CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 21 September 2012

21 September 2012

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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PLM Road Map™ 2012 is the must-attend event for industry executives and PLM practitioners globally—providing independent education and a collaborative networking environment where ideas, trends, experiences, and relationships critical to the industry germinate and take root. Anyone scanning the front page or business section of any newspaper, or the landing pages of news Websites, would be certain that the business sky is indeed falling. While in general most companies in the US and Europe are not hiring, they still need ways to make the people they have more productive to better compete in global markets. PLM Road Map™ 2012 is a strategic conference focused on how companies are successfully employing PLM strategies and enabling solutions to meet challenging product development, manufacturing, and deployment issues. Join leading analysts from CIMdata and key industry players as they their share experiences in making technology work.

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata Publishes “CAD Selection Considerations: Complex Geometry”
• Simulation in the Cloud: A Path to Democratize Simulation: A CIMdata Commentary
• SolidWorks 2013 Launch Event: A CIMdata Commentary

Acquisitions

• Bentley Acquires Ivara

Company News

• 2012 Tekla North America BIM Award Winners
• Bentley Extends Commitment to Siemens PLM Software’s Parasolid, D-Cubed and JT
• Comet Solutions® Expands Its Presence in China
• EMA Announces New Displaced Workers Training Program
• EOS and IMDS Join Forces to Create Breakthrough Medical Products
• Hawk Ridge Systems Adds CAMWorks to CAD/CAM Portfolio
• Ideate Earns Autodesk Simulation Specialization
• IMAGINiT Technologies Offers Subsidised Training to Australia’s Construction Industry
• initial.aec Earns Autodesk Consulting Specialization
• KeyShot Gains Adoption Among Academia
• LMS Partners with European Industry Leaders
• MicroGenesis Receives Advanced Specialization from Autodesk Inc.

Events News

• Agilent Technologies to Launch Seminar Tour Focused on Principles of System Design for Automated Testing
• Aras to Present at CMII 2012 International Conference
• AVEVA to Present its Software Solutions at KIOGE 2012
• Delcam to Show Integrated Electrode Solution at Euromold
• ESI China User Forum will take place on September 17-19 in Chengdu, Sichuan
• Faster VERICUT at EuroMold 2012 Frankfurt Germany
• Omnify Software to Present at MedTech Cardio Conference 2012
• Real-time Synchronization of Work
• Season IV of DesignACE 2012 Announced
• SoftInWay to Participate in the 41st Turbomachinery Symposium at Houston, Texas, USA

Financial News

• Rand Worldwide to Report Fiscal 2012 Year End Results on Friday, September 28, 2012

Implementation Investments

• AVEVA Software Implemented in Major Petrobras Refinery Projects
• CDS Catalog and CAD Download Solution Selected by UC Components
• Hydrocontrol SpA of Italy Implements Aras PLM Solution Suite
• RuleDesigner and Cefla: a Successful Partnership for Continuous Innovation

Product News

• Accelrys Transforms Lab-to-Commercialization Process with New Integrated Accelrys Process Management and Compliance Suite
• ADT Pump Efficiency Initiative Can Facilitate Ecodesign Directive Compliance
• Altair Expands Composite Offering by Including MultiMech Suite in the HyperWorks Partner Alliance
• Autodesk and Jitterbit Partner to Increase Access to Vital Product Lifecycle Management Data
• Cooperation between ASCON, Bricsys and LEDAS Brings Variational Direct Modeling to KOMPAS-3D
• Delcam Adds More Milling Options for FeatureCAM
• GstarCAD MC PRO Officially Released
• GstarCAD to Release GstarCAD MC PRO
• IMAGINiT Technologies Updates Clarity and Launches IMAGINiT Clarity Workshare for Autodesk Revit
• Knovel Adds Fire Protection Engineering and Emergency Response Subject Area
• Knovel Releases New Titanium Alloy Database
• PreSys™ Finite Element Modeling (FE) for Alibre Design™ Announced
• Synopsys Announces DesignWare DDR4 Memory Interface IP
• The Vectorworks 2013 Product Line Represents an Evolution in Design Software
• ThinkDesign Product Suite Built with HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Publish
• Zuken Incorporates Würth Elektronik Design for Manufacturing Rules into CADSTAR

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:

What we learn from this poll is that more companies are planning on maintaining or increasing their PLM activities in 2012 than not; by far - nearly 80% versus 21%. This is very good news on two counts. First, it suggests that PLM strategies are in place at most companies, and that those companies continue to invest. Second, it indicates that the economy for companies using PLM continues to improve as they are continuing to commit resources to their PLM initiatives. CIMdata's recent release of the PLM market numbers (PLM supplier revenues) for 2011 supports this as well, showing growth in the key comprehensive PLM space in excess of 15%, well above CIMdata's own market growth expectations. For more information please visit http://www.cimdata.com/.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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