CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 26 August 2011

26 August 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Autodesk Acquires Numenus Ray Tracing Technology
• LMS and SAMTECH Join Forces for Market Leadership in Global Aerospace and Automotive Industries

CIMdata News

• Speaker Line-up for PLM Road Map 2011 Announced

Company News

• Aras Announces Membership in Autodesk Partner Program
• Delcam Adds 25 Students to Birmingham Staff
  
• Equalis Announces Major Enhancements to its Equalis Pro Scilab Program
• Equalis Appoints TOYO Corporation as its Scilab Solution Partner for Japan
• ESI Signs a 5-Year Strategic Cooperation Agreement in R&D with AVIC, ''Aviation Industry Corporation of China''
• Intergraph Approves CAD Training Tech for CADWorx Training
• Mentor Graphics Donates Veloce Emulator to Portland State University
• Siemens Re-appoints Sunway E-Systems
  
• SolidProfessor Releases SolidWorks Flow Simulation Course
• Synopsys Announces Results of Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition

Event News

• Altair Engineering Announces HyperWorks 11.0 Workshop Series
• ASCON Group to Showcase Its MCAD Software at the Premier Trade Show for Metal Technology
• AVEVA to Sponsor and Present at ICCAS 2011
  
• Boosting Manufacturing Efficiency - CENIT at Composites Europe from 27 to 29 September 2011in Stuttgart
• Computer Generated Solutions’ (CGS) BlueCherry® and Leadtec™ to be Featured on 21st Century Business Television August 27, 2011
• Delcam for SolidWorks Wire EDM to be Launched at EMO
  
• EMC Accelerates Customers' Journey to the Cloud at VMworld 2011
• ESI's Second China Forum Will Take Place in Beijing, on 25 & 26 August, Bringing Together Virtual Prototyping Users and Experts to the Chinese Capital
• Experience NCSIMUL at imX
• Geometric to Showcase Reduction in Programming Time with CAMWorks® 2011 at EMO 2011
• Gerber Technology ideation2011: Early bird Discount Ends Next Wednesday
• Gerber Technology's YuniquePLM Summer Webinar Series: CAD/PLM Integration
  
• Intergraph 2011 Australia Commences
• MSC Software Announces its Upcoming 2011 North American Users Conference
• New Gibbscam Turbo Machinery Options To Be Previewed At EMO
• Register Now for Fourth Annual KETIV Autodesk Manufacturing Academy
  
• SoftInWay became a gold sponsor of the 16th Blade Mechanics Seminar (Winterthur, Switzerland)
• Supply Chain Integration is Focus of Third Boeing/Northrop Grumman Global Product Data Interoperability Summit
• Surfware to Showcase at EMO2011
  

Financial

• Aspen Technology Announces Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011
• Delcam Achieves Record Sales and Increased Profits
• Magma Reports First-Quarter Financial Results
• Tekla Corporation's Interim Report January 1 - June 30, 2011: Growth continued during the second quarter - Almost all Tekla shares held by Trimble as the result of a public tender offer
  

Implementation Investments

• Chrontel Standardizes on Magma to Accelerate Development of Analog/Mixed-Signal ICs
• Faraday Accelerates the Development of SoCs with Model-Based Design
• Nonprofit Turns to Autodesk Software to Help Amputees in Developing Nations
• Open-Silicon Adopts Magma's SiliconSmart ACE for Standard Cell and I/O Cell Characterization and Modeling to Maximize Performance on Advanced-Node Designs
  
• Technia Confirms Apparel PLM leadership with Entrance into the Japanese Market
  

Product News

• Aras Announces Availability of Formula & Recipe Management Solution; Enables Process Manufacturers to Manage Specifications, Formulas, Recipes, Packaging, Labeling and Related Intellectual Property across Global Operations and Supply Chain
  
• Autodesk Motion FX Helps Transform Movement into Video Magic
  
• CadFaster(TM) 3D CAD iPAD Application Allows Anyone, Anywhere to View, Share, Markup and Co-view 3D Models
• ETO Companies Require Manufacturing Revision Control According to Streamline Systems
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Mentor Graphics Extend Collaboration to Third Generation of DFM
• hyperMILL® Integrates Seamlessly with Autodesk Inventor 2012
• Mastercam’s OptiRough Toolpath Slashes Roughing Time
• NEi Software Introduces NEi Nastran in-CAD 2011
• New Free CadFaster™ 3D CAD iPAD Application Allows Anyone, Anywhere to View, Share, Markup and Co-view 3D Models
  
• SpaceClaim 2011+ Released
  

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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