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LMS International held its 2012 European Vehicle Conference on April 18–19 in Munich, Germany. LMS is an engineering services and software company, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. They are a partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. They offer a combination of 1D and 3D virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services.

This LMS event is a technical conference, aimed at the vehicle engineering community, particularly LMS’ customers. Nearly 300 attendees represented 115 companies, and 44 papers were presented. The theme of the conference was “frontloading of vehicle systems engineering...

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EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Group includes Airbus, a leading global manufacturer of innovative commercial and military aircraft; Astrium, a European leader in space programmes and the third largest space provider worldwide; Cassidian, a global leader in state–of–the–art solutions for armed forces and civil security worldwide; and Eurocopter, offering a large range of civil and military helicopters. EADS employs around 133000 people at more than 170 sites worldwide and generated revenues of € 49,1 billion in 2011.

Figure 1—EADS Products Overview

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PLM World (plmworld.org) and Siemens PLM Software hosted their annual Americas User Conference on May 6 to 10 in Las Vegas, NV. According to the organizers, this is the largest, longest r

During his keynote presentation, Chuck Grindstaff, President and CEO of Siemens PLM Software, claimed that Siemens PLM Software is growing in every geography and product segment in which they participate. Key wins were cited at Daimler, BAE Systems Submarine Division, Johnson Controls, Boeing and a number of others, with many of these claimed as competitive replacements. Mr. Grindstaff reiterated Siemens PLM Software’s three...

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Aras recently held its ACE 2012 International Conference in Troy, Michigan. This was the second year in a row that the conference was held in the greater Detroit area. The conference grew from 200+ attendees last year to over 300 this year, with attendees coming from more than twenty different countries. It is a user-focused event supported by Aras and a number of its partners; including both solution implementers as well as independent software providers who are leveraging Aras’ enterprise open source PLM platform.

Mr. Peter Schroer, Aras’ Founder and CEO, gave the opening presentation,...

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CIMdata recently attended Infor’s Inforum 2012 in Denver, Colorado. For 2012, the event was combined with the former Lawson CUE user conference. It was positioned as a global event with attendees interested in all of Infor’s business lines and geographies supported. Infor stated that they expected over 5,000 attendees. The theme for Inforum 2012 was “Go Faster” and Infor continually discussed speed as the driving factor for businesses in today’s global marketplace.

Charles Phillips, Infor’s CEO, was the keynote speaker on the morning of Monday the 23rd of April. He discussed the evolution of Infor,...

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Dassault Systèmes announced their acquisition of Gemcom Software International (Gemcom), a leader in mining software solutions, and the creation of a new Dassault Systèmes brand to support modeling of the planet and natural resources — GEOVIA. Gemcom, a global company with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, provides software and services for mining customers to discover, measure, design, plan and manage their mining operations from exploration to exploitation.

The objective of the GEOVIA brand is to develop and deliver products to model and simulate the planet. GEOVIA will provide tools for resources managers including geologists, botanists, ecologists,...

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CIMdata was invited to attend and speak at Autodesk’s One Team Conference (OTC) 2012 in Las Vegas during the week of March 11. Over three thousand Autodesk global partners and employees attended this annual event, which was greatly anticipated following a recent series of important Autodesk® announcements targeted at the manufacturing industry. These announcements included “Everything Changes,” from Autodesk University last November, and the launch of Autodesk PLM 360 in February. At OTC 2012 CIMdata led two half–day Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) training classes that were attended by several hundred channel partners and employees...

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In todayʼs fast–paced world, controlling product cost and getting to market on time are keys to business success. If you cannot deliver quality products profitably you will not stay in business. In the highly competitive food and beverage industry, formulated products range in price from less than a dollar to a few dollars. When you think about the cost of the package, the weight of the product, and the transportation and handling costs to get it from the factory to your grocery bag, itʼs hard to imagine there is room for any of the...

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Transit companies face many of the same issues of companies in other industries. They need to improve the productivity of their people, their processes and their capital investment (i.e., infrastructure, rolling stock, etc.), they want to provide better service to their customers, they need to improve their top and bottom lines, and they need to be able to rapidly adjust to changes in market demand. At the same time, they are dealing with aging infrastructures that require higher levels of maintenance and (good news) increase ridership.

Most transit companies have used traditional paper-based (or now...

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Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management Summit 2012

Oracle held its 2012 Agile PLM Summit in February. This user-targeted event was similar in concept to past Agile customer conferences, known as Agility and attracted Agile PLM users from diverse business segments. The 2012 Agile PLM Summit had a number of themes for life sciences, high-tech electronics, and companies that design products using mechanical CAD systems. Over 200 users attended from more than 100 companies.

One important concept presented by Mr. John Kelley, VP of PLM Product Strategy, and illustrated in the following figure, was that the reality...