May 9 2008
2PLM

John Stark Associates


Volume 11
Number 1




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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 :
  • The Importance of PLM Vision
  • European PLM Summit 2008
  • PLM News
* The Importance of PLM Vision *
One of the reasons why it is so difficult to implement PLM successfully in a company is that many people in the company will initially have little or no understanding of PLM.

Although a few people will immediately understand the meaning of PLM, and the importance of PLM for the company, many will not understand what PLM is, many will misunderstand, some will disagree, and some will ask for more information.

People may have several reasons for wanting to know more. They could want to know more about the PLM environment in which they will be working. They could want to know more about what they will have to do to achieve that environment. They could have questions such as:
  • What is PLM?
  • What will PLM look like for us?
  • How will it differ from today's situation?
  • How can we prepare for PLM?
  • What training will be needed?
  • What resources will be needed?
  • Which products will be managed?
  • What's the lifecycle for our products?
  • Who's managing our products?
  • What actions will be needed to achieve PLM?
  • What's in PLM, what's not in PLM?
  • Is PLM the same as ERP?
  • Are we talking about an Enterprise Application? a Business Process?
People will ask all sorts of questions, for all sorts of reasons, to find out more about PLM. Some will want more high-level information, such as information about the way it will affect business results. Some will want more low-level information, such as the details of the business processes, workflows and product data elements that are part of PLM.

It would not be useful to reply to them: "I'm sorry, PLM doesn't exist in the company today, so I can't tell you about it, but in a few years it should be fully deployed. If you ask me then, I'll be able to tell you more". It would be much more useful to reply: "I can tell you what PLM will look like in the future, for example five years from now".

"What it will look like five years from now" is a five-year Vision of PLM. Once this Vision has been created it can be communicated throughout the company so that people will know what PLM is going to look like. It will be easier to make progress if everyone knows where they are going.

Although a Vision may sound as if it is ghostly and immaterial, the PLM Vision needs to be concrete, clear, complete, consistent and coherent. It needs to be understandable and meaningful to different types of people in the company. It needs to provide people at different positions in the company with different levels of detail.

The five-year PLM Vision should provide a high-level conceptual description of the way that the company will manage its products across their lifecycles in five years, enabling it to perform successfully and continue to perform successfully. The Vision should provide a self-contained description of the motivation for PLM, the components of PLM and their organization. It should offer a picture of an effective product lifecycle environment that will be rewarding for shareholders and exciting for employees.

To learn more :


 Global Product


European PLM Summit 2008: Less than two months to secure your place!
With only two months left until the European PLM Summit, a few delegate places remain for the pre-event innovation tour taking place on the 23rd June 2008. This is a benchmarking exercise you cannot afford to miss as it will be rich with business critical information to take back and implement in your operation.

Find out how the world's leading Aircraft manufacturer defines, executes, measures and manages its product-related business processes.

Following the tour will be a two day conference. Join us at the Diagora Espace de Congrès et d'Exposition on the 24th and 25th June with a combination of keynote conference sessions and interactive workshops imperative to reinforcing your understanding of the PLM concept.

A clear focus for all manufacturers today is the need to optimise the link between design and manufacturing, reducing product development time.

Dick Slansky, PLM Research Director, Arc Advisory Group, USA will be presenting his findings of a brand new report on

"Integrating PLM with your existing MES system: linking PLM with physical production"

Discover how in order for products to be built quickly and at lower costs entails that all information surrounding it must be consistent and available to all stages of the product lifecycle process:
  • Integration to ensure higher product quality
  • Shortening product lifecycles with enhanced communication and collaboration
  • Establishing the capacity to collect and re-use all data connected to the workshop floor
BOOK NOW for the special delegate booking price of £1895 quoting JSPLM on the Pre-event Innovation Tour Package or call +44 (0) 207 202 7558.


PLM Summit



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Understanding PLM
Some resources to help increase understanding of PLM:


Product Lifecycle Management Library

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 : Rasterex Software a.s, SmartOrg Inc., Telelogic.

PLM service providers. Latest additions/modifications : Airbus CIMPA, Artemis Resources, Domain Systems, Inc., Engineering Management Consult GmbH, HCL Technologies Ltd., Kalypso LP, Majotech Partnership, PLMIC LLC, PLMjobs, Thales Enterprise Services.


