Industry Summary Articles

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• The PLM industry is entering an accelerating era of end-to-end business platform enablement
• The shift towards enabling robust and resilient business platforms, as opposed to deploying and integrating best-in-class business suite solutions, requires a fundamental change for both industrial users as well as PLM solution providers
• PLM solution providers who wish to compete at the enterprise business platform level now or in the future must rethink their solution set strategy, and how they identify, assess, and assimilate third-party partners

The global product lifecycle management (PLM) market, which traces it historical roots to the computer-aided design...

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• The importance and visibility of Oracle’s Value Chain Summit is clearly increasing, with keynotes from Oracle’s President, Mark Hurd and well-known author and business consultant Geoffrey Moore, among others
• Oracle announced a new Product Value Chain solution, Oracle Innovation Management solution, designed to fill the gap between product strategy and execution
• A sizeable number of this year’s presentations clearly illustrated Oracle’s comprehensive end-to-end lifecycle management strategy and associated business platform-enabling capabilities

Oracle held their second annual Value Chain Summit February 3-5, in San Jose, California. The event once again attracted a few thousand Oracle customers...

Program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from May 19-23

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 February, 2014 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Andover, Massachusetts from May 19-23. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership — the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education offering for today’s PLM professionals.

The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program ensures PLM professionals at several levels have the tools they need to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation. This assessment-based certificate...

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• Outside of the software engineering domain (where the model-based principles were initially developed and applied starting in the 1980s), cross-domain MBSE is still in the very early stage of industry adoption, similar in nature to mechanical CAD and CAE technology in the early to mid 1980s
• Early adopters of MBSE are starting to implement this approach within selected programs and domains with positive metrics of success; albeit not without the normal challenges of major process change and related organizational training
• System modeling languages such as UML/OMG SysML and Modelica are rapidly maturing to meet...

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• Dassault Systèmes’ strategy is clear—make value extensions, additional solutions, and capabilities offered by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform available to the SolidWorks’ community
• SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual and SolidWorks Industrial Conceptual significantly enhance the SolidWorks community’s ability to collaboratively develop conceptual and industrial designs with partners and for internal product development teams
• These new solutions offer capabilities that can provide significant benefit, especially during collaborative product development efforts

The 16th annual SolidWorks World conference was held January 26-29, 2014 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, USA. A large and enthusiastic crowd of approximately 5,600...

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• Dassault Systèmes announced the acquisition of Accelrys, a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management (SILM) solutions, for $750 million in cash, 4.6 times revenues
• Accelrys’ SILM platform provides support for product development in chemistry, biology and advanced materials, and is quite complementary with Dassault Systèmes’ PLM strategies and enabling solutions
• This acquisition will expand Dassault Systèmes addressable market and deepen their expertise in laboratory-centric product development

On January 29, Dassault Systèmes announced their intent to acquire Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL) for $750 million in cash. Accelrys is a leading provider of what they term “scientific innovation...

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• Companies in shipbuilding and marine are not consistently achieving the maximum value from their PLM investments<
• To maximize benefits, implementations need to be tailored for and incorporate industry specific best practices and company-specific business needs
• Companies need to fully implement the PLM technology they acquire to maximize the value from their investment—there is often a Value Gap between investment potential and return realized
• Siemens PLM Software’s Shipbuilding Industry Catalyst enables more complete, industry tailored, best practice enabled implementations resulting in a higher return on investment that accrues more rapidly

Shipbuilders and other players in the marine...

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• Aras Innovator is redefining customization in the PLM market; the days of worrying about the potential impact on upgradeability are disappearing 
• Aras Innovator’s ability to deploy quickly with real-time customization of predefined best practice solutions is a key market differentiator; it is engineered to be highly customized
• Aras Innovator’s architecture has been designed to protect investment and ensure future adaptability; it is engineered to be sustainable

Introduction

For several years, the Aras Corporation (Aras) has included no-cost version-to-version upgrades in their enterprise subscriptions, independent of how the solution has been customized and implemented. This is a...

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• More and more manufactured products are smart, and more and more of their value is provided by their electronics and embedded software content
• PTC made a huge move to support their manufacturing customers in getting smart and connected with their acquisition of ThingWorx, a leading provider of “Internet of Things” development tools and infrastructure
• This acquisition, and two other recent announcements by Autodesk and Google, show the importance of smart, connected devices in just about all product markets

When you listen to just about any product ad today, the come-on is not about “new” or...

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Key takeaways:

• Understanding the components of product cost over the product lifecycle is key to maximizing ROI
• The biggest opportunities for cost reduction often lie at the intersections of functions within an organization
• TCS takes a holistic view of costs and uses industry, technology, and process knowledge to solve difficult cost management problems

Cost is an issue in every company. Cost management is not just a tool, but also a key process that helps ensure business success. A critical capability for managing cost is having an integrated view of cost across the value chain of product development...