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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. We would like to draw your attention to a survey being conducted by Goldense Group, Inc. (GGI), Needham, MA, a respected consultancy and research firm whose work we here at 2PLM have been aware of for many years now. 2PLM subscribers and friends may download a copy of the survey from our website http://www.johnstark.com/ggi.pdf. Below is an article provided to us by Brad Goldense, President of GGI, explaining why Resource & Capacity Management is the focus of the survey. GGI will write a second article for 2PLM summarizing the results of the survey for one of our November or December 2002 issues. * Resource & Capacity Management in Product Development * During the last two decades of the 20th Century, the practices of most business functions in industrial and high technology companies matured and became automated. Today, just about every business function uses automated systems within their function that are also integrated with the systems used by their cross-functional counterparts. ERP is the term that generally describes these systems. Two functions however escaped the ERP movement, Engineering and Marketing. These two functions are quite different from most all other business functions in that are more "probabalistic" in their nature and not as "deterministic". The level of automation that exists today in these functions may be best described as "islands" of automation. Most of these islands of automation are not yet integrated within the Engineering and Marketing functions, nor integrated with their cross-functional counterparts. This too shall pass, sooner than later. Leaving the matter of automation of the Marketing function for another article, let us focus on Engineering. Breaking Engineering into two "halves", technical systems and management systems, this article examines the state of automation using the Mechanical Engineering discipline as an example. Will surface modeling, 3D design, CAD, CAM, finite/thermal, vibration, tolerance stack-up, kinematic, DFM/A, and numerous other specialty systems remain? Or, will these specialty technical systems be consolidated and integrated back into an overall "suite" of integrated technical systems? On the management systems side of the ledger, will existing process automation, project management, product data management, product costing, development costing, time recording, and metrics systems be consolidated and integrated back into an overall "suite" of integrated management systems? GGI thinks yes on both counts. The process of automation in industry typically occurs in "islands". In the long run these islands typically get tied together. First the islands are "independent", then they become "interfaced", then they become "integrated". We have watched this happen first in the financial and accounting functions, then in the order processing/distribution and common carrier functions, and then in the manufacturing and production functions. Then these three larger islands of automation became integrated into the ERP systems of today. Why do the islands get tied together? Stand-alone islands of automation enable "effectiveness". The right result or outcome is achieved with greater certainty more frequently than manual processes alone. Why is this not enough? Because it is not "efficient". An equally probable positive result or outcome may be achieved with less input or cost. The evolution of engineering and product development technical and management tools is going the same route as we have seen in other disciplines. For both technical and management systems, the first wave of automation is just about complete. One of the exceptions is the subject of "resource planning & capacity management" for engineering and product development. At the present time, there are few suppliers that offer packaged solutions for this island of automation. Within industrial and high tech organizations, it is still one of the most poorly managed areas. It is well known that companies still routinely overload their engineering and product development resources to the tune of a 150% to 275% overload. It is not a surprise that product development schedules take twice as long as originally forecast when the resources are routinely scheduled to 2x or more than the actual capacity. Every other year, on the even numbered years, GGI conducts a survey of hot topics in engineering and product development. The 2002 GGI Product Development Survey focuses on "Resource & Capacity Management". The 2002 Survey explores five Resource & Capacity Management issues:
Download a PDF copy of the survey here from http://www.johnstark.com/ggi.pdf. The survey is available in several formats, including an interactive MS Office 2000, 97, 6.0/95 or .pdf. All survey format choices are available at http://www.goldensegroupinc.com/biannual.shtml for more information. Contact Bradford L. Goldense, CMfgE, CPIM, CCP at blg@goldensegroupinc.com. Visit http://www.goldensegroupinc.com for more information. Copyright 2002. Goldense Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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Formtek, Inc. announced that it has been purchased from the Lockheed Martin Corporation by a group of investors lead by DFI International and SwannStreet Ventures. Details * Financial * Access Commerce SA reported sales for Q2 2002 of 3.34 MEuro, compared to 3.31 MEuro for Q1 2002. Details MatrixOne, Inc. announced results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 29, 2002. For the fourth quarter ended June 29, 2002, total revenues were $32.0 million, compared to $42.5 million in the same period last year. Details  Moldflow Corporation announced the results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2002. Fourth quarter revenues of $8.3 million were down 14% from the corresponding quarter of fiscal 2001. Details Open Text Corporation announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ending June 30, 2002. Total revenue for the quarter was $41.2 million, an increase of 12% from the previous quarter. Details * People * Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of Guillaume d'Eyssautier as Vice President and General Manager for its