Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF CIMdata recently attended PlanetPTC Live 2012 in Orlando, Florida. PlanetPTC Live gives PTC customers the opportunity to showcase their work, network with peers, share ideas, and discuss how they are addressing their challenges. PTC reported that over 1,200 attendees were present at the event. A major theme for PlanetPTC…

 PDF Food and beverage industry customers demand a continually expanding variety of healthy, high quality products at continuously lower prices. At the same time, food and beverage companies want to expand their markets and sell the same or similar formulas and products in multiple geographic regions. This requires understanding the…

 PDF Automotive industry manufacturers are well known for the adversities they face in the design and production of competitive products in their volatile consumer markets. They have, however, become known as leaders in innovative new product development. In particular, automotive OEMs set a forward looking example of excellence often emulated…

 PDF LMS International held its 2012 European Vehicle Conference on April 18–19 in Munich, Germany. LMS is an engineering services and software company, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. They are a partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. They offer a combination of 1D and 3D…

 PDF EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Group includes Airbus, a leading global manufacturer of innovative commercial and military aircraft; Astrium, a European leader in space programmes and the third largest space provider worldwide; Cassidian, a global leader in state–of–the–art solutions for armed forces…

 PDF PLM World (plmworld.org) and Siemens PLM Software hosted their annual Americas User Conference on May 6 to 10 in Las Vegas, NV. According to the organizers, this is the largest, longest r During his keynote presentation, Chuck Grindstaff, President and CEO of Siemens PLM Software, claimed that Siemens PLM…

 PDF Aras recently held its ACE 2012 International Conference in Troy, Michigan. This was the second year in a row that the conference was held in the greater Detroit area. The conference grew from 200+ attendees last year to over 300 this year, with attendees coming from more than twenty…

 PDF CIMdata recently attended Infor’s Inforum 2012 in Denver, Colorado. For 2012, the event was combined with the former Lawson CUE user conference. It was positioned as a global event with attendees interested in all of Infor’s business lines and geographies supported. Infor stated that they expected over 5,000 attendees.…

 PDF Dassault Systèmes announced their acquisition of Gemcom Software International (Gemcom), a leader in mining software solutions, and the creation of a new Dassault Systèmes brand to support modeling of the planet and natural resources — GEOVIA. Gemcom, a global company with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, provides software and services…

 PDF CIMdata was invited to attend and speak at Autodesk’s One Team Conference (OTC) 2012 in Las Vegas during the week of March 11. Over three thousand Autodesk global partners and employees attended this annual event, which was greatly anticipated following a recent series of important Autodesk® announcements targeted at…