CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 12 August 2011

12 August 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• James R. Scapa, Chairman and CEO of Altair Engineering to Keynote at PLM Road Map™ 2011
• Join Selerant and CIMdata for this Free Webinar on October 12: Formulating for Compliance
• PLM: Bringing the Extended Enterprise Together to Enable Green

Company News

• Anders Hellermark to Join Tacton Systems as Responsible for Business Unit TactonWorks
• AVEVA Graduates Launched on Facebook
  
• Body Scanner for 3D Innovation in Apparel Technology; Cooperation between Human Solutions and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences
• CENIT Establishes Subsidiary in Japan
  
• Delcam’s On-Line Manufacturing Forum Reaches 5,000 Members
• i GET IT Adds "Fundamentals of GD&T" to its Engineering Training Course Portfolio
• i GET IT Extends ‘Ultimate Engineering Productivity’ Packaged Offering Through September
• MSC Software Recognized as one of “The Ten Original Software Companies”
  
• PSC Group Joins Aras Partner Program
• Technical Contributions Advance Si2’s OpenPDK Coalition Progress
• The Belgian Government Supports SAMTECH to Extend the Capabilities of the CAESAM Platform
  

Events News

• AVEVA Introduces New Products at Offshore Europe; AVEVA Engineering, AVEVA Electrical and Enhanced AVEVA Plant Capabilities
  
• Cadence Demonstrates Flash Memory Offering at 2011 Flash Memory Summit
• CIDEON Software at the International SAP PLM Conference in Hamburg
• Delcam to Launch FeatureCAM 2012 Feature-Based Machining at EMO
• GibbsCAM Webinar Coming Soon: Simplifying & Speeding Production with MTM and Efficient NC Programming Practices
• Intergraph® Announces CAD and Analysis User Competition Winners -- One Winner from USA and Two from India Win Trip to CAU2011 September 19-21 in Houston
• Intergraph® Schedules CAU2011 Managers Day on September 19th in Houston with Special Keynotes and a One-Day Registration Discount
  
• Lightworks Demonstrates New Approach to Visualisation at Siggraph
  
• Luxion Unveils KeyShot® 3Collaboration
• PDT Early Bird Registration for Ends August 31; Register Now
• SAMTECH Conferences 2011: the Sign of the Group's Expansion
  

Financial News

• Aspen Technology Announces Date of Fourth-Quarter Fiscal 2011 Financial Results Release, Conference Call and Webcast
• CENIT Posts Sales and Earnings Growth in First 6 Months of 2011
• Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q2 2012 Financial Results August 18, 2011
• OpenText Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results
  

Implementation Investments

• Cabinet Vision “Essential To Our Success” Says Leading Kitchen Company (Case Study)
  
• DENSO Selects ANSYS FEM Software to Accelerate Product Development and Drive Down Costs
• Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water Deploys Bentley’s ProjectWise to Improve Team Collaboration and Productivity
• Hard Dollar Project Cost Management Solution Chosen by Kiewit Corporation
• Hi-P Standardizes on Siemens PLM Software's NX to Help Accelerate Design and Development of New Products
  
• JD Sports Fashion Selects PLM Software from Centric
• Prolific Fashion Designer David Chu to Implement Visual 2000 Enterprise Software
  
• Sheffer Corporation Sees Leads Convert to Dollars With 3D Part Catalog From PARTsolutions
  
• Sunplus Technology Picks Cadence Transaction-Level Modeling Flow for Next-Gen Multimedia ICs
• Z Corporation 3D Printing Technology Helps Humanetics ATD Make Intelligent Crash Test Dummies
  

Product News

• ASCON Licenses Lightworks Artisan for KOMPAS-3D
  
• Autodesk Expands BIM for Infrastructure Product Portfolio with New Software for Conceptual Design and Electric Utilities
• Clarizen Continues to Evolve Beyond Traditional Project Management Software with New Release
  
• Consona Releases Cimnet Systems’ Engenix v3.3 Engineering Solution for PCB Manufacturing
• Create Custom Digital Masterpieces with the Autodesk 123D Sculpt App for iPad
  
• Fujitsu Launches Cloud Service for Analytical Simulations
• Intergraph® Releases New Version of Standard Database for SmartPlant® Reference Data
• ITI TranscenData Releases CADfix V8.1
  
• MAXON (Nemetschek Company) Unveils CINEMA 4D Release 13SAP R/3
• MecSoft Receives Autodesk Inventor Certification
• New Release of SAP PLM Integration for MicroStation with Greatly Extended Functionality Now Available
• New Version of InspectionXpert for Solid Edge Released
  
• PDF3D Reaches New Heights of Usability and Performance with Security Control and PMI Annotation - v2.2.1 Now Released
• Release 4.2.6 of CIDEON Conversion Engine for SAP Now Available
• Release 6.1.2.0 of the SAP PLM Integrations for AutoCAD and Inventor is Now Available
• SAMTECH to Release Version 3 of SAMCEF for Wind Turbines
• ShipConstructor 2012 Released
• Siemens Latest Releases of the 2D D-Cubed Components
• 10.0 Release of SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions Now Generally Available
  

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:

The intent of CIMdata’s most recent poll was to encourage more conversation about the reality of how too many PLM projects are currently being executed and experienced across our multiple industries.

When asked what percentage of PLM initiatives encounter substantial unexpected obstacles, surprises, detours, and interruptions in the project along the way, an overwhelming 75% responded that the majority of PLM projects do. And some 30% responded that they thought nearly all PLM projects experience these challenges! If these sample poll results are accurate for industry in general, it means that the PLM community (i.e., the PLM software vendor, systems integrators, consultants, and others) hasn’t provided the guidance, skills, training, software, etc., or some combination of said elements, needed to be foolproof.

When asked to identify the primary cause of these challenges, the reasons attributed were in order: technical, business, organizational, solution, and last financial. The good news is that very few projects are believed to go off the rails due to the wrong solution selected or from an unresponsive supplier. The bad news is that too many PLM projects are encountering technical obstacles in which CIMdata believes the majority of could have been predicted and mitigated with more realistic planning and assimilation of best practices.

These results confirm what CIMdata’s has seen from audits we have performed or projects we have been asked to complete or restart. Rarely do we encounter a technical obstacle that we have not seen before and know can be successfully overcome. As example, we often advise our clients in CIMdata’s PLM Leadership Certificate training programs that the technical issues of application integration, interoperability, migration, and data quality can cause the best intended PLM projects with even modest scopes to fall behind schedule and above budget. We also often discuss the cultural adoption issues that tend to get in the way of an organization’s ability to take 100% advantage of the new process and business capabilities provided by the chosen solution. In the end, PLM is like most complex multi-variables equations—they take a focused effort and can be more easily solved by organizations that can bring to the table experience and a well defined set of best practices.

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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