CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 27 May 2011

27 May 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• National Instruments to Acquire AWR Corporation, a Leader in RF Design Tools

CIMdata News

• Pendaran's Dr. Hossein Nivi and Geometric America's Joseph Sahiouni to make Keynote Presentation at CPDA's PLM Road Map 2011
  

Company News

• ASCON and Carl Hanser Verlag Co-release New “Design with CAD” Book
• AVEVA Signs Strategic Alliance Agreement with Logica
• Cadence U.S. Patents Top 1,000
  
• CONTACT Collaborates with Virtual Vehicle Research Centre in Graz
• euroscript Scoops Prizes in Two Categories of EMC's Worldwide xCP Challenge
  
• Knovel Launches Mining Engineering & Extractive Metallurgy Subject Area
• New Bone Database Gives Orthopaedic Device Designers a Break
  
• OPEN MIND Opens Subsidiary in Barcelona; Continues on Course for Growth
  
• SolidWorks “Let’s Go Design” Web Series Premieres Project 3
• SpaceClaim Continues to Aggressively Expand Reseller Channels Globally
  

Events News

• Air Force Research Labs and Honda Aircraft Company to Deliver Keynotes at 2011 Aerospace Engineering Conference Co-Hosted by LMS and dSPACE
• Altair to Showcase New Method of Optimizing Weight of Composite Fan Blades at ASME Turbo Expo 2011; Also will unveil two white papers on simulation for aerospace turbine design
  
• AVEVA World Summits 2011 Registration Now Open
  
• Cadence Breaks New Ground in System Realization at CDNLive! EMEA
• Cimatron to Partner with YCM at IMTOS, India
• Concepts NREC Advancing Clean and Efficient Turbine Technology at ASME Turbo Expo
  
• Delcam Offers 3D Woodworking Software for 125 Euros at Ligna
• Delcam’s ArtCAM JewelSmith at JCK Las Vegas Show
  
• Delcam’s Martell to be Panellist at UK-China SME CEO Forum
  
• Delcam’s PartMaker to Highlight Medical Device Manufacture at OMTEC
• Eight Auto Companies Will Discuss Latest Innovations at Altair HyperWorks Technology Conference
  
• Embedded Systems and Software: A Central Theme at 48th DAC
• ESI Expands into New Tunisian Office, Inauguration and Company Presentation will be Held on May 30, 2011
  
• 48th DAC: Atrenta, Cadence and SpringSoft Sponsor Free Exhibits Floor Passes and I LOVE DAC Campaign
• Kineo CAM has Created the First Software Library Available in the Market to Automatically Compute Collision-Free Human Tasks
  
• MachineWorks Launches Polygonica at CAD’11
• Meet Leading IP Suppliers At DAC 2011 During ChipEstimate.com IP Talks!
  
• Si2 Announces Annual Open Reception at DAC
  
  

Financial News

• AVEVA Group PLC Preliminary Results for the Year Ended 31 March 2011
• Magma Reports Revenue of $139.3 Million for Fiscal 2011, Exceeds All Full Year Guidance
• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results
• think3 Inc. Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
  

Implementation Investments

• Customer Case Study: Tooling Up With Radan
  
• Delcam’s PowerMILL Takes NRE to the Forefront of Race-Car Engineering
• Hawkes Ocean Technologies Makes Underwater Airplanes with Autodesk Inventor Software
  
• Kuwait National Petroleum Company Relies on Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise to Upgrade its Production Facilities
• Nordex Selects VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® Software to Develop Composite Wind Turbine Blades
  
• Röchling Automotive Optimizes Global Business Processes with Solutions by CENIT and SAP
• 3D Search Technology Quickly Cleans Up Engineering Part Database
  

Product News

• AspenTech Announces Release of aspenONE® V7.3 Manufacturing & Supply Chain Software
• AspenTech Announces Release of aspenONE® V7.3 Engineering Software
• AspenTech Delivers Process Mobility in New Release of aspenONE® Software
• AspenTech Enables Faster Decision-Making for Oil & Gas Assets in New Release of aspenONE® Software
  
• AspenTech Streamlines Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Compliance in New Release of aspenONE® Software
• Bentley Announces AECOsim Family of Interdisciplinary Information Modeling Software for Building Design, Analysis and Simulation, and LEED Compliance Management
• Bentley Systems and Tekla Advance Interoperability of Building Information Modeling Workflows
  
• Bricsys Releases Bricscad 11.3 with Powerful New Features; Also Opens New Features Poll
• Cloud’ Access to ProjectWise Managed, Synchronized, Secure Content Extended to iPad and More
• Delcam Focuses New Orthotics CADCAM Software on Higher Productivity
  
• Elmo Solutions Announces Agni Link Connector for Acomba Accounting Suite
• Formtek Announces Enhanced Engineering Data Management Solution for Alfresco®, Including New EDM Connector for AutoCAD®
• Lectra Presents Versalis® Fashion, its New Leather Cutting Solution Specific to Luggage, Footwear, and Fashion Accessories
  
• MathWorks Strengthens Physical Modeling Capabilities with Enhancements to SimDriveline
• Microsoft Windows 7 Opens the Door to Bentley’s V8i ‘Immersive Design’
  
• MSC Software Enters the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Market with XFlow
• New Bentley iWare Apps Open Infrastructure Information Modeling Formats for Business Tools
• Planit: Find Your Way With Javelin Map
  
• Rohde & Schwarz and Synopsys Form Strategic Collaboration for LTE/LTE-Advanced Design Acceleration
• SpringSoft’s New Protolink Probe Visualizer Speeds Verification of FPGA-Based Prototype Boards
• Synopsys Delivers 28-nm Design Solutions and Advanced System-Level Capabilities for TSMC Reference Flow 12.0
  
• 30% Faster Loading Times in Edgecam 2011 R2
• Tribold Announces the Launch of Tribold EPM Version 5
• VariCAD 2011 Released
  
• ZWSOFT Announces Product Release of ZW3D 2011
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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 most recent poll, the intent was to assess how well PLM solution suppliers are providing support to their customers, and to determine if there is a difference between the quality of support obtained directly from the solution supplier versus that received from a value added reseller (VAR) or channel partner.

The good news is that 50% of those responding believe that user support was either good or excellent from solution suppliers and resellers alike. For solutions suppliers, the percentage of those responding excellent compared to good was approximately the same. However, for resellers, those responding excellent was only half of those responding good.

These anecdotal results confirm what CIMdata routinely hears in our work with industrial clients worldwide; PLM solution suppliers are doing a good job in providing customer support with some room for improvement. However, there is an opportunity to improve the capacity and training of PLM resellers and channel partners to excel by providing more than just ‘’good” support, which is required in today’s hyper competitive technology landscape.

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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