PLM Industry Summary Editor: Christine Bennett Vol. 10 No. 23 Friday 6 June 2008
Contents Top Story _________________________________________________________________________ 3 CAM Software Market Leaders Named by CIMdata ____________________________________________3
Acquisitions & Mergers ______________________________________________________________ 5 ANSYS Acquisition of Ansoft Expected to Close in the Third Quarter of 2008 _______________________5 PCO / idCAD Merger: Creation of PCO Innovation Group _______________________________________5
CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 6 CIMdata Presentation: PLM Return on Investment (ROI) _______________________________________6 Results: CIMdata Opinion Poll on the Most Important Criteria in Your Company’s PLM Evaluation & Selection Process _______________________________________________________________________6
Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 7 ARM, Renesas Technology and Synopsys Define Industry's First Low-Power Verification Methodology __7 Avatech Solutions Launches New Manufacturing Consulting Services Group ________________________9 Delcam Still on Top of CIMdata CAM Rankings _____________________________________________10 EVE Appoints Koji Iwagami General Manager of EVE K.K. ____________________________________10 Symmetry Solutions Adds 3D Printing to its Technology Offerings _______________________________11
Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 11 Apache Design Solutions Offers Hands-On Tutorial on IP Validation for Macro and Embedded SoC at 45th Design Automation Conference ___________________________________________________________11 Apache Design Solutions to Host Methodology Presentations by Designers from Leading Semiconductor Companies ___________________________________________________________________________12 ASCON Took Part at CAD Conference in Germany ___________________________________________13 AVEVA Exhibits Latest Software Solutions for Engineering and Asset Lifecycle Management at the Global Petroleum Show 2008 ___________________________________________________________________14 Bluespec Demonstrates FPGA-BASED Models and Testbenches at DAC __________________________15 Dassault Systèmes Presents PLM 2.0 Vision, Demonstrates V6 PLM Platform at ENOVIA Customer Conference Europe _____________________________________________________________________15 Delcam to Preview New-Look PartMaker at IMTS ____________________________________________16 First Open Verification Methodology (OVM) World Summit to be Held at Design Automation Conference ____________________________________________________________________________________17 Knowllence: the Design Common Guideline, i.e. How Can Methodological Tools Complete The Product/Process Data Repository (PDM) ____________________________________________________18 LMS Announces 2008 Edition of the International LMS Engineering Simulation Conference 2008 ______19 New IBM Programs and Business Partner Products to Accelerate Software Delivery _________________20 New Engineering Simulation Software Performs Virtual Product Testing at 2008 Atlantic Design Show __22 Siemens PLM Software Announces Siemens PLM Day Korea ___________________________________22 ‘Welcome Beyond’ at DEVCON 2008,Dassault Systèmes’ Annual Technology & Developers’ Conference, June 17 & 18, 2008 _____________________________________________________________________23 World's Top Shipbuilders Congregate in Japan _______________________________________________24
Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 24 Oracle Sets the Date for its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Earnings Announcement _____________24
Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 25 Airbus to Deploy CæSAM Multi-Disciplinary Framework for A350 XWB Structural Analysis _________25 Copyright © 2008 by CIMdata, Inc. All rights reserved. CIMdata, Inc. 3909 Research Park Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Tel: +1 (734) 668–9922 Fax: +1 (734) 668–1957 E-mail:
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV Promotes Flomerics’ EFD.Pro from R&D to Mainstream Engineering Design ____________________________________________________________________________________26 Cirrus Design Soars with PTC® Product Development System __________________________________27 Delcam’s FeatureCAM Generates Hundreds of Programs Each Month ____________________________28 Domain Systems Successfully Deploys Oracle’s Agile PLM at Mindspeed Technologies ______________29 Hochland NATEC Decides to go SAP PLM with CIDEON _____________________________________29 Hynix Adopts Apache’s Dynamic Power Integrity Solution for DRAM Designs _____________________30 IFS Applications Selected by General Dynamics To Provide IT Backbone for Navy Logistics Contract ___30 Intergraph® Announces Golden Valve Award Winners at Annual Users Conference _________________31 Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Key to Development and Operation of One of the World’s Largest Coal-Fired Power Plants _________________________________________________________________32 Jotun Expands Collaboration with IFS ______________________________________________________33 Lahti Precision - Expertise that Weighs _____________________________________________________34 MediaTek Achieves Faster Time-to-Tapeout Utilizing Smart Hierarchical Modeling in Synopsys IC Compilers ____________________________________________________________________________34 Nalco Company Selects Open Text to Manage Business Content Across the Enterprise _______________35 OCE Selects Invention Machine to Accelerate Product Delivery and Discover New Market Opportunities 36 Oticon Tapes Out Innovative Hearing-Aid DSP Using Synopsys IC Compiler_______________________37 Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) Standardizes on Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise ___________38 Sequence Signs Chelsio, Sets Milestone: 100th PowerTheater Customer ___________________________39 Tyco Thermal Controls Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise ______________________________40 Urban Outfitters Looks to Reduce Cycle Times and Manage Rapid Growth With TradeStone’s Merchandise Lifecycle Management Suite _____________________________________________________________41 Wisconsin Department of Transportation Selects Autodesk 3-D Design Tools for Road and Highway Design ____________________________________________________________________________________42
Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 43 Adobe Launches Public Beta of Acrobat.com ________________________________________________43 Adobe Unveils Acrobat 9 Software ________________________________________________________44 Altair Expands Reach of HyperWorks With New Canadian Channel Partners _______________________45 Aras Achieves Four Star Certification Rating for Complex Enterprise Product Configuration & Change Management __________________________________________________________________________46 Capvidia Releases FlowVision HPC _______________________________________________________47 Cimatron Expands Offering in China with GibbsCAM Machining Solutions ________________________48 Corel and Right Hemisphere Partner to Bring Complete 3D Technical Illustration Solution to Market ____48 Corel Announces Pre-Release Public Technology Preview of Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 ___49 Dassault Systèmes Unveils ENOVIA Life Sciences Accelerator for Engineering Design ______________50 Delcam’s FeatureCAM Certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009 ___________________________________51 ESI Group Announces New Agent in Brazil _________________________________________________51 Geometric’s DFMPro™ Awarded Solution Partner Status by SolidWorks __________________________52 Gerber Technology Launches First of New Series of Cutting Solutions ____________________________52 I-Cubed Launches Rights Management Practice Solutions for Rights Management Initiatives __________54 IBM Extends Enterprise Content Management Software Portfolio With Business Content Services ______55 IBM Tranforms How People Work Together To Deliver Software ________________________________56 Intergraph® SmartPlant® Foundation 2008 Offers Unique Engineering Collaboration Platform_________58 Maple 12 Language Editions Increase Global Reach and Coverage of Software _____________________60 Mastercam X2 Now Certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009 ______________________________________61 MSC.Software Announces Integrated Enterprise Simulation for PTC Product Development Solutions____61 New Summer ’08 Release Expands Core Arena PLM Functionality to Facilitate Better Designs, Decisions, and Products __________________________________________________________________________62 PTC Announces Windchill® ProductPoint™ Its New SharePoint®-Based Solution for Product
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Development __________________________________________________________________________64 PTC Introduces ProductView™ Visual Collaboration Software, Represents New Generation of Unified, Scalable Visualization Platform ___________________________________________________________65 Right Hemisphere's 3D Visualization Technology to Integrate With SAP PLM ______________________67 SimManager R3 Delivers Breakthrough Productivity with Workgroup to Enterprise Scalability _________68 SPT Group and CD-adapco Announce Initiative To Enhance Computational Flow Assurance __________69 Synopsys Delivers Comprehensive Design Support for TSMC 40-Nanometer _______________________70
Top Story CAM Software Market Leaders Named by CIMdata 2 June 2008 In the recently-released Version 17 of the NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment Report, consulting and research firm CIMdata Inc. named the worldwide CAM software market leaders for 2007 and projected those expected to be market leaders in 2008. For 2007, Dassault Systèmes was the market leader on the basis of both vendor revenues received and end-user payments for CAM software and services, CNC Software was the leader on the basis of industrial seats shipped, and Planit Holdings was the leader on the basis of industrial seats installed. SolidCAM was named as the most rapidly-growing vendor. Mr. Alan Christman, CIMdata Chairman and primary author of the report noted that, “Even though there have been a number of recent mergers and acquisitions, the CAM software market continues to be highly-fragmented and competitive. There is no single vendor or small group of vendors that dominate the worldwide market. CIMdata tracks approximately 50 CAM software vendors and the rankings in the Report each list 20-30 vendors, depending upon the category. The 2007 leading vendors on the basis of CAM software and services revenue received were Dassault Systèmes, Siemens PLM Software, PTC, Delcam, Planit Holdings, NDES (formerly Hitachi Zosen Systems), Tebis, Missler Software, Cimatron, and CNC Software. Dassault Systèmes and Siemens PLM Software were the clear leaders with double digit market shares and a combined market share of 27.9%. The remaining eight vendors in the top ten had a combined market share of 38.4% and the remainder of the vendors below the top ten had a combined market share of 33.7%. This data is shown in the following chart.
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2007 Market Share of the Largest NC Vendors at the Vendor Level
The 2007 top five vendors on the basis of CAM industrial seats shipped were CNC Software, Planit Holdings, Dassault Systèmes, Delcam, and PTC. The seat count rankings are significantly different than the vendor revenue rankings. For example, CNC Software was listed as the leading vendor on the basis of industrial seats shipped, but only the tenth-largest on the basis of vendor revenue received. Conversely, Siemens PLM Software was the second-largest vendor on the basis of revenue received, but fell out of the top five on the basis of industrial seats shipped. The changes in rankings are primarily due to the differences in level and breadth of product and associated software pricing among the vendors. The worldwide five most rapidly-growing CAM software vendors on the basis of revenue received in 2007, as compared to 2006, were SolidCAM, Cimatron, OPEN MIND, Missler Software, and Dassault Systèmes. SolidCAM, and Cimatron each achieved revenue growth in excess of 30% in 2007, as compared to 2006. Over the past five years, SolidCAM has been the consistent growth leader with annual growth rates in the 30% range. For 2008, CIMdata is projecting that the five most rapidlygrowing companies will be Cimatron, SolidCAM, Geometric Technologies, OPEN MIND, and Dassault Systèmes. The rapid growth of Cimatron in 2007 and 2008 is a combination of improved organic growth and the acquisitions of Microsystems in 2007 and Gibbs and Associates in 2008. CIMdata also did worldwide rankings based on brand name as well as by total vendor. In some cases, this made a significant difference as some vendors only offer products under one brand and some offer products under multiple brands. The multiple brands offered are typically the result of acquisitions and then maintaining the acquired product as a separate brand. For example, the five largest brands for industrial seats shipped in 2007 were CNC Software Mastercam, Dassault Systèmes CATIA, PTC Pro/ENGINEER, Siemens PLM Software NX, and Planit Holdings AlphaCAM. As such, CNC Software Mastercam was the leading brand on the basis of industrial seats shipped, whereas some vendors such as Planit Holdings and Delcam had their shipments spread over multiple brands. Other vendor rankings contained in Version 17 of the NC Market Assessment Report include those for the educational market, those based on revenue by geography and industry, those for verification and post-processing vendors, the total number of people in a company, product development, direct sales, and the number of resellers per company. Version 17 of the NC Software and Services Market Assessment Report is available for purchase by contacting CIMdata at +1 (734) 668-9922 or by emailing to
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Acquisitions & Mergers ANSYS Acquisition of Ansoft Expected to Close in the Third Quarter of 2008 4 June 2008 ANSYS, Inc. announced that, as a result of the Securities and Exchange Commission's continuing review of the Registration Statement on Form S-4, it currently expects to close the acquisition of Ansoft Corporation in the third quarter of 2008. ANSYS had previously announced that it had expected to close the acquisition in the second quarter of 2008. As previously announced, ANSYS and Ansoft have entered into a definitive merger agreement in which ANSYS will acquire Ansoft for a purchase price of approximately $832 million in a mix of cash and ANSYS common stock. Consummation of the transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of the Ansoft stockholders. Click here to return to Contents PCO / idCAD Merger: Creation of PCO Innovation Group 28 May 2008 idCAD Consulting and PCO Technologies announced their merger resulting in the creation of PCO Innovation, a global consulting and services group specialized in the implementation of the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) approach and in the optimization of innovation processes. The merger between the French company PCO Technologies, PLM pioneer founded in 1997, and the Canadian company idCAD Consulting, offering its global expertise since 2000, is welcomed by both entities’ customers. The strategic merger broadens and complements each company’s expertise and geographical reach in the PLM market. PCO Innovation, strong in its European and North-American cultures and know-how, brings an array of services and solutions. PCO Innovation’s expertise is especially well-known to tackle every step of the PLM Information System, whether at a functional level (methodology, support, etc.), or at the information technology level (customization, integration, maintenance, etc.). Further to offering a strong technology expertise, PCO Innovation proposes its know-how in Consulting, Change Management and Project Management, and has already established key partnerships with the major specialized software editors. Olivier Letard, founder and co-CEO, points out the company's key assets which will guarantee its successful development: > A unique position on the high-growth PLM segment; > A guarantee of legitimacy in consulting through PLM software editors’ independence; > A global action capacity combined with high reactivity; > A complete offer combining consulting, technological integration and change management; > A mission of customer service and commitment; > A wide range of customers of different sizes and from different industry sectors;
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary > A strong, specialized hiring team; > Well-managed teams adopting a friendly approach. PCO Innovation intends to become the world's leading independent supplier of consulting and services specialized in PLM. With a history of sustained growth, the group will exceed 500 employees in 2008 and is expected to reach 1000 within the next 3 to 5 years. Click here to return to Contents
CIMdata News CIMdata Presentation: PLM Return on Investment (ROI) 13 June 2008 Who: Ken Amann, CIMdata Director of Research Event: 2008 Greater China PLM Executive Summit When: June 13, 2008 Where: Kempinski Hotel in Dalian, China Topic: PLM Return on Investment (ROI) Click here to return to Contents Results: CIMdata Opinion Poll on the Most Important Criteria in Your Company’s PLM Evaluation & Selection Process 6 June 2008 In another sign that PLM is moving from the engineering department to the board room, more than 55% of the those responding to CIMdata’s latest opinion poll indicated that the most important criteria in their company’s PLM evaluation and selection process were the ability to address their process and business requirements. Coming in a second with approximately 18% were technology features and functions. In CIMdata’s experience this illustrates that more and more companies understand PLM’s business enabling characteristics and as a result fewer companies see these solutions as just an extension of a computer-aided design (CAD) system. Additionally, less than five percent (5%) indicated that the products and solution suppliers they currently work were an important criteria in their company’s new PLM evaluation and selection process. This would appear to indicate that an incumbent PLM solution supplier doesn’t have a significant edge in new competitive situations. This may reflect a willingness to change, dissatisfaction with the incumbent, or a potential underestimation of the effort/cost that could be required to migrate from a long-time established environment. Finally, it is important to note that just less than twelve percent (12%) indicated that the future vision and direction of the supplier played an important role. In CIMdata’s opinion this is somewhat disappointing and it may indicate that either today’s solution suppliers are doing a poor job communicating their vision and direction and its value to their customers or that industrial companies are too focused on today’s (short term) requirements – a situation that can have long term negative
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Company News ARM, Renesas Technology and Synopsys Define Industry's First Low-Power Verification Methodology 3 June 2008 Synopsys, Inc. announced that it has collaborated with ARM and Renesas Technology to define the industry's first methodology to address the rapidly increasing complexity of low power verification. The companies are documenting the methodology in a new book titled "Verification Methodology Manual for Low Power Designs" (VMM-LP) that will enable rapid and broad deployment of industry best practices for comprehensive verification of low power designs. The new VMM-LP is based on the collective verification and IP experience of ARM, Renesas, and Synopsys, and builds on the methodology originally published in the proven "Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog" book developed by ARM and Synopsys. The adoption of aggressive power management techniques has led to an increase in verification complexity, creating a need for a structured and reusable verification environment to achieve power goals and first-pass silicon success. The VMM-LP documents the common causes of low power bugs, provides rules and guidelines for low power verification, specifies a SystemVerilog base class library facilitating the setup of a reusable verification environment, and recommends assertions and coverage techniques to achieve comprehensive low power verification. The source code for the SystemVerilog base class library described in the VMM-LP book will be made available with VMM standard libraries and applications under the popular Apache 2.0 open source license. "In 2007, 2.9 billion ARM Powered® processors were shipped into the market. As a leading provider of low-power semiconductor IP, we recognize the need for a rigorous verification methodology for successful deployment and integration of that IP," said John Goodenough, worldwide director of design
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary technology for the office of the CTO at ARM. "The Verification Methodology Manual for Low-Power Design helps address this need by capturing the collective expertise and methodologies of industry lowpower leaders across multiple market segments." "Comprehensive functional verification of our aggressively power-managed SoCs -- especially PMPtargeted devices containing tens of power states -- is a major engineering challenge. We believe the VMM-LP book will be a powerful tool in the hands of the chip verification community in achieving predictable verification closure of LP designs," said Santhosh Madathil, VLSI Design & Verification Practice Group head at Wipro Technologies. Low-power design techniques are used across electronic product market segments ranging from handhelds to enterprise servers. In addition to voltage-aware static and dynamic verification tools, such as MVSIM with VCS® and MVRC, which are part of the Eclypse™ low power solution from Synopsys, designers require a rigorous methodology to set up testbenches, generate test cases, attain coverage closure and pinpoint bugs using assertions. The VMM-LP methodology addresses these needs with guidelines, rules, assertions, coverage, and base classes based on proven industry best practices. "Our goal is to achieve first-pass silicon success for all of our power-managed designs," said Narayana L. Pidugu, senior director of the Hyderabad Design Center at Cypress Semiconductor. "Given our highly compressed development cycle, there is immense pressure on functional verification schedules. The methodology described in the VMM-LP is easily implemented by the MVSIM and MVRC low-power verification tools, which have already helped achieve our product development goals by enabling us to successfully deploy sophisticated power-management verification techniques in a consistent and reusable manner." "Low-power design techniques add an extra verification dimension to getting the product right the first time," said Hitoshi Sugihara, department manager of the DFM and Digital EDA Technology Development Dept. at Renesas Technology Corp. "We have successfully implemented the verification methodology for low power described in the VMM-LP book through our use of Synopsys' products. The VMM-LP methodology systematically outlines the best practices for low-power verification and will serve as a basic verification reference guide for Renesas." "Tools alone are not enough to address the verification challenges of multi-voltage techniques used in low-power designs," said Manoj Gandhi, senior vice president and general manager of the Verification Group at Synopsys. "Lack of a verification methodology for low power has created a significant void. We have collaborated with some of the low-power leaders in the industry by combining the verification expertise at ARM and Renesas to define a leading-edge, reusable methodology." About the VMM for Low Power The lead authors of the VMM-LP book are David Flynn, ARM fellow and co-author of the "Low Power Methodology Manual" (LPMM) [Springer]; Yoshio Inoue, chief engineer, Design Technology Division, Renesas Technology Corp.; Janick Bergeron, Synopsys fellow and moderator of the Verification Guild web site; and Srikanth Jadcherla, group director of Research and Development at Synopsys and founder of ArchPro Design Automation, Inc., which was acquired by Synopsys in 2007. The VMM-LP book defines a robust and scalable verification architecture that can be used to quickly setup and complete verification of low-power designs. The methodology will address all aspects of functional verification of power management functions, including suggestions for static versus dynamic verification, design-for-verification techniques, and use of assertions and coverage metrics to achieve rapid verification closure. Page 8
