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 PDF In todayʼs fast–paced world, controlling product cost and getting to market on time are keys to business success. If you cannot deliver quality products profitably you will not stay in business. In the highly competitive food and beverage industry, formulated products range in price from less than a dollar to a few dollars. When you think about the cost of the package, the weight of the product, and the transportation and handling costs to get it from the factory to your grocery bag, itʼs hard to imagine there is room for any of the formulated product cost. Those costs include the people to define, plan, and manufacture the product; the factories and production equipment; the cost of raw materials and purchased ingredients; and the processing of the raw materials and ingredients to convert them into finished products. Food and beverage products are primarily based on agricultural commodities prices, which fluctuate based

 PDF Transit companies face many of the same issues of companies in other industries. They need to improve the productivity of their people, their processes and their capital investment (i.e., infrastructure, rolling stock, etc.), they want to provide better service to their customers, they need to improve their top and bottom lines, and they need to be able to rapidly adjust to changes in market demand. At the same time, they are dealing with aging infrastructures that require higher levels of maintenance and (good news) increase ridership. Most transit companies have used traditional paper-based (or now Excel-based) tools and document management systems to help manage maintenance issues. While such solutions provide some of the functionality needed, they do not provide the integration of information and processes needed to help a company significantly improve their productivity and profitability. Paper-based and document based systems do not have links between actual product definition information and its

 PDF Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management Summit 2012 Oracle held its 2012 Agile PLM Summit in February. This user-targeted event was similar in concept to past Agile customer conferences, known as Agility and attracted Agile PLM users from diverse business segments. The 2012 Agile PLM Summit had a number of themes for life sciences, high-tech electronics, and companies that design products using mechanical CAD systems. Over 200 users attended from more than 100 companies. One important concept presented by Mr. John Kelley, VP of PLM Product Strategy, and illustrated in the following figure, was that the reality of what constitutes a best practice in technologies and work processes is always changing—the benchmark continues to evolve. The challenge for organizations like Agile PLM is to constantly upgrade their capabilities to assure that the user is not stranded in an old paradigm. The challenge for PLM users is to recognize that change is continuous, and

 PDF On October 24, 2011, Siemens PLM Software (Siemens PLM) announced a partnership with Local Motors, an American car company employing a distinctive, collaborative approach of crowd sourcing to vehicle design. While Local Motors calls their design methodology co-creation, it is known more broadly as community-based design. The approach leverages a global, open, design community that contributes to the definition and design of an automobile. On November 11, Siemens PLM followed with a second announcement that they will offer all contributors to the Local Motors’ automotive product designs a new, exclusive streamlined version of Solid Edge software for a monthly subscription fee of $19.95 beginning January 1, 2012. Siemens PLM indicated that Local Motors would establish a limited number of these subscriptions using a trial version before the start date./p> In discussions with CIMdata, Siemens PLM noted their in-depth talks with the leaders at Local Motors, where they jointly defined the list

 PDF Autodesk used the occasion of Autodesk University 2011 in Las Vegas on 29 November to introduce Autodesk 360, its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution suite that has been foreshadowed by the “Everything Changes” campaign of 2011. Previous to Autodesk 360, Autodesk provided workgroup-level data management capabilities for its CAD products through its Vault offering. While Autodesk Vault is part of their new PLM solution suite, Autodesk 360 expands on those capabilities in significant ways. In the past, Autodesk has eschewed PLM, claiming that it is much too difficult to implement and derive benefit from current offerings. This was heavily reinforced by CEO Carl Bass’ now famous anti-PLM rap, well known on YouTube. Reminded of this at the Autodesk 360 announcement Mr. Bass explained “We didn’t do PLM until we could do it right.” So, what has changed since then to influence Autodesk to enter the PLM fray? According to Mr. Bass

