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Key takeaways:

• The global industrial equipment (IE) market is crucial for economic development and growth
• In many IE products, software and embedded electronics are providing differentiating features, and providing the most user value
• Many IE products are delivered as a service, imposing new requirements on product development and lifecycle management
• Product data used downstream to support manufacturing and services requires broad, deep, and varied content and delivery
• Some claim that these trends are driving a fourth industrial revolution

Introduction

Manufacturing is the engine that drives the global economy. Finance and other services may generate large amounts of cash, but it...

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• Autodesk held their first ever Autodesk PLM 360 user event, Accelerate 2014, in Boston, MA, a fitting location
• Customers showed their delight with the solution, supporting many varied use cases, some traditional for PLM and many extending to new areas
• Autodesk is transforming their company and their offerings to respond to overarching trends in products, and means of production and consumption
• Autodesk is thinking differently about enabling product development, and is addressing longstanding technical and usability issues in PLM in innovative ways

On September 16 and 17, 2014, Autodesk held their first ever Autodesk PLM 360...

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Key takeaways:

• A resilient, stable PLM upgrade requires an effective quality plan and a solution to ensure that the plan is adhered to
• A key part of an effective quality plan includes automated testing technology to enable consistent and repeatable validation to be performed early, supporting timely corrective action and minimizing or eliminating surprises
• SQS’s PLM testing framework is used by Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter development and maintenance groups to test and validate Teamcenter
• Major manufacturing companies use SQS to ensure the quality of their PLM upgrades and implementations

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

An enterprise PLM environment is...

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• SOLIDWORKS 2015 delivers new Model-Based Definition and top-down design solutions
• My.SolidWorks.com expanding to include two priced options that will include file transfer between users and access to online training
• SOLIDWORKS Industrial Conceptual brings a cloud-based conceptual design solution to the SOLIDWORKS portfolio

Bertrand Sicot, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS CEO, hosted a briefing with industry analysts September 5, 2014, to discuss the launch of SOLIDWORKS 2015. He noted that in 2013, SOLIDWORKS garnered revenues of US$555.1 million, accounting for approximately 20% of parent company Dassault Systèmes’ total revenue. Suchit Jain, Vice President of Strategy and User Advocacy...

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• Siemens PLM Software has made significant strides in building out their comprehensive vision for how manufacturing companies will operate in a digitized world
• Siemens is expanding its emphasis on education, working with academia and industrial companies to help students solve epic challenges to increase their interest in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
• Siemens’ SIMATIC IT organization will become part of Siemens PLM Software as of October 1, greatly expanding their Smart Innovation Platform portfolio of PLM enabling solutions to include Siemens’ discrete and process industry tools, and further enabling their top floor...

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• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global systems integrator, grew 16 percent to $13.4 billion in its most recent fiscal year, and is a solid and growing player in the market for product lifecycle management (PLM) services and technology
• TCS is developing business platforms and associated technologies around the digital five forces driving information technology: social media, mobility & pervasive computing, big data & analytics, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence/robotics
• The TCS Co-Innovation Network (COINTM) provides the framework for uniting stakeholders on high-value problems and leading-edge solutions, leveraging a wide range of stakeholders and TCS’...

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Key takeaways:

• Developing new and innovative products faster by collaborating on complex engineering information is critical for business success
• New cloud based tools positively impact product development by providing connections to additional company resources
• Gaining access to 3D corporate knowledge anywhere and on any device provides a competitive advantage

Engineering Information Collaboration

The amount and complexity of engineering information required to develop innovative products continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. The capabilities and tools that provide access to information for most engineers lags behind the increasing level of complexity demanded to create innovative products. The need to...

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The Role of NEi Nastran in the Autodesk Simulation Portfolio

Key takeaways:

• Autodesk continues to aggressively invest in Simulation & Analysis technologies that can be used both stand-alone and integrated with 3D CAD
• These simulation technologies will now be available to customers on the engineering desktop as well as via Autodesk’s 360 Cloud deployment model (see previous CIMdata Commentary on Simulation 360 in September, 2012)
• Autodesk’s recent acquisition of NEi Software and NEi Nastran is the next step in enabling more advanced structural simulation capabilities based on the widely used Nastran FEA solver format for structural analysis
• The...

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Key takeaways:

• Innovation is a top priority and primary growth driver as cited by many executives, but research from both Pricewaterhouse Coopers and IBM reflect that fewer than 20% of CEOs believe their investments are paying off
• The biggest challenge is not coming up with enough ideas; it is sifting through the deluge of competing ideas to identify and focus on the best in which to invest
• Product innovation is too critical a business process to be left to spreadsheets, documents, or PowerPoints, disconnected from the rest of the product value chain
• Oracle’s Innovation Management...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ has made significant progress in refining and implementing their next generation strategy and platform for “realistic simulation”
• Performance simulation technology from SIMULIA, CATIA, and the new BIOVIA brand portfolio is a key element and enabler of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE strategy and platform 
• The ultimate goal and the challenge for Dassault Systèmes is delivering their robust simulation technology not only to the traditional SIMULIA analysis specialists, but making the results of simulation best practices available to and readily consumable by the broader base of engineers and management within the 12 major industry segments...