CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 22 February 2013

22 February 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Formerly known as CIMdata's Vendor Forums, our PLM Market & Industry Forums are a series of international events that offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity for PLM solution providers to come together and examine the industry's performance, gauge its progress, and set the vision for its future.

Where & When?
Event Dates and Location:
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Sheraton - Ann Arbor

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - Frankfurt, GERMANY
Steigenberger Hotel - Bad Homburg

Friday, April 19, 2013 - Beijing, CHINA
Venue to be announced.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - Tokyo, JAPAN
Myojin Kaikan
Sotokanda 2-16-2, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

Event Website: http://www.cimdata.com/news_events/forums/2013/market_industry_forums.html

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata Publishes Simulation & Analysis Market Overview Report
• Product Innovation Congress 2013

Company News

• Altair Appoints Nationally-Recognized Financial Executive Howard Morof as CFO
• Applied Software Earns Autodesk Fabrication Specialization Designation
• BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces New Distribution Partnership with Xitadel Group for India
• CADIC of Japan Joins the Aras Partner Program
• IMAGINiT Technologies Earns Autodesk Product Support Specialisation in Singapore
• Lantek Puts the Emphasis on Solutions for Sheet Metal and Fabrication
• Prism Engineering Awarded SolidWorks Highest Customer Satisfaction Award in North America
• SigmaTEK Systems Celebrating its 20th Year
  
• Symmetry Solutions Receives Top Honors from Solidworks
• Tata Technologies Awarded by Dassault Systèmes for 2012
• TCS Expands UK Operations in Liverpool
• VERICUT® Software Reaches 25 Year Milestone
• Vero Software Appoints Peter Marton General Manager of its Surfcam, Inc. Subsidiary

Events News

• Autodesk to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
• Bentley Announces the Bentley LEARNing Conference, the First of a Global Network of Be Together Learning Events
• Cadence to Showcase Latest Verification Tools and Methodologies at DVCon 2013
  
• Delcam CRISPIN to Show Footwear Design Software in Istanbul
• Delcam’s Latest PartMaker CAM on Show at Houstex
• Granta Design: New Materials Information Application for PLM to be shown at PI Congress
• Intergraph Announces Call for Presentations for Hexagon Global Network (HxGN Live) Due March 11th
• Latest release of WorkNC Dental advanced CAM software revealed at LMT Lab Days in Chicago
• SAP and Partners at CeBIT 2013: Innovation, Interaction, Information

Financial News

• A Successful 2012 for Missler Software
• Atos: 2012 Annual Results
• Cimatron Reports Record Q4 and Full Year 2012 Results Across all Operating Parameters
• GRAITEC Group Reports +20.3% Organic Growth for 2012 and +125% Profitability
• Nemetschek Defies Negative Market Trends
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2013

Implementation Investments

• Advanced Technology Valve (ATV) Adopts aPriori Product Cost Management
• BMW Group to Install CD-adapco Software for Engine Development
• Deutsche Bundesbank Selects OpenText EIM Solutions
• EILEEN FISHER Selects DeSL's Product Lifecycle Management Solution
• Lectra technology supports Jack Victor’s commitment to its Canadian operations
• SIFOM gets Maximum Productivity from its CNC Machines with WorkNC Automatic CAD-CAM
• Tesla Motors Boosts Production Capabilities with Mentor Graphics Electrical Design Software
• Turkish Ready to Wear Leader Aydınlı Group Selects Visual PLM.net

• VISI Electrode Triggers Alliance Revolution
• Zodiac Pool Systems Dives in with ProductCenter PLM

Product News

• ARM and STMicroelectronics Join with MathWorks to Enable Code Generation, Debug and Modelling for STM32 Microcontrollers
• BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the new v14.0.1 Release of the ANSA & µETA Pre- & Post-Processing Suite
• Delcam’s Latest FeatureCAM Includes New Stock Model Options
• InfiniteSkills Release "Learning to Use AutoCAD Sheet Sets Training"
• ITI TranscenData Releases CADfix Version 9.0
• Modular CAD-CAM Software for Designers
• New App Staying Alive is a 3D Experience that Helps Save Lives
• New AVEVA Catalogue Manager increases project profitability
• PROSTEP Launches V6 xPDM Windchill Adapter
• PSA Adds Interactive Graphic Display Module to Product Lifecycle Management Software CMPRO
• Release of Mastercam Swiss Expert 2012 Leverages Spatial 3D Components
  

• SIMPOE Announces OEM Agreement with PTC Inc. for New Plastics Extension for PTC® Creo®
• SPRING Technologies Extends its Portfolio with NCSIMUL DNC
• TracePartsOnline.net Traffic Now IVW-Certified
  

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 most recent poll focuses on the use of PLM enabling solutions to support service in the field. The results for the last opinion poll are:

It is clear from this poll that the respondents do service their products in the field. Many of them (over 73%) manage some or all of their product service information in their PLM-enabling solutions. This is a good finding, as it implies that these companies are leveraging the intellectual assets developed during product development for downstream applications like field service. One big issue facing field service is the configuration of what is being serviced. What is in place in the field is often very different from the product originally delivered to the customer. These changes can accumulate from actions by both the customer and the company that originally provided the product. What is important is that these changes are tracked so that the service team can have the right information, right tools and right parts to take the necessary service actions. Nearly 38% of the companies responding manage all as-maintained product information, and over 62% manage some as-maintained configurations, which illustrates that there is still significant room for improvement.

While companies maintain service information in PLM, it is not the system used to define service plan in all companies, with just under 23% saying they define them in PLM. The poll did not ask, but many ERP systems have such capabilities, or they could be relying on the world’s most common PLM-enabling solution, Microsoft Excel.

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