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Autodesk Analyst Day 2011

Autodesk held their 2011 Analyst Day at the Artists for Humanity (AFH) facility in South Boston on October 20. Nearly thirty analysts were invited to hear a company update by Autodesk executives. The setting was appropriate, as the AFH, the first LEED Platinum Certified building in Boston, was designed using Autodesk solutions.

Leading off the day was Autodesk’s CEO Carl Bass, who spoke about “Autodesk Today and Tomorrow.” Some of his talk echoed their Investor Day presentation in June. Mr. Bass presented a chart depicting Autodesk’s customers by company size. Enterprise customers...

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The industrial equipment (IE) market is large and varied, ranging from fabricated metal components and sub-assemblies to manufacturing equipment that convey, assemble, or produce products, and mobile machinery like farming or construction equipment. IE companies have different business models, development and production requirements e.g., build to order (BTO). In order to be successful, IE companies must respond to changes in market needs, new technologies, ever-increasing product complexity, expanding end customer and regulatory requirements, and relentless cost pressures. Products may have lifecycles measured in years or decades, which require ongoing service, and may be significantly...

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The choice of the company’s new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system has been made and the team of decision makers celebrates the challenging selection effort. But now the real work begins—planning and executing the migration of data from the current legacy systems to the new target PLM platform. A company’s existing data contains a significant portion of their intellectual property (IP) and therefore the company’s competitive advantage and value. The success of the new system depends heavily upon an effective migration of existing data in an intelligent, quality, and timely manner.

This scenario is repeated...

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On September 7-8, Siemens PLM Software held their annual analyst event in Boston, Massachusetts. Approximately 150 people—including analysts, journalists, bloggers, and representatives from across Siemens PLM Software and other Siemens businesses - convened to listen to Siemens PLM’s executives and customers provide a business, technology, and strategy update.

According to those Siemens PLM executives, the state of the business is strong. While Siemens AG does not report on business unit revenues, Tony Affuso, Chairman and CEO of Siemens PLM, cited the strong 2011 results of their main competitors, Dassault Systems and PTC, and claimed Siemens...

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On June 26 and 27, Dassault Systèmes held their annual Industry Analyst event in La Defense, the business district just across the Seine from Paris. As has been past practice, it was held in conjunction with a Dassault Systèmes partner event, the Application Innovation Summit (AIS). The renaming of this event is significant in and of itself, as it illustrates Dassault Systèmes’ rededication to growing its partner base for the V6 architecture. CAA2, the second generation of their successful CAA partnership program, finally provides the tools necessary for partners to build applications tightly integrated...

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June 12, 2011, PTC opened their US end user event, PlanetPTC Live 2011, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in front of over two thousand attendees and announced that a “new era of product design” had begun with the release of their Creo 1.0 applications. Marketing bravado aside, PTC has aggressively re-emerged into the product design and development arena. Brian Shepherd, Executive Vice-President of Product Development, detailed Creo 1.0, the major release of Windchill 10.0, and the acquisition of MKS, a leading supplier of solutions for managing embedded software development. All combine to draw...

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Companies are always on a quest to find and employ best-in-class solutions to help them improve their product design process. This is particularly true in the area of simulation and analysis (S&A) for which hundreds of computer-based analysis codes are available. One vendor can’t possibly satisfy all of the specialized needs of companies in this critical area of product development since the range of solutions crosses a number of highly technical domains such as finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics. Altair Engineering, based in Troy, Michigan, has created an innovative program that allows...

On 27 April 2011, Dassault Systèmes (DS) significantly upgraded their formulation, recipe, and specification management offering by acquiring Enginuity, a Connecticut-based software company. While no terms of the agreement were announced, the DS earnings call presentation suggests they spent no more than 30 million Euros for the acquisition.

In business since 1992, the privately-held Enginuity focuses on PLM solutions for the CPG, personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals industries. They support implementations in 26 countries, from 30 to more than 800 users. Enginuity has a strong customer list, including P&G, Revlon, Pfizer, Merck, Schering-Plough, AkzoNobel, and Clairol. According to Enginuity,...

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In recent years, manufacturers across all industries have had to contend with an expanding list of increasingly stringent and complex regulations governing issues such as health, safety, recyclability, and materials traceability. Complying with these regulations is now a fact of life in most industries, where the new business mantra is “comply or die.”

Tough New Green Regulations & Requirements

For years, regulatory compliance applied mostly to pharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical devices, and aerospace companies—industries with governmental regulations requiring them to be able to identify the precise components or sources of materials/ingredients (e.g., in the case...

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Benjamin Franklin, the well-known 18th Century publisher of Poor Richard’s Almanack and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, is credited for stating, “The only things certain in life are death and taxes.” Well, we’re not sure that there are only two things that are certain in life. We think many would argue that there are a few others, such as our need for food and our basic instincts for seeking out health and safety. So you might ask, what does this have to do with product lifecycle management (PLM)?...