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Availability The VMM-LP book is currently scheduled for release in the fall of 2008. The source code for the SystemVerilog base class library described in the book will be available free-of-charge under the popular Apache 2.0 open source license on the VMM Central web site (http://www.vmmcentral.org/). To receive information about the availability of the VMM-LP book and source code, please register your interest at http://www.vmmcentral.org/vmmlp/. To learn more about the VMM-LP, register online at http://www.synopsys.com/dacvmm/ to attend the VMM User Forum lunch at the Anaheim Marriott on June 10, 2008 during the Design Automation Conference. Click here to return to Contents Avatech Solutions Launches New Manufacturing Consulting Services Group 5 June 2008 Avatech Solutions, Inc. announced the launch of the Avatech Consulting Services Group to meet the needs of the manufacturing sector. Trading on Avatech’s years of experience in engineering and design solutions, this new group will focus on providing process improvements that also impact client efficiencies outside of design and engineering. Benefits can extend enterprise-wide, affecting the shop floor, sales, purchasing, customer service, even suppliers—dramatically increasing profits. “New technology, in and of itself, is not enough,” said Scott Hale, vice president of the new consulting group for Avatech. “Improving and automating processes is often the key to achieving extraordinary productivity gains and lower costs. As technology evolves, however, many manufacturers find it hard to stay abreast of the best available advances and how to properly leverage them for the greatest time and cost savings across the entire company.” Hale continued, “Our consulting group will look beyond technology to create advantages for manufacturers that provide exponential time and efficiency gains. Our team thoroughly understands the key challenges regarding processes that manufacturers face. Team members have been pulled from a roster of Avatech experts who have a proven history of streamlining and automating processes that are nothing short of transformative. The new group will operate out of Avatech’s 18 existing offices across the country.” Avatech client SVI Trucks, a builder of fire, police, and multi-use emergency vehicles in Loveland, Colorado, wanted to speed delivery times and improve quality. “Avatech helped us integrate engineering, fabrication, and assembly processes, which allow us to build higher quality trucks in less time. The bottom line is that our customers receive better value and we are more efficient,” stated Dave Sargent, SVI’s engineering manager. “We have a long history of working with our clients to implement the latest design technology,” stated George Davis, president and CEO of Avatech Solutions. “With our new Consulting Services Group, we will be focusing sharply on clients’ business goals, while targeting processes in addition to technology. With global competition at a fever pitch, American manufacturers need these services more than ever to increase efficiency and control costs. All of us at Avatech see ourselves as partners with our customers in their innovation process, leading to increased market share and long-term corporate sustainability. “This initiative will directly support our stated objectives to leverage our deep talent pool and grow the
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary services component of our business,” concluded Davis. Click here to return to Contents Delcam Still on Top of CIMdata CAM Rankings 5 June 2008 Delcam continues to rank as the world’s leading specialist supplier of manufacturing software and services in the latest NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment from renowned US consulting and market research firm, CIMdata. The company increased its market share by achieving sales growth of 15% from 2006 to 2007, compared with an overall growth in vendor revenues of less than 8%. The report also confirmed that Delcam has the largest overall staff numbers devoted to CAM, including the largest CAM development team in the industry. Delcam’s Managing Director, Hugh Humphreys, was delighted with the results and claimed that they represented a clear validation of the company’s aggressive growth strategy. "For several years, we have aimed to build our company’s sales by diversifying outside our traditional market in the mould, tool and die sector and increasing our business in other areas, in particular in the automotive and aerospace sectors,” he commented. "We have achieved consistently above-average increases in sales through significant acquisitions, in particular, the FeatureCAM and PartMaker ranges of software, and through organic growth.” Mr. Humphreys also emphasised his company’s commitment to high levels of R & D investment as a key part of the company’s success. The CIMdata report states "over time one would expect the organization with the most resources to provide a greater breadth and depth of internally developed product” and Mr. Humphreys certainly supports this view. "Together, our complete set of CAM programs, PowerMILL, FeatureCAM, PartMaker and ArtCAM, comprises the world’s most comprehensive collection of machining software, giving us an unrivalled ability to provide solutions to all of a company’s programming needs,” he claimed. "This benefits larger companies, which can meet all of their CAM needs from a single supplier. At the same time, smaller companies can choose exactly the system they need for their particular combination of products and machine tools, rather than having to accept a compromise solution from a CAM supplier with a more limited range of software.” Mr. Humphreys is already confident of an even better showing in next year’s report. "We had our best quarter ever in the first three months of 2008,” he reported. "I am confident that this pattern will be repeated over the complete year.” Click here to return to Contents EVE Appoints Koji Iwagami General Manager of EVE K.K. 2 June 2008 EVE announced it has appointed Koji Iwagami to the position of general manager of EVE K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary based in Yokohama, Japan. Iwagami joins EVE from Mentor Graphics Japan, Co. Ltd, where he served as sales director for the electronic design automation (EDA) Solution Sales Division. Under his direction, Catapult-C synthesis became the number one high-level synthesis tool in Japan. Previously, he worked for Spinnaker Systems
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Inc. as senior manager in the EDA sales and marketing department. "We are delighted to welcome Koji Iwagami to EVE," remarks Tsugumi Fujitani, vice president of Japan and Asia Sales. "His tenacity and sales skills have been recognized throughout his career. With his track record in selling implementation and verification tools, he is well positioned to make EVE the number one choice of emulation and hardware/software co-verification solutions by design teams in Japan." Iwagami holds an industrial engineering degree from Seijo University in Tokyo. Click here to return to Contents Symmetry Solutions Adds 3D Printing to its Technology Offerings 2 June 2008 Symmetry Solutions, a local value-added reseller (VAR) of SolidWorks® technology solutions, announced it has become an official vendor of Z Corporation® 3D printers and scanners. Z Corporation is a manufacturer of 3D high-definition printing and scanning hardware, which produce full color physical prototypes from digital data. Symmetry Solutions believes 3D printing technology is a new essential for clients seeking the best in design capabilities at an affordable price. “We picked up Z Corporation products to better serve our customers’ design engineering needs,” explains Symmetry Solutions vice president of sales, Paul Rudin. “These rapid prototyping tools are easy-to-use and relatively inexpensive. And you can make a physical prototype out of a SolidWorks 3D model very quickly, to easily test or validate design form, fit or function.” Rudin cites several reasons for choosing Z Corporation’s technology over other brands on the market: 1) it is the only 3D printing technology with full color capabilities; 2) the material used contains no hazardous materials, making them more appropriate for use in office or studio environments; and 3) the relatively inexpensive price point. “With their focus on and expertise with the entire product development process, we are extremely excited to have Symmetry Solutions on board as a VAR,” says Andy DeHart, vice president of sales from Z Corporation. “They bring a turn key solution that delivers a fast ROI and the highest level of value to Z Corporation customers.” Symmetry Solutions has also signed on as a reseller of GeoMagic 3D software, which is sold as a companion to Z Corporation 3D scanning technology. Rudin reports that Symmetry Solutions intends to incorporate these new products into the technical support and training programs for its Midwestern customer base. Click here to return to Contents
Events News Apache Design Solutions Offers Hands-On Tutorial on IP Validation for Macro and Embedded SoC at 45th Design Automation Conference 4 June 2008 Apache Design Solutions will host a hands-on tutorial at this years’ 45th Design Automation Conference Page 11
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary (DAC), titled “IP Validation for Macro and Embedded SoC”. The tutorial gives attendees first-hand experience in running Apache’s products for validating embedded macro, analyzing full-chip power including package, and generating portable power delivery network model for co-design. WHO: Apache Design Solutions WHAT: Hands-on-Tutorial titled "IP Validation for Macro and Embedded SoC" WHERE: Design Automation Conference Anaheim Convention Center Room 213D WHEN: 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., PDT Monday, June 9, 2008 Specifically the tutorial will cover the following: • Block-level power analysis of a full-custom IP from Virage Logic using RedHawk-MMX • Package model extraction using PakSi-E • Full-chip power analysis including validated custom IP and package models using RedHawk-EV • Chip Power Model generation using RedHawk-CPM For more information please go to: http://www.dac.com/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=77-140 Click here to return to Contents Apache Design Solutions to Host Methodology Presentations by Designers from Leading Semiconductor Companies 4 June 2008 Apache Design Solutions will host methodology presentations by designers from Broadcom, IBM, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and TSMC at this years’ 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, California. The designers will share their best practices on critical design challenges such as SoC power and noise sign-off, custom IP validation, and chip-package codesign. For presentation details and registration, go to http://www.apache-da.com/apacheda/Home/NewsandEvents/Seminars.html#Customer (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser’s address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) WHAT: Methodology presentations by designers from Broadcom, IBM, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and TSMC WHERE: Apache Design Solutions, Booth #2311 Design Automation Conference, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA WHEN: Broadcom: Reducing jitter in DDR interface June 10, 2:00 pm June 11, 10:00 am
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary IBM: Power integrity and low power design analysis June 9, 12:00 am STMicroelectronics: Embedded memory validation June 10, 11:00 am Texas Instruments: EMI noise modeling and compliance June 9, 11:00 am Toshiba: Chip-package-system co-design for cost reduction June 11, 1:00 pm TSMC: Power integrity and signoff methodology June 9, 2:00 am The company will also be demonstrating their complete line of power, noise, and reliability platform solutions for SoC and package/PCB designs. Demonstrations and presentations will include: • SoC dynamic power analysis from early design to signoff • Low power verification including MTCMOS, VTCMOS, and LDO • Methodology for early stage analysis from prototype to design • Analog, mixed-signal power integrity • Chip-Package-System co-design • Package and PCB power and signal integrity • Hands-on-Tutorial on chip-package co-design methodology For more information and registration, go to http://www.apache-da.com/apacheda/Home/NewsandEvents/Seminars.html#Product (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser’s address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Click here to return to Contents ASCON Took Part at CAD Conference in Germany 4 June 2008 ASCON Group, developer of Mechanical CAD solution – KOMPAS-3D, participated at CAD Conference in Erfurt, Germany. Theme of the event was “More benefit from CAD!” to show which additional benefit could be brought from CAD solutions (for example with help of integration in all the process of production (CAM, CAP, PLM), through parametric CAD or through simulation or analysis etc.) This year CAD Conference for the first time in its history was with international participation – two representatives of ASCON hold their speeches among German-speaking members. Vladimir Zakharov, R&D Chief of ASCON, made speech “Compatibility and Integration of CAD/CAM/PLM Solutions” and Irina Voronkina, Chief of International Business Development, organized a presentation “KOMPAS-3D for professional Design and efficiency of production”. Both appearances were highly
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary regarded and came up for a spirited discussion at the conference, where representatives of mid-range and small business, educational institutions, students, engineers and industrial designers took part and presented their issues as well as results of research. All the visitors of CAD conference had the ability to familiarize, try in use, get all the additional information or Demo version of Mechanical Computer-Aided Design Solution – KOMPAS. ASCON was present with its own stand at a fair, which was organized in Congress Center of Erfurt. Click here to return to Contents AVEVA Exhibits Latest Software Solutions for Engineering and Asset Lifecycle Management at the Global Petroleum Show 2008 2 June 2008 AVEVA will exhibit its solutions for engineering and asset lifecycle management at the Global Petroleum Show (GPS) 2008, located at booth 4533 in the Technology Pavilion. GPS will be held from 10 to 12 June, 2008 at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta. AVEVA products to be showcased include: AVEVA Plant portfolio which is a set of integrated design and engineering applications combined with open and flexible lifecycle management solutions. It provides a fast, productive and risk-free way to design, build and operate large complex plants, whilst offering maximum flexibility in the choice of authoring tools. AVEVA Plant supports the entire plant lifecycle from concept, through engineering, construction, maintenance and life extension to decommissioning. At the heart of the AVEVA Plant portfolio is AVEVA PDMS. AVEVA PDMS, a leading 3D offshore design solution, is a datacentric, multi-disciplinary design environment for the 3D modelling of offshore structures. It has modules for the design of equipment, piping, HVAC, structure and cable trays. Modelling is carried out using a customer-defined catalogue and specification, in a full 3D environment, with the support of tools that ensure a clash-free design. A full range of drawings and pipe isometrics can be produced automatically from the model. AVEVA NET is an application-neutral environment for all engineering, operational, maintenance and safety data, no matter which programs created it. AVEVA NET makes data available and useful to a wide range of applications, including ready-made lifecycle solutions from AVEVA, customised solutions created by AVEVA and applications from other vendors. AVEVA's plant and marine solutions have been used on more than 3,000 major global engineering projects by over 1,700 customers worldwide on projects costing over USD $600 billion. In the Oil & Gas sector, over 80% of the largest production facilities in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico were designed using AVEVA technology in the last ten years, and 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders use AVEVA technology. For more information On Global Petroleum Show 2008 please visit http://www.petroleumshow.com/globalpetroleum/ Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Bluespec Demonstrates FPGA-BASED Models and Testbenches at DAC 3 June 2008 Bluespec™ Inc. will demonstrate a synthesizable model and testbench running at 35,000 times faster than event-based simulation and its new development workstation in Booth #2367 during the 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC). DAC runs June 8-13 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. Bluespec is the developer of the only general purpose high-level synthesis solution for synthesizable models, testbenches, control and algorithmic IP and System-on-Chip (SoC) interconnect. Its hardware demo, freed from the constraints of synthesizable RTL subsets, will show an FPGA-based implementation including hardware transactors, a synthesizable testbench, high-level models and AXI® bus components. An additional highlight will be Bluespec’s new Development Workstation for the design, analysis and debug of high-level models, testbenches and implementations. Rishiyur Nikhil, Bluespec’s chief technical officer, will present “From Executable Specifications to High-quality Implementations Using Bluespec,” June 8th, from 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. at the workshop, “High-Level Synthesis: Back to the Future,” in room 208A. Professor Arvind, Bluespec co-founder and board member, will present “HLS as an Enabling Technology: Some Complex Examples” from 1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. at the same workshop. Rishiyur Nikhil will also be chairing session 23, "Architectural and Precision Optimization in HighLevel Synthesis" on Wednesday, June 11th, from 9:00A-11:00A in room 210AB. Collocated at DAC, Professor Arvind and Rishiyur Nikhil will be giving a tutorial entitled “Hands-on Introduction to BSV (Bluespec SystemVerilog)” on Saturday, June 7, 2008, in room 303B of the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Details and registration for the tutorial are provided on the MEMOCODE 2008 conference website at: http://svl1.cs.pdx.edu/memocode08/ Contact Bluespec’s Vice President of Marketing George Harper to schedule a demonstration. He can be reached at (781) 250-2200 or via email at
[email protected]. Click here to return to Contents Dassault Systèmes Presents PLM 2.0 Vision, Demonstrates V6 PLM Platform at ENOVIA Customer Conference Europe 3 June 2008 Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that its ENOVIA Customer Conference Europe (ECC Europe) in Munich, Germany will open today with more than 600 of Europe’s leading executives expected to attend. Over the next two days the event will provide a showcase for customer success stories, industry best practices and Dassault Systèmes’ V6 strategy. Themed “An Executive Perspective on PLM Collaboration,” the event features recognized leaders in innovation, key industry C-level speakers and Dassault Systèmes’ executives sharing their perspectives on how PLM best business practices are helping many of the world’s leading companies address market trends and challenges. Attendees at ECC Europe will learn more about the vision of “PLM 2.0” and experience Dassault
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Systèmes V6 PLM platform through education, training, demonstrations and customer presentations. The V6 platform delivers a single platform for all PLM business processes, available to anybody anywhere, spanning engineering/manufacturing groups, business and end-users. V6 also gives intelligent access to IP, regardless of its data source or location. “With last week’s announcement of V6 availability, ECC Europe provides an ideal opportunity for all of our customers, prospects and business partners to experience Dassault Systèmes’ vision for the future of PLM and the integral role that ENOVIA will play. The event also allows us to showcase our customer success stories in existing and new markets like apparel, high tech and life sciences and share best business practices,” said Joel Lemke, chief executive officer, ENOVIA, Dassault Systèmes. ECC Europe highlights include: • Keynote addresses from companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants; • “ENOVIA in Production” Customer Panel on Tuesday, June 3rd, featuring ABB Power, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge, Procter & Gamble, Warnaco; • Seven industry-specific tracks featuring customers, such as Sun Microsystems in high-tech & semiconductor; Scania and Bosch in automotive & transportation; Procter & Gamble in consumer packaged goods; • In addition, the following companies will be actively participating in ECC Europe’s PLM dialogue: Schuler, Bticino, Carraro, Stadler Rail, Sony Ericsson, Walter Wilhelm Associates, Cambridge Solutions, Prostep AG, and Toyota Motorsport, and more. • In-depth presentations and breakout sessions on the new V6 PLM platform and how it helps customers achieve PLM 2.0. • Day Two will feature sessions with Dassault Systèmes’ key technology leaders focusing on a variety of topics, including business process collaboration, enterprise federation and openness, mid-market solutions, mastering the supply chain and PLM 2.0 innovation. For more information on PLM 2.0 and V6, please visit http://www.3ds.com/V6. Click here to return to Contents Delcam to Preview New-Look PartMaker at IMTS 3 June 2008 Delcam will preview the forthcoming release of its PartMaker CAM software for programming turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes on booth D-3005 at the IMTS exhibition to be held in Chicago from 8th to 13th September. Major highlights of this new version of PartMaker, Version 9, include a revamped and more productive user-interface, improved capabilities for programming directly on solid models and improved machine simulation for the ever increasingly complex machine architectures of today’s multiaxis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes. A host of other productivity, user-driven enhancements will also be featured in PartMaker Version 9. The 2008 exhibition will be the first IMTS where PartMaker will be exhibited in the Delcam booth. The software will demonstrated along side Delcam’s other manufacturing products including the PowerMILL, FeatureCAM, ArtCAM and PowerINSPECT. The Delcam booth will be the largest CAM
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary booth at the exhibition, and will feature the most comprehensive range of CAM products at the show. "PartMaker Version 9 is another big step forward in the life cycle of the PartMaker suite of CAM software,” says PartMaker Inc. President, Hanan Fishman. "PartMaker Version 9’s enhanced user interface and other new features will make PartMaker users even more productive in programming their CNC equipment, while offering new users and even easier to learn, more capable CNC programming platform.” PartMaker is a Knowledge Based Machining system, allowing it to provide a substantial gain in programming efficiency by remembering the tools, material and process information necessary to machine individual part features. It thus relieves the user from re-entering the same features information for subsequent parts. It also improves productivity by placing the emphasis on tool management functions. PartMaker pioneered the field of specialist CAM software for turn-mills and Swiss-type lathes with its patented Visual Programming Approach for programming multi-axis lathes with live tooling. The software makes extensive use of pictures to help the user describe tools, part features and machining data. Synchronization of tools working on multiple spindles is achieved by a few mouse clicks. Click here to return to Contents First Open Verification Methodology (OVM) World Summit to be Held at Design Automation Conference 5 June 2008 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that the inaugural Open Verification Methodology (OVM) World Summit will be held Thursday, June 12 aligned with the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, Calif. This event will provide OVM users an opportunity to interact, share their successful experiences, and learn about upcoming enhancements to the methodology and its supporting library. The summit agenda includes multiple user presentations reporting the results of using the OVM on industrial projects, an opportunity for audience members to pose questions to a panel of OVM users, and a presentation from Mentor and Cadence on enhancement plans. The event runs from 7:40 a.m. until 11 a.m., including a complimentary breakfast. The OVM World Forum will be held at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, adjacent to the Anaheim Convention Center. For more information and free registration, users can go to: http://www.ovmworld.org/ovm-summit-form.php Open Verification Methodology The Open Verification Methodology, based on IEEE Std. 1800™-2005 SystemVerilog standard, is the first open, language-interoperable, SystemVerilog verification methodology in the industry. It provides a methodology and accompanying library that allow users to create modular, reusable verification environments in which components communicate with each other via standard transaction-level modeling interfaces. It also enables intra- and inter-company reuse through a common methodology and classes for virtual sequences and block-to-system reuse, and full integration with other languages commonly used in production flows. Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Knowllence: the Design Common Guideline, i.e. How Can Methodological Tools Complete The Product/Process Data Repository (PDM) 14 May 2008 Knowllence organized a conference dealing with: “from geometry to PLM 2.0, the design common guideline”, that welcomed 75 attendees. The aim was to introduce the methodological tools completing the usual technical data management systems and launch the collaborative platform for system engineering: TDC System.
