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PLM Industry Summary Christine Bennett, Editor Vol. 14 No 16 Friday 20 April 2012 Contents CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 2 Analytics, PLM Converge Amid Data Tsunami; A Ceaseless Search for Sustainable Advantage _________2 Autodesk’s One Team Conference 2012 _____________________________________________________7 CIMdata Reports That Global NC Market Grew 14.4% in 2011 ___________________________________9 Optimizing Product Cost by Leveraging Infor10 PLM Process (Optiva) ___________________________ 11 Acquisitions ______________________________________________________________________ 15 3D Systems Acquires Paramount Industries __________________________________________________ 15 Company News ____________________________________________________________________ 15 Autodesk Expands 2012 Platinum Club to Recognize Channel Partners Globally ____________________ 15 AVEVA releases business paper on Sustainable Energy Management _____________________________ 18 Beijing Aokai Fuhui Technology Co., Ltd Becomes Altair’s PBS Works Primary Distributor in China ___ 18 Bridging The Gap Between Woodworking Industry And High School Students _____________________ 19 Concurrent Analysis Corporation Announces Certification with Autodesk Inventor 2013 ______________ 21 Delcam Appoints Solid Applications Ltd as the UK’s Exclusive Reseller of Delcam for SolidWorks _____ 22 Fujitsu and MasterControl Announce Strategic Partnership______________________________________ 23 Nemetschek Vectorworks and MAXON Computer seek entries for 2012 Rendering Competition _______ 25 Objet Signs a Distribution Agreement with CIM Co., Strengthening Foothold in the Mexican 3D Printing Market _______________________________________________________________________________ 26 SGI and Altair lead efforts for Power Efficient Exascale Computing ______________________________ 28 Siemens PLM Software and Oakland University Develop New Course to Prepare Students for STEM Jobs29 The vdR Group Announces Partnership with Alcove9, Developers of Advanced Search Technologies ____ 30 Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 31 Cimatron to Showcase Innovative NC Solutions in Korea _______________________________________ 31 Cimatron Powering Mold, Die & 5-Axis Production in Japan ____________________________________ 32 Emal sponsors ‘Mechatronics Symposium’ __________________________________________________ 33 Efficient process automation and optimized offline programming with CENIT ______________________ 34 Maxion Wheels to Present at Aras ACE International Conference May 1-3 _________________________ 35 Omnify Software and CADD Edge Launch Product Lifecycle Management Seminar Series ____________ 36 PROLIM Global Corporation to Sponsor Aras ACE International Conference _______________________ 37 Record Attendance at GibbsCAM 2012 Reseller Conference ____________________________________ 38 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 39 CENIT Posts On-Year Sales Growth of 15.7% and EBIT growth of 57.9% _________________________ 39 Cimatron Receives Court Approval for Cash Distributions to Shareholders _________________________ 42 EMC's First-Quarter 2012 Earnings Results Available on EMC.com ______________________________ 42 IBM Reports 2012 First-Quarter Results ____________________________________________________ 42 Infosys Announces Results for the Quarter and Year Ended March 31, 2012 _______________________ 46 SofTech Announces Q3 Fiscal Year 2012 Operating Results ____________________________________ 51 Lawson Products, Inc. to Report Q1 2012 Financial Results _____________________________________ 52 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 52 AVEVA partners with Teesside University for Engineering Training Courses _______________________ 52 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor (MCO) Chooses TactonWorks for Customization of Large Scale Compressors and Turbines _______________________________________________________________ 53 Newbrands Chooses Centric Software PLM System ___________________________________________ 54 Copyright © 2011 by CIMdata, Inc. 