March 1, 2004

2PLM John Stark Associates

Volume 6 Number 15

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* Welcome * Welcome to this issue of 2PLM, an e-zine distributed every two weeks on a free subscription basis. * PDM and PLM * The last two issues of 2PLM led to feedback from some readers. Steve Shoaf of IBM informed us that "IBM, in conjunction with Dave Burdick (originally with Gartner Group, and now with Collaborative Visions), coined the term PDM II in 1998. PDM II meant Product Development Management and included Virtual Product Development Management (VPDM) along with traditional PDM. VPDM addressed capture and management of critical design information early in the design cycle (before release) that could impact manufacturing as well as service and support. PDM referred to the traditional PDM activity of managing released design data. IBM marketed PDM II until 2000 when it was first to begin using the term PLM to describe the combination of CAD, PDM, middleware, hardware and integration to other enterprise systems as a business solution." By the way, all previous issues of 2PLM and its predecessor are available from this page. The events that Steve refers to are mentioned in the September 28, 1998 and July 3, 2000 issues. Don Frank, President of D. N. Frank Associates, wrote that "My perception of PLM is: managing the configuration of products from the first weenie of a RFQ or RFI until all field support activities are no longer needed; and capturing all the activities and data that support that lifecycle. Unfortunately, it seems that both IT and the engineering community seem to demand ownership of these tools, rather than participating in an enterprise-wide application of these tools and then extending them, wherever practicable, into the supply chain. By the way, ERP is a horrible misnomer foisted on us by analysts and abetted by software houses who needed something to sell beyond MRPII. APICS, in the 10th edition of its Dictionary also has an entry ERM, Enterprise Resources Management, which is more on target." That seems reasonable. Don didn't seem to like the following pair of sentences in the article in the February 16, 2004 issue - "Product Lifecycle Management is a business activity. PDM is an IS application." He wrote "PDM is the process by which data is managed. IT may provide the tools, but it is the business folk who are doing the work of entering, routing, retrieving and archiving the data. This is kinda like saying that ERP is an IT function." So, perhaps we should expand the text to make it clearer, first for PLM: Product Lifecycle Management isn't currently an IS application. CAD is an IS application. Companies buy licences for CAD systems, and their product developers use them to build CAD models of parts and products. Companies make statements such as "100% of our new product was designed in CAD". PDM is an IS application. Companies can buy licences for PDM systems, and use these systems to manage their product data. Companies can make statements such as "100% of our new product data is stored in our PDM system". Currently there aren't any applications that currently manage all of a company's products all the way across their lifecycles, although there are many IS applications that play some role in managing these products for parts of their lifecycles. Examples include CAD, requirements management, PDM, life cycle analysis, managing the portfolio of new product development projects, etc. Product Lifecycle Management isn't a business process. Its scope is too wide for it to be, currently, a process. By implication, a process is something that is clearly defined, under control, and measurable. Currently most companies don't have the lifecycles of their products under control. For example, according to the report of the GGI 2000 Product Development Metrics Survey carried out in 2000 by Goldense Group, Inc., only 19% of companies have an active product obsolescence or product retirement activity. In 81% of companies, old products just fade away over time as fewer and fewer orders are placed for them. Letting "old products just fade away" can not be considered as the best-practice business process for managing the end of life of a product. Product Lifecycle Management is a business activity. Most business managers give a high priority to managing their products. And now for PDM: PDM is an IS application. Companies buy licences for PDM systems, and use these systems to manage their product data. PDM isn't usually seen as a business process in the way that Engineering Change Management or New Product Development are seen as business processes. The various tasks associated with the management of product data (such as entering, routing, retrieving and archiving the data) are buried in business processes such as NPD and ECM (which is one reason why a PDM system is so difficult to implement). PDM isn't a business activity - most business managers give a low priority to managing product data (which is another reason why a PDM system is so difficult to implement). The reason for trying to define these words is to help people understand the subject of PLM. When consulting with companies we often find that people use words in a way that others don't understand. Sometimes the meaning they give to a word or phrase is just unclear, sometimes it's different from the commonly understood meaning, sometimes it conflicts with a colleague's meaning, sometimes it has another meaning in the same context. We often hear "PLM Approach" and "PLM Initiative" being used with different meanings. An approach is the way you deal with something. With a PLM Approach, companies manage their products throughout their lifecycles in an integrated, joined-up way. By implication there is a "pre-PLM Approach" in which companies don't manage their products in this way. The 81% of companies that let old products "just fade away over time as fewer and fewer orders are placed for them" have a pre-PLM approach. An initiative is a new approach to a subject. As described above, a PLM Approach is an initiative. However, a PLM Initiative is usually understood to be the project, or activities, started by a company to implement a PLM approach. It's difficult for engineering and manufacturing companies to take a PLM approach. We offer various consultancy services to them, including a one-day PLM Workshop, an on-site PLM Feasibility Study, and a telephone/e-mail support service. To receive more information about the PLM Workshop, click here. For more information about the PLM Feasibility Study click here. For more information about the PLM telephone/e-mail support service click here.