This conference started with the testimonies of Philippe Bergin and Philippe Raffoux from Schneider Electric (Innovation department - R&D Efficiency & Quality). Their mission is to define world class processes and roll out appropriate tools, so that the 7,000 designers know how to achieve their efficiency and design sturdiness goals. Within the Radar (Required Activities of Design* to Achieve Robustness) project, Schneider Electric successfully implements the TDC software in the fields of functional analysis (VoC - Voice of Customer) and risk mastering (FMEA), throughout the steps of the offer creation process, whilst remaining DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) compatible. Jean-François Prevéraud (chief-editor of GISI) then presented the evolution of the engineering and design departments’ needs and requirements. While the PLM lifecycle management progressively disseminates, it should nevertheless not be limited to 3D geometry. It is such a strategic decision to opt for PLM 2.0 and integrate customers into the heart of the design process. Thierry Beaujon, CEO, then introduced the Knowllence vision. Knowllence is a methodological solution integrator into PLM 2.0. In a changing and uncertain, multicultural and complex environment, supporting the product/process development process with proven methodologies is no longer an option. In complement to the existing PDMs, Knowllence launches TDC System (*), a system engineering platform: To model the processes and guide the designers through the use of appropriate software modules: need analysis, requirement management, risk analysis, TRIZ, systematic innovation, etc. To direct and connect the information from the capture tools (TDC Worksuite captures the relevant data…) and from the storage/protection tools. Page 18
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary To alert the project teams of any impacting change. To inform on schedules, products and processes. Read more: http://www.knowllence.com/en/products/tdc_system.php Knowllence will detail these elements during several meetings in June in Paris: requirements management, TDC System demos, etc
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Click here to return to Contents LMS Announces 2008 Edition of the International LMS Engineering Simulation Conference 2008 5 June 2008 Worldwide simulation experts to meet in Paris to discuss real-life simulation for intelligent system engineering LMS has announced the dates for the International LMS Engineering Simulation Conference 2008 to be held at the Disneyland Resort in Paris, France on October 8th and 9th, 2008. In the past, top-level speakers from leading aerospace, automotive and advanced manufacturing companies have presented innovative viewpoints and personal insight in the latest product development and engineering trends. With its international scope, LMS is predicting the 2008 Simulation Conference to be a unique platform Page 19
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to discuss the latest developments in 1D and 3D simulation, intelligent system engineering, process integration and optimization. During the 2-day conference, engineering executives, senior managers and technical experts will share strategies and present application cases that illustrate how real-life simulation have helped them optimize their product development processes. The conference is the ideal venue to discover the latest technology evolutions in engineering simulation and to exchange best practices in application domains such as structural analysis, multibody simulation, vibrations, acoustics, fatigue and durability, vehicle dynamics, fluid systems, hydraulics and pneumatics, thermal management, electromechanical systems, intelligent control systems, single and multi-attribute optimization, and optimization for six sigma criteria. LMS invites engineering experts using LMS simulation software from around the world to submit an application or research presentation related to any of these topics before August 31, 2008. For more information about the International LMS Engineering Simulation Conference 2008, including presentation submissions, the early bird registration discount and online registration, please visit the LMS Simulation Conference website at http://www.lmsintl.com/lmsconferences/europe. Click here to return to Contents New IBM Programs and Business Partner Products to Accelerate Software Delivery 2 June 2008 IBM announced software and programs to help clients more quickly and effectively deliver software in a global team environment. IBM is announcing Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, a proposed industry-wide initiative aimed at simplifying collaboration across the software delivery lifecycle. Through the initiative, IBM is inviting business partners, developers, ISVs and customers to collaborate on a common architecture, based on open Internet standards, to effectively integrate their software development processes. Currently, software development tools vendors work with private vocabularies, formats and data repositories, which act as barriers to openly sharing resources across the software lifecycle. With Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, IBM is proposing an open architecture to help ensure the interoperability of software development resources, such as project requirements and test plans, which would ultimately allow a customer to assemble their ideal software development platform using preferred tools and vendors. Interested participants can join the initiative at http://www.jazz.net/. IBM is also announcing new software being developed by IBM business partners Black Duck Software, CAST Software, CM-Logic, iRise, Mainsoft, QSM, Ravenflow, SourceIQ, Surgient, VMLogix and WebLayers to integrate with new IBM Rational Jazz-based products announced today at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference. The new offerings help customers deliver more reliable, higher-quality software to market while managing costs. Furthering its global software development strategy, IBM is also announcing the IBM Rational Ensemble, a free Jazz technology offering for IBM business partners, that provides independent software vendors (ISVs), resellers and systems integrators with education and services for IBM Jazzbased technology to accelerate customer awareness and adoption. The Rational Ensemble provides Web portal access with links into Jazz community pages and content, specialized sales and marketing resources for Jazz offerings, go-to-market training and materials, educational Webcasts and events, Jazz Web content syndication, and access to Jazz experts through special live and online events. Business
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Partners can join the IBM Rational Ensemble at http://www.jazz.net. “Businesses are looking to maximize the value they get from their software development investments while balancing teams comprised of globally dispersed project stakeholders,” said Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy, IBM Rational Software. “We are teaming with our partners to help organizations adopt a global approach to their software development and transform the way they work together.” New IBM Rational Business Partner Offerings and Incentives While the IBM Rational business partner community continues to grow, more than 1,000 business partners re-sold and fulfilled IBM Rational software products last year. At the same time, more than 60 ISV partners delivered more than 80 integrations of their products with the IBM Rational portfolio of offerings through the Ready for IBM Rational software validation program. To support the growing community, IBM is offering new Web-based tools and offerings that make it easier for business partners to grow their businesses with IBM software. IT decision makers rely heavily on search engines to locate products and services. IBM is now offering Internet Marketing and Web Content Syndication to deliver and share up-to-date IBM and business partner offerings and product information to assist in customer buying decisions. IBM is also providing Search Optimization Guidance to business partners looking to optimize their Web 2.0 technologies such as RSS, podcasts and blogs, as well as get tips for how to optimize Google and Yahoo searches for better results. IBM is also providing new sales and marketing tools to business partners looking to sell IBM Rational software into specialized customer environments. Grow Your Business with IBM Software is Webbased tool that automatically recommends IBM Rational cross-sell software scenarios that utilize business partners’ existing areas of expertise and available skills. Grow Your Business with IBM Software helps IBM Rational business partners plan for profitable growth with links to IBM-cross-brand marketing programs, product sales and marketing dashboards, and ROI analysis. For more information, business partners can visit: www.ibm.com/partnerworld/growyourbusiness. New IBM Rational Sales and Marketing Playbooks containing go-to-market content and demand generation information are now available to IBM Rational business partners. Playbooks including “Streamline and Optimize Portal Development,” “Prevent On-line Security Breaches of Web Applications,” and “Extend and Modernize Existing System i Applications” and many others are available at: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/partners/. An IBM Rational Team Concert playbook will be made available later this year. IBM is announcing new enhancements to its Rational Software Comes to You offering. IBM provides what a business partner needs to create a tailored event for customers in their own market including all relevant content from the 2008 IBM Rational Software Development Conference. Business partners can now co-host and manage events with IBM, infused with specific partner value and offerings, to gain market recognition and drive new leads for software and services. For more information about Rational Software Comes to You, business partners can visit http://www.ibm.com/jct9002c/partnerworld/mem/mkt/mkt_play_rsc2u.html Also at the Conference In related Rational Software Development Conference news, IBM announced winners of the inaugural Rational Awards recognizing business partners for delivering outstanding value to clients and innovative approaches to solving business issues. This year’s recipients Ascendant Technology, BSD Group,
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary CROZ, and Rocket Gang will be honored throughout the conference at Business Partner Day and main tent event activities. IBM Rational business partners BigLever, Instantiations, Ivar Jacobson International, Protecode, Relativity, Stoneworks, Surgient, and WebLayers will also demonstrate their product integrations and validations with products across the IBM Rational product portfolio including Telelogic DOORS and IBM Rational BuildForge. For more information, please visithttp://www.ibm.com/isv. For more information on IBM PartnerWorld visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld Click here to return to Contents New Engineering Simulation Software Performs Virtual Product Testing at 2008 Atlantic Design Show 2 June 2008 Noran Engineering, Inc. (NEi), announced that it will demonstrate new analysis and simulation software at the Atlantic Design and Manufacturing Show, June 3-5, 2008 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. NEi is at Booth # 338. Digital prototyping technology developed by NEi enables product engineers to visualize the response of their designs to structural and thermal loads before investing in physical prototypes and test programs. This means changes and optimization can occur early in the development process saving time, money and improving the ability to meet regulatory requirements like FDA approval. Features of interest to product developers include new virtual testing tools like Automatic Impact Analysis and Drop Test (AIA™), Design Optimization, Automatic Surface Contact Generation (ASCG™), and Hyperelastic and Composite Material modeling. AIA is used in a variety of areas including military projectiles, product packaging and drop testing of consumer electronic products like cellphones and laptops. Design Optimization finds solutions for design problems that are complex because of competing parameters, for example, structures that must be both strong and light. ASCG provides real world fidelity in modeling assemblies. Hyperelastic capabilities allow modeling of rubber like materials. Click here to return to Contents Siemens PLM Software Announces Siemens PLM Day Korea 2 June 2008 Siemens PLM Software announced ‘Siemens PLM Day’ Korea, the annual user conference to be held June 10, at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Korea. Siemens PLM Software will unveil the next big breakthrough in digital product development with synchronous technology, the PLM industry’s first-ever history-free, feature-based modeling technology that provides users with up to 100 times faster design experience than ever before. The company will also launch NX™ 6, the latest version of it digital product development software that provides features driven from synchronous technology and new versions of the complete Velocity Series™ portfolio, including Solid Edge™ software with synchronous technology. Velocity Series is the PLM industry’s first comprehensive, preconfigured portfolio of digital product
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary design, analysis, manufacturing and data management software for the mid-market. The portfolio, which includes Solid Edge, Femap®, Teamcenter™ Express, and NX CAM Express, was introduced two-anda-half years ago and since then has achieved consistent and strong growth for Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens PLM Software is proud to provide innovative products based on cutting edge new technology to the fast maturing Korean PLM industry,” said Kwon Kyung-Ryeol, vice president and managing director of Korea operations, Siemens PLM Software. “The new products will greatly enhance our technology’s ease of use and provide greater performance for our customers. “In addition to providing detailed information on synchronous technology, NX6 and Velocity Series portfolio, Siemens PLM Day will provide customers an opportunity to share best practices and meet with our partners to better leverage PLM investments.” Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in breakout sessions for Digital Manufacturing/Collaboration, CAE/Digital Simulation, Digital Product Development, SMB solutions and Velocity Series. Siemens PLM Software’s partners and channels including HP, Z Corp., Sun Microsystems, CITEK System, SPACE Solution, Cadians System, ISMS, KimiData, and Daoul system will provide insight into hot trends, strategies, PLM vision and their respective offerings for the PLM industry including custom tailored solutions. For more information about ‘Siemens PLM Day’ and to register please visit http://www.ugs.co.kr. Click here to return to Contents ‘Welcome Beyond’ at DEVCON 2008,Dassault Systèmes’ Annual Technology & Developers’ Conference, June 17 & 18, 2008 5 June 2008 Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced the dates of its eighth annual DEVCON Conference, where developers, managers and partners will meet, learn and exchange about the future of 3D and PLM. DEVCON will take place at Paris’ Palais des Congrès on June 17-18, 2008. The world of PLM is changing with the arrival of PLM 2.0 (‘PLM Online for All’) and Web 3D. DEVCON attendees will gain valuable information about these major breakthroughs through the PLM Technology Showcase, in-depth looks into Dassault Systèmes PLM 2.0 open and Web-based scalable platform, V6, as well as its first release just announced on May 29, V6R2009. Keynotes providing insight to these themes will be given by Netvibes Vice President Stefan Lechère, and Electronic Arts Concept Designer Martijn Steinrucken. In addition, DEVCON participants will be able to attend themed forum roundtables with various industry, consultant and academic opinion leaders. The Virtual Worlds Forum will cover 3D & Serious Games, Crowd Sourcing and Virtual Shopping with participants from L’Oréal, the Standford Research Institute, Wikipedia, Carrefour Group and many others. The Ideation Forum will cover Innovation & Creation Management, Virtual & Digital Innovation, and Design Innovation with participants like the Ecole des Mines de Paris, CERN, NY University, and Quadro Consulting. For more information about DEVCON 2008 and to register, visit: http://www.3ds.com/devcon. For more information specific to the Ideation Forum and Virtual Worlds Forum, please visit: http://www.3ds.com/news-events/devcon/forum.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Click here to return to Contents World's Top Shipbuilders Congregate in Japan 4 June 2008 The 26th AVEVA Marine Users' Meeting (AMUM), organised annually by AVEVA Group Plc, has entered its second day today. The three day event, attended by 250 delegates from 30 countries, features AVEVA products and updates, as well as AVEVA customer presentations from the world's top shipbuilders including Hyundai Heavy Industries, Universal Shipbuilding Corporation, Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction, SEDEF Shipyard, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Friede & Goldman. Kobe was chosen to host this year's event because of its close proximity to a number of key shipyards. Furthermore, the move to host AMUM in Japan demonstrates AVEVA's commitment to Japan following robust growth in the country, during the last financial year, after securing several multimillion USD contracts. Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, AVEVA's first marine customer in Japan, hosted a site visit for delegates to their famed Sakaide Works yesterday. It was there that Kawasaki built Japan's first LNG carrier. Richard Longdon, Chief Executive Officer, AVEVA Group Plc said: "Our customers and prospects have learnt more about AVEVA Marine solutions and have seen how they are being implemented in other yards through the site visit and customer presentations. We have constantly been improving our solutions and services to deliver customers the very best. This year, AVEVA's R&D funding will be increased by over 20% to USD40 million for that very reason." Peter Finch, President, AVEVA Asia Pacific said: "We see great potential in Japan's shipbuilding industry. Although ranked third following South Korea and China, they can increase their competitiveness by subscribing to AVEVA Marine's highly efficient design, production, and project lifecycle management solutions. This is exactly what 90% of South Korean yards and a majority of those in China have done, and now their bookorders are proof that they are benefiting from the use of our solutions." Click here to return to Contents
Financial News Oracle Sets the Date for its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Earnings Announcement 2 June 2008 Oracle Corporation announced that its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 results will be released on Wednesday, June 25, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call and live web broadcast at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) / 5:00 p.m. (EDT) to discuss the financial results. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the Oracle Investor Relations website at http://www.oracle.com/investor. Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Implementation Investments Airbus to Deploy CæSAM Multi-Disciplinary Framework for A350 XWB Structural Analysis 5 June 2008 SAMTECH announced the decision made by Airbus to deploy its new trans-national Structure Analysis environment ISAMI. ISAMI is made of an exhaustive collection of harmonized sizing tools developed or selected by the Airbus methods team plugged into the CæSAM CAE enterprise integration framework. CæSAM is a commercial tool developed by SAMTECH and some of the methods call SAMCEF parameterized finite element models and solutions. The new platform ISAMI will be used by Airbus for the composite and metallic structural sizing of the A350 XWB. ISAMI which stands for "Improved Structure Analysis Multidisciplinary Integration" is the transnational harmonisation solution designed to meet the structural analysis challenge. The purpose of ISAMI is to integrate the AIRBUS aircraft structure analyses in one single Computer Aided Engineering framework where all the computation processes, methods, software tools and data are fully embedded. The CAE multi-disciplinary framework CæSAM developed by SAMTECH was chosen by Airbus to be this single structure analysis framework supporting element/brick/stone/arm of the ISAMI project. “The A350 XWB is the first opportunity to use CæSAM industrially”, says Eric Carnoy, SAMTECH CEO. “By selecting our CAE framework CæSAM to tackle its important challenge in Aircraft Structural Analysis and in bringing Virtual Testing for aircraft certification to the front line, Airbus demonstrates once again its confidence and trust in SAMTECH. It strengthens the long term partnership that was initiated more than 20 years ago around the metallic and composite structural analysis capabilities of our SAMCEF FEA, solutions, non coincidentally part of ISAMI too”. About CæSAM CæSAM, (an acronym for "Computer Aided Engineering by SAMTECH") is a complete suite designed to go significantly further on the deployment and automation of capitalized Multi- Disciplinary analysis processes based on numerical simulation tools. Knowledge Management and Extended Enterprise The encapsulation of skills and knowledge into engineering Processes that combine and chain multiple Analysis tools is a natural way to ensure the re-usability and knowledge sharing, inside or outside a company while protecting its IPR. The analyst experts of the company (named hereafter “authors”) can autonomously build and document their own simulation process, involving commercial software, inhouse codes, but also re-engineered algorithms with the CæSAM development toolkit. This includes any kind of simulation, from simple analytic formulas to complex FE models, for whom advanced capabilities (pre- and post- processing, exchange...) are provided. Multi-Disciplinary Integration Platform and Up-to-Date Technology CæSAM offers an open architecture, mostly based on a plug-in approach and on programming standards such as JAVA, XML, SQL queries, Python. The core of this open architecture is a common “Analysis Model” created by the experts of the company and shared by all across the relevant disciplines.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary This architecture allows to work either linked to the in-house SDM (Simulation Data Management) or in stand-alone mode, making possible to use it in the early design stages and/or by off-line subcontractors. Visit http://www.samcef.com for details on SAMTECH Products/Services offer. Click here to return to Contents Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV Promotes Flomerics’ EFD.Pro from R&D to Mainstream Engineering Design 2 June 2008 Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV (http://www.bronswerk.nl), a leading manufacturer of heat exchangers and fans, has expanded use of Flomerics EFD.Pro from strictly research and development to everyday engineering design. EFD.Pro is a Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire-embedded Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software tool and is used by design engineers interested in understanding flow and heat transfer in their products. “It is very important to us to use EFD.Pro on a more regular basis” said Johan van der Kamp, chief design engineer. “But we are not analysis specialists and we do not know the full potential of what the technology can do for us.” To facilitate a successful transfer of “CFD know-how” from one department to the next, the Bronswerk engineering team has recruited two college students. Bas Bovenkamp and Willert Boevee, who will be graduating with mechanical engineering degrees in June from the prominent Windesheim School of Engineering and Design in the Netherlands, are working on this project as a part of their undergraduate coursework. “So far we have found EFD.Pro quite easy. You don’t need to be an expert at CFD; however, you need to be familiar with the item being studied” said Bovenkamp and Boevee. Bronswerk is a leading designer and manufacturer of heat exchangers (shell & tube and air-cooled), condensers, heaters, blowers, compressors and fans. Their products are used in the pharmaceutical, process and oil/gas industries by such notable organizations as Shell, Bayer, Philips and Nestle. Last year EFD.Pro was instrumental in the design and verification of a series of ground-breaking air-cooled coolers and fans. Having seen the successful use of CFD technology in their R&D department, Bronswerk was keen on using the technology for everyday engineering. To start the process, Bovenkamp and Boevee started to work on several examples based on flow through tubes to understand the full power of the software. A large proportion of the heat exchanger market consists of the tube-type heat exchanger. Tube heat exchangers are preferred for various applications due to availability of historical performance data and the range of temperature and pressure which they can withstand. “Tubes are deceptively simple-looking on the surface; however, flow through tube bundles can be very complex as the fluid may experience both laminar and turbulent regimes. When you add heat transfer to the equation then the problem becomes even more complex” said Boevee. “We have created a fair number of visualization plots as a result of these tests. They help us see what is really happening inside these tubes. It’s a great insight when you are able to see under which conditions the flow changes or when laminar flow becomes turbulent and how quickly” added Bovenkamp. As a by-product of this research, Boevee and Bovenkamp have created a “how-to” manual for the engineering team. This manual offers step-by-step instructions on how to use EFD.Pro for specific projects. “As EFD.Pro is a general purpose CFD tool, it has a lot of functionalities. Our range of applications is quite well defined so we wanted to create a handbook that would guide our engineers without having to get up a steep learning curve every time we want to work on a project” said Van der