With the press of a button, a myriad of computerized technology activates beneath the inlaid wood and leather lined dashboard. The driver has just set in motion the results of thousands of hours of sophisticated engineering to execute a semi-automated parallel park. Programmed sensors; power steering; traction control and power, anti-lock brakes; computerized suspension; and voice instructions that indicate when to brake and when to shift; all smoothly interplay to deliver customer satisfaction—and park the car. Each system has been designed and manufactured by automotive specialists through the mechatronics interplay of mechanical, electric, and software control components. The world’s automotive industry continues to experience intense business and technology pressures to deliver these technology improvements within an environment of tightening budgets and resources. The explosive growth in electronic, computerized systems in the typical automobile is undeniable and experts predict its growth will continue unabated. This mounting sophistication is countered by increasingly focused

 PDF At the recent Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference in San Francisco, CA, customer presentations offered solid evidence of progress in the application of Oracle’s product lifecycle management (PLM) product suite in both emerging and traditional industries. Oracle also reported substantial enhancements to their PLM offerings, actual and planned, within the context of a framing vision that Oracle calls the “Product Value Chain,” which they say offers value beyond Product Lifecycle Management. This vision is consistent with Oracle’s concentration and success outside the traditional core of PLM—mechanical CAD work-in-process data management, and the traditional industries of automotive and aerospace. Investing in their PLM offering as an enterprise integration platform, with peripheral value point solutions especially tuned to the needs within emerging industries, continues to be a successful competitive strategy for Oracle. That said, John Kelley, VP Product Strategy for PLM, insists that Oracle has now gotten it right with new releases of

 PDF On November 8 through 10, Dassault Systèmes held the Dassault Systèmes Customer Conference (DSCC 2011) at Caesars Palace, on the Strip in Las Vegas, NV. The glamour and glitz outside were more than matched by the high wattage firepower on the main stage. Most of the top Dassault Systèmes executives were front and center, cheering on their leading customers like Johnson & Johnson, Bell Helicopter, and Benetton. The wide range of industries represented by these customers is indicative of the shift at the company over the last several years to broaden their traditional strengths in “planes, trains, and automobiles,” to successfully compete in apparel, consumer packaged goods, and even services applications of PLM. As usual, Bernard Charlès revved up the crowd with a passionate speech about his company, and how they plan to move forward over the coming decades. According to Mr. Charlès, customer adoption of their Version 6 platform is

 PDF On November 9, 2011, Siemens PLM Software announced their acquisition of Vistagy, Inc., known mainly as a leading provider of composites design and manufacturing solutions. Vistagy has been a long-time partner of Siemens PLM Software, providing solutions to enhance the ability of their NX offering, to help customers more effectively design and manufacture composite structures. Vistagy also offers engineering services, and has expanded their product line in recent years to include other specialty applications. Most notably used in aerospace applications, composites use is spreading across many industries, and thus, composite design solutions are growing in importance. Automotive manufacturers are replacing steel and aluminum components with composites to reduce weight; in some cases simultaneously increasing strength and rigidity. In the broad consumer market, many tennis players rely on composite rackets to approximate the strokes and power of their favorite tennis players. But it is in aerospace that composites have made some things

 PDF Autodesk Analyst Day 2011 Autodesk held their 2011 Analyst Day at the Artists for Humanity (AFH) facility in South Boston on October 20. Nearly thirty analysts were invited to hear a company update by Autodesk executives. The setting was appropriate, as the AFH, the first LEED Platinum Certified building in Boston, was designed using Autodesk solutions. Leading off the day was Autodesk’s CEO Carl Bass, who spoke about “Autodesk Today and Tomorrow.” Some of his talk echoed their Investor Day presentation in June. Mr. Bass presented a chart depicting Autodesk’s customers by company size. Enterprise customers are at the tip of a very steep spike, but they are Autodesk’s fastest growing segment, now making up 30 percent of revenues. Even with their financial success and increasing work with large customers, Bass said that for years Autodesk has struggled to be known as more than the “AutoCAD company.” But Mr. Bass claims that he