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- Welcome Page 2 - Update Page 3 - News Page 4 - Brief lines | Welcome to this issue of 2PDM, an e-zine distributed every two weeks on a free subscription basis. * Planning for improved Product Development performance * At this time of the year many managers will be looking to see if their product development organizations have met the targets set for them at the beginning of 2000. Others will be defining targets and improvement activities for 2001. The following principles can help them by providing a framework for defining objectives for good Engineering and product development:
The questionnaire that we use in the rating has 15 sections each addressing a major component of product development activity. Each section has 10-20 questions, for a total of 250 questions. We ask these questions on the organization's site. We analyze, cross-check and synthesize the answers, and compare them with the results in our Product Development Performance database. This leads to both a performance rating and a list of improvement suggestions. To give you a feel for the kind of questions that need to be asked, we've adapted some of the questions from the Innovation part of the questionnaire and listed them below. In the questionnaire the questions lead to answers rated on a scale of 1 to 10. Here they just have a 'Yes' or 'No' answer. If your corporation has taken the right steps for innovation you should be able to answer 'Yes' to all the questions.
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To the CEO. Last Q revenues were not as good as expected. This quarter we must increase our sales. Time to restructure? Or do we roll out the Marketing and Sales offensive discussed last year? And shouldn't we have an ad in 2PDM ezine - aren't we PDM- and web-centric now? |
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 Altris Software announced that the Company has acquired Spescom KMS, the document management operations of Spescom Ltd UK. Centric Software, Inc. announced that it has secured a private equity placement in the amount of $30 million. The Series D round was led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and co-investor ABS Ventures. Dassault Systemes announced it has completed the acquisition of Spatial Technology Inc.'s 3D software component business division. The component business will be known as Spatial Corporation and will operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Dassault Systemes. RAND Worldwide announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of A.I. Systems, Inc. an Autodesk Systems Center with fiscal 1999 revenues of US$2.6 million. RAND Worldwide announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Chicago-based CADD/CAM Tools, Inc. Fiscal 1999 revenues for CCT were approximately US$7.0 million. Spatial Inc. announced that it has changed its name to PlanetCAD Inc. and has completed the sale of its Component Software Division to Dassault Systemes. The company, now known as PlanetCAD, will focus on its proprietary Web-based services and enterprise solutions. Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced a restructuring program of its US-based operations including both current UGS and the recently-acquired Engineering Animation, Inc. organizations. The restructuring impacts over 100 UGS employees from multiple U.S. locations. As a result, it is anticipated that there will be a fourth quarter pre-tax charge to earnings of approximately $1.5 million. In 2001 as a result of the restructuring effort, UGS expects to reduce current operating expenses by about $9 million. * Financial results * Agile Software Corporation announced financial results for the fiscal year 2001 second quarter ended October 31, 2000. Total revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2001 increased to $20.2 million compared to total revenues of $6.9 million for the same period in fiscal 2000, representing an increase of 192%. Altris Software reported results of operations for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2000. Total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2000 were $1.9 million compared to $1.6 million for the same period of 1999. Autodesk, Inc. announced financial results for its third quarter ended October 31, 2000. Autodesk reported net revenues of $221.8 million, a growth of 10% compared to net revenues of $202.1 million reported for the same quarter a year ago. Cadcentre Group plc announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2000. Turnover for the first half year rose 18% to £12.9m (1999 : £10.9m). Hewlett-Packard Company reported 17% revenue growth in its fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2000. Net revenue was $13.3 billion, compared with $11.4 billion in last year's fourth quarter. Hummingbird Ltd. reported its consolidated results for the fourth quarter and year ended September 30, 2000. Sales for the quarter ended September 30, 2000 were $65.5 million, representing an increase of 12% compared to the quarter ended September 30, 1999. RAND Worldwide announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2000. Revenue for the third quarter ended September 30, 2000 was $104.4 million, an increase of 2.1% from $102.3 million for the previous quarter. Spatial Inc. announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2000. Spatial reported third quarter revenue of $3,188,000 compared with $3,775,000 in the comparable quarter a year ago. Follow the links for books in the Product Development Library