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Kamp. “With this new Bronswerk ‘how to’ manual, all our designers will be able to use EFD.Pro to its full potential for everyday engineering.” Interested readers may watch a free EFD.Pro online demo at www.flomerics.com/products/efdpro/demo.php Click here to return to Contents Cirrus Design Soars with PTC® Product Development System 3 June 2008 PTC announced that Cirrus Design Corporation, a world leading innovator of single-engine, pistonpowered aircraft, has standardized on the PTC Product Development System (PDS) to optimize their product development process. Renowned for innovation in the general aviation industry, the Cirrus Engineering Team has led the marketplace by consistently delivering safety, advanced technology, performance, and comfort. The PTC PDS supports Cirrus’ rapid growth and focus on improving operational efficiencies across multiple facilities. The industry’s best selling aircraft, the SR20 and SR22, as well as “The Jet,” Cirrus’ highly anticipated owner-flown jet, have all been designed with Pro/ENGINEER. In addition to Pro/ENGINEER and its advanced capabilities including Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica® and Pro/ENGINEER Piping and Cabling, Cirrus uses Windchill for content and process management, Arbortext for technical illustrations and Mathcad for engineering calculations. The company plans to extend its Windchill deployment for collaboration and is evaluating broader use of PTC’s Arbortext to create and manage technical publications. Cirrus revolutionized the general aviation marketplace in the late 90’s by delivering advanced technology such as durable composite airframes, electronic flight displays, the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPSTM), and an ice protection system, all at industry affordable prices. Others soon followed, resulting in a highly competitive environment and compelling Cirrus to reduce time to market for the design, development, and offering of new features and technology. The PTC PDS supports Cirrus’ initiative to increase customer value through innovative and efficient product development practices. Cirrus depends on the PDS’s exceptional surfacing technology capabilities to manage large assembly models, and integral data management system supporting electronic design access by its integrated development teams and other manufacturing operations personnel. The Jet, with 18,000 components in its bill of materials, illustrates the complexity of Cirrus aircraft and highlights the need for an integral product development system to manage and control the flow of information, ensure visibility into product changes and support quality and compliance with FAA regulations. “Cirrus is committed to leading the general aviation industry with safe, high customer value and thoroughly engineered, personal aircraft,” said Patrick Waddick, senior vice president, Cirrus Design Corporation. “The PTC Product Development System provides a single, integral platform that delivers the capabilities needed to successfully meet the challenges of an increasingly complex product development environment and achieve our business objectives. We look forward to further leveraging the system capability, especially for external design collaboration, as we continue our rapid growth.” “PTC is proud to play a part in the Cirrus Design story. Cirrus Design is an excellent example of why small and medium businesses need to make technology decisions that support their strategic business objectives,” said James Heppelmann, executive vice president and chief product officer, PTC. “An aircraft is a complex product with an equally complex development process. PTC is committed to Page 27
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary providing the PDS capabilities to help companies like Cirrus Design optimize its product development process to help achieve its high standards for quality, safety and innovation.” Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill software were purchased through EAC Product Development Solutions, a PTC a Platinum Partner and Authorized Reseller since 2001. For more information on EAC, please visit http://www.eacpds.com. EAC and Fishbowl Solutions, an EAC partner and PTC Enterprise Software Partner since 1999, jointly provided the services for Cirrus’ Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill implementation. For more information on Fishbowl Solutions, please visit http://www.fishbowlsolutions.com. Click here to return to Contents Delcam’s FeatureCAM Generates Hundreds of Programs Each Month 4 June 2008 By using Delcam’s FeatureCAM CAM software, Tim Hawkins of Redline Precision Machine can generate hundreds of CNC programs each month. "We’re able to work on really short lead times. That’s where we generally outperform bigger companies. People come straight to me and I can get machining started almost immediately if they are really under pressure,” says Mr. Hawkins. Redline, which is based in Prosperity, South Carolina, specialises in machining prototypes and one-of-akind parts. Over the past thirteen years, the company has followed a path of slow and steady growth with a primary focus on quality and customer service. Starting with only a few manual machines, brothers Tim and Mark Hawkins have steadily increased their machining capabilities and added employees to keep pace with customer demand. Tim Hawkins, who runs the machine shop, enjoys the challenge of working on something different with every order. "Our biggest strength is our ability to adapt to the needs of the customer, no matter what. We never know what we’ll be doing two days in a row and that’s the way we like to keep it. We do a lot of prototype work and that’s what we’re good at,” states Mr. Hawkins. Almost five years ago, Redline purchased a 3-axis Bridgeport CNC milling machine to increase productivity, together with a copy of FeatureCAM 2D CAM software. Impressed with FeatureCAM’s powerful capabilities and ease of use, Redline decided to upgrade to FeatureMILL2.5D for regular production work and FeatureMILL3D for cutting more complex surfaces. Last year, a good customer needed parts produced for extrusion dies. The dies had intricate details and small radii that made the work impossible on a mill. When the customer said that he’d keep them busy if Redline could produce good parts, Mr. Hawkins looked at wire EDM to cut the deep narrow slots and complex profiles. He purchased a Charmilles Robofil 290P along with FeatureWIRE software to run it. Despite having no previous experience running or programming a wire EDM, Mr. Hawkins was cutting parts on his Robofil in less than two weeks. In less than six months, the Robofil had logged over a thousand hours and generated enough income from EDM work to pay for itself. "With FeatureWIRE, I just taught myself,” claimed Mr. Hawkins. "It was so similar to the milling packages that I picked up on it right away. Even the 4-axis programming was pretty much selfexplanatory through the prompts that pop up on the screen as you progress through the programming procedure. I’ve been doing some 4-axis burns that are probably just as complicated as you could get.” Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Domain Systems Successfully Deploys Oracle’s Agile PLM at Mindspeed Technologies 5 May 2008 Domain Systems, Inc, Oracle’s Agile PLM Systems Integrator and Reseller, announced the successful completion of Agile 9.2 implementation at Mindspeed Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications. The Implementation included a roll-out of Oracle’s Agile Product Collaboration (PC), Product Quality Management (PQM) and Product Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions. “Mindspeed selected Domain because of their breadth of Agile knowledge, impressive industry references, and responsiveness. In addition, their knowledge of our legacy system made them logical choice for selection. Post implementation support continues to be very responsive. Everything we expect in a long-term consulting arrangement,” Colin Black, chief information officer, Mindspeed Technologies. Domain implemented Mindspeed with their FastStart solution, soon to be worked into Oracle’s Accelerate program. Domain’s FastStart program is designed and packaged to offer industry bestpractice solutions to achieve near “instant-on” and “instant-ROI” results. The combination of fixed cost solutions, staff expertise, and application bundled solutions allow for rapid configuration and deployment against a wide range of industry specific needs and functionality. “We’re pleased with the results of this program. It was our objective from day one with FastStart to offer our clients a much faster and more cost effective implementation than a standard PLM deployment. FastStart meets the needs of Customers who desire to benefit from the value curve in a very fast and efficient manner. Domain’s proven FastStart methodology, now successful with multiple Customers, incorporates years of PLM best practices and improves business process and data management efficiency, “David Bartlett, VP of Services, Domain Systems. Click here to return to Contents Hochland NATEC Decides to go SAP PLM with CIDEON 1 June 2008 The manufacturer of food producing machines Hochland NATEC made the decision for SAP PLM with CAD direct integration. To improve the cost structure and optimize the process flow within the enterprise the CAD direct integration is the center for the first steps in the PLM process of the company. Integrating the construction department will be assisted by CIDEON. Hochland NATEC uses Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD for the construction of their 3D and 2D models. For generating neutral formats and interchange formats, needed throughout the whole company, Hochland utilizes the CIDEON Conversion Engine. For Hochland NATEC the CIDEON Output Management Solution provides the ideal integration of the output process in the SAP logistics and offers explicit transparency of the used production documents in all production processes. Hochland NATECs decision towards CIDEON is mainly based on CIDEONs high competence of the implementing and its shared Portfolio being Autodesk Systemhaus and SAP development partner. Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Hynix Adopts Apache’s Dynamic Power Integrity Solution for DRAM Designs 4 June 2008 Apache Design Solutions announced that Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. has adopted Apache’s RedHawk dynamic power integrity solution for their DRAM designs. Hynix will use RedHawk’s full-chip transistor-level dynamic power analysis capability to analyze and validate their full-custom DRAM designs to identify dynamic “hot-spots” caused by power/ground weaknesses, as well as perform accurate electromigration analysis to eliminate false violations that can result in long design closure. RedHawk’s transistor-level feature provides both performance and capacity required to verify the entire DRAM design, while maintaining fast Spice-level accuracy. By using RedHawk, designers of fullcustom designs such as DRAM and Flash memory can directly analyze their GDS database and use layout-based GUI for debugging. “Power and noise issues are one of the top concerns for our memory designs but using traditional tools such as Spice or fast Spice is not feasible due to their performance limitations,” said Dr. Young Doo Choi, senior member of technical staff from Hynix. “Apache’s RedHawk was able to perform dynamic power analysis within a day on an entire DRAM and produced results that closely correlated to our Spice simulation. With the performance and accuracy of RedHawk, we can now verify all of our DRAM designs, further increasing our confidence in the quality of design.” “As memory designs move towards 50nm class and below, more and more companies are requiring power as one of the signoff criteria,” said Dian Yang, senior vice president of product management and general manager of Asia at Apache. “The transistor-level feature of RedHawk leverages its technology for SoC power integrity to deliver the capacity, performance, and accuracy needed to perform fullcustom power analysis.” About RedHawk RedHawk is a full-chip Vectorless Dynamic™ physical power integrity solution for SoC power signoff of nanometer designs. Correlated with silicon measurements and SPICE, RedHawk addresses dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching output (SSO) for core, memory, clock, and I/O, as well as effects of on-chip inductance, package RLC, and decoupling capacitance. RedHawk delivers transistorlevel accuracy with cell-based capacity, performance, and ease-of-use. With RedHawk, designers can identify dynamic “hot spots,” examine the impact on timing, accurately pinpoint the cause of dynamic voltage drop, and automatically repair the source of supply noise. RedHawk enables designers to reach power closure sign-off for high performance SoCs, including those utilizing advanced low-power design techniques such as leakage current control, MTCMOS (powergating), multiple voltage domains, and multiple threshold transistors. Click here to return to Contents IFS Applications Selected by General Dynamics To Provide IT Backbone for Navy Logistics Contract 2 June 2008 IFS announced that General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has chosen IFS Applications as its IT backbone solution for a U.S. Navy performance-based logistics contract. Under its contract with the Navy, General Dynamics will be responsible for logistics support of mission computers for several types of F/A-18 and AV-8B aircraft. General Dynamics’ responsibilities will
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary include making repairs, providing spare systems and modules, arranging transportation, managing obsolescence and controlling inventories. In support of this effort General Dynamics will use IFS Applications for supply chain, tracking, repair, maintenance and reporting functions. “IFS defense solutions are designed with evolution in mind. In order to effectively manage logistics for U.S. defense organizations, companies like General Dynamics must utilize technology that is reliable and easily adaptable,” IFS North America President and CEO Cindy Jaudon said. “The demands placed on defense suppliers change so rapidly that an agile enterprise application is crucial. Combine the ability to reconfigure and add functionality to meet customers’ specific needs and you have technology that can give Department of Defense contractors a real competitive edge.” Aerospace and defense is one of IFS’ targeted market segments. IFS Applications includes advanced standard functionality that meets the demanding requirements of defense manufacturers. IFS’ fully integrated project tracking and product data management capabilities, when combined with other IFS Applications components, make it easier to operate while managing the design, manufacturing, and ongoing spare parts logistics and maintenance support of complex products throughout the product lifecycle. Click here to return to Contents Intergraph® Announces Golden Valve Award Winners at Annual Users Conference 4 June 2008 Martin T. Ammann Jr. of Shaw Stone & Webster has been awarded "Best of Show" in the annual Intergraph® Golden Valve Awards competition for his 3D power plant model created with SmartPlant® Enterprise engineering software combined with an actual overhead plant picture. The Golden Valve Awards competition is sponsored by Intergraph and is open to all SmartPlant Enterprise engineering software users. The winners were announced in Las Vegas at Intergraph 2008. Ammann’s submission titled "Mercer" won over the more than 85 entries in this year’s competition. SmartPlant Enterprise is a comprehensive product suite of next-generation plant software enabling plant owners and engineering firms to design and model plants, exploit plant engineering data and enhance plant efficiency from project inception though execution and handover. Other Golden Valve award winners include: Category: Working Views • 1st Place – David Goland, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. • 2nd Place – Waldir Pimentel Junior, Genpro • 3rd Place – Edsel LaVor Haynie, Linde Process Plants Inc. • Honorable Mention: Renaux Louis, DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. and Kenneth R. Houston, Selas Fluid Processing Corp. Category: Rendering and Ray Traces • 1st Place – Gary Bambrough, WorleyParsons • 2nd Place – Tony Tang and Vince Mercia, Jacobs Canada Inc. • 3rd Place – Leandro Montes, Hatch Engenharia E Consultoria Page 31
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Honorable Mention: Phil Jung Nam, Samsung Heavy Industries and Martin T. Ammann Jr., Shaw Stone & Webster Category: Visually Complex • 1st Place – Phil Jung Nam, Samsung Heavy Industries • 2nd Place – William Fisch, Selas Fluid Processing Corp. • 3rd Place – Anita Roach, Linde Process Plants Inc. • Honorable Mention: Robert Anderson, Linde Process Plants Inc. Category: Animation • 1st Place – Klara Khusnutdinova, Rosneft Oil Co., LLC • 2nd Place – Chris E. Lamberth, AIA, URS Washington Division • 3rd Place – Carlos Henrique Vasconcelos, ECM S.A. Industrial Projects • Honorable Mention: Jimmie Cannon, Linde Process Plants Inc. All the place winners will receive a monetary award for their efforts and will also have their work appear on Intergraph’s Web site, in the division’s Insight magazine and the 2009 Intergraph Process, Power & Marine calendar. Click here to return to Contents Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Key to Development and Operation of One of the World’s Largest Coal-Fired Power Plants 5 June 2008 Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise engineering solutions have proven instrumental in the design and successful operation of one of the world’s largest, multi-billion dollar coal-fired power generation plants. The Yuhuan Power Plant, designed by the East China Electric Power Design Institute (ECEPDI), is a 4X1000 Megawatt power plant which began generation in 2008, and is capable of supplying power to two million people every day. Costing in excess of $2.1 billion of the project investment, ECEPDI utilized SmartPlant Enterprise solutions to design the steam and water equipment, piping and piping support for the plant. Zhao Hu, Vice Director, ECEPDI, said, "When we commissioned the Yuhuan Plant, we required a software solution that provides an integrated approach to design and plant information, rather than an engineering tool problem." "We have been working with Intergraph for many years on a number of projects, and in the case of the Yuhuan Plant, we have found SmartPlant Enterprise solutions crucial to the successful development and operation of the plant." In the development phase of this massive plant, SmartPlant was used to design the layout of the thermodynamic system. The plant also represents ECEPDI’s transition from traditional CAD platform design to the intelligent P&ID platform.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary SmartPlant Enterprise solutions were used to undertake detailed modelling of the main plant’s structure, internal equipment, plant piping, and cable tray layout. More than 1,000 construction detail drawings were completed using SmartPlant Enterprise solutions. ECEPDI utilised SmartPlant for the majority of design verification, which has capability to provide an extensive visualisation environment for interactively reviewing large, complex 3D design models. It provided designers with an automatic assessment of the plant’s design integrity, and even extended to planning the sequence of delivery and the layout of onsite installation and equipment during the construction phase. Intergraph President, Process Power and Marine, Gerhard Sallinger, said, "The success of the Yuhuan Plant is testament to the capabilities of Intergraph plant design and management solutions. "With accelerated construction programs arising out of the enormous growth of the Chinese power market, ECEPDI's use of Intergraph’s software products on such a large scale provides a benchmark for the power generation industry in China, and potentially the world." "The use of Intergraph’s software promises to provide the engineering basis for China's plans to design and build hundreds of nuclear, gas and coal-fired electric power plants to meet the rising power demands of the country's continuing economic boom." "Intergraph is proud of its association with ECEPDI, and proud of the success of its software offering at the Yuhuan Power Plant, and we look forward leading the way in software for the global power generation market." Click here to return to Contents Jotun Expands Collaboration with IFS 2 June 2008 The Jotun Group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of paint, coatings and powder coatings, is expanding its use of IFS Applications by adding new functionality, including the Trade Management component. At the same time, Jotun will upgrade its entire enterprise applications to IFS Applications 7.5. The agreement includes software and consulting services and is valued at NKr 20 million. The project is also part of the preparation for a larger, global roll-out project in Jotun. The Jotun Group has been an IFS customer since 2003 and has implemented IFS Applications components for financials, manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance in its Scandinavian operations. Now Jotun is expanding the solution with the addition of a new component, Trade Management, which is part of IFS’ solution for the retail and wholesale industry. The component will replace the customized functionality in Jotun’s current system. Morten Fon, Jotun’s CEO, points out that Jotun has already benefited from collaborating with IFS. “We have standardized our business processes and achieved better control, efficiency and collaboration in Scandinavia. With IFS Applications 7.5, more of the solution will be based on standard functionality. This will enable us to further streamline and prepare for the planned global roll-out of the solution,” Fon said. The aim of the upgrade project is to improve Jotun’s competitive position by utilizing the latest technology and functionality from IFS and enhancing processes and work flows. “IFS has shown itself to be a competent supplier, with a culture that fits well with ours. Our experience Page 33
