CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 23 November 2011

23 November 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• “Assessing Implementation Maturity” by Peter A. Bilello, President, CIMdata Inc.
• CIMdata Announces Date and Location for the First CIMdata PLM Certificate Program of 2012; Atlanta, Georgia, – February 6-10, 2012

Company News

• AspenTech Appoints Filipe Soares Pinto to Lead Latin American Operations as Vice President
• Capgemini and Dassault Systèmes Sign an Innovative Services Partnership
• Delcam CRISPIN Adds Design Engineers to Promote Continued Growth
• IMAGINiT Technologies Expands Product and Services Offering into New South Wales, Australia
• Infor to Open Headquarters in New York City
• Invention Machine Expands Senior Management Team
• Mentor Graphics Announces 23rd Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards Program Winners
• New Intergraph® CADWorx® & Analysis Solutions Video Series now on YouTube®
• PTC and Hornby Hobbies Continue Education Drive in 2012
• PTC Join Forces with Caterpillar and STARBASE South Dakota to Inspire South Dakota Students to Become Engineers
• SAP to Spend US$2 Billion in China
• SolidWorks Holiday Gift Guide
  

Events News

• Cimatron's Global Expertise on Show at EuroMold
• Free UK Solid Edge Best Practice Seminars
  
• Geometric to Showcase CAMWorks 2012 at EuroMold 2011
• IMAGINiT Technologies and ASCENT Experts Lead 16 Sessions at Autodesk University 2011
• Korea’s Largest CAM Supplier, Hankook Delcam, at Euromold
• Live Webinar with Q&A, Attacking Castings with SpaceClaim
  
• MachineWorks to Show its New Polygonica Toolkit at Euromold
• WorkNC Customer Appreciation Events Mark 20 years in North America
  

Financial News

• Cadence Corporate Vice President and Controller Sean Sobers to Present at the Barclays Technology Conference
• Cadence Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Geoff Ribar to Present at the Nasdaq OMX Investor Program
• ESI Group Completion of Financing Worth 30 Million euros

Implementation Investments

• Andritz Places Its Trust in Autodesk Vault Software
• Delcam Supplies Complete Inspection Solution for Automotive Supplier
• Exar Selects Magma's Tekton and QCP to Accelerate Sign-Off of 40-nm SoCs
• Magma's Titan Adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited to Improve Analog Design Productivity
• Medical Device Company Lumenis Unifies Engineering and Business Processes with Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA Version
  
• Nikon Corporation Adopts Dassault Systèmes’ Version 6 to Drive Designers’ Idea-Generation Process
• Nobiskrug Makes Strategic Investment in AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management Solution
  
• Pierre Fabre Laboratories Selects Dassault Systèmes’ Version 6 Platform to Deploy Next-Generation PLM for Life Sciences
• Wüstenrot & Württembergische to Optimize Job Processing
  

Product News

• Dalian GONA to Integrate MachineWorks Software
• Dassault Systèmes Introduces Unique 3D Sketching Experience
  
• Fujitsu Releases New Software to Support Development of Safe, High-Quality, Electronic Control Systems
• Magma's New SystemNav Speeds Board-Level Failure Analysis by Enabling Signal Trace Between Chips, Stacked Dies, PCBs and MCMs
• Mentor Graphics and JEOL to Develop Advanced IC Mask Writing Solutions
  
• Oracle Introduces Oracle's Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition
• PDF3D Improves User Interface, 3D Content, Encoding and Platforms
• SimXpert 2012 Delivers Significant Productivity Improvements for Engineers Performing Multidisciplinary Simulations
• STAR-Cast v1.10: Industrial Strength Casting Simulation for Foundrymen, Designers and Toolmakers
• Tetra 4D Announces Release of 3D PDF Converter™ v. 3.3
• With Versalis® Auto, Lectra Ushers in a New Era in Leather Cutting for the Automotive Industry
• Zuken Shortens Intel Embedded Device Schematic Review Time
• ZWSOFT Updates ZW3D 2011 with Service Pack 2
  

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:

Digital Manufacturing (DM) supports the definition of the processes used to produce a product, including simulation and analysis of those processes, and the manufacturing environments used, including production equipment and lines. It provides the bridge between design and production. While DM solutions have been available for several years adoption of DM has been slow. This survey explored the status of DM programs within industrial companies.

One of the major reasons for the slow adoption of DM is that most companies do not have a formal DM strategy. Approximately 52% of the respondents to the poll said that their company did not have a DM strategy even if they were using some combination of DM type tools (40% indicated they are using some tools without any strategy while 12% indicated no DM strategy). The lack of a strategy generally indicates that a company is continuing to operate as they have in the past – getting local tools for individuals or small groups that have manufacturing engineering tasks. They are not looking to see how they can best leverage design information as part of their overall product development and manufacturing processes.

Companies that have DM strategies are at three different levels of maturity. At the lowest level, the company has defined a strategy (18% of respondents) but has not yet begun to execute it. These companies have recognized the need for effective DM but need to make tool selections and do their manufacturing process definitions before they can begin to achieve DM related benefits. At the middle level of maturity (approximately 12% of respondents), the company has selected tools and defined some of the processes but has not yet deployed the solution throughout their enterprise. These companies need to continue deployment to fully maximize their return on their DM investments. At the highest level of maturity, a company has a defined DM strategy and is actively deploying it across their enterprise (16% of respondents).

The bottom line is that only 30% of respondents indicated that their companies are actively deploying a DM strategy. These companies are making the investments needed to improve their overall product development and manufacturing capabilities and improve the market competitiveness. CIMdata’s experience and research strongly indicates that these companies will be the most successful in the years to come.

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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