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PLM Industry Summary Jillian Hayes, Editor Vol. 14 No 44 Friday 2 November 2012 Contents CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 2 ‘Brave New World’ CIMdata’s 2012 PLM Road Map Conference Goes Strategic Before a Capacity Crowd By Jack Thornton, Principal MINDFEED Marcomm for CIMdata _________________________________2 CIMdata Announces Date and Location for the Next North American CIMdata PLM Certificate Program __6 CIMdata Publishes Research on ENOVIA V6 _________________________________________________7 PLM Road Map to Be Presented with PLM Innovation Americas 2013 _____________________________9 Company News ____________________________________________________________________ 10 Digital Drafting Systems, Inc. Earns Autodesk Consulting Specialization __________________________10 Micro Concepts Ltd First UK VAR Earns Autodesk ETO Specialisation ___________________________10 Missler Software and Okuma Collaborate Closely Together _____________________________________11 Sisgraph Launches Intergraph® Marine Excellence Center in Brazil ______________________________12 TCS to Set up Large Software Development Campus in Indore __________________________________13 Tech Soft 3D Global Provider of Autodesk Development Tools __________________________________14 Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 15 3D Systems Brings Latest 3D Content-To-Print Products And Services To EuroMold ________________15 Aras to Present on Integrated Requirements Management for Systems Engineering at 2012 Boeing and Northrop Grumman GPDIS Conference _____________________________________________________15 AVEVA Presents at the Modular and Off-site Construction Summit 2012 __________________________16 BIM Symposium at ArchitectureBoston Expo® Highlights Collaboration and Communication _________17 CADD Edge to Kick Off Annual SolidWorks User Conference with Talk of Flying Cars ______________18 Cimatron Invites Japanese Toolmakers to Gain a Competitive Edge _______________________________18 Delcam GmbH to Show Latest in CADCAM for Toolmakers at Euromold _________________________19 Delcam to Show Design, Machining and Inspection Developments at Autosport _____________________21 Gerber Technology and Virtek to Showcase Suite of Automation Solutions for Manufacturers using Industrial Fabrics and Composite Materials __________________________________________________22 SURFCAM 6 Presented at JIMTOF 2012 ___________________________________________________23 WorkNC & WorkXPlore 3D CADCAM Productivity Software at JIMTOF _________________________24 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 25 Accelrys Third Quarter Earnings Call Rescheduled to Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Due to Hurricane Sandy _______________________________________________________________________________25 ANSYS, Inc. Reports Record Third Quarter Results ___________________________________________26 Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Its Third Quarter Fiscal 2013 Financial Results Conference Call ____27 Cimatron's Third Quarter 2012 Results Release Scheduled for November 7th, 2012 Before US Markets Open ________________________________________________________________________________27 Geometric Revenues Rise 36.8% Y-o-Y to Rs. 2615.84 Mn _____________________________________28 Mahindra Satyam Reports Q2 Performance __________________________________________________29 Nemetschek Defies Negative Market Trends _________________________________________________30 OpenText Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results _______________________________31 PTC Announces Solid Q4 EPS Results, Initiates Q1 and FY’13 Targets ___________________________33 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 35 Groundbreaking Study of Complex Composite Materials with MSC Nastran and Marc ________________35 Intergraph® SmartMarine® 3D has been Selected by Keppel FELS Limited as the 3D Modeling Solution for its Next-generation Semisubmersible Drilling Rig __________________________________________36 Rapidly Growing Boat Dock Company Turns to Autodesk Software to Scale _______________________37 Copyright © 2012 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 Seaspan to use ShipConstructor for Canadian Federal Fleet Renewal ______________________________38 Tally Weijl Selects Centric Software’s PLM Solution __________________________________________39 Terrafugia Selects Product Lifecycle Management Solution From Omnify Software __________________40 Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 41 Altair Begins Beta Testing for HyperWorks 12.0, Invites Customers