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 PDF Key takeaways: Autodesk has just about completed their business model transition from perpetual licensing to subscription. “The future of making” is still central to their vision, with automation and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) playing significant roles. Autodesk sees the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) market as a huge manufacturing opportunity in the next 10 years. CIMdata had the pleasure to attend Autodesk University 2018 (AU 2018), held in Las Vegas, NV on November 12-15, 2018. Over 11,000 attendees could gorge on over 650 classes, many presentations, and other sessions. Autodesk also stated that thousands of others attended AU 2018 online. AU 2018 finds Autodesk a much different company than in previous years. Completing his first full year as CEO, Mr. Andrew Anagnost has seen Autodesk nearly complete their financial resurrection from the trough created by their 2016 move to subscription-based licensing. Based on comments from Autodesk executives the company is now much younger than it

Tommy John has successfully gone live with Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Tommy John was founded in 2008 by Tom Patterson, a former medical device salesman. Frustrated by the discomfort of wearing traditional men’s underwear, socks and undershirts in his life on the road, he set out to redesign men’s base layers from scratch with a focus on fabric, fit and function. Stephanie Schulz, Business Analyst at Tommy John, explains that the company’s rapid growth and desire to expand into new products led them to invest in a new PLM solution. “Tommy John is ten years old, but in some ways it still feels like a startup, as we have had such high levels of growth and success in the last five years,” says Schulz. “We’ve recently launched our women’s division, and we’re expanding into new categories such as lifestyle, loungewear and athleisure. Using our old combination

Plex Systems named Bill Berutti its chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors. Berutti has spent the last two decades in cloud and enterprise software leading global, high-growth businesses. "The future of manufacturing ERP and MES is in the cloud, and Plex's position at the intersection of technology innovation and manufacturing presents an enormous opportunity for growth," said Petri Oksanen, partner at Francisco Partners and Plex Systems lead board director. "Bill's deep enterprise software and cloud experience and manufacturing roots make him the ideal leader for Plex, and he is the right person to lead Plex in the next stage of its growth. We're thrilled to welcome him to the team." Prior to joining Plex, Berutti served as the president of cloud and enterprise solutions at multi-cloud management firm BMC Software, overseeing the company's division with revenues more than $1 billion. Prior to BMC, he spent

D3 Technologies, a leader in Autodesk manufacturing solutions, announces a strategic partnership with Cetec ERP which will allow D3 Technologies to provide custom ERP integrations specifically for Autodesk manufacturing clients. Along with these new ERP capabilities, various other enterprise solutions are available from D3 Technologies, which are presented as D3’s Enterprise Solutions (PLM, PDM, ETO, CTO, etc.). D3 Technologies will now be able to deliver cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions tailored specifically for their Autodesk manufacturing clients nationwide. Additionally, plans are to expand upon the Cetec ERP platform over the coming months to create an exclusive D3 ERP version which will include even more capabilities unique to manufacturing companies who rely on Autodesk solutions to engineer & design their products. “With Cetec ERP providing a full ERP suite that is deployed in the cloud, on a subscription-based model, we recognized this partnership would be invaluable to our Autodesk clients. Now, our clients

The Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) is India's elite forge for computer scientists and engineers. New high-tech projects now rely on CIM Database PLM to strengthen team collaboration. The MIT in the Indian state of Karnataka is known for its outstanding teaching excellence. CEOs such as Satya Nadela (Microsoft) or Rajeev Suri (Nokia) have started their careers here. Now MIT is deploying CIM Database PLM in its technical degree programs and current projects - supported by the global CONTACT University offering. Mechatronic Engineering is the first department to use the new collaboration platform. The Mars Rover Manipal and Manipal Formula-1 teams are now preparing for the 2019 international competitions and are developing the next generation of their high-tech vehicles with CIM Database. MIT has nine further projects in the pipeline in which CONTACT's PLM solution will play a central role. "We are designing prototypes for e-mobility, Mars missions and other