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary of IFS Applications has been very good—in terms of both learning and use. Now we are looking forward to going live with the new version of the applications,” said Fon. ”Collaboration with Jotun has played a critical role in our ability to provide a standard solution for the paint industry, and we continue to add to our customer base in this segment. We appreciate the fact that Jotun is expanding its enterprise applications and preparing to become an IFS Global Partner,” said Glenn Arnesen, managing director of IFS Scandinavia. The process industry is one of IFS’ seven targeted markets. IFS provides industry-specific functionality for enterprises in food and beverage, chemicals, pulp and paper, and metals segments. IFS Applications for the chemicals industry provides support for all critical business processes, including batch balancing, recipe management, quality management, and demand planning. The application suite includes a complete asset as well as product lifecycle management solution. About Jotun The Jotun Group has 71 companies and 40 production facilities on all continents. In addition, Jotun has agents, branch offices and distributors in more than 70 countries. Jotun's operations cover development, production, marketing and sales of various paint systems and products to protect and decorate surfaces in the residential, shipping and industrial markets. In 2007 the Jotun Group had a total sales income of NOK 10,061 million, and 6 300 employees. Click here to return to Contents Lahti Precision - Expertise that Weighs June 2008 Lahti Precision (formerly Raute Precision) is a global technology company supplying accurate weighing and dosing systems and plants, scales and maintenance services to the process industry. Lahti Precision is one of the world's leading suppliers of glass batch plants and mortar plants, and the market leader in the weighing business in Finland. The company is renewing its product management processes and tools. New 3D mechanical design software together with Modultek's SolidPDM solution are already in use. Now Lahti Precision will also implement a companywide product data management solution Aton PDM. The project will be carried out together with Modultek and CadON Lahti Precision operates worldwide with business units in Finland and China, located in Lahti, Parainen, Jyväskylä, and Shanghai. The Group currently employs 250 people. Click here to return to Contents MediaTek Achieves Faster Time-to-Tapeout Utilizing Smart Hierarchical Modeling in Synopsys IC Compilers 3 June 2008 Synopsys, Inc. announced that MediaTek, Inc., a leading semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions, has adopted Synopsys' IC Compiler for its next-generation, high-performance 65-nanometer (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) designs. IC Compiler was recently used to complete a hierarchical chip design that contained 4.5-million instances running at 700 megahertz
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary (MHz). Additional stringent criteria included high-performance timing optimization, low power, hierarchical design support and fastest time with highest quality of results (QoR). "Our market environments are fast-moving and demanding, where time-to- market can be the difference between success and failure," said MediaTek. "Synopsys' IC Compiler demonstrated that it can meet the design requirements we need to deliver a high-quality product as quickly as possible. Our intent is to move toward a concurrent hierarchical design flow." MediaTek decided to do the design hierarchically to speed turnaround time. IC Compiler's hierarchical design takes a "divide and conquer" approach that allows several blocks to be implemented and optimized simultaneously instead of sequentially. This technique also allows engineering change orders (ECOs) to be applied much faster. At the top level, IC Compiler utilizes smart hierarchical modeling technology, a technique that uses an abstract version of a block instead of a detailed block to expedite physical design while preserving interface circuitry so that optimizations can be applied across all blocks. This approach yields similar results as the fully-instantiated model- less flow, but has the advantage of a much faster turnaround time while achieving excellent correlation with the PrimeTime® sign-off solution. In addition, MediaTek achieved high correlation between hierarchical models and flat models. "IC Compiler delivers significant productivity advantages for customers like MediaTek who put a premium on time-to-results," said Antun Domic, senior vice president and general manager, Synopsys Implementation Group. "IC Compiler's hierarchical design capability combined with the highest QoR in the industry enables design teams to shave weeks off their design schedules." About IC Compiler IC Compiler is Synopsys' comprehensive physical design solution. It provides results by extending physical synthesis to full place-and-route, and by enabling signoff-driven design closure. Older solutions have a limited horizon because placement, clock tree, and routing are separate, disjointed operations. IC Compiler's XPS technology breaks down the walls between these steps by extending physical synthesis to full place-and-route. IC Compiler has a unified, TCL-based architecture that implements innovations and harnesses some of Synopsys' best core technologies. It is a complete physical design system with everything necessary to implement next-generation designs, including physical synthesis, design planning, placement, routing, timing, signal integrity (SI) optimization, power reduction, design-for-test (DFT), and yield optimization. Click here to return to Contents Nalco Company Selects Open Text to Manage Business Content Across the Enterprise 5 June 2008 Open Text™ announced that water treatment and process improvement company, Nalco Company, has selected Open Text to manage all forms of content, including email and SAP-related content, throughout its entire lifecycle; giving the organization more control over its content, while assisting the company to meet various compliance and governance requirements. Headquartered in Naperville, IL, Nalco Company globally delivers significant environmental, social and economic performance benefits to a variety of industrial and institutional customers. Its programs and services are used in water treatment applications and in production processes to help customers reduce energy, water and other natural resource consumption, minimizing environmental releases while
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary boosting the bottom line. After careful evaluation of its internal infrastructure, Nalco needed to revamp its content management and collaboration-based applications and chose Open Text for the proven scalability and efficiency of its Livelink ECM solution, its integration with SAP, its ability to maintain the integrity of the organization’s intellectual property, and for its capacity to support Nalco’s ECM requirements as they mature. “After assessing our internal infrastructure, we realized that we were in need of a major overhaul. Our legacy content management and collaboration infrastructure was end of life and didn’t integrate well with our SAP solution, which is a major component to our overall strategy moving forward,” said Abbe Kaye, CIO of Nalco Company. “Open Text has provided us with the opportunity to consolidate and have more control over our content and we are particularly pleased that we will be able to access and store all of our SAP-related information in one, secure location.” With Livelink ECM - Content Lifecycle Management, Nalco will be able to effectively manage all forms of content, including all documents, emails and records, throughout the entire lifecycle. Users will have access to the secured storage and organization of documents through archiving, records management, and imaging functionality – all in one repository. Livelink ECM allows users to create, capture and share content while enforcing proper governance, security and best practices required to ensure effective information sharing across the enterprise. Open Text’s ability to integrate with SAP was one of the biggest drivers for Nalco’s decision. Open Text’s solution incorporates imaging with the SAP data and document archiving components of Livelink ECM, further extending it with the ability to provide SAP applications with a process-oriented and application-spanning view of all business documents and data. A Web browser interface will allow occasional users at Nalco to easily retrieve content. This solution, when combined with Nalco’s previous Livelink ECM Document Access, which is used in combination with SAP, provides Nalco with a comprehensive enterprise content management suite. Click here to return to Contents OCE Selects Invention Machine to Accelerate Product Delivery and Discover New Market Opportunities 3 June 2008 Invention Machine announced that it has been selected by Océ, an international leader in digital document management technology and services, to help create a sustainable innovation infrastructure that accelerate new product development. Océ will also use Invention Machine Goldfire® Innovator to improve innovation processes to reduce costs and R&D, associated with designing its next generation product portfolio. Due to information governance standards, companies worldwide are required to properly manage the entire lifecycle of digital business documents. This need, coupled with an explosion in enterprise data has led to a highly competitive document management technology marketplace. To maintain its leadership in digital printing solutions for the very high volume market, the Netherland- and Germanbased Océ chose Goldfire to empower its engineers and innovators so they can deliver a steady stream of productive and eco-friendly products that meet customer demand. The innovation platform will also enable engineers to speed time to market of new products, reduce
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary product development costs and discover new market opportunities for its existing products. Goldfire will also help increase productivity in R&D, leading to new innovations and redesign existing products with new functionality at lower cost. “Known for its printers and document delivery technology, Océ is looking to design its next generation printers by combining in-house expertise with cutting-edge innovation solution,” said Edmund Creutzmann, Executive Director Printer Technology, Océ. “With Goldfire Innovator we can now further accelerate and improve our innovation processes, and speed-up the delivery of unique and highly productive products that add value to our customers.” Invention Machine’s innovation software helps enterprises innovate repeatedly, accelerating and sustaining product innovation. Its semantic technology helps translate ideas into commercialized products by generating and validating the right ideas the first time - whether it's creating a folding box spring, an engine for NASA or a new printer. Click here to return to Contents Oticon Tapes Out Innovative Hearing-Aid DSP Using Synopsys IC Compiler 2 June 2008 Synopsys, Inc. announced that Oticon has taped out part of its next-generation digital signal processor (DSP) chipset for hearing-aid devices using Synopsys' IC Compiler design planning and place-and-route product, which is part of the Eclypse™ Low Power Solution. Enhanced design productivity, small form factor, and low power consumption were key requirements for Oticon's design. Oticon leveraged IC Compiler within Synopsys' Pilot Design Environment, delivering predictable low-power results and enabling faster time to tapeout. "Battery life is one of our customers' major concerns. Taking advantage of IC Compiler's automatic multi-voltage, MTCMOS shutdown, and multi-threshold capabilities, we were able to meet our extreme low-power requirements and deliver new innovation to our hearing aid users," said Mogens Balsby, director of IC Design at Oticon. "Because we were moving to a new, advanced technology node and time-to-market was critical, we used Synopsys' Pilot tapeout-proven design environment, which includes full implementation, formal checking, and physical verification and leverages best-in-class tools. We were extremely satisfied with the results achieved with IC Compiler and the Pilot Design Environment on our complex design." Oticon is the world leader in the design, development, and manufacture of hearing aids that embed sophisticated integrated circuits (ICs) that deliver massively parallel, digital audio signal processing and wireless communication. The new DSP's breakthrough real-time wireless technology enables two hearing aids to work together to process sound, similar to the way the brain receives input from two ears, to deliver three-dimensional auditory information that enhances the user's listening experience. "IC Compiler's automated low-power optimization technology was instrumental in helping Oticon meet its low-power requirements, and Synopsys' Pilot Design Environment enabled them to complete their tapeout on schedule," said Antun Domic, senior vice president and general manager of Synopsys' Implementation Group. "As Oticon continues creating innovative products for their customers, it can leverage more of the advanced capabilities in IC Compiler, such as concurrent hierarchical design, for further product differentiation and faster time-to-results." About IC Compiler
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary IC Compiler is Synopsys' comprehensive physical design solution. It provides results by extending physical synthesis to full place-and-route, and by enabling signoff-driven design closure. Older solutions have a limited horizon because placement, clock tree, and routing are separate, disjointed operations. IC Compiler's XPS technology breaks down the walls between these steps by extending physical synthesis to full place-and-route. IC Compiler has a unified, TCL-based architecture that implements innovations and harnesses some of Synopsys' best core technologies. It is a comprehensive physical design system with the features necessary to implement next-generation designs, including physical synthesis, design planning, placement, routing, timing, signal integrity (SI) optimization, power reduction, design-for-test (DFT), and yield optimization. IC Compiler is part of the Eclypse Low Power Solution, which is a comprehensive alignment of low power design and verification technologies, IP, methodologies and services built on industry standards. Click here to return to Contents Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) Standardizes on Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise 5 June 2008 Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) has decided to standardize on Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise, including SmartPlant 3D and SmartPlant Foundation, as its engineering design and data management platform for all of its manufacturing affiliates. SABIC is the largest and most profitable non-oil company in the Middle East and one of the world’s 10 largest petrochemicals manufacturers. Its products include chemicals, plastics, fertilizers and metals. SABIC will use the SmartPlant Enterprise to facilitate data handover from its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors to its affiliates’ plants and assist in every aspect of the plant life cycle. This includes design, procurement, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance, expansions, retrofits and decommissioning, if applicable. As the basis of the SABIC Technical Information Management System (STIMS) project, SABIC standardized on the SmartPlant Enterprise and will use the full portfolio of engineering design and data management solutions to create a truly integrated enterprise-wide design environment. Among the SABIC affiliates that have already begun implementation of SmartPlant Enterprise solutions are: Jubail United Petrochemical Co. (JUPC); Eastern Petrochemical Co. (SHARQ); YANBU Petrochemical complex (YANPET); YANBU National Petrochemical Co. (YANSAB) and Al-Jubail Fertilizer Co. (ALBAYRONI). As the SABIC affiliates standardize on the SmartPlant Enterprise solutions, all deliverables from existing plant expansions as well as new plant construction will be in the same format, ensuring data compatibility through project sharing. More than two-thirds of the world’s plants are built using Intergraph PP&M solutions. SmartPlant Enterprise offers EPCs and plant owner/operators a full enterprise solution that manages engineering design and data critical to physical plant assets and integrates engineering with other businesses and operational systems. It is a low-risk, scalable solution that increases productivity through work sharing and reducing plant design errors while improving project execution, handover, operational and maintenance efficiency over the plant life cycle. “Considering SABIC’s ambitious global growth strategy, it was extremely important that our company and our affiliates were able to share project information in a seamless environment,” said Mr. Mazyad S.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Al-Khaldi, General Manager, SABIC Engineering and Project Management Department “Our goal was to standardize on a solution that provides data quality and integrity, and the integrated environment that SmartPlant Enterprise encompasses has helped us to meet that goal,” Said Mr. Mazin Madini, SABIC Technical Information Management System (STIMS) Project Manager Gerhard Sallinger, president, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, said, “The STIMS project is an excellent example of data integration among companies on many levels, and SmartPlant Enterprise is the ideal platform for engineering knowledge sharing and management. SABIC’s selection of Intergraph as a strategic partner underscores SmartPlant’s attributes and our growing presence in the Middle East.” Click here to return to Contents Sequence Signs Chelsio, Sets Milestone: 100th PowerTheater Customer 6 June 2008 Sequence Design announced it has signed its 100th PowerTheater customer, 10 Gigabit Ethernet pioneer Chelsio Communications. Chelsio is planning to use Sequence’s PowerTheater in the design of its advanced scalable, highperformance 10Gb Ethernet unified wire engine ASIC, enabling simultaneous support of iSCSI, RDMA and TCP/IP socket applications. Speed and performance of PowerTheater were key selling points and Chelsio praised both its analytical precision at RTL and ease of use. “PowerTheater gives us early analysis and visibility into power issues such as cycle-by-cycle power dissipation for both peak and average power,” said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. “In the past, designers only had to worry about timing optimization, but today power is a key competitive differentiator and PowerTheater is the tool that gives us the edge we need.” “Sequence continues to leapfrog the competition with superior technology,” said Vic Kulkarni, Sequence president and CEO. “Today’s announcement of our 100th PowerTheater customer demonstrates that we continue to be the company to beat in low-power design.” Sequence Design will showcase its complete portfolio of DFP solutions, including the recently announced PowerArtist with automated RTL power reduction, at DAC in Anaheim June 8-13, Booth 2100. About PowerTheater/PowerTheater-Explorer PowerTheater is the industry’s first RTL power analysis and power prototyping solution with the singular ability to accurately analyze power at RTL and support power management techniques such as voltage islands, mixed voltage threshold, power gating, and clock gating. PowerTheater recently added support for the Si2 CPF standard along with the following new features: • Control all aspects of running PowerTheater through a single Tcl-based command file. • Identify high-power windows utilizing comprehensive simulations from hardware accelerators. • Compute full-chip, gate-level power efficiently using RTL simulations. • Prevent voltage-drop related test and functional failures by automatically identifying critical vectors from multiple simulations.