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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...

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• 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.

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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...

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• 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...

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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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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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...

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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 is taking an exceptional approach by offering an online business application suite for social business collaboration that provides users the flexibility and interactivity often lacking in today’s traditional data management solutions.

The Future is Upon Us

Ready or not, here they come. This is the soft rumble that is reverberating...