July 3 2006
2PLM

John Stark Associates


Volume 9
Number 5




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- Welcome
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- Update
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- News
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* Welcome *
Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
  • PLM Summit 2006
  • PLM and Innovation
  • PLM Glass Ceiling
* PLM Summit 2006 *
The 2nd Annual European PLM Summit 2006, held 26-27 June 2006 at ExCeL London maintained the high reputation this event earned in 2005. It was another successful event with delegates appreciating the high level of presentations, expertise of the speakers, networking opportunities and vendor presence.

From the product and service provider side, the Key Sponsors were Adobe Systems Inc., Dassault Systemes, ENOVIA MatrixOne, Infosys, Oracle, UGS. The Sponsors were Agile, Artemis, Lascom, SAP, Tata Consultancy Services, xPLM Solution GmbH & Co. KG, Wipro, Zuken. The Exhibitors were CAT Alliance, CD-adapco, Dizain-Sync, DSC Software, Seemage, TESIS PLMware GmbH, Vistagy.

There were more than 30 speakers from a wide range of industries and organizations including Airbus, Alenia Aeronautica, Beiersdorf AG, BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH, Dell, GM, Harris Corporation, Kongsberg Automotive, Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V, Serono International, Unilever and Volkswagen AG.

Compared to last year, the Summit showed that there is now a much greater understanding of PLM and its potential. However, there are still many unanswered questions. One of these concerns the best company organizational structure for PLM. The functional organization doesn't fit well with PLM. Product-line and matrix organizations seem more appropriate.

PLM and Innovation
Another question concerns the link between PLM and Innovation. 2006 has seen strong growth in the number of words written and spoken about Innovation. It's become one of the hottest topics for corporate executives. However, what's hot is not always safe to grasp, and we caution the companies we work with to be very careful with their innovation-related activities. The scope of Innovation is so wide that the subject is difficult to address, and it's even more difficult to address in parallel with a PLM Initiative. Often, management expectations for innovation and PLM are very different, and there's a real danger that a project addressing the two projects will meet the expectations for neither.

Yet there seems to be a close connection between PLM and Innovation. More than 50 years ago, Schumpeter proposed that innovation drives growth, and with the objective of PLM being to increase the value of the product portfolio, there is clearly overlap. However, there are many facets to Innovation and many components of PLM, so great care has to be taken in preparing an Initiative that addresses them both. It's easy to get the wires crossed or to lose sight of an important requirement.

The Ten Faces of Innovation looks as if it will be the most-widely read book about innovation in 2006. It gives readers a people-focused view of Innovation that is complementary to the commonly found application-focused view of PLM. Reading it could help you understand just how carefully you need to approach innovation and PLM initiatives.

PLM Glass Ceiling
Another subject of discussion was the PLM Glass Ceiling. This keeps many PLM projects at the level of departmental projects, or projects focused on only one aspect of PLM, and prevents them from maturing into holistic, enterprise-wide PLM projects.

Companies looking to break through the PLM Glass Ceiling will find the PLM State of the Art May 2006 Report and the Making Progress With PLM Manual helpful. Both are now available with telephone and/or Web support.


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Reference Section

Follow the link for books in the Product Lifecycle Management Library

Configuration Management . Product Data Management . Product Lifecycle Management

Autodesk .. CATIA .. Lean .. MicroStation .. Pro/ENGINEER .. Six Sigma .. UGS



The World of Product Lifecycle Management

Follow the links for :

Vendors in the PLM World. Latest additions/modifications : Artemis International Solutions Corporation, Coastal Logic, Inc., ENGINEERING.COM, Enginuity, Hamilton Hall, ProSTEP AG.

PLM service providers. Latest additions/modifications : Accenture, Axian, Inc., Infosys Technologies, Kalypso Partners, Product Lifecycle Management Australasia.


General Interest

Innovation Management

Engineering Change Management

Managing PDM in a changing environment

Principles of Good Product Development



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News
* Corporate *
Agile Software Corp. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Prodika. Details

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Mecalog Group and its RADIOSS product family of CAE software technology. Details

Dassault Systemes announced the acquisition of Dynasim, a leader in Modelica based modeling and simulation solutions. Details

EMC Corporation announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire RSA. Details

* Financial *
Adobe Systems Inc. reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 2, 2006. In the second quarter of fiscal 2006, Adobe achieved revenue of $635.5 million. Details

Delcam announced that it achieved its highest ever quarterly sales in the first quarter of this year. Details

FARO Technologies, Inc. announced results for the first quarter ended April 1, 2006. Sales for the first quarter of 2006 were approximately $32.1 million. Details

* People *
LMS announced the appointment of Jean-Marc Dewilde in the position of Regional Manager of LMS UK. Details

Luxology LLC announced that Bob Bennett has joined the team as Vice President of Marketing. Details

