PLM Industry Summary Jillian Hayes, Editor Vol. 16 No. 45 Friday 7 November 2014 Contents CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 3 CIMdata’s Dr. Suna Polat to Host Workshop in Conjunction with CoDev 2015 ______________________3 Acquisitions _______________________________________________________________________ 4 Advanced Solutions Inc. Acquires North Carolina Based Greenleaf 3D _____________________________4 EPAM Acquires Great Fridays, Expands Product and Service Design Capabilities ____________________4 exocad® Acquires Sensable® Dental Assets to Provide CAD/CAM Solution for Partial Denture Frameworks ___________________________________________________________________________5 Nemetschek Successfully Concludes Acquisition of Bluebeam Software ____________________________6 Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 7 3D Systems Names Ted Hull Incoming Chief Financial Officer ___________________________________7 Atheer Selected to Join Dassault Systèmes Technology Partners Program ___________________________7 Bentley and Trimble Advance BIM through Construction Modeling _______________________________8 Bentley Announces Winners of 2014 Be Inspired Awards _______________________________________9 CADsoft Consulting Hosted Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Road Show _______________________________11 Delcam forms Quebec office for French-speaking Canada ______________________________________11 Espedia and Linx/AS Team Up to Transform R&D across Europe ________________________________12 FARO Appoints Joe Arezone Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa 13 Infosys to Hire Over 2,100 in US, Including 600 Graduates _____________________________________13 Kevin McAlea Named Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare at 3D Systems __14 Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM Advancement _________________________________________________________________________14 Mentor Graphics Signs Macnica Americas as a Distributor for EDA Software ______________________16 Mitsubishi Electric Europe and EPLAN: More Integration for Electrical Engineering and PLC Programming ____________________________________________________________________________________17 Mastercam Announces 9th Annual Innovator of the Future Winner _______________________________17 OpenText Named One of Canada's Top 100 Employers for the Fourth Consecutive Year ______________18 Prof. Bensow Awarded Pointwise Meshy Award for Best Mesh __________________________________19 Zweave to Expand Offering of PTC Windchill FlexPLM to Mid-Market Retail, Footwear and Apparel Companies ___________________________________________________________________________20 Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 20 Delcam Indonesia to Celebrate 15th Anniversary at Manufacturing Indonesia _______________________20 Design for the Freedom of 3D Printing _____________________________________________________22 ITI TranscenData Sponsors PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 __________________________________________22 NAFEMS World Congress 2015 – Abstract Deadline Approaching _______________________________23 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 24 ITI TranscenData Sponsors PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 __________________________________________24 Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Financial Results Conference Call ____________________________25 Cimatron's Third Quarter 2014 Results Release Scheduled for November 13th, 2014 Before US Markets Open ________________________________________________________________________________25 Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q3 2015 Financial Results November 20, 2014 _________26 PTC Announces Q4 and FY’14 Results; Provides Q1 and FY’15 Outlook, and Updated Long-Range Targets ____________________________________________________________________________________26 SPRING Technologies Successfully Raises €5.0M to Reinforce its NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS Offering and Strengthen its International Footprint _______________________________________________________27 Copyright © 2014 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 Stratasys Reports Record Third Quarter Financial Results ______________________________________28 Trimble Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results _________________________________________________29 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 30 Antigua Group, A Leading Performance Sportswear Designer, Selects NGC’s PLM and Supply Chain Management Solution ___________________________________________________________________30 Configit joins John Deere Supply Base _____________________________________________________30 Turkey’s largest EPC migrates to AVEVA Everything3D _______________________________________31 Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 32 3D Object and Model Importer Now Available on AECObjects.com ______________________________32 Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i Automates Extraction and Production of General Arrangement Plant Drawings from 3D Model, Saving Time and Money ___________________________32 Bentley Systems and Highways Agency Announce AssetWise Academy ___________________________33 Bentley Systems and Siemens PLM Software Advance Manufacturing Process Productivity through Reality Modeling of Industrial Facilities ___________________________________________________________34 Bentley Unveils the CONNECT Edition’s Common Environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery ___36 C3D Geometric Kernel Transforms Well-known CAD Systems, Helps Birth New Ones _______________38 COMSOL Multiphysics® 5.0 and the Application Builder Revolutionize the Simulation Industry _______39 Digi-Key and Mentor Graphics Unveil Innovative & Affordable Tools for the PCB Design Engineer ____41 Ideate, Inc. Announces New Updates for Ideate BIMLink_______________________________________42 IGC announces Brava! Enterprise 7.2.1 for IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 __________________________43 Infinite Skills' “Learning SolidWorks 2015” Teaches Fundamentals of CAD Program for Mechanical Engineers ____________________________________________________________________________43 Innovyze Releases InfoWorks ICM SE Version 5.5 to Power Next Generation of InfoWorks CS ________44 Luxion Releases KeyShot 5.1 _____________________________________________________________45 Mentor Graphics Announces Enhanced Flowmaster Tool for Advanced Thermo-Fluid Analysis Simulation ____________________________________________________________________________________47 NCAMP and Granta Design Partner to Enable Faster, more Effective Composite Qualification and Design 48 Nemetschek Vectorworks Releases Localized Versions of Vectorworks 2015 in Europe _______________49 Perception Software Announces AgileXPLORER Free Edition for Oracle Agile PLM ________________49 Syncs Integration of ERP to PLM _________________________________________________________50 Trimble Introduces MEPdesigner for SketchUp—a New Extension to the Popular 3D Modeling Platform SketchUp Pro _________________________________________________________________________51 Trimble Releases SketchUp 2015 for a Faster, More Intuitive and Flexible Information Modeling Process 52 ZW3D and KeyShot Partner to Bring Fast, Easy & Accurate 3D Visualization Experience _____________53 ZWSoft.com Launches Integrated CAD Software Application for to Facilitate Structural Designing _____54 Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary CIMdata News CIMdata’s Dr. Suna Polat to Host Workshop in Conjunction with CoDev 2015 4 November 2014 CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Dr. Suna Polat, Director, Collaborative Innovation & Social Product Development Consulting Practice, will be hosting a workshop in conjunction with CoDev 2015, which takes place February 9-11, 2015, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Polat will host the pre-conference deep-dive workshop: “Strategies, Tools and Technologies to Maximize Connectivity, Collaboration, and Innovation.” In this workshop, Dr. Polat will examine innovation as an inherently social process, requiring collaboration at every stage of bringing a new idea to market. With advances in social, mobile, and cloud technologies there are now better ways to increase connectivity and collaboration in support of an organization's business and innovation goals. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn proven strategies, tools, and technologies to help: generate better ideas address problems faster accelerate time-to-market with new innovations leverage collective intelligence for better decisions Dr. Polat will review commercial solutions as well as practices being used by industry leaders to achieve these results, and she will answer questions that are posed by workshop attendees. “It is a given that to stay competitive, companies need to increase innovation, improve development efficiency and reduce costs,” says Polat. “Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing, Co-Creation, which all involve ‘collaboration’ as a key element, have now become mainstream. Yet, there are still challenges in achieving the full potential of these approaches. In this workshop,