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Universal Viewing and Mark Up from Spicer Corporation * PLMIG News : The PLM Top Ten * The PLM Interest Group (PLMIG) will run a one-day event, "PLM Top Ten", in different locations in the coming months. The objective of these events is to identify the Top Ten PLM issues and to discuss how the PLMIG can best address them. (Note that the PLMIG's mission includes carrying out collaborative activities to help its members achieve their PLM goals.) The format for these events will allow for: presentations of potential PLM Top Ten issues feedback from those present proposals for Top Ten priority collation and distribution of results Before the events, members will be contacted to help establish an initial overview of the issues that are likely to arise. If you are interested in participating in one of these events, please contact Roger Tempest. Reference Section Follow the link for books in the Product Development Library Benchmarking . Books by Ralph Grabowski . Product Data Management . TQM EDM/PDM/PLM World Follow the links for : Vendors in the EDM/PDM/PLM World. Latest additions/modifications : Invention Machine Corporation, Pragmax Software Corporation. EDM/PDM/PLM service providers. Latest additions/modifications : Tata Consultancy Services. CAD case studies, CAD user stories DW Product Development, Inc. : Moldflow Adviser PocketSpec Technologies Inc. : ColorQA Color Comparison Device British Telecommunications (BT) : GTX Bose Corporation : Ansoft Corporation Others General Interest Innovation Management Engineering Change Management Managing PDM in a changing environment Principles of Good Product Development 2PLM Media Sheet Advertisers of CAD, CAM, CAE, EDM, PCM, PDM, PIM, PLM, CPC, CPC/PLM and related systems and solutions. Read the 2PLM Media Sheet. Find out how to reach more than 30,000 customers.

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* Corporate * Autodesk, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire certain assets of MechSoft, Inc. Details Click the banner to visit Federation, or click here for more information MSC.Software Corp. announced the acquisition of the assets of SOFY Technologies Corporation. Details Open Text Corporation announced that a total of 19,135,455 shares of IXOS Software AG have been tendered under the tender offer to its wholly-owned subsidiary, 2016091 Ontario Inc. Details SGI announced that it has agreed to sell 18,181,818 shares of its common stock to institutional investors for $2.75 per share in cash in a private placement transaction. Details think3, Inc. announced it has secured $11 million in new capital investment from DCM-Doll Capital Management. Details Verity Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the intellectual property, certain customer agreements and other strategic assets of NativeMinds Inc. Details * Financial * Agile Software Corporation announced results for the third quarter of fiscal 2004, which ended January 31, 2004. Total revenues for the quarter were $26.2 million, compared to $17.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2003. Details Autodesk, Inc. announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2004. For the fourth quarter, Autodesk reported net revenues of $295 million, a 51 percent increase over $196 million reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003. Details Avatech Solutions, Inc. reported total revenues of $7.8 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2004, ended December 31, 2003, which represents a 38% increase over the same quarter last year. Details MSC.Software Corp. announced preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2003. Fourth quarter highlights include revenues of $69.3 million; up 12% sequentially from Q3. Details VISTAGY, Inc. announced that gross revenues grew 45 percent in 2003 over the previous year. Details * People : a new career opportunity * GAP INC. announced a new career opportunity for a Senior Director PLM available in their San Francisco, CA headquarters. To learn more about Gap Inc. and this exciting opportunity, click here for Details. Download AutoVue from Cimmetry Systems * Implementation * ACS Software announced that RTSC is using AutoEDMS. Details Aras Corporation announced that CNT has selected the Aras Innovator Suite to achieve effective enterprise change management. Details CoCreate Software announced that Alcatel Space has implemented 1500 seats of its Product Data Management (PDM) system. Details Documentum announced that BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), is deploying Documentum 5. Details Documentum announced that ScottishPower has deployed the Documentum ECM platform to create, manage and archive technical manuals and drawings related to its UK