CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 2 September 2011

2 September 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Calypto Design Systems Acquires Mentor Catapult C Synthesis Tool
• Synopsys Acquires nSys Design Systems
  

CIMdata News

• “Getting to Green: PLM and Sustainability” by Peter A. Bilello, President of CIMdata, Inc.
  
• PLM Road Map 2011 Update: Substantial Savings so Register Now and Take Advantage of Our Early Bird Discount Before it Expires Today
  

Company News

• Altium Signs GoEngineer to Distribute Next-Generation Electronics Design Software to Western and South Central U.S.
• ICAM Opens Office in Shanghai China
  
• IntelliCAD Technology Consortium Announces Release of IntelliCAD® 7.0b
• Lectra Appoints Anastasia Charbin Marketing Director, Fashion
• LMS Imagine.Lab Powers International ESTOMAD Research Project
  
• Mentor Graphics SystemVision Wins NI LabVIEW Award for Platform Extension
  
• OptiTex Finds Complete Success in the Educational Industry
• SAP Names Jonathan Becher Chief Marketing Officer
• SCA and ShapeSpace Collaborate
• Siemens PLM Software Named China’s #1 PLM Solution Supplier for Second Consecutive Year by Leading Industry Analyst
  
• Student Edition of Solid Edge now Available Free of Charge to All Students Worldwide
• Tata Technologies Earns Autodesk ‘Consulting Specialization’ Status
• Tech Soft 3D Establishes Japan KK in Yokohama, Japan
  
• 2011 Design for Direct Digital Manufacturing Competition Winners Announced
• xPLM Solution Opens U.S. Office and Appoints General Manager
  

Events News

• Aerospace Design, Analysis, and Optimization Webinar Series - Presented by HyperWorks
  
• Another Successful Year for the AVEVA EIM Conference in Australia
• Aras Announces Aras Community Event 2011 China
  
• CD-adapco's STAR Global Conference 2012: Call for Papers
• Delcam to Show PowerSHAPE’s Direct Modelling for Manufacture at AsiaMold
• Delcam’s Aerospace Software And Services on Show at AeroEngineering
  
• Free Automotive Materials Strategy Workshop, Thursday, October 6, 2011
  
• Free PLM Webinar: Find out How the Top Performers grow their Product Lines in Formulating for Compliance Webinar with Barilla and CIMdata
• “Game on” for Game-Changing Innovation at SAP® TechEd 2011 as Global Ecosystem Convenes in Four Locations Worldwide
• Hankook Delcam’s 22nd User Group Conference Bigger than Ever
  
• Intergraph® 2011 Korea Commences
• MachineWorks to Demo its New Fastest 5-Axis Engine at EMO
  
• Magma Launches Worldwide Silicon One Seminar Series in U.S., Canada, Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, Europe
  
• ModuleWorks to Show Latest CAD/CAM Components at EMO
• NASA to Showcase Novel Manufacturing Technology at Forum
• New VERICUT Interface for SolidCAM at EMO
• Register for the Upcoming COE Ask the Experts Webcast: Transitioning to CATIA as an Enterprise-wide Standard CAD Tool
  
• Sescoi Productivity Software an Integral Part of SolidWorks® and IMTMA Seminars in India
• Session Descriptions for ideation 2011 are Now Published
• solidThinking Offers Designers a Sneak Peek of Its Upcoming Release at the 2011 ISDA International Conference, Sept. 14-17 in New Orleans
  

Financial News

• LEDAS Achieves Record Revenues from Its Portfolio of Software Development Services
  

Implementation Investments

• A Decade with Delcam Helps Revol to International Success
  
• Catalog Data Solutions Catalog, CAD Download and Configurator Solution Selected by Symmco Inc.
• Customer Success: PTC Congratulates Penske Racing Team for Unprecedented Weekend of Race Track Wins
  
• Energizer Trusts Its Data to Autodesk Vault
• ICAM Signs Training Center Agreement with Hong Kong PolyU
• LSG Insurance Partners Deploys Altair's HiQube for Business Analytics to Streamline Customer Service
• Radbend “Bends By Numbers” for Print Finishing Specialists (Case Study)
• SunPods Creates Solar Arrays with Autodesk Software
  

Product News

• Agilent Technologies Introduces Wideband DPD Modeling Platform for LTE-Advanced, 802.11ac
• Altair Announces CFD Technology OEM Partnership with Intelligent Light
• Altis Collaborates with Cadence Services to Deliver State-of-Art Design Kits
• Autodesk Adds Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Revit Structure to Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2012
  
• Cadence and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Significantly Speed Design for Manufacturing Signoff at 32, 28 Nanometers
• Enterprises Embrace Smarter Carbon Management With SAP and the Carbon Disclosure Project
• GibbsCAM Reaches Another Landmark - Develops 1000th MTM (Multi-Task Machine) Post Processor
  
• Launch of MotorSolve with Thermal Analysis Announced
• LMS Responds to Market Demand for Torsional Vibration Testing; New LMS Test.Lab solution provides precision rotational speed measurements without compromise
  
• Magma's Quartz DRC Physical Verification Solution Qualified to Support GLOBALFOUNDRIES' DRC+ Flow for Technologies at 28 nm and Below
• MathWorks Announces Release 2011b of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families
  
• Mentor Graphics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Improve Yield Analysis with Combination of Tessent and Calibre Capabilities
• MISUMI Teams With PARTsolutions as Worldwide Strategic Technology Partner
  
• Obayashi Signs Agreement with NEC and GRAPHISOFT to deliver “Smart BIM Cloud”
• SofTech Announces Latest Release: ProductCenter PLM 9.2.0; ProductCenter PLM 9.2.0 Includes New Platform Support, Utilizes HOOPS 3D Exchange Technology from Tech Soft 3D to Integrate with CATIA® V5 and NX™
  
• SpaceClaim Announces Integration with Optimus
  
• SpaceClaim Announces Integration with modeFRONTIER
• Synopsys and Achronix Announce Multi-Year Renewal of Synthesis Partnership
  
• TurboViewer Pro Adds Powerful New Viewing Features for iPad and iPhone
  
• Visual 2000 and Clientis-S3G Team to Deliver Integrated PLM for SAP AFS Solution
  
• ZWSOFT Updates ZW3D 2011 with Service Pack 1
  
  

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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