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary PowerTheater-Explorer is a capability that adds state-of-the-art power visualization and debug features for fast, interactive RTL power analysis. A new SmartSource Viewer allows designers to determine hot spots in the design, to visualize, debug and interactively analyze a design’s power consumption. The hierarchical RTL power tree display shows hot spots that can be cross-probed to schematics, showing connectivity and indicating how activity is moving through the design and how instances impact one another. These results can be displayed and analyzed at RTL, gate, or mixed levels of abstraction. SmartSource also provides a dedicated view of the clock tree for fast analysis and tracing of clock nets in the design. For more information, visit: www.sequencedesign.com/solutions/powertheater.php. Chelsio (http://www.chelsio.com) is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven unified wire technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet ASICs and multi-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for highperformance computing applications. Click here to return to Contents Tyco Thermal Controls Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise 4 June 2008 Tyco Thermal Controls, a supplier of heat- tracing system products designs and installations, has selected Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions for its TRACER LYNX™ Heat Management Systems project software. Starting with Intergraph's ISOGEN® and SmartPlant Isometrics software as a framework, Tyco Thermal Controls has developed an in-house application initially for the automatic generation of the designs for their heat-tracing systems and the generation of heat-tracing isometrics with integrated bill of materials and power consumption design data. This application will integrate Tyco Thermal Control's proprietary calculation software to optimize the design of the heat-tracing systems. This will enable them to analyze the complete piping network of a plant and identify the sub-systems with common heat- tracing requirements, and then efficiently design the heat-tracing system for each subsystem. Future applications will involve other engineering disciplines such as insulation isometrics and bill of materials as well as power distribution infrastructure design. With SmartPlant plant design and engineering software embedded in its solutions, Tyco Thermal Controls is able to read files from all leading 3D modeling systems as well as be compatible with many of its customers who also use Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise solutions. In addition to broadening its market appeal, this interoperability will enable Tyco Thermal Controls to deliver its products and services regardless of the 3D modeling system used to design the plant, promoting more reliable designs and faster project delivery times. "Our selection of Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise is based on a couple of factors," said Jaap Nieuwenhuizen, Tyco Thermal Control's project operations manager for Europe. "First, Intergraph's willingness to work with our engineering staff to develop our own applications for heat-tracing and isometrics will enable us to offer a more robust solution to our customers. Additionally, Intergraph is the recognized leader for plant design and engineering, and many of our customers were already using its enterprise engineering software. We wanted to make ourselves compatible with this client base to make work sharing easier, thereby reducing project timelines, saving money and avoiding the additional costs and headaches of field changes," he said.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power and Marine president, said, "Tyco Thermal Control's use of SmartPlant solutions further solidifies Intergraph as the industry standard to manage information throughout the plant life cycle and a path to increased interoperability and productivity." Click here to return to Contents Urban Outfitters Looks to Reduce Cycle Times and Manage Rapid Growth With TradeStone’s Merchandise Lifecycle Management Suite 3 June 2008 TradeStone Software announced TradeStone has signed Urban Outfitters, Inc., a leading lifestyle specialty retail company operating under the Anthropologie, Free People, Urban Outfitters and Terrain brands. In order to support the company’s sales growth, Urban Outfitters will implement the full TradeStone Merchandise Lifecycle Management suite (PLM for Retail, Global Sourcing, Global Order Management, Quality Management and Supplier Management) across all of its specialty brands. Urban Outfitters prides itself on lifestyle merchandising that builds a strong emotional bond with the customer by offering fashion correct products on a timely basis. TradeStone’s technology will provide full end-to-end supply chain visibility from design to delivery, allowing the retailer to effectively manage exceptions and respond rapidly to changing consumer demand. By using Tradestone’s Merchandise Lifecycle Management suite, the retailer can further refine a postponement strategy allowing them to wait until the optimal moment to make a decision on color, style or even store location destination. “Urban Outfitters is at the strongest position in its history and TradeStone will be instrumental in supporting our continued growth as we roll out the application among 300 employees across all of our brands and to our external supply chain community,” said Barbara Rozsas, Executive Director of Sourcing and Production, Urban Outfitters, Inc. “We looked at more than 10 different software applications and TradeStone Software offered a solution that best met our business requirements. We were also very impressed with the TradeStone executive team who have considerable retail experience and clearly understand our business needs and opportunities. We are excited to begin to reap the benefits that TradeStone’s solutions will provide us.” Urban Outfitters will also utilize TradeStone to enhance inbound visibility by replacing emails, faxes and spreadsheets with electronic packing lists and case level ASNs. This will provide the distribution centers better advanced planning capabilities. The retailer will also take advantage of TradeStone’s calendar capabilities to review styles and set deadlines as well as improve workflow management. TradeStone’s Merchandise Lifecycle Management suite will layer across the company’s existing product development system, warehouse management system and three different ERP systems. “TradeStone Software is what Urban Outfitters was looking for when we sought out a more robust, functionally rich solution that meets designers, technical designers, sourcing managers, merchants, financial and logistics team members’ requirements,” said Calvin Hollinger, Chief Information Officer, Urban Outfitters, Inc. “We are confident that TradeStone will allow us to increase our brand offerings within the apparel, accessories and home product areas under a speed-to-market philosophy. With TradeStone’s technology in place, we are building an infrastructure with processes that support both our own brand and market purchases in a uniform, streamlined manner to accommodate dramatic growth across multiple selling channels including stores, e-commerce and wholesale.” “Urban Outfitters’ unique ability to read the tea leaves of lifestyle changes and translate that into an Page 41
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary adapting mix of new and exciting merchandise makes them one of the most innovative leaders in the retail world,” said Sue Welch, CEO, TradeStone Software. “We admire how the company has taken the anthropology interests of their founder and chairman to predict how cultural changes impact the individual consumer and mirrored their product design and merchandising to reflect those interests so that when a new trend emerges, they can respond to it immediately. This deal was a big win for us in a very competitive environment, and is a key validation of TradeStone’s ability to be the technology infrastructure of choice for retailers with aggressive postponement strategies that will reduce cycle times and increase the amount of on-trend merchandise – making goods not only on-market but market leading.” Click here to return to Contents Wisconsin Department of Transportation Selects Autodesk 3-D Design Tools for Road and Highway Design 2 June 2008 Autodesk, Inc. announced that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) will implement AutoCAD Civil 3D software to produce new roadway designs more efficiently and cost effectively. AutoCAD Civil 3D addresses WisDOT's need for a fully integrated and 3-D transportation design solution as they transition from legacy software. This decision was made after a thorough, 18-month evaluation of alternative technologies. Using AutoCAD Civil 3D software, WisDOT can automate much of the roadway design and documentation process with 3-D information models. These models also allow WisDOT the ability to provide contractors with 3-D proposed surfaces for driving machine control grading projects, saving time and money during construction. AutoCAD Civil 3D software allows WisDOT's civil engineers, designers, drafters and surveyors parallel access to the same up-to-date model, regardless of location. The software's styles-based drafting means WisDOT can implement design changes and maintain coordinated, reliable information about a project. "With more than 11,000 miles of state and interstate highways, WisDOT requires an easy-to-use and highly effective roadway design solution," said Bill Goodson, vice president, Autodesk Government. "The AutoCAD Civil 3D solution helps WisDOT -- and transportation agencies like them -- shorten the time to contract letting; reduce errors and omissions; and identify design issues early in the design process. Ultimately, this will allow transportation agencies to significantly reduce change orders and costs during construction." Autodesk's transportation solutions offer state and local governments the ability to better design and construct infrastructure projects to meet community needs. Through an integrated workflow built on coordinated, reliable information, Autodesk solutions enable transportation departments to create and share digital design information and documentation; use that information to accurately visualize, simulate, and analyze performance and cost; and reliably deliver their projects faster and more economically. Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Product News Adobe Launches Public Beta of Acrobat.com 2 June 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Acrobat.com , a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within a Web browser. Much like Adobe® Acrobat® software enabled the publishing of high-quality electronic documents that anyone can read, Acrobat.com enables individuals to work collaboratively on electronic documents. Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and Web conferencing — that take advantage of PDF, Adobe Flash® and Adobe AIR™ technologies to deliver engaging online experiences that go well beyond traditional office productivity tools. Also accessible through Adobe Acrobat 9 software (see separate release issued today), Acrobat.com delivers a new way for people to work together online. The hosted services in Acrobat.com include: - Adobe Buzzword®, a Web-based word processor that can be used to co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results; - Adobe ConnectNow, a personal Web conferencing service that includes desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing and integrated chat; - Centralized online file sharing with access controls, online PDF conversion for up to five documents, and support for high quality, Web-embeddable documents; - Developer APIs for real-time collaboration, file sharing and conversion. In addition, Acrobat.com gives Acrobat 9 users access to a “personal workspace in the clouds” that is available from virtually anywhere for working with others online. Acrobat 9 users can work with Acrobat.com as a central location for sharing forms and collecting forms data, conducting shared reviews, and co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues. Acrobat.com also works with Adobe Reader® 9 software, giving Adobe Reader 9 users access to Acrobat.com so they can share files, convert up to five documents to PDF online and participate in electronic forms and shared reviews initiated by Acrobat 9 users. Acrobat.com is available immediately in English as public beta for free sign up. Quotes: “Fifteen years ago, PDF moved the world from paper to electronic documents without sacrificing print quality, changing the way we share information,” said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Business Productivity Business Unit. “Acrobat.com extends that vision, moving the world from email attachments to online collaborative documents without sacrificing authoring quality. With rich Internet applications enabled by Adobe, we can combine desktop and cloud computing to create innovative productivity applications that will change the way we create, store and share documents together.” “Acrobat.com is a big timesaver in our business and offers enhanced convenience for our clients and us,” said Danya Henninger with Imagic Digital. “From converting to PDF to delivering large, highresolution files, Acrobat.com simplifies work all around.” “Buzzword is a really creative, new approach to an online word processor,” said Dustin Wax, professor
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and manager and editor of www.lifehack.org . “It looks like actual printed pages, which is not only great from a design standpoint but also helps non-tech-savvy users get started faster and create better quality work together.” “As the go-to person for our clients, I see Adobe ConnectNow as an amazing resource for bringing people together in a moment’s notice,” said Jason Kallio, trade show strategies for ExpoVantage. “ConnectNow is an excellent tool for providing everyone with a more hands-on, engaging experience during meetings.” Acrobat.com sign-up: http://www.acrobat.com Click here to return to Contents Adobe Unveils Acrobat 9 Software 2 June 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe® Acrobat® 9 software, a significant upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash® technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues. “The expectations organizations and individuals have for communicating and collaborating in the workplace continues to grow significantly,” said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Business Productivity Business Unit. “The ability to break through and communicate a message in a compelling way has never been at a greater premium. Acrobat 9 is a response to this environment and is poised to fundamentally change how professionals communicate and collaborate using electronic documents.” For the first time, Acrobat 9 provides deep support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling users to include Adobe Flash Player compatible video and application files in PDF documents. Recipients simply need free Adobe Reader® 9 software to consume the content. Now, static documents can come to life as dynamic communications. Acrobat 9 also includes the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable business professionals to assemble multiple media types, such as documents, video, audio, and even 3D objects, into one, compressed PDF file. Users can then choose among several professional layouts—or create their own—to quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish and branding. As a result, communications such as sales proposals, legal documents, and product collateral can become far more customized and compelling. In addition, Acrobat 9 provides access to capabilities for collaborating live within a PDF document— enabled by working with Acrobat.com, a new suite of hosted services Adobe introduced as public beta today. For example, a salesperson could use Acrobat 9 to send a lengthy contract to clients. The sales professional, or any of the recipients using Adobe Reader1, can then drive the group’s navigation through the PDF document in real-time working with Acrobat.com. This helps ensure everyone is literally, and figuratively, on the same page. Additionally, Acrobat 9 users can access Acrobat.com for storing and sharing files, use it as a central location for collecting data as part of a forms process, and to gather comments in a shared document review. Acrobat.com includes other services, such as Adobe ConnectNow, personal Web conferencing that provides desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing, and integrated chat; and Adobe Buzzword®, an elegant, Web-based word processor that can be used to co-author and share documents Page 44
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary for comment and review, creating high-quality print results. The Acrobat 9 family consists of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and the new Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software. The most comprehensive member of the family, Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, includes Adobe Presenter software for turning Microsoft® PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that can be published as PDF files. Pricing and Availability Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat 9 Standard for Microsoft Windows®, and Acrobat 9 Pro for Mac OS X, are expected to be available by July 2008 in English, French, German, and Japanese language versions. Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is expected to be available for US$699, and registered users of qualifying earlier versions of Acrobat2 can upgrade to Acrobat 9 Pro Extended for US$229. Acrobat 9 Pro is expected to be available for US$449, and registered users of qualifying earlier versions of Acrobat3 can upgrade to Acrobat 9 Pro for US$159. Acrobat 9 Standard is expected to be available for US$299, and registered users of qualifying earlier versions of Acrobat4 can upgrade to Acrobat 9 Standard for US$99. More information on the Acrobat 9 family is available online at www.adobe.com/acrobat. Customers in North America can also call 1-800-833-6687. The beta Acrobat.com hosted services are available immediately in English for free signup at http://www.acrobat.com. Click here to return to Contents Altair Expands Reach of HyperWorks With New Canadian Channel Partners 5 June 2008 Altair announced the addition of Thumbprint Solutions Inc. (TSI) and Metal Forming Analysis Corporation (MFAC) to the HyperWorks Channel Partner Program, further expanding the reach of the HyperWorks platform in Canada. In addition to promoting and distributing HyperWorks in Canada, TSI will also serve as the first-line of technical support for its Canadian customers. "TSI has been a long-time user and supporter of Altair's HyperWorks, and we are excited to strengthen our relationship with Altair to further promote and support the HyperWorks solution," said Markus Hetzler, TSI President. HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Altair has expanded the HyperWorks platform to include new, third party-software applications under one simple licensing system, delivering more than 40 individual software solutions to customers. "We are very pleased to be able to offer Altair HyperWorks to our customers," said Chris Galbraith, President of Metal Forming Analysis Corporation. "HyperMesh is widely used as a pre-processor for LS-DYNA, and with Altair's unique software licensing system, our customers who use HyperMesh are also able to access a wide offering of complementary software products." Altair's Channel Partner Program is extremely successful with more than 60 channel partners in 18 countries. "Altair's vision for HyperWorks is to create a single, open platform allowing users to access a broad
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary suite of applications that help enterprises make better business decisions," said Bob Little, Altair Canada President. "HyperWorks has the industry's best technology and uses a revolutionary software licensing system -- we are also expanding the reach of our product worldwide through our Channel Partner Program. Altair is excited to have leading companies like TSI and MFAC join forces with us." About Thumbprint Solutions, Inc. (TSI) TSI provides mechanical engineering design, analysis and optimization services to a wide range of customers including automotive OEM's, niche vehicle developers and consumer goods manufacturers. With over 15 years of combined experience TSI now specializes in applying state-of-the-art simulation and streamlined design engineering services to provide our customers with a full-service engineering partner. TSI is headquartered close to the heart of the Greater Toronto Area allowing us to provide clients across Canada with on-site or off-site support to meet their needs. To learn more, please visit http://www.thumbprintsolutions.com About Metal Forming Analysis Corporation (MFAC) MFAC is a full-service supplier to the mechanical engineering industry. MFAC supplies industryleading solutions to customer problems, either through focused consulting services, or by selling and supporting mechanical engineering software packages such as LS-DYNA and HyperWorks. Located in Kingston, Ontario, MFAC has customers in North and South America and Europe. As its corporate name implies, MFAC has a specialty in the area of sheet metal forming, but through its affiliations with Altair Engineering and Thumbprint Solutions, MFAC also provides consulting services in a broad range of mechanical engineering disciplines including automotive crash analysis. To learn more, please visit http://www.mfac.com Click here to return to Contents Aras Achieves Four Star Certification Rating for Complex Enterprise Product Configuration & Change Management 2 June 2008 Aras® announced that the Aras Innovator solution suite for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management [PLM] has achieved a four star CMII certification rating from the Institute of Configuration Management [ICM]. The ICM certification provides independent validation of Aras Innovator’s compliance with the industry recognized CMII best practices for configuration and change management. “Configuration and change management of complex information is critical to profitable business operations. Our rigorous software certification process has validated Aras four star rating for CMII processes and includes direct input from CMII certified practitioners at companies in the field,” said Vincent Guess, President of the Institute of Configuration Management. “The open approach used by Aras that incorporates collaborative innovations from people all over the world is quickly providing unique new advancements in configuration management software.” The Institute of Configuration Management [ICM] is the leading provider of research, education, training, and certification in the field of configuration management. The ICM defines and administers the CMII certification for configuration and change management solutions with a five star rating system. No solution has ever achieved a five star certification level.