* People * Ceimis Enterprises Inc. announced that Harry Goodnight, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales Consulting, with i2 Technologies, has joined the company's board of directors. Digital Paper Corporation announced that Seth J. Lucash has been appointed vice president of product marketing and management. Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Walden C. Rhines, formerly president and CEO, has been named Chairman of the Board and CEO of Mentor Graphics. Additionally, Gregory K. Hinckley, formerly COO and CFO has been named President and COO and elected to the Board. SDRC announced that Deborah Gentry Davis has been promoted to corporate vice president, Human Resources. Verity, Inc. announced the appointment of Charu Rudrakshi as vice president of engineering, Verity Sunnyvale. * Implementation * Agile Software Corporation announced that Intuitive Surgical has used Agile Anywhere to demonstrate Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory compliance for its robotic surgical system. Autodesk, Inc. announced that Towa Korea Co., Ltd. purchased 21 licenses of Autodesk Inventor software. The technology will be used to design Towa's semiconductor processing equipment. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that LinCom Wireless, Inc. has selected the Cadence wireless design solution to accelerate development of their chipsets and system designs based on the next-generation standard, IEEE 802.11a. Cimmetry Systems Inc. announced that Cimmetry's AutoVue for JAVA has been selected to provide CapacityWeb members with online visualization functionality. CapacityWeb is a leading supply-chain and collaboration infrastructure provider for OEMs and contract manufacturers. Dassault Systemes announced that ALSTOM Transport has selected ENOVIA products for the development and the management of the company's railway systems product line. The contract includes the purchase of 700 licenses of ENOVIAVPM. Dassault Systemes announced that Alusuisse Road & Rail AG has selected CATIA Version 5 as its CAD/CAM/CAE system.  Dassault Systemes announced that Benetton Formula 1 will design the Benetton team car exclusively using CATIA Solutions, and will use ENOVIA Solutions for its product lifecycle management. The agreement includes 60 seats of CATIA. Dassault Systemes announced that Eisenmann Grenoble, a subsidiary of Eisenmann Group, a supplier of turnkey surface finishing systems, has selected CATIA V5 for the design, analysis and manufacture of the company's products. Eisenmann Grenoble will implement CATIA Team PDM to manage CATIA product data. Dassault Systemes announced that Oreca Motorsport will use CATIA Solutions for its new LeMans prototype cars. Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Philips Semiconductors has selected Mentor Graphics XRAY technology to enable software development and debug on all Embedded RISC and DSP processor cores offered as part of its Sea of IP library of Intellectual Property. PTC announced that it has received an order for its exchange software and implementation services from SKF. The Windchill Netmarkets solution allows SKF to offer customers a unique environment for collaboratively building high-value product solutions as well as allowing simple execution of SKF's many support services. RAND Worldwide, announced that it has sold software licenses worth $1.2 million for Rand's proprietary Q-Checker technology to software distributor KGT Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kubota Corporation. SDRC announced a relationship with BFGoodrich Aerospace Aerostructures Group valued at approximately $7.0 million over multiple years. The relationship includes an initial order of approximately $4.0 million for Metaphase software and maintenance and Accelis, SDRC's e-Business Integration (e-BI) solution. BFGoodrich is deploying Metaphase to 4,200 users in one year, at five sites worldwide. Accelis is serving as the interface between Metaphase and SAP. SDRC announced that Fluke Corporation has selected Metaphase and Accelis. Fluke will transition 650 Sherpa seats to Metaphase. Accelis will be deployed as the database integration solution between Metaphase and Fluke Corporation's Oracle applications. SolidWorks Corporation announced that Nordson Corporation selected SolidWorks software as its standard solid modeling solution. Nordson has purchased 124 seats of SolidWorks to date. SolidWorks will be implemented to design and manufacture automated dispensing systems. SynQuest, Inc. announced that ABB Vetco Gray has selected SynQuest One2One Solutions as part of its e-business and supply chain infrastructure. The manufacturer of offshore drilling and production equipment will use the SynQuest e-business software to improve on-time product delivery, order visibility and reduce raw material, work-in-process and finished goods inventory. Workgroup Technology Corporation (WTC) announced that ABB Flexible Automation has chosen WTC's ProductCenter collaborative product data management solution after an extensive evaluation of the product. The company selected WTC ProductCenter for use at its Wisconsin-based automation center where it will be used to consolidate and optimize SolidWorks and AutoCAD product design information and processes. * Developments * CADCAM-E.COM, a leading Internet CAD/CAM data conversion service, announced the introduction of a new service that enables translation of Pro/ENGINEER data to SolidWorks. The service makes it possible to download the conversion software at no charge and then pay only $95 per conversion. Cadcentre Group plc announced the release of a new version of its ASPECT P&ID intelligent engineering schematics system, based on the Microsoft Visio 2000 graphics engine - to supplement existing versions based on AutoCAD and MicroStation. Ceimis Enterprises Inc. announced an integrated solution that links extensive web viewing capabilities with MAGIK! Product Lifecycle Management software. Dassault Systemes announced the launch of Version 5 Release 5 (V5R5) of its CATIA CAD/CAM/CAE software. CATIA V5R5 was available worldwide on the Windows and UNIX platforms on November 17, 2000. Dassault Systemes announced the introduction of ENOVIA Portal Solutions Version 5 Release 5 (V5R5), a set of e-business solutions for PLM. ECS GmbH announced MetaUI, a web-centric generic user interface for Metaphase which replaces tedious browser navigation and allows configuration according to particular user profiles without the need for programming each user task. i2 Technologies, Inc. announced significant extensions to its core offering for CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment) - an industry standard model for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers to collaborate on strategic plans, sales and order forecasting and replenishment. MatrixOne, Inc. announced that it will extend its eMatrix engine by providing the Application Exchange Framework to enable the development of plug-and-play applications by customers and third-party developers.  