Second Module of the 2016 PLM MAR Report Series
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 8 June 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Review and Trends Report, the second of five modules of the CIMdata 2016 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2015. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
The 2016 Trends report focuses on how innovations in materials are driving changes in product development and PLM. Historical epochs have often been named for the materials dominant during that time period. For example, the Stone Age lasted about 3.4 million years, until the advent of metalworking. The Bronze Age is interesting because somehow early humans determined that alloys would better meet their metal needs than using the pure metals alone. New metalworking techniques arose to go beyond the casting used in the Bronze Age to include such methods as forging. Once again, adding something to the materials mix (in this case adding carbon to iron) took society from iron to steel. With each change, ways of working and building had to change, with some things unlearned and new things taking their place. More importantly, each new epoch and material allowed mankind to do and build things that could not be contemplated using the previous generation of materials.
Some would argue that we are in the Information Age, which has brought us the tools, techniques, and processes in product lifecycle management that support the way we define, design, engineer, produce, and support a wide range of products. Engineers learned how to encode mathematics and physics in analytical programs that can predict how things might work in the real world to a high degree of accuracy. Materials handbooks summarize this information, so that engineers and designers can pick materials with a high degree of confidence and design components using them that would function as predicted. The emergence of “new” materials like plastics, ceramics, and composites required the development of new methods, analytics, testing, and other skills to ensure that these materials could function as required in current or new applications. Additive manufacturing, more commonly referred to as 3D printing (3DP), has been around for decades, but it is spawning a renaissance of materials and manufacturing capabilities that can potentially change everything. New materials are being engineered to have specific properties to serve new applications for manufacturing using 3DP. But will they indeed have the desired properties? Just as before, new methods, analytics, and testing are needed to ensure manufacturers get the desired result. This also takes “systems engineering” to a new level where the materials themselves can be engineered and must be validated.
This materials revolution is requiring a fundamental rethinking of processes and tools across the product lifecycle, from ideation through life, and this report describes product development trends and how the PLM Economy must respond.
This PLM Industry Review and Trends Report is the second of five modules of the CIMdata 2016 Market Analysis Report Series to be released. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during calendar year 2015. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is packaged as five modules:
- The CIMdata 2016 Executive PLM Market Report provides an overview of CIMdata’s complete global analysis. It includes key charts on PLM market investment statistics through 2015, forecasts of investments for 2016 through 2020, and a summary of PLM solution providers’ performance in 2015.
- The CIMdata 2016 PLM Industry Review and Trends Report is mainly qualitative in nature, and focuses on key issues facing the global PLM ecosystem of solution providers and end user organizations. It highlights changes that occurred in 2015, what effects those changes may have in the short and medium term, and what is on the horizon in the years to come.
- The CIMdata 2016 PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report details measures of and forecasts for the overall PLM market and its key segments, including Tools, cPDm, and Digital Manufacturing. The Tools section has additional details on sub-segments, including MCAD, NC, S&A, EDA, and AEC. It also includes CIMdata’s estimates of PLM solution provider revenues in these segments and sub-segments for 2016 through 2020.
- The CIMdata 2016 PLM Market Geographic Analysis Report provides an additional view of the 2015 market results, by major geography. CIMdata’s 2015 estimates and market forecasts for PLM and the major PLM market segments are provided for the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. In addition, the report includes estimates and forecasts for the cPDm segment within specific European and Asia-Pacific countries and regions.
- The CIMdata 2016 PLM Market Industry Analysis Report provides an industry segmentation view of the 2015 market results. CIMdata’s 2015 estimates and market forecasts for PLM and cPDm are provided for eight different industry sectors: aerospace and defense; automotive and other transportation; electronics/telecommunications; fabrication and assembly; process-packaged goods; process—petrochemical; utilities; and construction, infrastructure and shipbuilding.
The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is available as a five-module set or each module can be purchased separately. It is also available as part of the CIMdata PLM Community Gold Membership. Further details and pricing information about the report and Community Memberships are available at www.cimdata.com.
