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- Welcome Page 2 - Update Page 3 - News Page 4 - Brief lines | Welcome to this issue of 2PLM, an e-zine distributed every two weeks on a free subscription basis. * Update on ICP-35K * In the May 9 issue we wrote about the proposal for the "Implementing Collaborative Product Development and Product Lifecycle Management for 35,000 European Manufacturing Companies" project. We received feedback from people with a wide range of views about the project - and about Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). We've included some of their remarks below - and added a few comments. Confused I'm not sure what PLM is. Is it CAD? No. Is PLM the same as PDM? No. To find out more about PLM you can read Beth Stackpole's article There's a New App in Town in the May 15, 2003 issue of CIO Magazine. Hopeful Our IS VP wants to buy a system to solve PLM. What system do you recommend? Before you think about buying a system you need to have a very clear idea of what you're trying to do. You wouldn't ask this question if you understood what you're trying to do. Not very forthcoming We've implemented PLM. I don't see why you want to do this project. It's much easier to implement PLM for some products (e.g. safety matches) than for others. Traditionalist You can't implement PLM for 35,000 companies. Implementation of PLM is company-specific. You can only implement PLM for one company at a time. Why? Understanding The current mindset is that each user must have a different PLM implementation. I guess this project questions that. That's good. It makes sense to implement Collaborative Product Development collaboratively. Practical You'll need to do a thorough analysis of all those companies. You should involve PLM vendors in the project. Supportive Implementing PLM is tough. Any help you can provide would be appreciated by many people, certainly by me. Helpful Don't forget that implementing PLM isn't just about integrating different databases but also getting people in different businesses to work better together. Implementation of PLM isn't about engineering computer systems. It's a corporate management issue. One of the main problems we have in managing products across their lifecycles is that the Marketing VP blames Production for any customer problems with products, the Production VP blames Engineering for wrong specifications, and the Engineering VP blames Marketing for wrong requirements. I don't know how, but maybe you can address this type of problem in your project. Don't forget that PLM is primarily an activity and a set of processes, not an application. Profound This looks an appropriate subject for an international project. No manufacturing company could do it alone, no vendor could do it alone. Frustrated We couldn't get PLM to work in our company. People don't understand it, the systems don't fit, the data doesn't fit, the managers don't know what they want, the processes aren't defined. It would be great if you could just find out what those 35,000 companies really need. Innovator The WWW changed the way people worked. Maybe you can develop a PLM WWW? Pedantic Are there exactly 35,000 companies involved? Are these 35,000 companies all using the same systems? No, more. No. |
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Avatech Solutions and TDCi Ltd announced the two companies have reached an agreement for TDCi to purchase Avatech's PrescientQA software technology. TDCi has served as Avatech's European master distributor for the products since Avatech's merger with PlanetCAD. Details Firepond, Inc. announced a business realignment which will strengthen the company and enhance the respective business units' ability to focus on customer satisfaction and continued product development. Details Silicon Graphics, Inc. announced that it is implementing an action plan to lower costs and shift focus to specific growth areas. Details * Financial * AVEVA Group plc announced its audited results for the year ended 31 March 2003. Turnover increased 13% to 36.0m pounds. Details Access Commerce announced first quarter 2003 results. Details Arena Solutions, Inc. announced that its first fiscal quarter of 2003, ending March 31, 2003, was the most successful in the company's history. Details Avatech Solutions, Inc. reported total revenue of $6.7 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2003 Details think3, Inc. announced record revenue growth and sales momentum for the first quarter of 2003, reporting 68% growth compared to the same period in 2002. Details * People * AVEVA, Inc., the Americas business region of AVEVA Group plc, announced the appointment of Steve Lorenz to the position of business development manager for the region. Details Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Patrick McManus has joined the company's Board of Directors. Details  Polyplan Technologies Inc. announced the nomination of Robert G. Beauchemin as President and Chief Executive Officer, bringing to the company nearly 30 years of leadership expertise and experience in enterprise