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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...

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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...