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 PDF Key takeaways: A high impact PLM program begins with a “real vision” — one tied to the business strategy with measurable goals. Effective planning establishes a stepwise progression from measurable goals to an executable roadmap. There have been significant advancements in methods and tools by leading PLM solution delivery firms. In addition to recently reported planning successes, case studies indicate how it is possible to recover from a poor start. To achieve real enterprise benefits, a PLM program has to be perceived, planned and executed as a strategic enterprise initiative. The two key elements of any plan are vision and roadmap — defining where the enterprise wants to go and how it will get there. Assuming the prerequisite executive support is in place the challenge is effective planning to establish a vision and roadmap that can deliver strategic impact. First the vision must be relevant and real, meaning it must support the strategic direction of

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes rebranded their customer events “3DExperience Forums,” a new name consistent with their extensive repositioning and global corporate advertising campaign. Dassault Systèmes believes that creating unique “experiences” the path to sustainable competitive advantage. Systems engineering, based on integral support for the RFLP approach, is at the core of the V6 offerings. On November 5–7, 2012, Dassault Systèmes held their North American customer event, rechristened the “3DExperience Forum,” a new name that is consistent with their extensive repositioning and global corporate advertising campaign. Approximately 800 people (including about 450 customer representatives) attended the Orlando event. Author Joseph Pine played informal MC, providing comments in each plenary session. His 1999 book “The Experience Economy” is right on target for Dassault Systèmes 2012 messaging around ”experiences” as today’s product differentiator. A key point of his day 1 talk is that, to create value, companies are providing services associated with their products. However, those services can

 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 PLM product direction is clearly aligned with the company’s overarching cloud and software–as–a–service (SaaS) strategies. Notable strength in value delivery of Agile’s expanding consulting and system integrator relationships, especially in PLM–emergent industries. At the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 mega–conference, held from 30 September through 3 October in San Francisco, the presence of Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) was woven through numerous tracks but the insight provided was worth the effort of seeking it out. Oracle’s PLM leadership provided navigational guidance to the few hundred PLM devotees out of 40,000+ conference attendees. As a result, the PLM–oriented community experienced a rich and coherent set of presentations by

 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 that their intention is to “provide closed–loop, systems–driven product development solutions.” This closed–loop concept, combined with the ability to improve quality through the integration of LMS’ simulation, analysis, and test capabilities together with Siemens PLM Software’s product lifecycle management solutions should provide broad benefits to the customers of the joined companies. Siemens PLM Software has been developing systems engineering capabilities for many years. This acquisition supercharges that effort, giving them technology and, more importantly, a large team experienced in implementing a systems engineering approach, often at Siemens PLM Software own customers. The combination also enables systems engineering to be applied more

 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 release of Teamcenter delivers comprehensive systems engineering support built on years of broad and deep expertise and functional capabilities. The future of product development productivity and competitiveness demands that systems engineering be supported. In today’s hyper–competitive business environment, companies across almost all industrial sectors have no choice but to find more efficient and effective ways to deal with the lack of resources, increasing product and supply chain complexities, and increasing customer and regulatory demands. Exploiting the product–development discipline of Systems Engineering and enabling it with the information and process management capabilities offered by today’s leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions is proving to be a truly

Citrix just announced a new collaboration with partners that will deliver Design Engineer Virtual Workstation solutions to meet the growing demand for secure anytime, anywhere access to 3D design applications. To help support this announcement, CIMdata recently conducted research on the need for 3D remote visualization technology to support mobile product lifecycle management (PLM). This survey was intended for product development or manufacturing personnel that create or access computer-aided design (CAD) technical data or IT staff that support users who create or access 3D content. CIMdata was attempting to validate several use cases for remote access to 3D data, referred to in the survey as “remote visualization,” and wanted to understand if the respondents’ companies were experiencing issues related to these use cases and the importance of each. The use cases described include:   CAD Education – To ensure optimal usage of complex 3D technology many companies have an internal training environment consisting

 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 continue to be a need for highly utilized internal computing resources for some simulation requirements. The importance of simulation is expanding as companies move to full digital product development. Performance assessments using digital prototypes can have immense payback in terms of product development time, cost, and quality. Thus, companies are moving to implement “simulation-driven design,” using simulation early in the design process to develop, evaluate, and validate design concepts. Many of these same companies wish to democratize simulation: making it pervasive, integrated into their product design process, and available to a much larger constituency of users. To do so, they must overcome barriers of complexity (e.g.,

 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 of analysts and press members who cover CAD and related topics. In addition to functional updates and fixes to SolidWorks itself, the announcement included the introduction of a number of new features and capabilities included in SolidWorks 2013, as well as a pre–announcement of a new product from the company. Highlighted additions to SolidWorks that were presented include: Addition of true conic curves. Surface texture mapping using the computer’s GPU to increase mapping performance. Use of multi–core processors to improve speed when generating drawing views, processing multiple views on a drawing in different cores. Perform analyses (meshing and simulation) on local “parts” of an object and allow selective re–meshing of

 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 the product lifecycle. A new Teamcenter user interface (UI) built on the Microsoft Metro paradigm should enhance usability and acceptance by Siemens PLM Software’s customers. Siemens PLM Software (SPLM) held their annual analyst and media event on September 5th and 6th at the Renaissance Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Analysts and media represented about one third of the approximately 200 people in attendance. As usual, it was all–management–hands–on–deck for the SPLM team, with all senior leaders available to update the audience on the company’s progress during the last year, and on their plans for the future. Also on the agenda were several customers whose talks served

 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 reduce the volume of data, to compute simulation metrics, and to enable important data to be retained and archived. CIMdata is tracking the development and adoption of several promising new Simulation Analytics applications; we consider Tecplot Chorus to be noteworthy. As companies move to digital product development, the role of simulation (computer–aided engineering) rises in importance. Indeed, with the shift to model–based and simulation–driven design, the role of simulation is evolving rapidly. Leading users now leverage simulation to help create product concepts—to optimize designs to best meet competing or conflicting requirements and to create robust designs whose performance is less sensitive to variations in manufacturing processes