application software sales and executive management. Details Proficiency announced the opening of its first European office, and the addition of Roland Billeter as Managing Director. Details * Implementation * Ariba, Inc. announced that Yokohama Rubber has commenced implementation of the AribaBuyer procurement solution. Details Delmia Corp. announced that the China Motor Corporation has selected DELMIA to further improve a pioneering digital factory project. Details Exostar announced BAE SYSTEMS recently enabled access to Exostar's SourcePass eRFQ solution for all its buyers, as well as other BAE SYSTEMS participants in the sourcing process including engineers, contract managers and others representing several thousand potential end users. Details MatrixOne, Inc. announced that LG Siltron has selected MatrixOne solutions for its PLM environment. Details Moldflow Corporation announced that a major European supplier of plastic parts to the global automotive industry has followed a successful pilot implementation with an order for a significant plant-wide deployment of Moldflow Manufacturing Solutions products at its custom molding plant. Details MSC.Software Corp. announced that Medina, Minnesota-based Polaris Industries has standardized on MSC.ADAMS software tools for the design and development of recreational vehicles. Details Realization Technologies announced that CIE Automotive has selected its Concerto software to manage projects at the Egana unit. Details SolidWorks announced that packaging giant Riverwood International will standardize on SolidWorks 3D mechanical design software to improve the design of the machines that corporations around the world will use to package their products. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced that ISB Industrias Sola Basic SA de CV, Mexico's largest supplier of lighting ballasts and voltage regulators, has purchased multiple licenses of eMPower for Electronics software from Tecnomatix Unicam, Inc. for use in its key manufacturing plants across Mexico. Details * Developments * EDS launched Unigraphics NX 2, the latest version of its next generation integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) software and a "significant" milestone in the company's NX strategy. Details Formation Systems, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, announced the availability of the Optiva Dashboards. Details Formtek, Inc. announced a new software application focused on compliance and supporting the Records Management initiative based on Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5015.2 and International Standards Organization (ISO) Standard 15489 specifications. Details Formtek, Inc. announced the release of Formtek Orion 5 Software Development Kit (SDK) and a key feature of the architecture stack called DocDomain. Details Formtek, Inc. announced the upcoming release of the Formtek Orion 5 Foundation. Key enhancements for this release include the new Formtek Orion 5 Foundation Java Server Page (JSP) Tag Library and the web interface template for the Orion 5 Access module based on JSP technology. Details Informative Graphics Corporation announced it will ship Flash, PDF and HTML publishing capabilities with its next release of Net-It Central. Details InnovMetric Software announced that Version 8 of its high-density point cloud inspection software PolyWorks/Inspector will offer two major technical advances that will increase the range of inspection capabilities of point cloud digitizers. Details LightWork Design announced that the Presenter3 plug-in for NavisWorks3 - recently released by NavisWorks Ltd. - is the latest addition to the growing list of LWA-Enabled rendering applications. Details LightWork Design announced the launch of a new product tailored to meet the needs of CAD application developers targeting industrial markets, including Mechanical CAD, Industrial Product Design, Automotive Styling, Configuration and Shipbuilding. Details Lumeo Software, Inc. launched new versions of the Lumeo Motion and Lumeo Control Interface products. Details Manugistics announced Manugistics 7.1. Details MatrixOne, Inc., announced Matrix10. Details Mentor Graphics Corporation announced a comprehensive FPGA design flow that expands traditional FPGA tools with new technologies to address emerging challenges of complex FPGA designs. Details PTC announced that release Windchill 7.0 will provide expanded support for commercial application servers supporting J2EE standards, including SunOne Application Server, IBM WebSphere and open source Apache/ Tomcat/ JBoss. Details Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity K2 Developer (K2D) release 5.0. Details * Relationships * Access Commerce announced that QAD Inc. has selected Access Commerce Cameleon Channel Selling to enhance the company's lead-to-order process. Details AliasWavefront announced that it has signed an agreement with Spatial Corp. to become a Spatial Component Application Architecture (CAA) V5 Adopter. Details Avatech Solutions, Inc. and Dassault Systemes announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement