Industry Summary Articles

 PDF Key takeaways: The PLM–oriented community experienced a rich and coherent set of presentations that detailed progress of Oracle’s Product Lifecycle Management applications roadmap, and case studies of successful implementations. The highest–value applications of Oracle’s Agile continue to occupy the broader territory of PLM outside of CAD data management. Oracle’s…

 PDF Siemens PLM Software’s announcement to acquire LMS International (LMS) is an important event in the PLM industry. The result will be the joining of one of the premier simulation, analysis, and test solutions and services providers with a major player in the broader PLM space. Siemens PLM Software stated…

 PDF Key takeaways: Lack of resources, increasing product and supply chain complexities, and increasing customer and regulatory demands are driving the need for and adoption of systems engineering. Systems engineering and PLM are complementary, and companies that use PLM to enable systems engineering will have a competitive advantage. The current…

 PDF Key Takeaways: Autodesk Simulation 360 is a distinctive solution that effectively delivers cloud-based simulation. Innovative delivery and low cost of entry will serve to democratize simulation to a broader base of users and companies. The cloud can be a simple, cost effective way to deliver simulation resources. There will…

 PDF Key takeaways: SolidWorks 2013 contains significant enhancements. eDrawings is now available on the iPad. SolidWorks is not being rearchitected at this time. SolidWorks held a launch event for the 2013 version of its flagship SolidWorks CAD solution set on 6 September 2012. The event was attended by a number…

 PDF Key takeaways: Siemens PLM Software has made good progress on the industry strategy and realignment announced last year, but industry solution deliveries are still to come. Their new 4th Generation Design (4GD) approach is a big step forward in terms of how their customers interact with managed data during…

 PDF Key takeaways: The increasing volume of simulation data is overwhelming analysts’ capacity to find the useful information contained within it. Simulation analytics refers to both the process and the tools for extracting useful information from large amounts of simulation data. Simulation analytics can be applied to enrich information and…

 PDF Key takeaways: Three major technology-driven themes–the consumerization of IT, the availability of information-on mobile delivery devices, and the social media-savvy workforce–are converging and changing the face of collaboration. This convergence is forcing companies to implement new PLM-related business processes and technologies that allow and enable social business collaboration. Nuage…

 PDF Key takeaways: A revolution is underway throughout much of the architecture, engineering, and construction industry that requires today’s building products manufacturers and fabricators to adopt a new way of working. Building information modeling (BIM) is playing a major role in this revolution. Autodesk is well positioned to support both…

 PDF On June 5 and 6 Dassault Systèmes held their annual Industry Analyst event at their Velizy headquarters just outside of Paris. Day one focused on Dassault Systèmes—the company, and day two covered eight of their twelve targeted industrial vertical markets. This session provided some needed clarity on their recent…