power stations. Details Formation Systems, Inc. announced that Barber Foods Inc. has selected Optiva, Formation Systems' flagship process PLM solution, to enhance their product development process while ensuring regulatory compliance. Details IBM and Dassault Systemes announced that Dian Kreatif Sdn Bhd has achieved significant competitive advantage from their PLM Solutions. Details IBM and Dassault Systems announced that Sunten Electric Co. Ltd has chosen their Product Lifecycle Management Solutions (PLM). Details Invention Machine Corp. announced that MIT will be deploying Invention Machine's Goldfire Innovator software to its students of innovation. Details Lattice3D announced that NASA has chosen to use Lattice3D and its XVL-based applications for its Digital Shuttle Project. Details LMS International announced that PSA Peugeot Citreon has selected LMS Virtual.Lab to support their full-vehicle NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) engineering. Details MSC.Software Corp. announced a multi-phase, enterprise consulting services engagement with Chery Automobile Company Ltd. Details Product Sight announced that by successfully deploying Product Sight's FindView 4.0 technology across the US enterprise within 3 days, Millennium Industries was immediately able to start finding and sharing the latest up-to-date product data from multiple engineering and manufacturing systems and locations. Details Realization Technologies announced that the U.S. Navy would expand its Project Flow solution to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Details SAP AG announced that the Transportation Systems Group (TS) of Siemens AG is implementing mySAP Product Lifecycle Management (mySAP PLM) to streamline business processes and accelerate product development. Details Seal Systems : The Digital Paper Factory Silicon Graphics announced that the computing department of Skoda Auto has selected SGI supercomputing and storage technologies to solve the massive CAE computation challenges associated with modern car development and design. Details SolidWorks Corporation announced that Pennsylvania State University has purchased 2,000 licenses of SolidWorks Education Edition software to teach 3D mechanical design and analysis at 18 campuses throughout the Penn State System. Details think3, Inc. announced a relationship concerning Global Shape Modeling (GSM) technology with Ingolstadt, Germany-based automaker Audi AG. Details UGS PLM Solutions announced the successful implementation of its flagship Teamcenter product lifecycle management (PLM) solution on the Define and Control Airplane Configuration/Manufacturing Resource Management (DCAC/MRM) project in Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Details VISTAGY, Inc. announced additional sales of $1.95 million of FiberSIM software and services to Northrop Grumman Corporation. Details * Developments * Autodesk announced the introduction of AutoCAD 2005 software and the AutoCAD 2005 family of products. Details Autodesk, Inc. announced a new release of Autodesk Vault. Details Autodesk, Inc. introduced Autodesk DWF Composer, a product that establishes a digital process for collaborating on design projects. Details COSMOS announced that its COSMOSDesignSTAR software product can now analyze designs created in Solid Edge Version 15 and Autodesk Inventor Version 8. Details Cyco Software announced it is shipping the Cyco AutoManager BOM Module, an add-on to Cyco AutoManager Meridian. Details Documentum, BEA Systems and MobileAware announced an integrated product set for mobile content delivery. Details Endeca announced the immediate availability of Endeca InFront 4.1. Details Gibbs and Associates announced that the latest version of GibbsCAM 2004, v7.0.8, introduces enhancements to GibbsCAM's SolidWorks interoperability capability. Details Hummingbird Ltd. announced Hummingbird Enterprise 2004, the next release of its enterprise content management (ECM) solution. Details Hummingbird Ltd. announced DOCS Open 4, the latest version of its document management solution. Details IDEAL announced new releases of two old favorites...ScanOS and ScanDEX Pro. Details ImpactXoft announced the release of the IX SPeeD V5 Suite. Details INCAT announced a comprehensive supply-chain integration solution for the PLM market. Details QUMAS announced the release of e-DocCompliance 2004. Details SEAL Systems announced it has again extended the document output management solution for mySAP PLM. Details SensAble Technologies, Inc. announced the immediate availability of the GHOST SDK v4.0 - Linux Update Feb-04. Details SolidWorks Corporation released COSMOSWorks Designer. Details Synchronicity announced the launch of the Digital Developer Suite, integrated with Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced it introduced eM-Library Expert, a Web-based vendor part library portal that provides a seamless method for automated transfer of component data required for assembly and test of electronics printed circuit assemblies. