Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: SOLIDWORKS announced Xdesign, a new cloud-based CAD product, and Xdrive, a cloud-based storage solution to be delivered in the future Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes’ CEO promised a major company push to be #1 in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) market SOLIDWORKS and Altium announced a new…

 PDF Key takeaways: Oracle’s Modern Supply Chain Experience highlighted their end-to-end supply chain offerings, which includes their PLM solutions Oracle’s move to the cloud has deeply affected more than their business results, with many changes in development, collaboration, and other processes spanning their business While the cloud is their PLM…

 PDF Key takeaways: Predicting product and portfolio profitability is becoming more difficult as products become more complex and business models change Identifying and modeling cost drivers and using collaborative decision making to optimize enterprise-level costs early in the development cycle enables revenue, cost, and profitability targets to be achieved while…

 PDF Key takeaways: Global market leaders in multiple industries are rapidly expanding their strategic use of virtual prototyping and simulation starting early in the product development process to gain a competitive advantage via innovation, quality, and time to profit Product innovation platforms are emerging to meet the needs of next…

 PDF Key takeaways: PTC has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in IoT and this event showcased their progress in supporting real-world use cases The Thing Event highlighted the potential for companies in a range of industries to use big data/analytics powered by IoT and augmented reality to deliver innovative…

 PDF Key takeaways: Siemens’ intent to acquire CD-adapco reinforces their commitment to the Simulation & Analysis (S&A) market and will expand and strengthen Siemens PLM Software’s portfolio and position in this market CD-adapco’s world-class and widely used capabilities in computational fluid dynamics and coupled flow/multi-physics applications are complementary to Siemens…

 PDF Key takeaways: Manufacturing enterprises need flexible, scalable PLM environments that can adapt to their changing business needs Infor PLM Accelerate is built on third party technology that Infor has significantly extended; they have also incorporated Infor’s intellectual property into the solution Infor has used their ION® (Intelligent Open Network)…

 PDF Key takeaways: Autodesk stayed on message about the future of making things, positioning Fusion 360 and Autodesk 360 at the center of their product innovation platform Autodesk announced Forge, an initiative to accelerate cloud solution development for their platform, consisting of a platform-as-a-service offering, a developer program, and a…

 PDF Key takeaways: Effective, early product costing, especially for manufacturers in the automotive, industrial machinery, and high-tech industries is becoming more critical to a company’s ability to propose, deliver, and service the products that are key to their long-term profitably Effective lifecycle costing must incorporate the mechanical, electronic, and software…

 PDF Key takeaways: Smart, connected products are becoming the norm in a wide range of manufacturing industries Companies must blend and manage software development tools within their existing PLM environments to strive for a single source of truth Acquiring Polarion Software provides Siemens PLM Software with cloud-based application lifecycle management…