM solution suppliers are relatively new and offer limited functionality. The second factor is that many companies are still looking at social computing as something that cannot be controlled or managed in a way that increases productivity of their product development process participants while protecting a company’s intellectual property. They are concerned that individuals will use social computing for non-business activities—reducing the time they focus on their assigned tasks—rather than as an enabler for collaboration among the various individuals and groups working within the context of product development. Additionally, they have concerns that the commercial social computing solutions have not been designed with privacy and data security as fundamental capabilities. Use of these tools without such capabilities exposes product designs and competitive information to risk.

Studies have shown that humans are hard-wired to cooperate and share opinions. This means social media can and should be used to support product development. In fact, internal and external communities that can collaborate in a flexible yet controlled manner can better drive an organization’s ability to define and deliver innovative products to the market. There is no doubt that getting the most out of this new way of working and the social computing technologies offered is yet to be fully understood within the typical product development environment. CIMdata’s experience is that, if properly implemented, using social computing/networking techniques provides benefits, but those benefits may prove to be elusive to many. CIMdata believes that the PLM industry has an opportunity to lead the way in using social computing within the business environment—internally by utilizing and externally by delivering best practices and enabling technologies. The ultimate objective should be to leverage social computing technologies to provide enhanced collaborative environments for PLM users that further expand the use of PLM within and across extended enterprises.

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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