CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 1 March 2013

1 March 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata's PLM Market & Industry Forums
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 Brings The PLM Industry’s Premier Education & Training Program to Ann Arbor, Michigan
• CIMdata Publishes “SAP 3D Visual Enterprise:” Observe, Analyze, and Guide Business Optimization
• For Oracle, PLM is Not Just About Engineering…: A CIMdata Commentary
• Using PLM Beyond Design and Engineering: A CIMdata Commentary

Acquisitions

• 3D Systems Completes the Acquisition of Geomagic

Company News

• Agilent Technologies Helps Students Acquire Real-World EDA Skills with New Licensing Program
• Comnext of Japan Joins the Aras Partner Program
• Contest Challenges Engineers and Students Worldwide to Create the Future
• DataCAD Joins Lattice Technology’s Reseller Network
• EOS and Ruetschi Technology form Strategic Partnership for the Further Development of the European Medical Technology Market
• IMAGINiT Technologies Earns Autodesk Fabrication Specialization
  
• Lectra Rewards AMFI Students for Projects Created with 3D Technology
• Majenta Solutions Appointed Sole UK Reseller of AGS’ iLink Autodesk® Vault® Metadata and CAD/PDM/ERP Integration Software
• Michael Pettit Appointed Alphacam Sales Manager
• Scott Hanratty and Florin Iancu Join TURBOdesign Technology
• Simufact Engineering has Founded Subsidiary in India
  

Events News

• CENIT to Present at PLM2013 Conference in Las Vegas on SAP PLM 7 Implementation Strategies
• Delcam to Launch Dual-Device Inspection Software at Control
• OPEN MIND Technologies to Showcase Latest Developments at METALL 2013
• Orthotics Technology Forum Moves to USA for 2013
• PwC Announces Participation at SAPinsider Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2013 Conference
  

Financial News

• 3D Systems Reports 2012 Results
• Accelrys Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results
• ANSYS, Inc. Reports Final Results for 2012: Record Revenue and Earnings for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012
• Autodesk Reports Record Fourth Quarter Revenue
• FARO Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results
• HP Reports First Quarter 2013 Results
• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter Results

Implementation Investments

• CDS Catalog and CAD Download Solution Selected by Torque Transmission
• CimatronE Saves Cutter Costs for US Mold Maker
• Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Company Limited Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise
  
• Grass Valley Selects Product Lifecycle Management Solution from Omnify Software
• Mercury Engineering Selects Intergraph® CADWorx®
• Système U Selects Product Lifecycle Management System From Centric Software
• University of Houston Selects AVEVA Software

Product News

• Altair Continues to Extend Casting Solution Options, Adding Quantech ATZ to Partner Alliance
• Altair Expands Capabilities for Cluster Management with PBS Professional Connector for HP Insight CMU
• BricsCAD Adds Seamless Access to the Cloud-based Chapoo Collaboration Service
• CyberCity 3D Launches Exclusive 3D Building Library for Autodesk Users
• Delcam Upgrades PartMaker Modeling
• ESI Launches Its Customer Portal "myESI"
• Eurostep Announce Share-A-space 7.5
• Mech-Q CAD Engineering Software - Releases New Server Version
• Nuage Releases CaféBiz, The Company’s Solution for Social Business Collaboration with Integrated Document Routing
• Pinnacle Series Announces Personal Edition of Autodesk Training and Support
• Redsdk Bridge for Parasolid: A Ready to Use Connection between Parasolid and Redsdk
  
• Visure Solutions Streamlines Its Requirements Lifecycle Management
• vueCAD® – Professional CAD Viewer for the iPad – Version 4.5 is now Available in the Apple App Store
• Windchill Drawing Note Search Application Released by ETRAGE

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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