CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 7 October 2011

7 October 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• AVEVA Acquires the LFM Software Division of Z+F UK; AVEVA expands laser scanning software offering for brownfield project execution and asset operations
• Dassault Systèmes at the Forefront of Next-Generation PLM Composites Solutions
• Synopsys Acquires Extreme DA
  
• Vero Software & Planit Holdings Merge
  

CIMdata News

• Leading Thinkers Come Together at CIMdata’s PLM Road Map 2011 Conference to Address the Mounting Cultural and Integration Challenges in PLM
  
• “Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity” By Peter A. Bilello, President of CIMdata, Inc.
• Solving the PLM Data Migration Challenge: The PRION Advantage (CIMdata Commentary)
  

Company News

• Bentley Announces Project Finalists in 2011 Be Inspired Awards Competition
• Breakthrough in Preventing Food-borne Illnesses Wins $20,000 Grand Prize in Global Design Contest
  
• Dassault Systèmes Partners with Persistent Systems in India
• Delcam Seeks More Sales Staff to Drive Further Business Growth
  
• Geometric to Showcase NextGen PLM Solutions at PLM Europe -Siemens PLM Connection 2011
  
• Gerber Technology Unveils New Website
• i GET IT Announces Reseller Program for Autodesk Resellers
  
• Imaginestics Receives Small Business Administration 8(a) Certification
• Intergraph® Partner ECE Design Adds New Staff and Expands Houston Office to Support Intergraph CADWorx®, CAESAR II® and PV Elite® Market
  
• Majenta PLM Wins Solid Edge Agreement
• Sustainable Cooperation Between Science and Industry to Develop a High-Performance Simulation Model for Electrothermal Layout of Lithium-ion Batteries
• Tata Technologies Moves UK Headquarters to Coventry
  

Events News

• Active Participation of SENER in ICCAS 2011 in Triestre
• Anark & Tetra 4D Announce Anark Core™ Exchange Software Bundle
• Apriso Joins Panel Discussion at PLM Road Map 2011
• AVEVA Announces Additional Dates for its ‘Breakthrough in Engineering Productivity Roadshows’ in North America
• CGTech to Feature VERICUT CNC Machine Simulation at EuroMold 2011
• Challenges of Working with a Global Supply Chain to be Addressed by Speakers at Boeing and Northrop Grumman Interoperability Summit; Arizona Summit Registration Deadline is October 15
  
• Delcam Offers 3D Engraving and Woodworking Software for $149 at WMS
• Delcam to Show CADCAM Power and Precision at SEMA
• High Productivity for Japanese Mold Manufacturers Demonstrated at WorkNC CADCAM and Hitachi Joint Seminar
• Intergraph® 2011 PP&M Mexico User Conference Begins in Mexico City
• Mentor Graphics Addresses the Challenges of Design and Functional Verification in Full-Day Seminar
• New Bentley OpenPlant Road Show Presents Innovations That Deliver Operational Excellence Across the Plant Lifecycle
  
• Oracle Raises the Curtain on Oracle OpenWorld 2011
• SoftInWay Presents Breakthrough Research at International Gas Turbine Congress 2011 Osaka (IGTC'11)

Financial News

• Dassault Systemes Schedules Third Quarter 2011 Results - Webcast and Conference Call for October 27, 2011
• EDA Consortium Reports Revenue Increase for Q2 2011
• EMC to Announce Third-Quarter 2011 Financial Results on October 18; News Release to Be Available on EMC's Corporate Website
• Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting to Be Held October 6, 2011
  

Implementation Investments

• Alphacam Takes 9-Axis Machining in its Stride (Customer Case Study)
• Catalog Data Solutions Catalog Solution Selected by Amphenol Industrial Operations
• Eindhoven University of Technology Selects Aras to Drive Real-World Experience for Engineering Students
• Fuji Electric Cuts Development Time 25 Percent with Cadence Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator
  
• Synopsys' DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP Achieves More Than 40 Design Wins
• X-FAB Qualifies Cadence Physical Verification System for All Process Nodes
  

Product News

• Autodesk Debuts Moldflow Simulation Software in the Cloud
• Delcam Launches Feature-Based Machining FeatureCAM 2012
• Edgecam Roughing Smooths the Way for Better Machining
• ESI Releases Virtual Performance Solution 2011; scalable software package for end-to-end virtual prototyping across multiple domains
• Kineo CAM Releases the First Dynamic Collision Checker for 3D Software Environment
• Lattice Technology Introduces iXVL View for the iPad®
• Mahindra Satyam Announces Mobile Client for Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management
  
• MSC Software Announces the All New Marc
• Oracle Unveils Oracle Social Network
• Siemens PLM Software Announces Latest Release of Femap for Enhanced Simulation in Product Development
• Siemens PLM Software Offers First Ever Free Download of Full Function Solid Edge and Femap
• SpaceClaim® Announces Integration With Comet®; Enables Geometry Creation and Editing in a Neutral, Collaborative Environment for Model-Based Engineering & Simulation Process Automation
• SpringSoft Unveils New VIA Exchange for Development of Custom Applications
• 3DSMART® is Now Compatible with AutoCAD 2012
  
  

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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