This product review details the full range of VERICUT’s functionality, beginning with the capture of NC programs and related data from a CAM system, verifying and simulating CNC machining, and creating shop floor CNC machine set-up information and documentation. The product review also details the features, functions, and benefits of the VERICUT software module Force as applied to optimizing and improving the run-time of NC tool paths. The goals and characteristics of CGTech’s training and support capabilities as well as CGTech’s go-to-market strategy round out the topics.

This program review addresses elements of the full range of Tebis software functionality, beginning with capturing and importing customer product and component data through to final assembly; and for die making beyond assembly through to tool tryout and correction. This review also addresses Tebis Consulting, the Tebis AG department that provides manufacturing related consulting services. Tebis AG’s present and future outlook, as well as their software go-to-market strategy, round out the topics covered in this review.

With a secure, highly-scalable multi-tenant cloud-based service, Arena has developed a broad PLM solution suite that provides the ability to quickly and cost effectively deploy fully integrated PLM capabilities for innovative enterprises and their supply chain partners. Customers have the flexibility to start with the basic capabilities they need and easily add or plug in new, more complex functionality that will grow their product development environment as their needs grow—or contract. Arena’s supply chain solutions enable enterprises to adapt to changes without imposing major costs on themselves or their partners. Often, Arena PLM can be self-implemented for small enterprises and an IT staff is not necessary to deploy, run, or maintain it. With its cloud centric solution, Arena also has the ability to evolve and scale to meet the requirements of both SMBs and large multi-national enterprises.

CIMdata believes that Arena provides a cost effective PLM solution suite that can meet the needs of many manufacturers. Companies of all sizes that are looking to implement or expand their PLM and product development environment should include Arena Solutions in their evaluations.

This product review details the full range of VERICUT’s functionality, beginning with the capture of NC programs and related data from a CAM system, verifying and simulating CNC machining, and creating shop floor CNC machine set-up information and documentation. The product review also details the features, functions, and benefits of the VERICUT software module OptiPath^® as applied to optimizing and improving the run-time of NC tool paths. The goals and characteristics of CGTech’s training and support capabilities as well as CGTech’s go-to-market strategy round out the topics.

This paper explores OPEN MIND Technologies offerering of a comprehensive CAD/CAM solution, ranging from 2- up to 5-axis machining.

This paper describes the added value of this new solution for Solid Edge customers, and how the Microsoft SharePoint platform enables them to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and immediately benefit from the integration of design data and processes with their other business processes.

This paper discusses many of these issues and how Infor10 PLM Process (Optiva) is enabling its users to achieve business goals profitably.

This paper focuses on the major business issues faced by companies in the industrial machinery market, and the keys to success in applying PLM-enabling solutions to achieve business and market success.

Presents the challenges that companies face in selecting and deploying suitable modern, productive CAE environments across relevant CAE user organizations to achieve collaborative business benefits, defines the key necessary elements of such environments, and describes how Siemens PLM’s NX CAE responds to those needs.

This paper presents the challenges that companies face in deploying modern, productive simulation lifecycle management (SLM) environments, defines the key necessary elements of such environments, indicates the benefits that SLM can deliver, and describes how Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA SLM product suite responds to those needs.

Describes the CIM DATABASE offering and documents the success stories of several of CONTACT Software's many customers.

Describes their efforts, their current SAP PLM portfolio, and how they bring their solutions to market.

This paper focuses on the needs and challenges that companies are currently facing in quickly deploying flexible BI solutions and their use in PLM. It also presents eQ Technologic’s “Rapid-BI” solution (called "eQube®-BI)

Paper details the use of SpaceClaim Engineer as a tool to prepare CAD model geometry for finite element meshing prior to analysis.

This paper considers the challenges that companies are currently facing, defines a SOA-based unified PLM architecture approach, describes the benefits that it can deliver, discusses factors companies should consider in evaluating whether to transition to a unified architecture, and discusses approaches to such a transition.

Paper reviews the solution suite of Visual Components (www.visualcomponents.com) that allows companies to improve their methods of transforming their product designs into real products.

This paper describes the challenges companies are facing, why and how they need to work smarter, how a SOA-based enterprise information and process management approach enables a smarter business, and how IBM and Siemens PLM Software have teamed to form an alliance that leverages the strengths of each to enable companies to accelerate their business.

This paper describes the challenges companies are facing, why and how they need to work smarter, how a SOA-based enterprise information and process management approach enables a smarter business, and how IBM and Siemens PLM Software have teamed to form an alliance that leverages the strengths of each to enable companies to accelerate their business.

Describes some key challenges faced by companies as they transition their PLM implementations through the series of version releases provided by their PLM solution suppliers.

Provides CIMdata’s reflections as well as describing the experiences of Autodesk customers and their perceptions of Autodesk’s technology and program.