under which Avatech will expand its US marketing, sales and services with integrated SMARTEAM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions from Dassault Systemes. Details Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and MatrixOne, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to produce a suite of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. Details Cadence Design Systems, Inc., MatrixOne, Inc. and IBM announced they are teaming to deliver a comprehensive, integrated set of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for the global electronics industry. Details Cimmetry Systems, a global leader in Visualization and Collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, announced that AutoVue integrates seamlessly with Livelink CADManager, a new solution announced by Open Text this week to provide integrated collaboration and knowledge management to CAD applications. Details Dassault Systemes and The New Detroit Science Center announced a partnership. Details FileNet Corporation and Venetica announced a relationship under which FileNet will re-sell Venetica's Content Provider for the FileNet P8 Workplace. Details Mentor Graphics Corporation announced a technology alliance with STMicroelectronics. Details Open Text Corporation announced it will extend the capabilities of its content integration platform Livelink Doorways to FileNet and Hummingbird repositories. Details Open Text Corporation said it is partnering with Guardeonic Solutions AG to offer a full range of digital signature and electronic security solutions to tightly control who in an organization can approve important legal and regulatory documents in Livelink. Details RealityWave Inc. announced that TDCI has become the latest company to enhance its solutions with VizStream. Details SofTech, Inc., together with its Workgroup Technology Division, announced a renewed partnership with NorthRidge Software, LLC to develop specialized, Web-based applications built on SofTech's ProductCenter collaborative product data management (PDM) platform. Details Verity Inc. announced that the company has established alliances with four influential security access management software companies: IBM, Netegrity Inc., Oblix and RSA Security. Details * Other * Alibre Inc. announced the Refer-A-Friend program which offers cash or free maintenance to customers who refer Alibre Design to friends or business associates who then purchase the product. Details Autodesk, Inc. announced that Autodesk Inventor Series has become the best selling 3D design software product in the manufacturing industry. According to 2002 publicly-announced unit sales of 3D mechanical design software products, commercial customers purchased over 47,000 units of Autodesk Inventor Series. Details Covisint announced the formation of a technology development consortium that will build and implement a data messaging solution to improve communications between companies in the automotive industry and replace costly EDI solutions. Details Documentum announced that FT Business, part of the Financial Times Group, one of the world's leading publishers of global business news, information and services, has chosen the Documentum ECM platform to create, manage, deliver and archive Web content for the online version of the UK's leading investment magazine, Investors Chronicle. Details EDS announced CIMdata has confirmed EDS as the market revenue leader in the PLM industry's highest-growth segment for the second consecutive year. Details EDS announced a new study acknowledges EDS' NX Knowledge Fusion software as 'next generation' in its advanced ability to demonstrate quantifiable benefits to manufacturing companies. Knowledge Fusion is embedded knowledge-driven automation (KDA) technology in EDS' Unigraphics NX product development software. Details EDS announced that an Auburn University team using its Solid Edge computer-aided design (CAD) software won the first place trophy for engineering design at the Mini Baja East off-road racing event April 4-6 in Orlando, Florida. Details Gibbs and Associates announced that GibbsCAM has been certified for Autodesk Inventor 7 under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Applications Program. Details QUMAS announced its inclusion in the Lexmark Growth 50, a ranking of Europe's fastest-growing small to medium sized businesses. Details SGI announced that industry-leading mechanical computer-aided engineering (MCAE) software applications are immediately available on the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters, a high-performance Linux HPC environment capable of scaling to hundreds of processors with global shared memory. Details Spatial Corp. and Tech Soft America, founding members of the OpenHSF Initiative, announced that Dassault Systemes is supporting the Hoops Streaming File (.HSF) format in the latest release, V5 R11, of their PLM solutions which includes CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, and SMARTEAM. Details |
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