CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 9 December 2011

9 December 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Vistagy Acquisition Closes; Company Now Becomes Part of Siemens PLM Software

CIMdata News

• Autodesk 360—PLM in the Cloud (CIMdata Commentary)

Company News

• CENIT North America Earns IBM Million Dollar Award
• Dassault Systèmes Dedicates North American HQ; Introduces a New Era of Sustainable Innovation
  
• David Parry Joins Cadac Organice from McLaren Software
• Donny Askin to Lead Gerber Technology’s Software Solutions Business
• eSilicon Recognizes Magma With 2011 Supplier of the Year Award
• Introduction of Aspen Online Training Makes aspenONE® Engineering Products Easier to Use and Learn
• Lectra Continues Support of Education in the Apparel Industry
• SAP Labs Location to Open in Russia
• SolidWorks Software Helps Bring a 30 Year Dream to Life; Re-creation of U.S.S. Missouri
• Theorem Solutions Awarded ISO 9001:2008 Certification
• Tomorrow’s CAM Specialists Are Taught Alphacam Today
  

Events News

• AVEVA World Summits Attract a Global Audience of Key Decision Makers
• Concepts NREC Exhibiting at POWER-GEN International 2011
• Delcam India to Present at SolidWorks Innovation Day in Mumbai
• Delcam Partner MultiCAM Holds User Meetings in Argentina
• Nemetschek Vectorworks to Participate in BIM Educational Sessions at Ecobuild America

Financial News

• Gehry Technologies Raises $10M; Autodesk Leads Round
• IGE+XAO Group: Turnover for First Quarter of 2011/2012 (in IFRS norms), Turnover up 4.2%
• Oracle Sets the Date for Its Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Earnings Announcement
  

Implementation Investments

• Apache Design’s Totem Software Adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor for Power Noise and Reliability Analysis
• Catalog Data Solutions SaaS Configurator and CAD Downloads Implemented by White Drive Products
• Delcam for SolidWorks Used to Make Powerboat Engine in Five Weeks
• Fort Vale to Add Another Mori Seiki
• Industry Leaders Achieve Significant Power and Performance Gains with Synopsys' Low Power Solution
• Israeli Government Selects EMC as Enterprise Content Management Platform Standard
• Magma's FineSim SPICE Enables Dolphin Technology to Achieve 6X Faster Simulation Runtime, Reducing Time to Market and Improving IP Quality
• Siemens Extends Industry Software Contract with Procter & Gamble Co.
• SofTech Announces Large Multi-Year Support Contract; Also Announces Immediate Availability of Latest CADRA Release
• Tommy Bahama Selects PTC for Seamless Supply Chain Collaboration
• Unitel Angola selects Tribold EPM for IT Transformation Programs
  
• ZTE Licenses Mentor Graphics Inflexion UI Technology to Develop Advanced 3D Smartphone User Interfaces
  

Product News

• ANSYS 14.0 Delivers Capabilities for Improved Efficiency, Accuracy, Speed and Innovation in Product Development
• aPriori Announces General Availability of Latest Version of its Product Cost Management Platform
• Aras Announcement - T-Systems Provides File Converter Framework for Aras PLM Platform
• AspenTech Introduces Search for Process Optimization
• AVEVA and FARO sign Interoperability Agreement
• BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of µETA v6.7.2 with New Features and Code Corrections
• Bouygues Construction and Autodesk Establish Strategic Relationship
• Fujitsu Launches TC Cloud Services for Analytical Simulations
• Increased Design Flexibility with CADSTAR 13.0 Constraint Browser and Topology Editor
• Infolytica Corporation Releases MotorSolve v2.6
• Lawson Software Introduces Infor10 Lawson S3
• NetIDEAS Now Offering PTC's FlexPLM in the Cloud
• New Release of aspenONE Supply Chain Delivers Redesigned User Interface
• Rapid Development of the CAD Viewer Kubotek KeyView; New version 11.1.0 with CATIA V6 Support and New Functions
• ShipConstructor Partners With Cloudis
• StressCheck, the Newest HyperWorks Partner Alliance Application, Expands Altair's FEA Capabilities
• Synopsys' IC Validator Certified by GLOBALFOUNDRIES for 28-nm, 40-nm and 65-nm Design
• Tetra 4D™ Announces Upcoming Release of 3D PDF Converter™ for Autodesk® Revit® - Labs Edition

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.
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