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Aras is now validated as the best enterprise PLM solution for managing complex product configurations, and the Aras change management capabilities are recognized as the next generation of advanced online workflows for complicated business process management. ICM’s extensive software certification process includes a comprehensive solution evaluation and direct feedback from CMII certified personnel at Fortune 500 companies using the Aras solutions. “We are proud to have achieved a four star certification rating by the Institute of Configuration Management,” said Peter Schroer, President of Aras. “Companies all over the world have recognized that the open approach delivers superior results, and this certification adds further proof that Aras is now the most advanced enterprise PLM solution available.” Click here to return to Contents Capvidia Releases FlowVision HPC 4 June 2008 Capvidia continues to provide innovative CFD simulation solutions with their new FlowVision (High Performance Computing) HPC release. This release features a parallel solver optimized for multi-grid and multi-core cluster configurations. An optional direct coupling with Simulia-Abaqus provides a solution for multi-physics simulation such as fluid-structure-interaction. Their focus on multi-physics applications is on-goring activity since more than decade. “Realistic CFD simulations require not only efficient numerical implementation, but also close cooperation with industrial partners who are able to verify the simulation results with experiments. Capvidia has been working with market leaders from the tire industry and compressor manufacturers over the last 6 years to enhance FlowVision for complex multi-physics applications.” says T. Luniewski Capvidia CEO. “It is our strategy to address challenging applications in vertical markets.” Capvidia combines their own technology with the best of class vendors. Technical partnerships with Dassault Systems Simulia have resulted in development of a direct bi-directional interface between FEM Abaqus and FlowVision. This direct coupling allows them to address extremely complex fluid-structureinteraction problems in efficient and controlled way. Capvidia has unique expertise in these types of applications, but are relatively unknown in the market. The reason for this is very simple; due to the confidential character of projects they do with their industrial partners, they are not allowed to publish the results. FlowVision HPC major enhancements: • Multi-Physics Simulation – direct bi-directional coupling with Abaqus for fluid-structure-interaction, automatic and direct data exchange with Abaqus controlled with MPM (multi-physics manager) • Unique Grid Generation directly on CAD model – exact fit to CAD model boundary with automatic adaptation to geometrical shape and solution • Clearance Model – efficient solution to dimensionality problems as e.g. modeling of small clearance in large compressors – manageable mesh size • High Performance Computing – efficient parallel solver supporting multi-grid and multi-core processor configurations (Linux/Windows) Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Cimatron Expands Offering in China with GibbsCAM Machining Solutions 4 June 2008 Cimatron Limited is expanding the product portfolio offered to the Chinese market. Cimatron, which already has a significant presence in China, is now adding GibbsCAM software to the product line offered to toolmakers and manufacturers in the region. GibbsCAM solutions provide a broad range of CNC programming capabilities for milling, turning, millturn, rotary milling, tombstone-fixtured, wire-EDM, and multi-turret/multi-spindle machining. Modeling functionality tuned specifically for manufacturing supports the creation and manipulation of wireframe, surface, and solid geometries. Featuring an intuitive user interface, built-in associativity, and simulation capabilities, GibbsCAM empowers manufacturers to increase productivity and elevate responsiveness to customer requirements and design changes. GibbsCAM supports control and machine tools from leading vendors including GE Fanuc, Infimatic, Siemens, Doosan Infracore, Haas, Index, MAG Fadal, Matsuura, Mazak, Mitsubishi, Mori Seiki, Nakamura Tome, and Tornos. With headquarters in Beijing and additional offices in Chengdu, Fujian, Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Wuxi, Cimatron’s subsidiary in China has been expanding in support of a growing customer base and accelerating demand. In addition to its direct sales and support personnel, the company serves the market through over twenty independent dealers and nearly 60 training centers. The GibbsCAM product line will also continue to be available through Forida, GibbsCAM’s reseller in Hong Kong. "Given its strong market presence and remarkable industry expertise, Cimatron’s subsidiary in China is the perfect match for expanding GibbsCAM’s reach into this high growth region," said Robb Weinstein, Gibbs and Associates’ Senior Vice President of Sales and Strategic Planning. “GibbsCAM’s reputation in production and especially in multi-task machining is growing very quickly in China and the rest of Asia Pacific,” said Lang Yan, Cimatron’s General Manager of Greater China. “We are extremely excited to be able to serve the Chinese market with GibbsCAM along with the rest of the Cimatron product line.” Click here to return to Contents Corel and Right Hemisphere Partner to Bring Complete 3D Technical Illustration Solution to Market 4 June 2008 Corel Corporation announced a partnership with Right Hemisphere®. Corel will incorporate a special version of Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration™ Standard Edition software into its next release of Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite. The addition of Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration software will give Corel users the ability to transform 3D CAD models and publish them into accurate 2D graphics without having to purchase additional CAD software. Available in two versions, Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration is a client software application that allows its users to automatically transform, author and publish lightweight 2D and 3D product graphics using existing engineering CAD design data and other digital content. The Deep Exploration Standard Edition version automatically translates, optimizes and repairs a variety of popular 3D graphics file
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary formats. The Deep Exploration CCE version offers support for over 80 file formats, including all of the file formats employed by major CAD applications such as CATIA®, Inventor®, Pro/ENGINEER®, SolidWorks®, and Unigraphics® NX. Deep Exploration CCE can also automatically publish 3D interactive Adobe® PDF® files. “Corel has had a long and distinguished history of providing enterprises with leading graphics solutions for technical illustration work,” said Michael Lynch, CEO of Right Hemisphere. “Right Hemisphere’s technology is a natural complement to the features and functionality in the Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite. With our 3D format support and our automatic transform and publish capabilities integrated into this next generation version of the product, Corel DESIGNER users can look forward to getting even better leverage out of their existing 3D assets and spend less time and money creating their 2D technical illustrations.” Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite is the software of choice for businesses that rely on technical illustrations and diagrams to communicate the strengths of their products and services. Unmatched by any other technical graphics package, the suite provides file compatibility while delivering precision tools for illustration, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and professional photo editing. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite also offers an optimized workflow, multilanguage support, and easy network deployment and is trusted by companies known worldwide for technical design excellence. “We are pleased to partner with Right Hemisphere to offer Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite users another important tool to streamline their technical illustration workflow and complete projects more efficiently,” said Nick Davies, Vice President and General Manager, Graphics and Productivity for Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite. “By combining the ingenuity behind Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration with Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite, Corel is able to continue its commitment to offering the most powerful, precise and comprehensive technical illustration suite on the market.” To learn more Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite, please visit http://www.corel.com. To learn more about the pre-release public technology preview of the next version of Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite please visit http://www.designer.com/preview. For more information about Right Hemisphere, please visit http://www.righthemisphere.com. Click here to return to Contents Corel Announces Pre-Release Public Technology Preview of Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 3 June 2008 Corel Corporation announced a pre-release public technology preview of Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 at the 55th Annual Society of Technical Communicators (STC) Summit in Philadelphia, PABooth #408. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 provides businesses with the ability to communicate the strengths of their products and services through precise technical illustrations and diagrams. A comprehensive technical graphics suite, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite provides industry-leading file compatibility, including 3D CAD and AutoCAD®, while delivering precision tools for illustration, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and professional photo editing. The trusted choice by companies known worldwide for technical design excellence, the suite also offers an optimized workflow, multi-language support, and easy network deployment. “Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 was engineered to meet the specific requirements of technical illustrators, whether they are working in a small business environment or a larger enterprise,”said Klaus
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Vossen, Product Manager for Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite. “We are pleased to offer our community of dedicated users a sneak preview of what Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 will have to offer when it is released later this Summer.” The pre-release public technology preview of Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 is available beginning today from http://www.designer.com/preview to registered members of the CorelDRAW.com community. Click here to return to Contents Dassault Systèmes Unveils ENOVIA Life Sciences Accelerator for Engineering Design 4 June 2008 Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced the availability of a new PLM solution developed specifically for the Life Sciences industry. The ENOVIA Life Sciences Accelerator for Engineering Design™, developed on the recently announced V6 platform, delivers enterprise design data control for medical device companies. In order to succeed in an increasingly competitive and highly regulated market, medical device companies need to focus on business design processes and managing intellectual assets effectively across the medical-device value chain. The ENOVIA Life Sciences Accelerator for Engineering Design provides design control capabilities to manage all elements of the Device Master Record (DMR) with a single, integrated system. This includes product data such as mechanical and electrical bills of materials (BOMs), CAD models, configurations and related documentation such as drawings, specifications, procedures and quality standards. It also aggregates all information related to products and parts from other business processes and functions within a company’s product lifecycle management system. “No other industry is as regulated as Life Sciences and regulatory compliance is often a critical success factor in launching new products. It’s therefore vital that we are able to stay compliant across a number of regulatory agencies, including the FDA,” said James Rolfe, IT program manager, MEDRAD. “ENOVIA’s solutions enable us to bring products to market quickly and more reliably by allowing us to focus on the creative aspects of the design, rather than the administrative details.” Announced on May 29th, 2008, the Dassault Systèmes V6 platform provides an open, online collaborative environment, on a single IP management platform, for all product lifecycle activities. The V6 architecture also includes ready-to-use business processes, such as program, compliance and quality issues management, which support industry-specific PLM best practices and capabilities. This approach ensures the Life Sciences Accelerator for Engineering Design addresses a customer’s need to manage and monitor entire product lifecycles in an ad hoc manner, while remaining on-time and on-budget. In addition V6’s IP Lifecycle Management of all product-related information, such as bills of material (BOMs) is a crucial element to ensuring the long-term compliance and success of many life science companies. “Essentially, this solution is designed to be ‘a single source of the truth’ for medical device product structure and data,” said Mickey Garcia, director of life sciences industry strategy, ENOVIA, Dassault Systèmes. “As changes are made to the product design information, the Accelerator automatically updates this data throughout all the related systems.” Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Delcam’s FeatureCAM Certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009 2 June 2008 Delcam announced that its FeatureCAM range of knowledge-based CAM software products has been certified by the Autodesk Inventor® Certified Application Program for Autodesk Inventor® 2009. This program certifies that FeatureCAM software applications have met the high standards set by Autodesk for quality and the interoperability with the latest version of its Inventor® 3D mechanical design system. "Our relationship with Autodesk is very strong and a huge benefit to our customers, who can open Inventor® parts seamlessly in FeatureCAM, with no loss of data or concerns about translation errors. The certification program gives our customers the confidence of knowing that FeatureCAM has been rigorously tested by Autodesk and found to perform to the highest standards,” says Tom McCollough, Vice President of Development for FeatureCAM. FeatureCAM incorporates a combination of feature-based and knowledge-based functionality that makes programming faster and easier. The software family offers a comprehensive range of programs for milling, turning, wire EDM and mill-turn, all with the same easy-to-use interface style to minimise training times. Feature-based machining divides part designs into features, such as holes, slots, pockets and bosses. FeatureCAM incorporates Automatic Feature Recognition technology that automatically identifies the features within the part and so makes the system exceptionally easy to learn and quick to use. For each feature, FeatureCAM automatically selects the most suitable tools, calculates feeds and speeds, generates toolpaths and produces NC code, in a single automated operation. This knowledge-based approach ensures consistent, reliable results, even when the software is being used by inexperienced operators. However, the system also includes editing tools that can be used by experienced programmers to modify the initial results to give more efficient machining on a particular piece of equipment. The latest version of FeatureCAM includes greatly increased support for more sophisticated machine tools, such as five-axis machines and mill-turn equipment. Other enhancements include more efficient turning through better and easier control of stock remaining, and an improved tool database with more options to link pre-defined feeds and speeds to individual tools. Click here to return to Contents ESI Group Announces New Agent in Brazil 3 June 2008 ESI Group announced that Modelação e Ferramentaria Beckert has become their agent in southern Brazil. MF Beckert’s initial activities will be to promote ESI’s ProCAST and QuikCAST software, used for casting process simulation. ESI Group has had a presence in Brazil for over a decade, with distinguished customers such as General Motors, Tower Automotive, Embraer, Fagor Ederlan, Ferramentaria JN, IMBIL, Villares Metals, etc. With the addition of MF Beckert to its distribution network, ESI Group expands its presence and will be able to better serve this important area of Brazil which is home to many casting companies with diverse and varied casting needs. This alignment will also allow ESI to more quickly develop new projects that
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary demand numerical simulation to achieve better and faster results; it will also enhance items already in production. With this agreement MF Beckert serves as a sales channel for ESI Group for both service and software. "We have known MF Beckert for many years, and we are aware of their competence in the casting area. We are sure that their presence in the South of Brazil will accelerate the expansion of ESI Group in this region, as well as improve the support of existing customers," said Arthur Camanho, Regional Indirect Channels Manager for Brazil and South America. "ESI Group’s software solutions allow us to simulate anything from filling to solidification, taking into account everything from the physics involved to the mechanical properties, deformations, etc.," added Gerson Beckert, Director of MF Beckert. "This is a significant advantage in terms of cost and benefits when compared to other existing solutions in the market," he continued. Click here to return to Contents Geometric’s DFMPro™ Awarded Solution Partner Status by SolidWorks 4 June 2008 Geometric Limited announced that their Design for Manufacturability (DFM) product, DFMPro has achieved ‘Solution Partner’ status from SolidWorks Corporation. Fully integrated with SolidWorks® 3D CAD, DFMPro facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of design areas that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. Commenting on the new partner product status, Ms. Efrat Ravid, Director of Marketing and Alliances at SolidWorks said “DFMPro is a unique add‐in within SolidWorks that checks manufacturability issues right at the design stage. Since it is fully integrated within SolidWorks, it can be effectively used by our customers to reduce overall product development costs”. Dr. Vinay Kulkarni, COO – Desktop Products & Technologies, Geometric Limited said, “This recognition from SolidWorks Corp. reflects our commitment to customers to ensure greater efficiencies in product realization. DFMPro is our niche offering in the DFM space, which helps to get designs right the first time.” Used at the designing stage, this tool allows examination of product manufacturability. DFMPro performs rule based checks which can predict manufacturing problems early in the designing stage. It considerably reduces the design review steps, thereby pushing new products into the manufacturing stage swiftly. DFMXpress, a lighter version of DFMPro is shipped with every seat of SolidWorks® 2008. Geometric recently announced the launch of DFMPro 2008 EX, the latest release of DFMPro, which permits organizations to build their own custom rule libraries easily and quickly. A limited period trial version of DFMPro 2008 EX is available at http://www.dfmpro.com. Click here to return to Contents Gerber Technology Launches First of New Series of Cutting Solutions 4 June 2008 Gerber Technology launches the GERBERcutter Z7. The first in the new Z Series premium line of
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary multi-ply cutting systems, the Z7 is engineered to meet the demands and business challenges of manufacturers in many industries including automotive, aerospace and apparel. GERBERcutter Z7 combines precision with efficiency to consistently cut the most demanding materials to the tightest of tolerances. It maximizes throughput and yield while cutting intricate shapes, multiplehole sizes and notches with high accuracy across a full range of material types and thicknesses, including bi-laminate foams, technical textiles and high-loft fabrics. The Z7 is designed to help manufacturers meet continuous improvement initiatives and pressures within the supply chain for quality and turn time with more stringent requirements for reporting of performance metrics. With environmental concerns and energy consumption regulations mounting, a key value to the Z7’s design is its increased efficiency and reduced power usage. “The voices of our customers were the driving force behind the features and functionalities of the Z7,” said Ron Ellis, product manager, Multi-Ply Cutters & Control Systems. As a component of Gerber’s “Voice of the Customer” (VOC) product development process, members of a cross-functional team met with companies in the Americas, Europe and Asia to interview and observe them. “Through our VOC work, our team identified solutions to needs that even our customers didn’t realize existed, just by virtue of our process. To see these features and functionalities in production today is really rewarding, and is a testament to the insight and expertise that comes from being in the business for 40 years,” added Ellis. A key requirement for cut part quality is material stability. The Z7’s hardware and software systems were designed to work together to ensure piece-to-piece and bite-to-bite accuracy. Gerber’s CutWorks® cut path optimization software, digitally-controlled variable vacuum regulation, advanced electronics and a new conveyor design enable material to convey while under precise vacuum levels throughout the cutting process. Depending on the application, an integrated clamp bar is available for conveying material when not under vacuum. “We’re particularly proud of CutWorks and the engineers behind it,” said Ellis. “This software ties together and automates so many critical functionalities and provides a great deal of benefit to our customers as it relates to quality, ease of use, repeatability and throughput.” CutWorks Cut Path Optimization software automatically maximizes throughput and material yield by calculating the most efficient cut path and part nest. In addition, buffer management functionality maximizes material yield. CutWorks files can be saved and programmed as QuickSets, which enable operators to quickly and accurately set up jobs. The Quick Change Drill feature allows operators to change drill bits in seconds -- without tools. CutWorks automatically prompts the operator when a change is required and informs the operator of the required bit size. This feature can be done mid-job, saving minutes per cut file, and minimizing down time for maintenance. The Z-Series features Knife IntelligencePLUS™, specially-developed software that anticipates knife deflection and automatically compensates to prevent it. This ensures accurate cuts from top ply to bottom and produces superior quality circles and notches to very tight tolerances. This feature enables more holes to be cut rather than drilled, which yields as much as a 10 percent improvement in throughput for hole cuts. A growing challenge in many cutting rooms is operator turnover, because it affects both quality and throughput when operators are inexperienced. With this in mind, Gerber designed the Z7 to be easy to use. It features an intuitive touch-screen interface and software that accommodates preprogrammed cut files and machine settings, and provides easy access to job information. These features dramatically Page 53