European operations. Details Commerce One announced the appointment of Narry Singh as senior vice president of marketing. Details Dassault Systemes announced that Ned Smith has joined ENOVIA Corp. as Vice President, Sales and Business Development for Asia Pacific. Details Documentum announced the appointment of Hiroyasu Sugimoto as Managing Director for its Japan operations - Nihon Documentum K.K. Details Entrada Software, Inc. announced the appointment of Alan Wagstaffe to the position of Senior Vice President of Sales, Services and Support. Details Hummingbird Ltd. announced the appointment of Tony Heywood as Senior Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), reporting to Fred Sorkin, Chairman and CEO. Details Powerway announced the appointment of Theodore C. Wozniak as chief executive officer (CEO) of Powerway, Inc. Details * Implementation * Ariba Inc. announced that Airbus has implemented Ariba Enterprise Sourcing to support and enhance the company's sourcing and purchasing processes. Details Cadence Design Systems Inc., announced that Toumaz Technology Limited has standardized its design flow on Cadence tools and methodology services. Details Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Texas Instruments Incorporated has deployed Palladium design verification systems through the QuickCycles EXtended (EX) Access program. Details COSMOS announced that Texas A&M University at Galveston will incorporate 25 seats of COSMOS/DesignSTAR into its Marine Engineering Technology Engineering Department. Details Dassault Systemes and IBM announced the signing of a contract with Scania. The project will impact more than 800 users of Dassault Systemes' CATIA V5, ENOVIAVPM and DELMIA applications at Scania's product development and production centers in six countries. Details Documentum announced that Alcon has expanded its use of the Documentum ECM platform to include Documentum's pharmaceutical industry-specific product, GxPharma, for regulatory compliance, as well as Documentum Media Services for managing rich media assets. Details Documentum announced that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has deployed the Documentum ECM platform to power the Design-Chain Management module of its global e-business initiatives. Details Integrated Development Enterprise, Inc. (IDe), announced that Agere Systems has selected IDe's Web-based software solution to integrate and streamline the management of the company's product development process. Details i2 Technologies, Inc. and adidas-Salomon AG announced the successful implementation of i2 Supply Chain Planner, supporting adidas-Salomon global planning functions for the company's multiple-brand footwear products. Details MSC.Software Corp. announced that Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, one of the nation's top engineering institutions, has purchased more than 500 seats of MSC.Working Model 2D motion simulation software. Details  PTC announced the results of several customer collaborative project management initiatives enabled by Windchill ProjectLink. On average, Windchill ProjectLink customers have: accelerated time to market by 15%; eliminated 70% of physical prototypes; reduced data proliferation by 30%; and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses. Details Samsung Electronics Corporation and SAP AG announced the successful implementation of a private exchange based on MarketSet, the joint solution from SAP and Commerce One, Inc. Details SGI announced that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. has purchased SGI advanced visualization technology to find the best ways to design, build and maintain the JSF. Details SolidWorks announced that Bimba Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of pneumatic components, is using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET internet technology. Details SolidWorks announced that Jergens Inc. is using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET to enhance customer productivity while increasing sales of its tooling and fixture components used in aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and industrial products. Details Stratasys announced its 2,000th installation. The installation took place at Toro Inc.'s irrigation-products division in Riverside, CA. Details truEInnovations announced that UVP, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of ultraviolet products, has selected truEVault from truEInnovations to manage their digital design data created by Autodesk Inventor. Details Verity, Inc. announced the selection of its Verity K2 Enterprise software by Gale, a business unit within the Thomson Learning division of The Thomson Corporation, to help the e-publisher's editorial team organize the company's growing collection of content in intelligent, intuitive and easy-to-navigate categories for millions of end-users worldwide. Details Workgroup Technology Corporation (WTC) announced that Intralox upgraded to WTC's latest release, WTC ProductCenter 8.1. Details * Developments * Accelerated Technology, the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation, announced a complete OSEK product line to help lower costs and reduce development time for developers in the automotive industry. Details Accelerated Technology, the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics, announced the immediate release of Nucleus PLUS MTD for the ARM RealView Debugger. Details Agile Software Corporation launched Agile Program Execution, an enterprise program management application suite and a part of the Agile8 enterprise application platform. Details Agile Software Corporation launched the Agile Engineering suite, a comprehensive suite of business-ready solutions that extends product lifecycle management (PLM) directly to the engineering organization. Details Documentum announced the Documentum Collaboration Edition, which includes two new product offerings, Documentum Team Center and Documentum Collaboration Services. Details Entrada Software, Inc. announced the availability of Autodesk Inventor software support for its eChange Solutions document management system. Details  Solass and Stilo Technology announced a knowledge engineering solution aimed specifically at organisations migrating between