CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 28 October 2011

28 October 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Dassault Systèmes to Acquire Elsys
• FISHER/UNITECH Acquires SolidWorks® Software Business Unit from R&D Technologies, Inc.

CIMdata News

• Speakers at CIMdata PLM Road Map Detail PLM Successes; Project Leaders Identify Systems Engineering as Successful Practice
  

Company News

• ASCENT Selected to Publish Autodesk Training Guides
• CADline Achieves Platinum Status, Autodesk’s Highest Tier for VARs
• Delcam Launches New Website for ArtCAM Artistic CADCAM
• FISHER/UNITECH to Provide Aras Enterprise PLM Software
• PROSTEP and Tetra 4D Take 3D PDF Forward Together
• SAP Appoints Mike Naimoli Head of Life Sciences Industry Business Unit
  
• UAE Court Joins International Community Confirming Versata’s Ownership of Think3’s Intellectual Property and Enjoining Italian Trustee
• Virginia M. Rometty Elected IBM President and CEO; Samuel J. Palmisano Continues as Chairman
  

Events News

• AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Enterprise at the World Petroleum Congress 2011
• CD-adapco to Host Welcome Event for New Center of Simulation Excellence in São Paulo
• Delcam to Show New CAD and CAM at Euromold
• Delcam to Show New CAM Programs in Indonesia
  
• Delcam’s Aerospace Software and Services on Show at Dubai Air Show
• Delcam’s SEACAM to Show Latest Dental Developments in Brazil
• ESPRIT at the Northern Alabama Industrial & Machine Tool Show
• GibbsCAM Demonstrated at HaasTec 2011 Successful Worldwide Partnership Continues in India
• IMAGINiT Technologies Hosts its BIG I.D.E.A.S. Virtual Event
• Industry Leaders Offer Real-Life Experiences at Gerber Technology’s Annual ideation Software Conference
• Innovation for Productivity—Edgecam Special Event Includes Demonstrations
• Intergraph® CAESAR II® User Group to Meet November 17th in Houston to Discuss Design of Pipe Hangers and Supports and Related Industry Standards
  
• Intergraph® Discovery Tours on November 2nd in Yamaguchi and November 3rd in Kita-Kyushu, Japan to Demonstrate CADWorx® Plant Integration with CAESAR II® and PV Elite®
• MathWorks India Concludes Second Annual User Conference
• PLM in Ship and Yacht Building - CENIT and AITAC at METS in Amsterdam
  
• SAP Combines SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd 2011 for the Business and Technology Event of the Year
• Sescoi to Bring its Automotive Experts to Indian WorkNC Road Shows
• VISTAGY/NexTec Webcast: Part-Specific Design Strategies for Aerostructures
  

Financial News

• Arena Grows Subscription Sales by 25% in Third Quarter
  
• Atos Third Quarter 2011 Revenue
• Cadence Reports Q3 2011 Financial Results
  
• Dassault Systèmes Reports Strong EPS Growth and Operating Margin Expansion in Third Quarter
• Hexagon AB Interim Report 1 January - 30 September
  
• Lectra First Nine Months 2011: Sharp Increase in Orders and Earnings - 2011 Outlook Confirmed
• OpenText Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Results
• PTC Announces Strong Q4 Results, Initiates FY’12 Targets and Q1 Guidance
• PTC Q4 Fiscal 2011 Prepared Remarks
• SAP Reports Record Third Quarter 2011 Software Revenue
  

Implementation Investments

• A Step Back With Alphacam – but a Backward Step without It (Customer Case Study)
  
• bofrost* Relies on IBM Cognos and CENIT AG
• Catalog Data Solutions Publishes Brother International Case Study
• DORIS Engenharia Ltda. Chooses Intergraph® SmartMarine® Enterprise Solutions for Brazilian FPSO Projects
• Edgecam Helps Ariane Spacecraft on Their Way (Customer Case Study)
• eSilicon Selects Synopsys' Custom IC Design Solution and Tapes Out 28-nm Designs
• Fujitsu's CAD System Used in Alps Electric's Integrated Development Environment
• Kelly Racing Uses Autodesk Software to Accelerate Design of Faster, Lighter Cars
• Kenya Petroleum Refineries Selects Advanced IBM Technologies to Transform Operations
• Mentor Graphics Brings Competitive Advantage to Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. by Integrating Capital Software with Siemens PLM Teamcenter
• Mentor Graphics Veloce Emulator Adopted by ZTE to Accelerate Time-to-Market for their Next-Gen SoCs
• MSC Software's Adams Proves Integral to the Study of Lower Limb Exoskeletons
• Ryohin Keikaku Expands HiQube Deployment Throughout Japanese Retail Store Chain
• Selerant Builds Foundation for Food Safety with Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Development
• Siemens PLM Software and Local Motors Form Partnership Around Solid Edge and Revolutionary Crowdsourcing Design Approach
• Tekla Solution for District Heating to Turku Energia as a SaaS Service
  

Product News

• Aras Announces EPLM for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM
• Boost your BIM Collaboration With New Version of Tekla BIMsight
• Cadac Organice Offers Full Flexibility with SharePoint-based Engineering Document Management in the Cloud
  
• Concepts NREC Ships Upgraded Agile Engineering Design System® with Integrated Finite Element Analysis
• Equalis Joins the Scilab Consortium Partner External Module Program
• Gerber Technology’s Newest Release of AccuMark Software Improves Productivity, Simplifies Workflow and Enables More Accurate Costing
• HP Brings Large-format Printing to Design Professionals On the Go with New Mobile Application
• How to Use CMPRO for PLM Learning About CMPRO - As-Built Module
• Inforbix Announces Breakthrough Cloud Product Data Solution for Manufacturing
• Intergraph® Releases Latest Versions of SmartPlant® 3D and SmartMarine® 3D for Safer, Higher Quality Designs and Productivity Gains
• IronCAD and NEi Software Announce "NEi Nastran for IronCAD"
• Lattice Technology Announces 3ds Max Converter Version 5.0
• Mentor Graphics and MoreThanIP Collaborate to Deliver Veloce Emulation Solutions for Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Verification
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Emulation Solutions for the Verification of USB SuperSpeed (3.0) Products
• MSC Software Announces New Release of Adams
• Newest Version of 3D BIM Software Tool for Real-Time Mark-up and Co-viewing of AEC Models Now Available from CadFaster
• NovaQuest Launches VisiQuity™ , A New Search-Based-Application Solution
• OPEN MIND Technologies AG: Quantum Leap in the World of CAM
• Samsung and Cadence Announce Production of Breakthrough 32nm HD Digital Camera SoC for Ambarella
• Synopsys' DesignWare Audio IP Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success in Leading 65-nm and 55-nm Process Technologies
• Tecplot, Inc. Releases Its Latest Innovation in Simulation Analytics: Tecplot® ChorusTM
• TransMagic® Ships R9 with Metadata Extraction to XML
• Xilinx and Cadence Introduce an Extensible Virtual Platform to Enable Software-Centric Approach for Embedded Software Developers
• Zuken Announces the First System-Level PCB Design Environment
• Zuken Launches New PCB Design Suite for Concept-To-Manufacturing, Multi-Board System Design
  

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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