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced the release of eM-DFM Expert, a Design-For-Manufacturing (DFM) solution. Details UGS PLM Solutions announced its new Solid Edge Mold Tooling application for plastic mold suppliers servicing the consumer products and other plastics-dependent industries. Details UGS PLM Solutions announced the availability of new Teamcenter digital mockup and validation capabilities that take its Repeatable Digital Validation (RDV) solution to the next level. Details * Relationships * ALGOR, Inc. announced that its InCAD products for Solid Edge were named by UGS PLM Solutions as Solid Edge Version 15 Certified Select applications. Details AVEVA announced that Autodesk and AVEVA have formed a Strategic Alliance. Details Cimage NovaSoft, Inc. announced that it has joined the Primavera Partner Program as a Software Partner. Details Endeca and Coremetrics announced that the companies have formed a strategic partnership to provide integrated search and site analytics to both existing and future customers. Details Eurostep and UGS PLM Solutions announced they signed a Nordic partnership agreement. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced that it has entered into a worldwide distribution agreement with SPEA to market the Tecnomatix eMPower for Electronics solution, eM-Test Expert, to its global customer base. Details * Other * Federation announced the results of its participation at the MatrixOne Global Customer Conference. Details Intergraph announced its Process, Power and Offshore division continues for the eleventh consecutive year to lead the global Overall Plant Creation market. Details Invention Machine Corp. announced the expansion of its North American and European operations. Details i2 Technologies Inc. and Georgia Southern University announced a donation of software from i2 Technologies Inc. and Chainalytics to the Logistics and Intermodal Transportation program in the College of Business Administration. Details Knowledge Campus and the Management Roundtable announced the International Innovation and Collaboration Summit, to be held on 10th and 11th May 2004 in Cambridge, MA (US) and Newcastle Gateshead (UK). Details MatrixOne, Inc. announced that MatrixOne customer Procter and Gamble has been awarded a 2004 CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Award for manufacturing. Details Omnify Software announced it is helping many start-up companies get their products to market faster with its product lifecycle management solution. Details PTC announced an enhancement of the resources it provides educators worldwide to prepare young people to use technology productively throughout their lives and careers. Details PTC announced it is expanding its presence in the industrial equipment industry with significant recent sales and implementations to companies concentrated in Heavy Equipment, Industrial Machinery, Automation and Control Equipment, and Power Generation and Distribution Equipment sectors and their respective supply chains. Details Realization Technologies announced that its software has created a successful new class of software called Project Flow for project-based organizations. Details Sopheon announced that the United States Patent Office has granted a patent covering the architecture and methodology at the center of principal software applications offered by the company. Details Sopheon announced it is organising a seminar in London on April 21. Title: Aligning Your Product Portfolio with Your Innovation Strategy. Details Synergis Technologies, Inc. announced that it has established three distinct divisions : Design and Engineering Solutions Division, Synergis Software Division, and the Educational Solutions Division. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. and Assembleon announced an agreement to offer a replacement to the CIMbridge software tool with eM-Assembly Expert, from Tecnomatix Unicam. Details UGS PLM Solutions demonstrated the effectiveness and flexibility of future Intel Xeon processors with 64-bit extension technology to the PLM industry by manipulating several highly complex digital models while simultaneously interoperating with 32-bit applications. Details upFront.eZine Publishing, Ltd. announced "What's New? AutoCAD 2005", an electronic book for users wondering about upgrading and competitors worrying about AutoCAD 2005. Details VX Corporation announced the release of free utilities designed to assist STEP translator developers. Details

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