CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 9 September 2011

9 September 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• MSC Software Acquires Acoustics Leader Free Field Technologies
• OpenText Acquires Operitel
• PTC Expands Solution Portfolio for Service Organizations with Acquisition of Warranty and Service Lifecycle Management Vendor 4CS
• SAP to Acquire 3-D Visualization Software Maker Right Hemisphere
  

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Announces Date and Location for the Next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program; Santa Clara, California, – December 5 - 9, 2011
• CIMdata Announces PLM Innovation Congress 2012, February 22-23
  
• CIMdata Announces PLM Leadership Practice; Providing Education and Knowledge to PLM Practitioners and Users
• CIMdata Poll Results for “PLM goes Mobile or Does It? You Decide”
  
• CIMdata Publishes CONTACT Software Product Review “Customer Successes Built on CIM DATABASE”
• CIMdata’s Stan Przybylinski Soundbite
• “Future Directions of PLM” by Peter A. Bilello, President of CIMdata, Inc.
  
• Learn More About “Green and PLM and Innovation” at the CM Trends Conference
• New Poll: Is Digital Manufacturing the new CAD solution for process design?
  
• SpaceClaim & CIMdata: Overcoming the Barriers Imposed by Geometry, "SpaceClaim Empowers CAE Analysts" (Free Webinar)
  

Company News

• Altair ProductDesign Unveils the World's First Series Hydraulic Hybrid Transit Bus
• Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley and COO Malcolm Walter Host Opening of New U.K. Headquarters in City of London
• Berkeley Design Automation Lands Mike Ellow as VP of Worldwide Sales
• Bluebeam Software Picks Winner in "Paperless is Green" Campaign
• ESI Launches Nuclear Specialist Website; Promoting virtual engineering to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants
• Geomagic Expands to New Headquarter Offices in Research Triangle Park; Company Triples Office Space to Accommodate Continued Growth and Expansion of Operations
  
• Roland Publishes White Paper on Rapid Prototyping Trends and Technologies Shaping the Manufacturing Industry
• SpaceClaim Joins the ProSTEP iViP Association
• think3 Italy and Toyota Caelum Incorporated Celebrate 15 years of Partnership for the Sales of CAD and PLM Software
  

Events News

• Aras to Present at CMPIC CM Trends 2011 Conference
  
• AspenTech’s Dr. Vikas Dhole Selected as Keynote Speaker for First Middle East Process Engineering Conference (MEPEC)
• Delcam Reseller CCSI to Hold PowerMILL Update Day at Ingersoll
• FISHER/UNITECH to Host Series of SolidWorks 2012 Launch Events
• “Focus on the Future” Automotive Research Conferences: The Business of IT: Transforming the Organization and the Vehicle
• GibbsCAM 2011 to Be Demonstrated in Willemin-Macodel Exhibit at EMO
  
• ICAM Launches Integrated PSE V19 at EMO 2011
• Intergraph® 2011 Asia-Pacific Conferences Achieve Record Numbers
• MachineWorks to Demo its New Fastest 5-Axis Engine at EMO
• Mastercam Blade Expert to be Unveiled at EMO 2011
• MathWorks Announces MATLAB Tour 2011
  
• OPEN MIND Presents Powerful hyperMILL® CAM Solution at Turbo Symposium
• President of OptiTex to Present at OGTC Conference
• Tribold Presents Case Study with Internet Solutions at Management World Africa 2011
  

Financial News

• ANSYS CEO to Present at ThinkEquity's 8th Annual Growth Conference
• Aspen Technology to Present at the Deutsche Bank 2011 Technology Conference
• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Webinar on Architecture, Engineering and Construction Business Segment
• PTC to Speak at CL Kings 9th Annual Best Ideas Conference on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
• Synopsys to Present at Deutsche Bank Technology Conference
  

Implementation Investments

• BAE Systems Submarine Solutions Signs Multi-Million Pound Contract for Teamcenter With Siemens PLM Software to Optimize Submarine Programme Efficiency
  
• BOCAD Integrates PDF3D® Reporting into Construction Plans
• DWIS of Korea Selects Aras as Enterprise PLM Backbone
• FMC Technologies First to use SharePoint-based Engineering Document Management and Control in the Clouds
  
• JSC KUZNETSOV Standardizes on Siemens PLM Software for Design and Development
• Michigan State University Chemical Engineering Integrates MATLAB Throughout its Curricula to Foster Student Proficiency in Problem Solving
• s.Oliver Finds the Perfect Fit with Dassault Systèmes’ Version 6
  

Product News

• Actify and ShapeSpace Announce Collaboration
• AMD FireProTM Professional Graphics Certified for New OpenCLTM Compliant 3D Modeling Application
• Cadac Organice First to Introduce SharePoint-based Engineering Document Management and Control in the Cloud
• GRAPHISOFT BIMx Turns the iPad/iPhone into an Interactive Building Model Explorer
  
• Mentor Graphics Vista ESL Platform Takes Center Stage in Mentor’s ESL Strategy with Expanded Functionality
• New Version of Teamcenter Mobility Enables Mobile Workforce to Participate More Fully in PLM Workflows
• Simulink Code Inspector Strengthens MathWorks Support for DO-178 Certification
  
• SolidWorks 2012 Delivers Design Solutions to Drive Business
• Teamcenter Performance Testing Demonstrates Microsoft SQL SERVER as Enterprise Level PLM Database
  
• Tech Soft 3D and SofTech Announce ProductCenter PLM Built With HOOPS 3D Exchange
  

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:

CIMdata’s latest opinion poll was developed to gauge the current level of adoption and future potential use of mobile devices within the context of an organization’s product lifecycle management (PLM) environment. As indicated by the responses, almost half of those who participated in the poll indicated that they feel that mobile devices are great and that they are in the early stages of be adopting within their PLM environment. This is very promising and clearly indicates that adoption is well underway. Approximately, thirty percent (30%) of the poll’s participants indicated that they also feel that mobile devices are great but that they will not be adopted within their PLM environment any time soon. This suggests that the future adoption and use of mobile devices within organizations’ PLM environment could continue to increase. Finally, it should noted that almost ninety percent (90%) of the poll’s participants indicated that they believe that mobile devices are great and they have a role in today’s and/or tomorrow’s PLM environments.

This opinion poll confirms CIMdata’s view of the need and applicability of mobile devices in today’s PLM environments. We have already seen the use of these devices in various industries where product data is needed in the field for maintenance and operations support. We are also seeing companies in multiple industries starting to apply PLM-enabled mobile devices to deliver product data to the factory floor in the support of machine operation and assembly instructions. The future of mobile devices as a data delivery device in a PLM context appears to be very bright and we expect their use to increase significantly over the next three to five years.

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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