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CIMdata, Inc. 3909 Research Park Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Tel: +1 (734) 668–9922 Fax: +1 (734) 668–1957 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.CIMdata.com CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Pöyry Selects AVEVA PDMS as Preferred 3D Engineering Design Tool __________________________ 55 Renesas Adopts Synopsys' Proteus LRC for Lithography Verification _____________________________ 56 Semperit AG Selected MSC Software's Marc to Optimize the Development of Elastomeric Products _____ 57 Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 58 aPriori Expands Enterprise Capabilities with Latest Release of its Product Cost Management Platform ___ 58 AVEVA Laser Modeller Reduces 3D Modelling Time by up to 50% ______________________________ 60 Dassault Systèmes Launches Industry’s Best Multi-version Compatibility with New V5 Release 16 _____ 61 Design Presentation Introduces Virtual CAD Expert Program for Outsourced Drafting and CAD Design _ 63 FISHER/UNITECH to Provide SolidWorks Plastics ___________________________________________ 64 GstarCAD Offers Convenience for Reusing PDF-based CAD Drawings ___________________________ 65 Hagerman and Company Announces Autodesk 2013 Software Release Events ______________________ 66 Infor and Oak Barrel Software Enhance Supply Chain Collaboration and Speed Product Development for Process Manufacturers __________________________________________________________________ 67 Latest Release of ZW3D CAD/CAM Includes Lightworks Artisan ________________________________ 68 Lectra Announces the Launch of its Versalis® Furniture Range __________________________________ 69 Mentor Graphics Adds MIPI Protocol Verification IP to the Questa Verification IP Library ____________ 70 New AVEVA Electrical offers Marine market up to 30% man-hour savings ________________________ 71 PLM Flex Introduces Advanced Search with Flex Approve 1.4 __________________________________ 71 Siemens' New Active Workspace: Tool Helps Find Info from Many Applications ____________________ 72 Share-A-Space 7.3 Released ______________________________________________________________ 76 Mentor Graphics New Questa Platform Functionality Boosts Productivity across the Verification Spectrum ____________________________________________________________________________________ 78 New Release of Bentley Descartes Extends Bentley’s Comprehensive Point-cloud Processing and Management Capabilities ________________________________________________________________ 80 SGI and Altair Lead Efforts for Power-Efficient Exascale Computing _____________________________ 82 SmartMouse and a Different Ribbon Added to the Next Version of ZWCAD _______________________ 83 Mentor Graphics Moves BridgePoint UML Editor to Open Source Domain _________________________ 84 Tekla BIMsight 1.5 BIM Tool is Now More Global and Easy to Use ______________________________ 86 ZW3D CAD/CAM Integrates Lightworks Artisan for 3D Rendering ______________________________ 87 CIMdata News Analytics, PLM Converge Amid Data Tsunami; A Ceaseless Search for Sustainable Advantage 18 April 2012 The enormous amounts of digital data that businesses create, and the increasing rates of data’s accumulation, present a growing challenge as well as an opportunity to be seized. The opportunity is powerful new capabilities emerging in business analytics—smarter user interfaces and more powerful search engines that reach more broadly and deeply. These advances have big implications for those who use product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling technologies to build sustainable competitive advantages, especially in any type of manufacturing enterprise. Engineers in manufacturing companies already spend half or more of their Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary time searching for and validating information in massive computer databases. For several reasons, including the tsunami of digital data atop the proliferation of new products, file duplication, and new file formats, the challenge will get worse before it gets better. The same is true, in the short term, for “connecting the dots” to develop insights for decision making amid fierce global competition. Insights, of course, are the building blocks of good decisions. The ability of an enterprise to consistently make good decisions is the foundation of every sustainable competitive advantage and may even be the only one that matters. Business analytics is the technology, science, and art of extracting usable information from networks of computers and the databases they manage. Also important in analytics is a core concept from product engineering and design, the single source of truth. At any stage in a new product’s development cycle, the single source of truth also applies to analytics. Bringing users unerringly to the single source of truth is the goal of product data management (PDM) and all other similar computerized systems for managing information. But those systems generally focus on day-to-day engineering processes at the business-unit level. That is not the case with PLM. PLM embraces and enables a myriad of processes and information sources scattered throughout the enterprise and a product’s life. This alone is enough to justify bringing business analytics into PLM strategies and environments. Insightful