Today, on behalf of its founding partners, Qlik® is pleased to welcome Accenture to the Data Literacy Project. Accenture joins as a founding partner, committing to the Project’s mission to build a data literate culture across the world. Data literacy is an essential skill in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, empowering people to ask questions of data and machines, build knowledge, make decisions and communicate its meaning with others. Yet, only 24 percent of business decision makers are fully confident in their ability to read, work with, analyze and argue with data.* The Data Literacy Project, launched this October, is a community dedicated to making society fluent in the language of data, and places data literacy at the heart of individual and organizational success. The Project will provide individuals and organizations with extensive educational and professional training materials, interactive assessment tools and access to a community of experts. The community will not only support

Addnode PLM division, with TechniaTranscat and Intrinsys, today announced that they have acquired Strategic Simulation & Analysis Limited (SSA), a UK simulation leader based in Charlbury. SSA´s sister company, Simuleon, a simulation leader based in Zaltbommel, Benelux is also part of the acquisition. SSA and Simuleon will become part of the PLM division of Addnode Group, covering the UK, Ireland, Nordics, Benelux and South Africa. Background Customers of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform are increasingly looking for more sophisticated simulation capabilities. The new combined team with 30 simulation experts will provide customers with access to world leading expertise and experience. SSA and Simuleon are very strong in Oil & Gas, Life Sciences and Materials Science complementing the existing strong simulation heritage in Automotive and Industrial Equipment. Simulation is the fastest growing subsegment within PLM with a projected annual global growth of 12% (Source: CIMdata, 2018 PLM Market Analysis Report Series) The Addnode PLM division,

Infor announced the acquisition of Alfa-Beta Solutions, a Dutch system integrator. Alfa-Beta Solutions, a Gold Infor Channel Partner, specializes on mid-market and large enterprises in the food & beverage (F&B) industry across Benelux and Germany. The acquisition of Alfa-Beta Solutions, with decades of deep industry expertise, expands Infor’s capabilities to support the company’s growing F&B customer base in Europe. “As companies across Europe embrace the cloud as an enabler of modernization and digitization, demand for our CloudSuite products has been strong; in no industry has this demand been higher than food & beverage,” said Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. “The acquisition of Alfa-Beta Solutions will bring a talented and experienced team to meet the growing demand for our products, and help new customers quickly realize their value.” Based in Arnhem, Netherlands, Alfa-Beta Solutions is a leading consulting firm specializing in Infor M3 and BI with approximately 70 employees based at its

Those who know me will know that I like to speak about the remarkable impact of Moore’s Law. In the words of Don Tappan at Intel, computing has become infinitely fast and vanishingly cheap. What Gordon Moore said, over 50 years ago, was that as you put more transistors on an integrated circuit, the cost per transistor went down. But, so did the manufacturing yield. So, there is a sweet spot that minimizes the manufactured cost per transistor. Moore expected that technology improvements would drive that optimum in favor of more and more transistors. Here a discussion and links to the original paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law. It was only later that people, including Moore, tried to apply a time scale, or doubling time, to computing power. For technical computing, it turns out that computing capability has doubled every 18 months for nearly 55 years! In addition, Moore’s technical statement became a business imperative:

The global platform that brings together the entire aeronautical ecosystem: 4-6 December in Toulouse features several speakers from the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group which is administered by CIMdata. Speakers from the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group include: Jean-Francois Cugy from Dassault Aviation and Henrik Weimer from Airbus will make a short overview presentation about the A&D PLM Action Group during the afternoon of 5 December. Javier Reines from Airbus will make a presentation on PLM-AG / Multi-view Bill of Material during the afternoon of 5 December. For more information visit on Aeromart Toulouse visit http://toulouse.bciaerospace.com/en/conferences-2018/conferences-workshops-dec-5.html For more information on the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group visit www.ad-pag.com