Mid-West CAD Inc. announced the promotion of Craig Partin. Details

Seemage announced the appointment of Chris Williams as CEO. Details

SolidCAM announced the appointment of Dr. Wolfgang Mueller as Vice President Sales Europe. Details

TriStar Inc. announced that Patrick F. Maderia will return to managing day to day operations effective July 1, 2006. Details

* Implementations *
Altair Engineering, Inc. announced that Ferretti Group has chosen Altair's HyperWorks CAE technology. Details

Autodesk, Inc. announced that Advanced Dynamics recently turned to Autodesk Design Review software to streamline its design review process and make its collaborative workflow process more efficient. Details

Auto-trol Technology announced that KONFIG CM has been selected as the configuration management solution for the Air Operations Center of the US Air Force ACC/A3C command. Details

CoCreate Software, Inc. announced ViewPlus Technologies has switched to CoCreate as its 3D product development platform. Details

CoCreate Software, Inc. announced an expansion of the CoCreate product development platform at Molex Inc. Details

Dassault Systemes announced that Legrand is implementing its solutions at more than 60 sites. Details

Dassault Systemes announced that ENOVIA MatrixOne's Synchronicity DesignSync has been selected by Advasense. Details

INCAT announced that it has been selected by Heesen Yachts to implement and deploy CATIA V5 within that organization. Details

i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that Rexel France is implementing i2 Demand Manager. Details

LMS announced the release of LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 6. Details

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that ATI Technologies Inc. has implemented the Mentor Graphics TestKompress embedded deterministic test tool. Details

PTC announced that First Automotive Works Group Corporation Technology Centre has successfully completed its project with PTC Global Services. Details

PTC announced that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works has achieved substantial benefits from its deployment of Pro/ENGINEER. Details

PTC announced that NRB Bearings has standardized on PTC solutions for product development. The deployment by NRB includes PTC Pro/ENGINEER, Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink. Details

RuleStream Corp. announced that Robbins & Myers, Inc has selected RuleStream to streamline engineering processes, increase quotation accuracy and improve customer response time. Details

SolidWorks Corp. announced that Wittur Turkey has standardized on SolidWorks software. Details

SolidWorks Corp. announced that Ergotechnics Ltd. has standardized on SolidWorks 3D CAD software. Details

SolidWorks Corp. announced that Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. is using SolidWorks 3D CAD and COSMOSWorks analysis software. Details

Synergis Software announced that W.L. Gore & Associates is able to reduce its response to customer requests from two days to 15 minutes as a result of deploying Synergis Adept engineering and product data management (EDM/PDM) system. Details

Synergis Software announced that the EES Division of Foster-Miller, Inc. uses Synergis Adept software to manage their documents. Details

UGS Corp. announced that Micro Moules, Inc. has standardized on NX software. Details

UGS Corp. announced it is providing 320 seats of its NX, Teamcenter and Tecnomatix software to the University of Zenica. Details

Valor Computerized Systems announced that the Valor DFM solution achieves shortened time-to-market for CMK Corporation. Details

* Developments *
Adobe Systems Inc. announced the availability of the Adobe Flex 2 product line. Details

ALGOR announced its latest finite element analysis software release, ALGOR V19.2. Details

Axiom announced the release of SpellCheckerPlus versions 3.0a for V7 and 8.2a for V8. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the availability of a set of EDA products and capabilities that enable the mainstreaming of System-in-Package (SiP) IC design. Details

CGTech announced the new version of VERICUT CNC machine simulation and optimization software. Details

Coastal Logic, Inc. announced the immediate availability of printLogic 4.7.5. Details

Dassault Systemes announced ENOVIA 3D Live beta version. Details

Dassault Systemes announced the release of 3D For All solutions, with the Virtools4 flagship product and 3D Office and 3D XE players. Details

Delcam announced a free CAD viewer, PowerSHAPE-e. Details

Delcam announced PowerSHAPE-e, pay-to-manufacture design software. Details

DSC Software AG announced selected CAD integration solutions for mySAP PLM and complementary modules to optimize the digital product development process. Details

ecVision announced enhancements to its concept-to-delivery product lifecycle solution. Details

Fluent Inc. announced new releases of TGrid 4.0, GAMBIT 2.3 and 3Matic-for-Fluent 1.0. Details

Formtek announced the release of version 5.0.3 of Formtek Orion 5 SDK Web Services and Pure Java API for Windows and Solaris. Details

Gibbs and Associates announced they have completed developing 54 post processors for Mori Seiki's entire NT product line. Details

Gibbs and Associates announced a version of GibbsCAM which supports Matsuura Machinery Corp's new CUBLEX-25 multi-task machine tool. Details

IronCAD announced the release of IronCAD V9. Details

iKnowledge Solutions, Inc. announced it is now distributing SolidWorks courses for i.get.it Desktop. Details