Enterprise Applications. Details Spatial Corp. announced the release of a new product, 3D ACIS PHL (Precise Hidden Line) V5, which is designed to allow Spatial's ACIS partners to create fast, accurate 2D hidden line drawings of 3D models. Details Spatial Corp. announced the release of two new products, 3D InterOp Exchange and 3D Viz Exchange. Details * Relationships * AIM systems GmbH announced that its COMPASS EDM/PDM system is certified for the new Autodesk Inventor Partner Program. Details Alibre Inc. and ENGINEERING.com announced an alliance to promote and deliver Alibre Design. Details bom.com announced that it has entered a technology partnership with QAD. Through this partnership, QAD's global manufacturing customers can extend their existing QAD collaborative commerce solutions with product lifecycle management (PLM) functionality. Details CADKEY Corporation announced that it has signed new Reseller M E Wallace of Tukwila, Washington, to sell and support the entire CADKEY Product line. Details Ceimis Enterprises, Inc. announced that it has been named a Microsoft Business Solutions solution developer partner. Details Cyco Software announced that it has partnered with DataCore Technology to offer a new FDA compliant add-on to its AutoManager Meridian 2002 business integration software. Details Documentum announced the expansion of its Alliance Program. In the second quarter of this year, approximately 70 percent of Documentum's revenue was partner influenced. The company also added 30 new partners worldwide. Details Engineous Software announced the launch of their FIPER Vendor Participant Program. Details Entrada Software, Inc. announced that the company's eChange Solutions document management product is approved as an "Autodesk Inventor Certified" application. Details FileNET Corporation announced a number of strategic alliances with new ValueNET partners including industry specialist organizations Cardinal Solutions Group, Impression Technology, Infinity Software Development, KnowledgeLake, Rapid Application Developers and Tuscan Technologies. Details LMS International announced that the full suite of LMS engineering products and services is now available through FIGES, a leading supplier of CAE solutions to the engineering community in Turkey. Details Missler Software announced the establishment of AdeQuate Solutions GmbH (AQS). Details PTC and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a strategic relationship that will accelerate the Institute's efforts to provide engineering students with experiences that simulate the product lifecycle management (PLM) processes used by leading companies to develop superior products. Details PTC announced that it has signed a cooperative marketing agreement with Swift Engineering Inc. Under the agreement Swift Engineering has expanded their use of PTC's Pro/ENGINEER product line and will provide design and engineering services to customers looking to outsource engineering projects in order to realize a competitive advantage. Details Spatial Corp. recognized its new partner, QuadriSpace Corporation, for the recent release of its Presenter product. Details Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. announced that InterLatin has been named exclusive electronics representative for Tecnomatix Unicam in the Mexican and Costa Rican region. Details * Other * Actify, Inc. announced it has reached the one million-software downloads milestone. Details Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that it will vigorously dispute a complaint in U.S. District Court from IKOS Systems. Details Cimmetry Systems announced the continuation of its series of free Visualization and Collaboration seminars. Four additional half-day sessions will be held. Register at: http://www.cimmetry.com/seminars Details Documentum announced the results of recent benchmark tests of its ECM platform running on Sun Enterprise 450 and Sun Enterprise 4500 servers, Sun Fire 3800 servers and Sun Blade 1000 workstations. Details Domain Systems, Inc. announced the formation in the United Kingdom of Domain Systems Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary and the concurrent opening of a new business office along the technologically strategic M4 corridor. Details EDS and the University of Michigan's College of Engineering announced plans to jointly develop a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) course directed at automotive executives. Details Engineous Software, Inc. announced it recently hosted a workshop that showcased the cutting-edge technologies being forged by the Federated Intelligent Product Environment (FIPER) Team. Details MAPICS, Inc. announced that MSI has named it one of the Top 100 business software vendors of 2002. Details MAPICS, Inc. announced that Start Magazine has named it one of the "Hottest Companies of 2002". Details MSC.Software Corp. announced that Czech Republic-based VUKV reduced their design time and costs and increased safety and performance of rail structures by using MSC.Software products including MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran, MSC.Marc and MSC.Mentat. Details Mentor Graphics Corporation announced it has been awarded a U.S. patent (number 6,397,172) on its adaptive model evaluation technology. Details PDES Inc. announced that the ProSTEP Association for the Advancement of International Product Data Standards changed its name to the ProSTEP iViP Association. Details PTC announced that Harvard University's Graduate School of Design has joined its University Plus program. With the inclusion of Harvard's Design School in the University Plus program, all 30 top U.S. engineering colleges (as ranked by U.S. News & World Report) have signed on to introduce students to PTC solutions as part of their curricula. Details Tecnomatix Technologies announced that according to a recently published report by the Frost & Sullivan research firm, the Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) market is "primed for robust growth" in both the mechanical and electronics manufacturing arenas. Anticipating a growth rate as high as 35% for 2002, Frost & Sullivan expects the MPM software and services market to exceed $2.6 billion by 2011. Details |
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