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Key takeaways:

• Aras’ ACE2014 conference had a theme of “Right Now”; all the Aras presenters focused on what could be done right now with Aras Innovator
• Aras emphasized their new products and coming innovations including a native 3D viewer, digital mockup utility, new mobile apps, electronic component engineering and a new approach to ECAD integrations, as well as their expanded product management team
• Resilience, a PLM solution’s ability to enable changing technology and business requirements over a long time period (greater than 10 or 20 years) including customizations, was a key point for several...

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Key takeaways:

• The word “social” is overloaded with meaning in today’s business world, with people immediately focusing on Facebook, Twitter, and other common platforms. Even though product development is almost always a social activity, its requirements are different from those enabled by these ubiquitous platforms
• Social platforms and technologies are supporting many PLM-related use cases, and creating new opportunities for collaboration
• Autodesk has introduced a number of offerings that combine business, social, and engineering capabilities

Product Development Is Inherently Social

We spend our lives awash in products. Cars, planes, machines of all types, electronics, toothpaste; the...

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Key takeaways:

•  The new Solid Edge ST7 revision delivers over 1300 user-requested enhancements
• Luxion’s KeyShot for advanced rendering and lighting technology will be bundled into Solid Edge ST7

Siemens PLM Software’s Karsten Newbury, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mainstream Engineering Software, opened Solid Edge University 2014 on May 13. The two-day event brings together Solid Edge users, called “Edgers,” industry analysts, press, resellers, third-party software vendors, and the Siemens Solid Edge team to share product and business news, introduce the latest version of the software, Solid Edge ST7, and conduct informational and training...

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Key takeaways:

• The CAM software market is seeing strong growth, especially in integrated CAD/CAM solutions with feature-based programming and knowledge-based machining technology
• An integrated CAD/CAM solution allows the design and manufacturing models to become one and automates the CNC programming process to eliminate bottlenecks
• CAMWorks for Solid Edge uses associative knowledge-based machining to leverage Synchronous Technology from Siemens PLM Software
• CAMWorks bridges a technology gap by providing high-end CAM capabilities to the mid-range CAD/CAM market

Introduction

CIMdata has tracked the CAM software market for over 20 years. While it has had ebbs and flows over the years, there...

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Key takeaways:

• ANSYS’ acquisition of SpaceClaim, following a long and productive partnership, is a good strategic move
• This is a move to bring product geometry more fully into the early phases of concept selection and product ideation. We believe it is not a move by ANSYS to enter the CAD market
• SpaceClaim significantly improves ANSYS’ geometric modeling and manipulation capabilities and ability to productively leverage most 3D CAD geometry within the simulation and analysis environment

ANSYS, the world’s largest provider of simulation and analysis software, has announced the acquisition of SpaceClaim Corp., a provider of direct modeling...

Workshops will now take place in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 24 & June 25

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 April 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces new dates for the one-day workshops offered by its Systems Engineering Knowledge Council and Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council. The workshops will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 24 and 25. These workshops will explore emerging best practices on how to address the critical issues facing participants in the simulation and analysis, and systems engineering communities.

On June 24, CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council will hold its second workshop...

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Key takeaways:

• In today’s global marketplace, the world is indeed flat and competitors and business opportunities can come from anywhere
• Global value chains have to satisfy the compliance requirements for all countries in which they do business
• The ever-changing nature of compliance regimes requires a product development environment that can rapidly adapt

Satisfying Global Compliance Requirements

The seeds of globalization were planted in the first Industrial Revolution. Industrial practices resulted in standardized products, creating economies of scale. Steamships greatly reduced the costs of international transportation, replaced in the next hundred years by mammoth cargo ships, laden with shipping...

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Key takeaways:

• Effective SAP PLM implementations require an implementer that has strong SAP PLM expertise who also understands their customer’s industry and business model
• In addition to implementing SAP PLM they are also trusted and employed by SAP as a partner to develop PLM technologies and solutions
• LeverX has significant experience and expertise in implementing SAP PLM in multiple industries and has the scale to handle large, global implementations

Introduction

SAP is well known in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) space. However, they are not as well known as a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. The...

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Key takeaways:

• The PLM industry is entering an accelerating era of end-to-end business platform enablement
• The shift towards enabling robust and resilient business platforms, as opposed to deploying and integrating best-in-class business suite solutions, requires a fundamental change for both industrial users as well as PLM solution providers
• PLM solution providers who wish to compete at the enterprise business platform level now or in the future must rethink their solution set strategy, and how they identify, assess, and assimilate third-party partners

The global product lifecycle management (PLM) market, which traces it historical roots to the computer-aided design...

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Key takeaways:

• The importance and visibility of Oracle’s Value Chain Summit is clearly increasing, with keynotes from Oracle’s President, Mark Hurd and well-known author and business consultant Geoffrey Moore, among others
• Oracle announced a new Product Value Chain solution, Oracle Innovation Management solution, designed to fill the gap between product strategy and execution
• A sizeable number of this year’s presentations clearly illustrated Oracle’s comprehensive end-to-end lifecycle management strategy and associated business platform-enabling capabilities

Oracle held their second annual Value Chain Summit February 3-5, in San Jose, California. The event once again attracted a few thousand Oracle customers...