KollabNet, Inc. announced version 4 of its Design Management tool. Details

LightWork Design announced a new version of LightWorks, LightWorks version 7.6. Details

The MathWorks announced the availability of SimHydraulics. Details

MKS Inc. announced availability of the 2006 edition of its enterprise application lifecycle management solution, MKS Integrity. Details

Moldflow announced the Altanium X and XE. Details

Moldflow announced Moldflow Communicator. Details

MSC.Software Corp. announced the introduction of SimEnterprise. Details

NIKA GmbH announced the release of EFD.Flexx. Details

Opticore announced coming additions to the Opticore Opus software suite. Details

RAND Worldwide announced a combined technical support and training package for the company's CATIA V5: Introduction to Modeling course and ProductivityNOW service. Details

SAMTECH announced the launch of the commercial release 2006 of EUROPLEXUS. Details

SofTech, Inc. announced the availability of its latest ProductCenter 8.5.1 release. Details

think3 announced that thinkteam now complements CATIA V5 with a "CAD Neutral" module that helps designers manage product information without changing operating methods. Details

UGS Corp. announced a new release of its Teamcenter 2005 PLM software portfolio. Details

UGS Corp. announced Version 11.0 of both FactoryCAD and FactoryFLOW. Details

UGS Corp. announced plans to add native support for Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" to the list of supported environments for its NX and Teamcenter software solutions. Details

UGS Corp. announced the latest release of Teamcenter for MRO. Details

* Relationships *
Alibre, Inc. and Quickparts announced a partnership. Details

Arena Solutions and Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas announced a strategic agreement. Details

AVEVA Canada announced an agreement with StrucSoft Solutions. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Denali Software, Inc. announced support for Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler global synthesis on Databahn memory controller products. Details

Centric Software announced a reseller agreement with AEC s.r.l. Consulting. Details

Cimmetry Systems Corp. announced the certification of over thirty of its international channel partners. Details

Dassault Systemes announced a Software Partnership with Kineo CAM. Details

Dassault Systemes announced that Theorem Solutions has been upgraded to a CAAV5 Software Partner. Details

Endeca and Silver Creek Systems announced a partnership. Details

Geometric Software Solutions Co. Ltd announced an agreement with IBM to jointly provide services assisting clients in accelerating the deployment of Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Details

Intergraph Corp. announced an agreement with Lloyd's Register to build an interface between Intergraph's IntelliShip software and Lloyd's Register's assessment applications, RulesCalc and ShipRight SDA. Details

MSC.Software Corp. announced that it has teamed with IBM to jointly offer MD on Demand. Details

Missler Software announced it has been using MachineWorks' components since 1997. Details

Open Text and Oracle announced that Open Text will offer content management solutions on the Oracle Content Database infrastructure software. Details

QUMAS announced a partnership agreement between QUMAS and EXTEDO/IABG-LSS. Details

QUMAS announced an extension of its partnership with Adlib Software. Details

Zuken announced that Novacad is the European Distributor of the year for 2005 - 2006. Details

3D Systems Corp. announced TCST becomes an authorized 3D Systems' Service Provider. Details

* Other *
Aras Corp. announced inclusion on the START-IT 125. Details

Ashlar-Vellum announced the donation of 26 seats of Argon 3D modeling software to Girlstart. Details

Camtek announced they have recently joined the Make It With Lasers initiative. Details


 Product Lifecycle
 Management: Paradigm for 21st Century Product Realisation


The CMSC Society announced its annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) 2006 from July 17-21, 2006 in Orlando, Florida. Details

Dassault Systemes announced that the new Paris Museum at Quai Branly used Virtools solutions. Details

Dassault Systemes announced its V5 SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) strategy. Details

FISHER/UNITECH announced it has implemented several product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions this year. Details

SAP AG announced that the company has expanded its worldwide leadership as the number one enterprise software vendor, based on market share numbers. Details

Stratasys announced it won acclaim for its high-end FDM system's accuracy. Details

UGS Corp. announced its Parasolid software product is being highlighted in the June issue of Desktop Engineering (DE) magazine for winning the publication's latest Readers Choice Award. Details

UGS Corp. announced it has acquired technology for a new product from software design & management AG (sd&m). Details

UGS Corp. announced Robert Bosch GmbH has become a Corporate member of the JT Open Program. Details

UGS Corp. announced it has opened a PLM Center of Excellence in cooperation with Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corp. Details

UGS Corp. announced the launch of the Velocity Series Consortium, an Asia Pacific initiative aimed at stimulating the use of PLM technology among small to mid-size manufacturing companies. Details

The UK's Committee of Public Accounts reported on the Ministry of Defence's major projects. According to the Committee, "Each project is now expected to be delivered, on average, some 20 months late. And the total forecast cost of the largest projects still stands at £29 billion, compared with the original budgeted figure of £26 billion." Details


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