Traces the roots of Siemens PLM Software's next generation Teamcenter "unified" platform—from a set of integrated PLM enabling applications to a new extended enterprise enabled four-tier unified architecture that incorporates the latest in technology and business functionality.

Describes some of the compelling business drivers for IP Lifecycle Management and how Dassault Systèmes' V6 IP Lifecycle Management capabilities support this critically important area.

Provides CIMdata’s perspective on the ENOVIA V6 Program Management Solution from Dassault Systèmes. This report describes how this solution delivers value to the enterprise.

Presents the major drivers for why this new architecture is important in the current PLM market space and how it provides tangible and important benefits to, and lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) of PLM for companies that adopt V6.

Presents the case for the need for an easily deployed and used part catalog solution that integrates with a company's native CAD environment.

Describes IFS’ broad and comprehensive family of business applications that meet many of the specific needs required by project-oriented companies in key functional areas of their operations.

Provides CIMdata’s perspective on the transition that Autodesk is executing to transform itself from a supplier of individual PLM-focused point solutions to a supplier of industry-focused solutions that can be the fundamental platform for a company’s overall PLM strategy.

Provides an overall description as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the Teamcenter Express program for the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market.

This paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis; the motivations for its use, its value and future, and the importance for making CFD available to all engineers earlier in the product design/development lifecycle.

Find out how PLM-enabled collaboration provides savings and supports the requirements for multiple industry verticals, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics/high tech, and fabrication and assembly.

Readers will find an overall description of collaboration between the ECAD and MCAD disciplines and presents issues and benefits as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the ECAD-MCAD collaboration solutions of PTC and Mentor Graphics.

Readers will find an overall description of collaboration between the ECAD and MCAD disciplines and presents issues and benefits as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the ECAD-MCAD collaboration solutions of PTC and Mentor Graphics.

Provides an overall description of the Enterprise Simulation Management (ESM) market as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the SimEnterprise program.

Identifies the challenges that businesses face in today’s markets that are driving development and deployment of PLM solutions, the evolution of PLM, DS’ key role in PLM, and a review of their new V6 program.

Provides a review of mid-sized companies’ challenges, a brief description of the ENOVIA SmarTeam solution suite, and customer reports based on CIMdata interviews with a select group of customers from various industries and geographies.

Identifies the challenges facing businesses today, SAP’s approach to helping companies address these challenges through their business strategy-based initiatives, PLM’s role in supporting those initiatives, and a detailed look at SAP’s new PLM roadmap.

Offers perspective on the Velocity program since its inception, including a status of the program as it exists and observations about its progress.

Describes PDM technology’s BlueStar PDM/PLM solution and the benefits that result from it being developed on top of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution’s information technology (IT) platform.

Solutions for Mid-Sized Companies through CATIA PLM Express and ENOVIA SmarTeam.

Describes the benefits of Comet's framework for managing PLM, CAE, and CAD data.

Describes Product Lifecycle Management’s (PLM’s) role in supporting the automotive industry’s Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process framework.

Discusses usage of Proficiency’s Collaboration Gateway to leverage product knowledge.

Exploration of new IT capabilities to gain user acceptance of and improve the quality of business processes and accelerate the speed of multi-application implementations and a review of ECS’s eCenter product with respect to these capabilities.

Description of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), its use in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution enablement, its benefits and how one company, UGS, is adopting SOA throughout its product suite.

Describes the difficulties generally associated with traditional approaches to configuration management and how Configit Software’s technology has been designed to overcome many of them.

Describes the role of a Mockup Visualization and Publishing (MVP) solution in the effective dissemination of product information within multidisciplinary product development teams and offers details about the capabilities of Seemage’s MVP Solutions.

Provides CIMdata’s overall review and assessment of CONTACT Software GmbH and their PLM solution and includes Market Position, Operations, Product and User Assessments.

“Cimmetry's AutoVue Enables Global Product Development”. Demonstrates the usefulness and benefits of employing visualization and collaboration solutions in all roles throughout the enterprise and beyond. A checklist of requirements of an effective visualization and collaboration solution is provided, as well as a description of Cimmetry’s AutoVue solutions.

Provides an introduction to both PLM and to Dassault Systèmes’ PLM program, with a review of their program that is focused specifically on the Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industries.

Examines Rules-driven Product Management and the way it can help organizations retain and access knowledge of products and includes results from survey of RuleStream users.

Identifies PLM and its benefits for mid-sized companies and reviews SofTech’s ProductCenter PLM solution offering including results of interviews conducted with a number of SofTech’s customers.

Results of a survey of a cross section of SMARTEAM® customers to understand the improvements these companies have achieved in a number of product-related business processes.

Discusses Federation services that provide convenient and rapid data access for organizations that have to conduct their product development activities in a distributed environment. A federated approach enables these organizations to automatically maintain their product information in multiple geographic locations so that it can be quickly accessed without the need for moving large blocks of information on an on-demand basis.