CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 14 June 2013

14 June 2013

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• 3D Systems to Acquire Phenix Systems

Company News

• Advanced Solutions Sponsors the University of Louisville SAE Baja Team
• Bentley Systems Announces Winners of the 2013 Scott Lofgren Student Design Awards, Names Bentley Educator of the Year

• Care for the Next Generation: ZW3D Supports and Creates Opportunity for Education
• ESI Opens New Offices on the Ter@tec Campus, a Site Dedicated to Simulation and High Performance Computing
• GE Intelligent Platforms Joins the PTC PartnerAdvantage Program to Optimize Manufacturing Performance by Connecting MES and PLM
• Gibbs and Associates Elevates Status in PTC PartnerAdvantage Program
• Omnify Software Announces Winner of 2013 Customer Innovation Award
• Tata Technologies CIO Selected to Present HR Technology Implementation Case Study at SAP HR2013 in Amsterdam
• TCS and Canada's ICTC to Roll out Innovative Program for High School Students
• U.S. CAD to Offer Autodesk’s BIM 360 Field and Glue

Events News

• 3D Systems Brings Latest 3D Content-to-Print Solutions to RAPID
• Aras Announces Aras Community Event ACE 2013 Korea
• ArchiCAD 17 Debuts at AIA 2013 National Conference
• AVEVA Exhibits at MIOGE 2013 in Moscow
• AVEVA Sponsors the Eleventh ARC Industry Forum India 2013
• AVEVA Presents New Solutions at Brazil Offshore
• CimatronE 11 for Mold Design Enjoys Global Exposure
• Delcam chooses New Orleans for 2013 ArtCAM User Group

Financial News

• Gerber Scientific Reports 60 Percent Earnings Growth Driven by Product Innovation and Geographic Expansion

Implementation Investments

• Cary Francis Group Implements CPSIA Compliance, PLM and Supply Chain Management Solutions from NGC Software
• "CimatronE Implementation: Best Decision We've Ever Made"
• Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Selected by Pininfarina to Design New Concept Car
• Delcam Electrode Saves Time and Money for Cavalier Tools
• HOK Selects CTC as Autodesk Partner
• Kistler Group Companies Rely on Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks for All Product Design
• Luggage Brand Delsey Adopts TXT’s PLM Solution to Improve Global Planning and Offer
• Multi-CAD and Multi-Site: SaarGummi Goes Online with CIM DATABASE

Product News

• 3D CAD Models of Bulgin Components Now Available Through TraceParts
• Altair Broadens Relationship with Siemens PLM Software to Enhance Data Exchange for its CAE Software Users
• CADENAS PARTsolutions Extends Relationship with PTC® and Delivers World’s Largest Online Catalog of PTC® Creo® CAD Models
• Cadsoft Corporation Releases Envisioneer 9
• Dassault Systèmes Announces SolidWorks Education Edition 2013-2014
• Dassault Systemes Launches "Target Zero Defect," a New Industry Solution Experience for Developing Vehicles Right the First Time
• DTE Launches CATIA Skills Assessment Service
• Electric Cloud Extends ElectricDeploy Integration for PTC Integrity™
• EON Reality Now Supports Revit via EON Raptor
• Five-GPU BOXX Workstation earns CATIA Certification
• GENOA, MCQ-Composites to Join Altair Partner Alliance Composites Lineup
• GibbsCAM 2013 Released
• iBASEt Introduces Integration Package for PTC Creo and PTC Windchill with Solumina’s Product Lifecycle Execution System
• IMAGINiT Technologies Launches Civil 3D Health Check
• Luxion and GrabCAD Partnership Introduces Integration Between Platforms
• Luxion Unveils KeyShot 4.1 at PTC Live Global 2013
• Nemetschek Scia Releases Scia Engineer 2013 - Reporting Engineering Competence
• NetIDEAS Now Hosts PTC® Windchill® Quality Solutions
• New PTC Retail PLM Solution Enables Customers to Achieve Quicker Time to Value
• New Release of Moldex3D eDesignSYNC Unveils Enhanced CAD-CAE Platform for PTC Creo Users
• PTC Creo to be Available in a Virtualized Environment
• Rasterex Releases RxView & RxHighlight R14.1
• Transoft Solutions Announces Worldwide Release of AutoTURN Rail 3D
• Vectorworks 2013 Software Achieves Certification for IFC Coordination View 2.0
• Visure Solutions Delivers Requirements Management for Complex and Regulated Systems, Certified by HP

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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