Click here to get your FREE 'Step-on-a-Poster' introduction to the CAD/PDM/ERP collaborative standards like ISO 10303, ISO 15926 and many more. MatrixOne, Inc. announced Software Central, a solution enabling effective collaboration among global software development teams. The eMatrix 9 Application Exchange Framework is required to run Software Central. MatrixOne, Inc. announced Configurator Central, an application that enables a company's product managers and designers to create rules for allowable combinations of features that define producible orders for products that offer options. Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that an optimized release of its VRTXsa Real-Time Operating System is now available as part of a complete System-on-Chip development environment for ARM Powered applications. b2bScene, a division of Open Text Corporation, announced the launch of the Instant Community Series, a collection of hosted services for quick creation of online business communities. Pragmax announced the latest release of its 'e-engineering' software. The new Variant Manager module addresses a key issue for hard-pressed electronics designers - managing the growing number of product variants. SDRC announced the integration between SDRC's Metaphase solution and Rational Software's Rational ClearCase software configuration management solution. Varimetric Solutions, Inc. announced the release of AutoSolids 2.0 for AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD 2000i. AutoSolids is an Object ARX solid modeling application that runs within AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, and Mechanical Desktop. VIDAR Systems Corporation announced an addition to their TruScan product family - the Latitude - addressing documents as wide as 54 inches (1372mm). * Relationships * Cimmetry Systems Inc. announced that their AutoVue for JAVA product is now fully integrated with MatrixOne's eMatrix solution. Cyco Software announced that its AutoManager products in Australia will be represented by Hunter Control, based in Newcastle, NSW. Green Pasture Software announced that it has partnered with Lotus Development Corporation and will port its Web-based application for managing CAD drawings to the Lotus Domino.Doc document management environment. Informative Graphics Corp. announced a new agreement with CGN eServices to offer its Brava! and Net-It Central applications as part of CGN eServices' recommended applications for the e-business market. Ingenuus Corporation and FileNET announced they have reached an agreement for Ingenuus to integrate its collaborative Manufacturing Change Manger application into the FileNET Panagon suite of eBusiness products. i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that IBM has been selected as a preferred Web hosting provider for i2 TradeMatrix Solutions. i2 TradeMatrix allows businesses to create both private and public marketplaces. PTC announced its extended partnership with Composite Design Technologies, Inc. (CDT). The purpose of the augmented partnership is to accelerate the integration of the composite design tools of CDT's FiberSIM software with PTC's Pro/ENGINEER software. Selectica, Inc. provider of Internet Selling Systems for e-Businesses, and Arthur Andersen announced an alliance to help businesses implement e-Business applications built on Selectica's technology. SolidWorks Corporation announced its strategic alliance with TechniCon Corporation. Through this alliance, SolidWorks' 3D PartStream.NET Service will be integrated with TechniCon's Custom Commerce technology, enabling TechniCon to create fully customized, 3D-enabled online catalogs for manufacturing companies. Verity, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company announced an alliance to complement HP's Enterprise Commerce (EC) and Enterprise Business Portal (EBP) solutions. The alliance calls for the tight integration of the Verity K2 Toolkit with HP's enterprise solutions, and includes a co-marketing relationship and a reseller agreement, providing HP the capability for reselling Verity's entire product line to its worldwide customer base. ZoomON announced that Intentia Sweden AB has signed a global partnership with ZoomON AB. By integrating the ZoomON solution in Intentia's e-collaborations application MOVEX Intentia now also provides visual collaboration over the Internet. * Other * Altris Software Inc. announced that Autodesk Partners and Motiva Software customers are being offered an attractive migration plan to Altris CAD-Connect, which tightly integrates with AutoCAD 14 and 2000. Ariba, Inc. announced its inclusion in the Standard 100, the premier stock index tracking the Internet Economy. The Standard 100 is comprised of the most influential companies driving the Internet Economy. Open Text Corporation announced that it has joined the Application Service Provider (ASP) Industry Consortium as an executive member. PTC announced a major extension to its business-to-business (B2B) strategy and named Jim Heppelmann to lead the overall solutions strategy for Windchill. The strategy includes a family of solutions that utilize the Web-based Windchill architecture. Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced that its Solid Edge MCAD software package will be used at Purdue University's School of Technology as one of the tools in the manufacturing graphics degree curriculum. Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced it has formally certified the use of the AMD Athlon processor with 266MHz frontside bus and the AMD-760 chipset with support for DDR (Double Data Rate) memory, for use with Solid Edge Version 8, as well as the upcoming release of Solid Edge Version 9. |
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