General Interest

Innovation Management

Engineering Change Management

Managing PDM in a changing environment

Principles of Good Product Development



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News
* Corporate *
Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Moldflow Corporation. Details

Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of REALVIZ S.A. Details

BlueCielo ECM Solutions announced that it has acquired CAD & Company's ECM division and its ImandrA suite of products. Details

* Financial *
ANSYS, Inc. announced total revenue of $109.5 million in the first quarter of 2008. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. reported first quarter 2008 revenue of $287 million. Details

Dassault Systemes reported U.S. GAAP unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Q1 GAAP total revenue was Euro 307.4 million. Details

ESI Group announced its consolidated full-year results to 31 January 2008. Details


PLCS


Geometric Ltd. announced its Q4 results for FY 2007/08. Annual revenues up 42.7% on USD basis. Details

i2 Technologies, Inc. announced results for the first quarter 2008. Total revenue was $62.6 million. Details

Lectra announced first quarter 2008 revenues of Euro 52 million. Details

Open Text Corp. announced unaudited financial results for its third quarter that ended March 31, 2008. Total revenue for the third quarter was $178.8 million. Details

Moldflow Corp. announced revenue of $15.8 million for the third quarter of its 2008 fiscal year. Details

MSC.Software Corp. reported revenue of $61.2 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Details

PTC reported results for its fiscal second quarter ended March 29, 2008. Q2 non-GAAP revenue was $259.5 million. Details

SAP AG announced unaudited financial results for the First Quarter 2008. U.S. GAAP total revenue was Euro 2,460 million. Details

* People *
i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that Sanjiv Sidhu has decided to step down as chairman of the i2 board of directors and the board has named Jackson L. Wilson Jr. executive chairman of the board. Details

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced the promotion of Simon Bloch to vice president and general manager of the Design and Synthesis Division. Details

* Implementations *
Actify Inc. announced its digital design communication solution is used by Connaught Engineering Ltd. Details

AVEVA announced that Abu Dhabi Ship Building has selected the AVEVA Marine software solution. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that TTM, Inc. adopts Cadence holistic DFM solutions. Details

Catalog Data Solutions announced that California Caster, Inc. has adopted its CAD model download and Catalog solution. Details

Dassault Systemes announced ENOVIA SmarTeam market successes. Details

DEM Solutions announced a new contract in support of NASA's exploration technology programs. Details

Engineous Software and AVIO S.p.A. announced that AVIO has chosen Engineous Software's iSIGHT-FD. Details

ESI Group announced that AUDI AG has implemented the auto industry's fastest supercomputer to advance safety standards. Details

Eurostep Limited announced it has been contracted to help the UK Defence Logistics Organization further develop Logistic Information Plans for the A400M Military Transport Aircraft and the Type 45 Frigate. Details

Flomerics announced that Thermacore used Flomerics' Flotherm thermal simulation software. Details

Flomerics announced Applied Micro Circuits Corporation is using Flotherm thermal simulation software. Details


 Global Product



LMS International announced that Delphi has implemented LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim multi-domain system modeling software. Details

Modultek announced that NEDAP upgraded to Aton5. Details

MSC.Software announced that AUDI AG has extended their existing simulation management environment. Details

Omnify Software announced that Treske Precision Machining selected Omnify Empower as their PLM solution. Details

PTC announced that Daktronics has chosen the PTC Product Development System. Details

PTC announced that Shanhaiguan Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. has selected CADDS 5. Details

RuleStream Corp. announced that TLT-Babcock has purchased RuleStream. Details

SolidWorks Corp. announced that Greentec Systems is using SolidWorks 3D CAD software. Details

Sopheon announced that Bell Helicopter has selected Sopheon's Vision Strategist roadmapping software. Details

* Developments *
aPriori previewed aPriori v6. Details

Aras announced the availability of Version 9 of the Aras Innovator suite. Details

Arena Solutions announced a new electronic design automation adapter. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the Cadence Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator. Details

CCE announced that EnSuite Version 2 has been upgraded to support point cloud files. Details

CD-adapco announced the release of STAR-CD V4.06. Details

DEM Solutions announced the latest release of EDEM. Details

Etrage LLC announced the release of Pro/ENGINEER Model Clean-up Utilities for Windchill Migration. Details

Datakit announced that its CAD Data translator plug-ins have been certified for Inventor 2009. Details

Eos Systems announced the release of a new product, PhotoModeler Scanner. Details

Eurostep announced its freeware STEP Data Browser. Details

Flomerics Ltd. announced the availability of version 8.2 of its EFD fluid flow and thermal simulation product family. Details

Geometric Ltd. announced the release of its new product, 3DPaintBrush. Details

Geometric Ltd. announced the release of DFMPro 2008 EX. Details

Gerber Technology announced the release of AccuMark version 8.3. Details

iCADsales.com announced the release of Version 8.0.18 of progeCAD 2008 Professional. Details

IMS Software announced the availability of IMSverify 2008. Details


SofTech, Inc.
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 Top 10 Business Reasons for Implementing PLM

