PLM Industry Summary Christine Bennett, Editor Vol. 13 No.9 Friday 4 March 2011 Contents Acquisitions _______________________________________________________________________ 3 Bentley Acquires SACS, Leading Software for Offshore Structure Analysis _________________________3 CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 4 CIMdata Inc. Announces Next European PLM Certificate Program ________________________________4 “PLM & System Overlaps” by CIMdata’s President Peter Bilello _________________________________5 Selerant Continues to Accelerate (Commentary) _______________________________________________7 Company News ____________________________________________________________________ 10 Altium Sponsors ‘Part-Time Scientists’ on their Way to the Moon ________________________________10 Autodesk Platinum Club Recognizes Outstanding Partners for Fiscal Year 2011 _____________________11 Autodesk Unveils New Book That Explores the Changing World of Design at TED2011 ______________13 Boeing and Eurostep Release Joint Report - A New Approach to PLCS Web Services ________________14 Design Engineers Worldwide Compete in 2011 'Create the Future' Contest _________________________14 FIRST ® and PTC® Expand Collaboration to Bring FIRST ® Tech Challenge to India, China and Eastern Europe _______________________________________________________________________________15 Helping Prepare Rwanda’s Students for the Future with SolidWorks ______________________________16 PLM Elite: New Partner-Network for PDM/PLM-Solutions _____________________________________16 RAND Worldwide Earns John Deere "Partner-Level Supplier" Award ____________________________17 Synopsys and Xilinx Collaborate on the Industry's First Methodology Manual for FPGA-Based Prototyping of SoC Design _________________________________________________________________________17 3Dconnexion Achieves One Million 3D Mouse Milestone ______________________________________19 Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 19 Aras Announces Aras Community Event 2011 China and Korea _________________________________19 Attend Mercury PLM Services Information Exchange on April 14, 2011 ___________________________19 AVEVA Showcases Laser Products at SPAR 2011 ____________________________________________20 Call for Papers: COMSOL Conference 2011 Boston ___________________________________________21 CAM Logic Offers Siemens Solid Edge Fundamentals Training _________________________________23 CENIT to Present at PLM 2011 Conference in Orlando on SAP PLM 7 Implementation Strategies ______23 CimatronE New Version on Show at INTEC _________________________________________________24 Daimler, Renault and Fraunhofer LBF Deliver Keynotes at the 2011 LMS European Vehicle Conference _25 Delcam Italia to Show Complete CAM Range at Eurostampi ____________________________________26 Geometric to Showcase the New Features of CAMWorks® 2011 at AeroDef _______________________26 Hankook Delcam to be Biggest CAM Supplier at 20th Anniversary Intermold ______________________27 Omnify Software Showcases Empower PLM at 2011 Medical Devices Summit _____________________28 SolidProfessor Releases Hands-On Case Studies ______________________________________________29 UK Trade Minister, Lord Green, Visits Delcam_______________________________________________29 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 30 aPriori Completes the Most Successful Quarter in Company History ______________________________30 Bentley Holds First Annual Corporate Update Conference Call to Announce Performance Highlights for 2010 and Important New Initiatives ________________________________________________________31 Oracle Sets the Date for its Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 Earnings Announcement _________________32 Pilgrim Software Receives Strategic Investment from Riverside Partners, a Leading Healthcare and Technology Equity Firm _________________________________________________________________33 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 33 Copyright © 2011 by CIMdata, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 Aston Martin Racing Selects PTC® Creo™ Elements/Pro™ And Windchill® To Design And Manage Development Of Next Generation Vehicles __________________________________________________33 Canadian Department of National Defence Selects Anark Software for Defence Network ______________34 Catalog Data Solutions Catalog and CAD Download Solution Implemented by Magnet-Schultz America _35 China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise ___________36 Delcam’s PartMaker Cuts Programming and Set-Up Times _____________________________________36 Dynisco Chooses DFMA Software from Boothroyd Dewhurst ___________________________________37 IBM Helps Dassault Aviation Preserve Critical 3D Design Data for the Falcon Aircraft _______________38 Mentor Graphics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Extend RET and OPC Collaboration to 28nm ___________39 New Shanghai HuaLi Foundry Chooses the Mentor Graphics Calibre RET Solution for 65/45nm Development and Production _____________________________________________________________40 NSF-Funded Antenna Project at Gonzaga University Relies on ANSYS ___________________________40 PTC Signs Cooperation Agreement for The Development of Mold Design and Manufacturing Teaching Resources Library With High Vocational Education of MOE ____________________________________41 Siemens PLM Software Surpasses 3.5 Million Active End-User Seats of Software Based on Parasolid ___42 Students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University Will Use AxSTREAM to Learn and Practice Turbomachinery Design _________________________________________________________________43 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes to Deploy Dassault Systèmes V6 Solution __________________________44 Wood Group Uses SolidWorks to Pack Durability and Performance into Slender, Submersible Pumps ___45 World Famous Holmenkollen Ski Jump Modeled With Tekla BIM Software ________________________46 Zollner Elektronik AG Standardizes on Siemens PLM Software’s Tecnomatix Digital Manufacturing Solution ______________________________________________________________________________47 Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 49 Altium Announces Altium Designer 10, AltiumLive, Altium Vaults ______________________________49 AspenTech Releases New Local Language Versions of Products in aspenONE® Manufacturing & Supply Chain Suite ___________________________________________________________________________51 Bentley Advances Sustainable Licensing Through Portfolio Balancing ____________________________51 Bentley Launches New iWare Apps Site Providing Fast, Easy Access to No-Cost Software for Interoperability ________________________________________________________________________52 Cadence Opens and Extends Verification IP Catalog for Use across Silicon, SoC and System Development ____________________________________________________________________________________53 Centric Software Introduces Quality Module _________________________________________________54 ELYSIUM to Release ASFALIS K2 for Smooth Circulation of 3D Data ___________________________55 Extensible CAD Technologies Announces Release of InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER ____________56 FCC Approval of Finite Element Method for Biomedical Transmitters Puts ANSYS Software in the Spotlight _____________________________________________________________________________57 Introducing STAR-CCM+ v6.02: Engineering Success at your Fingertips __________________________58 IronCAD, LLC Releases Product Update #1 for the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2011 _________60 Magma's Titan and FineSim Validated for LFoundry Interoperable Process Design Kits (iPDKs), Accelerating Turnaround Time for Analog/Mixed-Signal SoCs __________________________________61 Mentor Graphics Transforms SoC Integration and Functional Verification with Next Generation Questa Platform _____________________________________________________________________________62 OpenText Brings Windows and UNIX Enterprise Business Applications to Mac OS X with Release of Exceed onDemand 8 ____________________________________________________________________63 Raytion Expands its Family of Enterprise Search Connectors ____________________________________64 SURFCAM V5.2 Beta Released ___________________________________________________________65 Synopsys Announces Availability of HAPS-600 High Capacity FPGA-Based Prototyping Solution______65 Synopsys DesignWare IP First to Support Final Release of PCI Express 3.0 Specification _____________66 Synopsys Introduces Proteus LRC for Lithography Verification __________________________________67 Tech Soft 3D Launches HOOPS 3D Exchange v4.0 ___________________________________________68 Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Acquisitions Bentley Acquires SACS, Leading Software for Offshore Structure Analysis 2 March 2011 Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced, during its first Annual Corporate Update conference call, that it has acquired the SACS business from Engineering Dynamics, Inc. SACS is an integrated finite element structural analysis suite of programs that provides for the design, fabrication, installation, operations, and maintenance of offshore structures,