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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...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes expands the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform with its latest brand, BIOVIA, which is focused on supporting the development of biological and chemical materials at the molecular level
• BIOVIA consists of Accelrys, the recently acquired scientific innovation lifecycle management (SILM) solution provider, and results from an internal research project, BioIntelligence
• BIOVIA’s solutions offer capabilities that extend the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and broaden the support of the life science and material development markets

The Accelrys user conference, Accelerate 2014, was held May 21-23 at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C. A crowd of over 300 customers, partners,...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ well known CATIA solution is evolving away from a mechanical CAD tool to a comprehensive systems modeling solution.
• A number of new brands were introduced during the recent industry analyst event, including BIOVIA and 3DXcite.
• Dassault Systèmes is well on its way to becoming, as they say, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company.

On the 11th and 12th of June, Dassault Systèmes held their annual industry analyst event at their worldwide headquarters in Velizy, France. The event was attended by a few dozen industry analysts, twelve of whom were at the event for the first time....

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This week GrabCAD invited a group of PLM analysts and media to their first ever media event at their Cambridge, MA offices. GrabCAD claims to be “leading the Open Engineering movement, helping engineers get products to market faster by connecting people, content and technology.” They are best known for their GrabCAD community, where over 1.3 million engineers are actively sharing and collaborating on content from a wide range of authoring tools, primarily mechanical CAD data (currently numbering over 460,000 files). While the benefits of community are well known, some question just how much...

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Key takeaways:

• Over 3,000 PTC customers and employees convened in Boston at PTC Live Global 2014 on June 16-19.
• PTC expanded on their Internet of Things and Service Lifecycle Management visions, and premiered Creo 3.0, a major step on their MCAD evolution journey.
• The acquisition of Atego, a systems engineering tool and services provider, brings leading-edge tools and skills that help PTC offer closed-loop lifecycle management.

CIMdata recently attended PTC Live Global 2014 in Boston, MA, USA. PTC Live Global gives PTC customers the opportunity to not only hear and explore PTC’s solution strategies and roadmaps, but...

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Key takeaways:

• Program success begins in the proposal phase when the focus is on both minimizing risk and defining the right product in order to acquire new business.
• Companies must have the ability to respond rapidly to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) with confidence in their proposals.
• Delivering on commitments and defining the right concept to win profitable business requires integrating systems engineering with proposal development to support reuse of prior trade studies and early planning for production and maintenance.

Introduction

In today’s competitive global markets, aerospace and defense (A&D) companies need to do more...

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Key takeaways:

• Social business collaboration functionality is becoming an important factor in product development 
• Many of Autodesk’s offerings support synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, especially those in their 360 cloud-native portfolio
• Collaboration is at the core of Autodesk’s 360 offerings, and those offerings provide good examples of how a social focus can enhance product development

Social Functionality Can Enhance Product Development

A recent CIMdata commentary entitled “Emerging Social Applications in Product Development” (20 May, 2014) focused on the applicability of social business collaboration capabilities in product development, and described how recent moves by Autodesk and others provide...

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Key takeaways:

• Fully successful PLM solution deployments must integrate with many other enterprise systems including CAD, ERP, Process Planning tools and even other PDM and PLM solutions
• eQ Technologic’s advanced architecture supported BAE Systems’ integration of a PLM solution to other enterprise systems
• eQ Technologic’s eQube-MI Enterprise Service Bus integration infrastructure has proven to be reliable and scalable in production implementations over the past four years

Background

In reality, an enterprise PLM solution implementation requires integration with Enterprise applications and legacy systems. No one vendor has a complete solution that meets all the product definition lifecycle...