to Participate ___________________41 Delcam Adds New Website for PowerSHAPE CAD Software ___________________________________42 DMG Virtual Machine Interface for TopSolid’Cam ___________________________________________43 Geomagic Teams with Solutionix to Provide 3D Scanning Software for the Versatile New Rexcan CS Plus Scanner ______________________________________________________________________________44 Intergraph® CADWorx® DraftPro™ Now Compatible With AutoCAD® 2013 _____________________45 Luxion and DuPont Performance Coatings Launch KeyShot Material Download Site for DuPont Paints __45 Mentor Graphics Advances Development of High-Performance Multicore Linux-based Embedded Systems ____________________________________________________________________________________46 Open Spatial Announces the General Availability Release of Munsys Ai 10.5 _______________________48 ShipConstructor 2013 Released ___________________________________________________________48 solidThinking Revolutionizes Product Development with Inspire™ 9.0 ____________________________50 SpaceClaim and SIMPOE Announce Integration of SpaceClaim Engineer and Simpoe-Mold ___________51 Third Wave AdvantEdge 6.0 to be Released November 2012 ____________________________________52 Vero Software Release VISI 20 ___________________________________________________________53 ZW3D 2012 SP2 Released with a More Efficient and Intelligent Mold Design Module ________________54 ZWCAD+ Takes the User Interface to the Next Level with SmartMouse ___________________________55 CIMdata News ‘Brave New World’ CIMdata’s 2012 PLM Road Map Conference Goes Strategic Before a Capacity Crowd By Jack Thornton, Principal MINDFEED Marcomm for CIMdata 25 October 2012 The recently concluded CIMdata Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Road Map differed significantly from its predecessor conferences with a shift in focus. In presentations on implementations under way and strategic visions under development, PLM Road Map 2012 earned its theme—a Brave New World—and its agenda subtitle, “PLM as THE Strategic Imperative.” As always in a technology focused conference, there were presentations about progress in implementing PLM strategies. PLM Road Map newcomers included three presenters, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Schreiber Foods (dairy products), and Dow Chemical. Presentations focused on discrete manufacturing were by the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Tech, Caterpillar, Cummins, EADS, Mercury Marine, Parker Hannifin Aerospace, the U.S Army's Armament, Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Waltonen Engineering, and Whirlpool. As in past years, the automakers and their suppliers were well represented: Dana, Delphi, Ford, GM, GKN Driveline, Jaguar Land Rover, and TRW. All these firms spelled out the evolution of their PLM strategies, how they are making headway in Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary communications and collaboration, and their successes in wrestling with legacy systems, entrenched bureaucracies, convoluted workflows, and “silos” of expertise. The themes "Brave New World" and "Strategic Imperative" highlighted the conference’s expansion. This was intended to meet the strategic needs of new-product-development in two ways—more detail on PLM implementations and the introduction of a strategic management track. Nearly 300 attended PLM Road Map 2012, up from approximately 220 last year—a capacity crowd in the Plymouth, Mich., conference center CIMdata uses. At every conference there are eye-opening insights. Three of this year’s came from: Dow’s PLM Project Manager Mike Williams who spoke on “sandwiching” PLM as an important interface between enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution systems (MES). This is a key part of Dow’s transition of its commodity-based business toward high-value, low-volume specialty chemicals. Continuous-process manufacturers, such as Dow, offer hot business opportunities for PLM solution providers and fresh insights for implementers. Dow is pursuing ERP, PLM, and MES to form an integrated, end-to-end solution for managing products and production as part of Dow’s transformation. “PLM is rarely deployed in the chemical industry,” Williams observed. “It has been found difficult to straddle the diverse requirements of numerous and varied chemical production systems relative to PLM strategies and implementation plans.” “As a highly capital intensive business, Dow has a compelling need to implement an integrated ERP- PLM-MES solution. The drivers for Dow are high asset utilization (including overall equipment effectiveness or OEE) and rapid introductions of new