Kubotek USA announced Kubotek KeyCreator 7.5. Details

LMS International introduced NVH Observer. Details

LMS International announced the introduction of the LMS SCADAS Recorder for autonomous, in-field testing applications. Details

LMS introduced its extended solution for vehicle handling simulation. Details

Maplesoft announced Maple 12. Details

Moldflow Corp. announced the release of Moldflow Communicator 2.0. Details

nCode International announced ICE-flow Automation. Details

Planit Holdings Ltd announced the availability of Edgecam 12.5. Details

Quantapoint announced the release of PRISM 3D 8.0. Details

Quantapoint announced the release of QuantaCAD 8.0. Details

Right Hemisphere announced Deep Exploration 5.5. Details

Siemens PLM Software announced patent-pending technology combining constraint-driven techniques with direct modelling. Details

Siemens PLM Software announced it has added support for the REACH regulation to the compliance management capability of Teamcenter. Details

Sopheon announced Accolade version 7.0. Details

Spicer Corp. announced the release of Scan Review for Imagenation View Markup and Edit. Details

Theorem Solutions announced the release of CADverter Version 11.0. Details

ZWSOFT announced the release of ZWCAD 2008i. Details

ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd. announced the release of ZWCAD 2008 Japanese version. Details

3D Systems Corp. announced availability of an expanded portfolio of Accura Materials to the Japanese marketplace. Details

* Relationships *
Aras announced it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. Details

Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. announced that it has been chosen as a Preferred Industry Partner by Autodesk, Inc. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that MindTree joined the Power Forward Initiative. Details

Dassault Systemes announced an academic partnership with the Convergence Education Foundation (CEF). Details

Extensible CAD Technologies announced that InspectionXpert has become a member of the SolidWorks Solution Partner Program. Details


PLCS


IDEAL announced that they won the Contex Distributor of the Year award. Details

InnovMetric Software Inc. and Hexagon Metrology SAS announced the signature of a partnership agreement for the distribution of the PolyWorks software suite. Details

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced a partnership with NXP Semiconductors. Details

Right Hemisphere announced it selected CENIT AG to be one of its worldwide value-added resellers. Details

Siemens PLM Software announced it has been honored with a Visteon Important Partner Award. Details

Spatial Corp. and IMSI/Design announced an agreement to expand licensing of Spatial's 3D component technology throughout the TurboCAD product line. Details

Spatial and Kubotek announced the renewal of their partnership agreement. Details

TraceParts announced its strategic partnership with CAD.de. Details

Valor Computerized Systems Ltd announced that Hankuk Valence will distribute Valor's assembly solutions in Korea. Details

Valor Computerized Systems Ltd announced the appointment of Technical Resources Corporation as a representative. Details

Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. and Samsung Techwin announced the establishment of a technology partnership. Details

* Other *
ALGOR, Inc. announced that CMES has chosen to formally incorporate ALGOR software into its national MDE qualification examination. Details

ANSYS, Inc. announced that it has been ranked fifth on the CIOZone list of 40 Fastest-Growing Big Software Vendors. Details

Aras announced expanded operations throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Details

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it opened a new integrated circuit design training center in partnership with the government of Brazil. Details

Catalog Data Solutions announced that its Q1 revenue increased by 100% over Q1 2007. Details

Delcam announced that the company recently added its 25,000th customer. Details

Eurostep announced that the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Engineering Data Interoperability Group (EDIG) recommends that AIA member companies and suppliers transition to a standards-based interoperability solution utilizing PLCS (ISO 10303-239) and its associated DEXs. Details

Eurostep announced that the OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) Technical Committee has recently approved the "Product Life Cycle Support DEXs Version R1" specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review. Details

Gerber Technology officially opened its Advanced Technology Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Details

Gerber Technology introduced Gerber University. Details

 Product Lifecycle
 Management: Paradigm for 21st Century Product Realisation


Ideate, Inc. announced the addition of Autodesk NavisWorks to their Autodesk software offerings. Details

Intergraph Korea Ltd. announced the acquisition of TechServer Corp. Details

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced it has aligned its integrated circuit implementation product lines. Details

Missler Software announced time gains for TopSolid'Cam users in the latest version of its CAM module. Details

PHASE 2 International announced it was awarded recently the "Software of the Year" for its ShareCAD Pro. Details

The ProSTEP iViP Association announced the ECAD/MCAD-Recommendation (PSI 5). Details

PTC announced it has been recognized by CMP Channel's VARBusiness. Details

SolidWorks Corp. announced that SolidWorks 2008 has won a 2007 NASA Tech Briefs Readers' Choice Product of the Year Award. Details

Valor Computerized Systems Ltd announced that SMT China magazine awarded the company its Vision Award for 2007. Details


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