CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 20 August 2010

20 August 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Rand Worldwide, Inc. and Avatech Solutions, Inc. Merge Business Operations

Company News

• CAD Gorilla Releases Inventor Essentials Video Tutorial
• Delcam Programs to be Designated Software for China National NC Competition
• 3D Systems and Dassault Systemes Ink Agreement

Events News

• Altair to Demonstrate Innovations in Simulation and Optimization at AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference and Exposition
• Aras to Present at 2010 CMII World Conference
• CimatronE 10.0 will be Previewed at IMTS
• Delcam to Launch New Integrated CAM for SolidWorks at IMTS
• Delcam to Run CADCAM for Orthotics and Prosthetics Day
• Geometric to Introduce CAMWorks® 2011 at IMTS
• Gibbs to Preview GibbsCAM 2011
• GO ROBOTICS with CENIT and Motoman in October
• OpenWorld 2010 Focus On Product Lifecycle Management
• Registration is Open for Intergraph PP&M Skandinavia 2010
• Shipbuilding Forum On Know-How Protection
• SURFCAM V5.1 to be Demonstrated at IMTS 2010
  
• Tribold Marketing Director to Speak at Microsoft Asia Connections Summit 2010

Financial News

• Blue Ridge Numerics Shows Strong Growth in UK and European Markets
• Delcam Achieves Record Sales and Increased Profits
• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Second Quarter Results
• Open Text Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results
• SofTech Announces Filing to Deregister Its Common Stock
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010

Implementation Investments

• Catalog Data Solutions Catalog and CAD Downloads Selected by AST Bearings LLC
• Delcam Software Helps Magna Succeed in Tough Times
• Intevac Photonics Selects Camstar Platform to Enable Rapid Growth and Innovation
• Largest US Yacht Engineered With ShipConstructor
• Leading Software Provider Tukatech, Inc. Completes Implementation with American Apparel to Reduce Costs and Increase Production Efficiency
• Mustad Longline Uses SolidWorks to Exponentially Increase Productivity
• Synventive Standardizes on Autodesk Moldflow Insight to Improve Product Quality
• Tesla Motors Selects DCS Tolerance Analysis Solution in Mission to be First in Quality
• 2010 Tekla North America BIM Award Winners

Product News

• Actify Announces SpinFire 9.0
• ANSYS Integrates Advanced Fatigue Capabilities from HBM- nCode
• ASCON Group and DP Technology Corp. Announce a New Development Partnership
• Bentley Adds Three Product Firsts to OpenPlant, Redefining ‘Comprehensiveness’ in Plant Creation Software
• IronCAD, LLC Announces the Official Start of the IRONCAD 2011 Beta Program
• MSC.Software and ACUSIM Announce Direct Coupling of MD Nastran and AcuSolve for Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis
• Visual 2000 Partners with Skerpa Design to Raise the Bar for Footwear PLM
• Zuken’s CADSTAR 12.1 PCB Design Software Cuts Engineering Costs
• ZWmech released for ZWCAD 2010

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:

23% of respondents continue to execute at least half of their design work in 2D. This would not be surprising if the responses were representative of global practice. We know that a lot of design on a worldwide basis is still done using 2D drawings (note that 2D design can be quite appropriate for certain situations such as basic turned parts). The interesting factor in this survey is that almost 1/3 of respondents report that they do ALL of their design in 3D. This indicates that many organizations are abandoning 2D altogether. We can only assume that these are companies that design products at the higher end of the product complexity scale.

A follow on question is to understand how many companies continue to use drawings to communicate their design work to manufacturing and to their partners. We will pose this question in a future poll.

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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