CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 15 April 2011

15 April 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• FISHER/UNITECH Acquires SolidWorks Software Business Unit

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Presented “Green and PLM in Innovation: A Productive or Disruptive Combination?” at COFES 2011
• Opinion Poll: From Whom do You Purchase CAx Software and How Satisfied Are You with Their Support?
  

Company News

• ASCENT Introduces Training Guides in eBook Format
• Delcam Professional Services Expands Singapore Office
  
• Engineering Optimizer, Technia’s New Service Offering
• ESI Joins French Software Association AFDEL
  
• Gibbs and Associates Grants over $500,000 in Software and Services to Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)
  
• IFS Launches Center of Excellence for Oil & Gas
• Ken Welch Joins MSC Software as Vice President of Strategy and Product Management
• Mentor Graphics PCB Design Investment Strategy and Execution Results in 50% Worldwide Market Share
• Omnify Software Relocates Corporate Headquarters to Accommodate Growth
• Si2’s OpenAccess Coalition Announces Extensions Steering Group
• solidThinking Launches Worldwide Product Design Competition for College and University Students
• Zuken Announces Further E³.WireWorks Growth for Midwest Region of North America
  

Events News

• Bluebeam PDF Revu 9 Debuts in Australia Offering Enhanced Usability, Advanced Features to Streamline PDF-Based Paperless Workflows
  
• Cadence Kicks Off Global User Conferences with CDNLive! EMEA
• COFES 2011, The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software Begins
• Delcam Offers 3D Signmaking Software for $149 at ISA
  
• Intergraph® CADWorx® Plant Webinar on April 19 to Demonstrate Automatic Isometric Drawing Creation Using ISOGEN
• Nemetschek Deutschland Seminar “Designing and Building in existing assets” − Opportunities and risks for architects and designers
  
• Newly-Formed 3D PDF Consortium to Host Tech Suite Briefing at COFES
• Open, Automated Dental and Hearing Aid Prostheses Machining at Medtec France
• OptiTex Releases Newest Version of its Signature Software
  
• Product Lifecycle Management Conference - CMPROficiency 2011
• SAE 2011 World Congress Marks the Official Launch to EcoCAR 2: Plugging into the Future
  
• SoftInWay Presents AxSLICE Tool to Rev Up the Turbomachinery Redesign Process
  
• SolidWorks Webinar to Focus on Delcam’s Integrated CAM
  

Financial News

• ANSYS to Release First Quarter 2011 Earnings on May 5, 2011
  
• Cadence Announces First Quarter 2011 Financial Results Webcast
• Infosys Technologies Announces Results for the Quarter and Year Ended March 31, 2011
  
• PTC to Announce Fiscal Q2 Results on Wednesday, April 27th And Host Conference Call on Thursday, April 28th at 8:30 am ET
  

Implementation Investments

• Atkins and Skanska Balfour Beatty Joint Venture Earn Autodesk BIM Experience Award
• Camstar Enterprise Platform™ Selected by Illumina to Accelerate New Product Introductions
  
• Customer Case Study: Ritherdon’s Success with Radan
• Granada Sales Boosts Productivity with NGC's ERP Solution
• HANSA Metallwerke AG Introduces ENOVIA
  
• ITOCHU Prominent USA Selects BlueCherry® to Support Growth and Diversifications
• Milwaukee Valve Increases Leads and Customer Satisfaction With PARTsolutions 3D Catalog
• SofTech Announces the Hayward Tyler, Inc. ProductCenter PLM Case Study
  
• SVAB Hydraulik AB Selects Aras for Product Lifecycle Management
  
• Swiss Watchmaker Uses SolidWorks To Transform Complexity Into An Art Form
• ThyssenKrupp Elevator Selects aPriori for Product Cost Management
  
• UK-Based SRG Apparel Selects Visual 2000 ERP and PLM Software
  

Product News

• Actify Announces Centro™
• Altair Engineering Announces the Release of MindManager through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance
• Autodesk Brings AutoCAD WS Mobile App to Android
• Autodesk Developer Network Expands the Power of AutoCAD 2012
• Autodesk Developer Network Launches New Applications for AEC
  
• Autodesk Developer Network Launches New Applications for Autodesk Inventor 2012
  Cadence Announces Availability of World’s First DDR4 IP Solution
• CimatronE to Offer Background Toolpath Calculation
• Dassault Systèmes Announces Abaqus Side Impact Crash Dummy for Realistic Simulation
  
• Delcam Offers 3D Engraving and Woodworking Software for $149
• Eagle Point Software Releases New AutoCAD Civil 3D Add-on: Designers' Companion
  
• Hard Dollar Introduces New 5D Design Data Integration
• Learning About CMPRO: How to Use CMPRO for PLM
  
• MathWorks Announces Release 2011a of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families
• MathWorks Extends IEC Certification Kit with Simulink Verification and Validation and Simulink Design Verifier Qualification
  
• MathWorks Introduces Automatic C Code Generation Directly from MATLAB Language
• Mentor Graphics Introduces the Eldo Premier Simulator
• Midsize Manufacturers Worldwide Benefit From Oracle Accelerate Solutions
• Newforma Add-In for Autodesk Revit Unleashes True Value of Information Locked in Building Information Models
  
• Oracle Introduces Oracle’s AutoVue 20.1
• Planisware 5.2 Supports Integration with Rally Software’s Agile ALM Platform
  
• Remcom Announces Update to XFdtd EM Simulation Software with Additional Modeling Capabilities and Expanded XStream Platform
• RhinoWorks from LEDAS Revolutionizes Direct Modeling
  

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:

It is very encouraging to see that of those companies who responded the majority (over 63%) execute over 75% of their designs in 3D CAD. However, there are still a substantial number of technological followers: fully 18% of respondents still work mostly in 2D. Certainly, 2D is appropriate for some product design work, such as simple turned parts. However, when these parts are used in more complex assemblies and products it remains preferable to design them in 3D so that they can be analyzed for things such as weight and clash.

The results on the question of master data are interesting from the standpoint that clearly companies are moving away from drawings as the master. This shows a maturing process where 3D is used for design and then maintained as the master that supports future work. 60% of respondents now use 3D as the master or as the master along with a drawing derived from 3D. Of the 39% who continue to use drawings as the master, one has to wonder how many are required to do so by some regulatory organization (such as US FDA) and how many do this to satisfy their company's historical practices.

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