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary reduce setup times, operator learning curve and margin for error to ensure repeatable and predictable process control. Powerful reporting capabilities make it easy to measure throughput and meet customer information and vendor compliance requirements. “We observed that many customers must rely on simple spreadsheets in order to quantify throughput and yield. With these new reporting capabilities, we aim to help our customers offer more value to their customers as it relates to tracking performance metrics,” said Ellis. “Reporting capabilities are becoming more and more important, especially for companies who are vendors in lean or six-sigma-focused industries such as aerospace and automotive,” he added. Click here to return to Contents I-Cubed Launches Rights Management Practice Solutions for Rights Management Initiatives 1 June 2008 Integrated Industrial Information, Inc. (I-Cubed), the Engineering Business Integration (EBI) company, announced the formation of its Rights Management Practice (RMP). Since 1984, I-Cubed has developed solutions that maximize the potential of engineering assets across the enterprise and is now extending EBI into digital rights management. “The globalization of product development brings with it the need for updated and enhanced security measures to protect intellectual property,” says I-Cubed Vice President of Technology and Services, Mark Winnie. “Our goal is to provide a portfolio of solutions to assist corporations with their rights management initiatives.” I-Cubed standardized their offerings around Adobe LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite. Adobe’s flexible integration architecture in conjunction with LiveCycle’s infrastructure and capacity to support native CAD applications makes LiveCycle ES the natural fit for rights management integrations with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. The initial offerings from I-Cubed’s RMP include consultation services and software for rights management planning and implementation. In addition, software development services are available for Adobe LiveCycle ES application extensions and PLM/ECM connectors to PTC’s Windchill® content and process management solution. Adobe Systems has selected I-Cubed as the preferred provider for LiveCycle Rights Management Extensions. “I-Cubed has proven competency in CAD, PLM, and Rights Management integration. They have earned our trust by extending the value of LiveCycle ES with software development and consulting services,” said Kumar Vora, VP Product Management and Strategy of the Business Productivity Business Unit at Adobe. I-Cubed is currently looking for early adopters to join their beta program. For more information visit http://www.i-cubed.com/rmp.html or contact Mark Winnie at
[email protected] Visit Mark Winnie at the PTC/User World Event 2008 in the Adobe booth and attend his presentation “Digital Rights Management – The CAD – PLM Perspective”. Click here to return to Contents
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary IBM Extends Enterprise Content Management Software Portfolio With Business Content Services 3 June 2008 IBM unveiled an integrated approach to managing enterprise content with software that helps customers control and derive value from all types of content created and shared by workgroups across an organization. IBM's new Business Content Services strategy helps businesses of all sizes to address the explosive growth of content, including business documents created individually and collaboratively across diverse, and often global, workgroups. As part of the company's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software portfolio, this approach combines IBM's ECM capabilities with a variety of collaboration and social software options. Organizations can select the convenience of a complete solution from IBM featuring the social software and collaboration capabilities of Lotus Quickr and also use IBM's ECM offerings to manage business content created in a variety of applications, such as IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, in a secure, scalable ECM platform. "IBM's commitment to delivering market-leading ECM infrastructure solutions allows workers to create content in familiar desktop applications and document collaboration tools, while enabling organizations to more efficiently and cost-effectively meet their content management and compliance goals," said Lee Roberts, general manager, IBM Enterprise Content Management. "Our Business Content Services approach is focused on bridging the gap between the simple management of business documents and a comprehensive ECM infrastructure." AMEC Paragon, the oil, gas and pipeline subsidiary of AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, relies on IBM ECM offerings to improve management of its project document lifecycle. "Today, we populate Microsoft SharePoint with documents controlled and managed by our IBM ECM infrastructure, then use the SharePoint interface to collaborate on these engineering and design documents with other groups in AMEC, outside agencies and partners," said Marc-Henri J. Cerar, Project IT & Information Systems Manager, AMEC Paragon. "IBM's strategy for extending SharePoint will enable AMEC to address current business content management needs within our ECM infrastructure and allow us to meet upcoming challenges -- including integrated records and email management -- while streamlining business processes." The flexibility of IBM's ECM strategy also represents a significant opportunity for IBM Business Partners. Ascendant Technology, a leading technology integrator, is ready to help their customers bring together key collaboration and social networking features within their larger enterprise content management strategy. "The advanced Web 2.0 capabilities and easy-to-use interface of Lotus Quickr combined with IBM's world class ECM capabilities will offer businesses unmatched flexibility and features set," said Jim Deters president of Ascendant Technology. "We expect tremendous demand from our customers for this type of flexible ECM strategy." IBM's Enterprise Content Management Offerings IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr will enable customers to collaborate on business content, leveraging IBM ECM for business process optimization, auto-classification and regulatory compliance. The new services allow IBM customers to mix the Web-based collaboration and desktop integration of Page 55
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office, and Windows Explorer with IBM ECM capabilities. The IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr are the subject of a Design Partner Program with customers and Business Partners and are available in beta release today. Also introduced today are IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint version 2.2, which allow a flow of content between IBM ECM repositories and Microsoft SharePoint servers. Content can be automatically moved or copied from Microsoft SharePoint to IBM ECM repositories and business processes can be accessed from SharePoint using IBM Web Parts. The IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint version 2.2 will become generally available June 6. To help customers develop a plan to effectively deploy these new offerings in conjunction with existing collaboration technologies and applications, and to educate customers on how to effectively advance ECM technologies throughout their organizations, IBM is offering design and consulting services. Led by knowledgeable and experienced architects, these services help customers expedite the implementation of ECM products across the enterprise, supporting ECM technologies in a way that helps ensure a cost-effective, flexible business solution. For more information on IBM's Business Content Services, visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/business-content.html. Click here to return to Contents IBM Tranforms How People Work Together To Deliver Software 2 June 2008 IBM announced new software that will transform how people will collaborate thereby driving greater value and performance from their globally distributed software investments. In front of more than 3,500 customers and business partners attending the IBM Rational Software Development Conference, IBM announced 20 products that break down the walls that inhibit organizations from truly collaborating with partners, suppliers, customers and their employees. These new offerings use IBM's Jazz collaborative technology to help geographically distributed software delivery teams work together in an open, realtime and transparent manner to more effectively deliver and source software solutions. The challenges of globalization are forcing companies to become more nimble, using an increasingly geographically-dispersed and virtual workforce to remain competitive. In the world of software delivery, this means around the clock collaboration with specialized teams around the globe to pick up where another left off. For other stakeholders in an organization, such as lawyers, a finance department, CIO or CEO, there is an increased need for visibility into how the software is delivered on a global scale. Technologies built on, or using, Jazz can interoperate with software from other vendors allowing customers to significantly improve their ability to communicate data within and between their enterprise. "Currently, organizational, geographical and technical silos inhibit business agility and return on software investments. In a globally integrated enterprise, organizations need to transform how they collaborate to get the job done," said Dr. Daniel Sabbah, general manager, IBM Rational Software. "IBM's Jazz platform breaks down location, infrastructure and organizational barriers, transforming the practice of global software delivery." Twenty products infused with Jazz by end of 2008 By the end of 2008, IBM and its business partners expect to release 20 products harnessing the collaborative capabilities of Jazz. The new IBM software will help development teams of all sizes Page 56
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary improve productivity and manage project requirements in real time. Available on June 30, 2008, IBM Rational Team Concert incorporates social networking technologies, such as instant messaging and presence awareness, into the management of a software delivery project on a global scale. IBM Rational Team Concert helps software teams collaborate in real time in the context of specific roles and processes. Integrated version control, work item and build management capabilities help distributed teams overcome geographic and functional barriers to think and work in unison. IBM Rational Team Concert includes automated data gathering resulting in significantly less documentation and provides real-time project health information required to reduce project risk. Making effective software delivery a reality for the small development team, IBM is introducing IBM Rational Team Concert Express-C Edition, a free version available for download from http://www.jazz.net using open source Tomcat and Derby. IBM Rational TeamConcert Express-C is designed to help consultants and students gain experience with a global software delivery environment. IBM Rational Team Concert Express can help mid-sized and departmental teams embrace global collaboration using transparent development, out-of-the-box processes and supports up to 50 users per server.IBM Rational Team Concert Standard Edition, optimized for corporate teams, includes an expanded set of capabilities such as customizable process, real-time project health, enterprise scalability and supports up to 250 users per server. In 2009, IBM Rational Team Concert Enterprise Edition will provide the broadest array of capabilities that any size team can use, including feature-rich work item management and greater source code and configuration management capabilities. IBM is introducing IBM Rational Requirements Composer to help software delivery teams gain consensus on how a project should be designed using familiar business artifacts such as storyboards, sketches, scenarios and models. Currently in beta, this new software will help teams visualize commitments thereby reducing rework and review cycles on requirements. IBM is also announcing the beta of IBM Rational Quality Manager, comprehensive test planning and process software which provides a single view into all aspects of a quality plan. With 100% distributed access and Web 2.0-based collaboration, this new software traces where a project stands in the software delivery cycle to help key stakeholders prioritize issues for resolution. By Jazz enabling the following products, IBM is helping its current customers scale to better take advantage of opportunities presented by globalization: • New versions of IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest and IBM Rational BuildForge now support global scalability and performance with 24/7 global server monitoring, enhanced security with access control lists, a new web 2.0 style client and Agile process support. • The new version of IBM Rational RequisitePro integrates with the new Rational Quality Manager to swiftly drive project requirements into test plans. • The new version of IBM Rational Asset Manager integrates with the Jazz technology in IBM Rational Team Concert to help software delivery teams manage how development assets are used. At the foundation of these new offerings is Jazz collaborative technology which provides a platform of services enabling powerful integration. Similar to what Eclipse did to consolidate the desktop, Jazz will transform the industry by supporting interoperability across a broad array of collaborative application lifecycle management solutions. Over the next several years, most of the IBM Rational portfolio will evolve to incorporate Jazz technology to improve team collaboration and make it easier to integrate IBM products and those from IBM's business partners. This will provide both new and existing IBM
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary customers with a flexible on-ramp to the Jazz platform of the future. IBM is developing Jazz and future products in conjunction with the software development community at http://www.jazz.net. At Jazz.net, members of the community can transparently collaborate with IBM and each other, provide input on requirements, report bugs and ultimately contribute to the development of IBM's software delivery platform. By opening up the software development community as a transparent software supply chain, the Jazz.net community will drive the evolution of standards and common components incorporated in future IBM software releases. Independent software vendors, through the Ready for IBM Rational software validation program, are working with IBM on integrating and validating their offerings to IBM Rational Team Concert and other IBM Rational Jazz-enabled offerings. Black Duck Software is integrating its Governing IP Compliance solution to IBM Rational Team Concert. CAST Software is integrating its Automated Application Intelligence solution to IBM Rational Team Concert. CM-Logic is developing a connector for its Change Management solutions to IBM Rational Team Concert work items. iRiseis integrating its Application Simulation solution with IBM Rational Requirements Composer. Mainsoft is integrating Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Quickr with IBM Rational Team Concert and other Jazz-based products. QSM is integrating its Estimation and Project Control offering with IBM Rational Team Concert. Ravenflow is integrating its Requirements and Diagram offering with IBM Rational Requirements Composer. Source IQ is integrating its Management Metrics for ALM Governance solution with IBM Rational Team Concert. Surgientand VMLogixare integrating their Virtual Test Lab management support solutions to IBM Rational Quality Manager, and WebLayers is integrating its Automated Design Time Governance solution with IBM Rational Team Concert. Driving value from software investments To help organizations drive greater value from their current software investments, IBM is announcing new services that map an organization's business value to best practices in software delivery. The IBM Rational Measured Capability Framework, Rational Health Assessment, Rational Self Checks and IBM IT Governance Services help organizations improve insight into their business outcomes by automating, deploying, adapting and measuring proven best practices. IBM's IT Governance Services can help organizations establish governance priorities and identify strengths and gaps putting them on an IT governance roadmap for improved software effectiveness. In addition to these IBM Jazz-based technology integrations, IBM is also announcing new programs, services and offerings to enable business partners and developers to more quickly help customers succeed in global team software development. For more information on these and other business partner offerings, please visit http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/partners/. Click here to return to Contents Intergraph® SmartPlant® Foundation 2008 Offers Unique Engineering Collaboration Platform 4 June 2008 Intergraph® has released SmartPlant® Foundation 2008 with significant new engineering collaboration capabilities. "Domain" technology allows multiple disciplines to concurrently work on shared engineering subject matter. Intergraph's customers who partnered in the design of SmartPlant Foundation 2008 have indicated that this multiple domain approach has the potential to improve their business performance. Reduction in
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary overall time, increase in cross–discipline quality and reliability of execution are the effects of this engineering collaboration platform. Domain technology supports modern engineering data management practice overcoming many of the artificial IT limitations common today. Conventional PDM/PLM technologies lock engineering content deep inside multiple files, thereby hiding the detailed cross-discipline changes. Conversely, data warehouse technologies expose all data and force users to deal with "data overwrites" from other disciplines before they are ready to re–synchronize their own application data. With SmartPlant Foundation's new "Domain" technology, each discipline's content is isolated from change by others while available to all, and without the need for it all to be initially consistent. Intergraph refers to this as "managed inconsistency," and it reflects the true engineering processes used today, harmonizing the opposite forces of innovation and change with those of quality and consistency. SmartPlant Foundation's powerful information domain comparison tools provide rapid identification of these data inconsistencies, allowing subject matter experts to analyze cross-discipline information and determine the ideal engineering solution, ultimately supporting the synchronization of consistent information between many applications. Japan's Chiyoda Corp., an international engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, collaborated with Intergraph to conceive the concept of independent engineering domains. "Chiyoda is stepping up its efforts to become the ‘Reliability No. 1' project company," said Takashi Kubota, president and chief executive officer, Chiyoda. "Chiyoda's principal engineering information management system, ‘i-PLANT21' is a key to achieve it. Intergraph solutions play a major role in iPLANT21. "In 2002, Chiyoda and Intergraph together started working on the i-SPF project, which focused on global concurrent engineering," Kubota said. "We are quite pleased to have worked directly with Intergraph and to contribute directly to the design of SmartPlant Foundation 2008. The new Domain feature of SmartPlant Foundation 2008 introduces truly advanced integration capabilities that open the door for enterprise integration and life cycle information management." Celebrating its 10th year in the market, with 200 customers worldwide, SmartPlant Foundation 2008 is an engineering information management system, an engineering document management system, an engineering data warehouse, an application integration hub and an information portal – all in one. Now EPCs and owner operators can identify and manage the change of data across the engineering enterprise, ensuring that decisions are based on correct facts (or more appropriately, the best available information while understanding the discrepancies), reducing their exposure to error, risk and hence cost. "SmartPlant Foundation 2008 delivers the capabilities that modern projects need, while creating a path for long term life cycle management of the information," said Patrick Holcomb, executive vice president, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine. "Engineering is a volatile, iterative, negotiated set of transactions where disciplines release data to each other concurrently to meet ever shortening milestones, comparing and driving out inconsistencies in the design along the way. With SmartPlant Foundation's multiple domains, engineers now have the control they need to allow them to do what they do best — make intelligent engineering decisions based on up–to–date, trustworthy information." Also included in the release of SmartPlant Foundation 2008 are three other major new capabilities — Concurrent Engineering, Progress and SmartPlant Foundation Web Portal: • Concurrent Engineering allows owner operators to execute multiple projects simultaneously on the same plant items and associated documentation, and then consolidate changes into the as-built record of Page 59
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary the plant. • Progress provides a status and rollup reporting of engineering completeness – planned, actual and forecast. It delivers a level of feedback to planners and schedulers necessary to allow for re-planning to meet project deadlines – the first real step to program management for engineering projects • SmartPlant Foundation Web Portal provides access to engineering information via a project rolebased portal interface – such as provided by Microsoft SharePoint®, without the need for any native desktop tools to be used by the remote user. Full access and security control are maintained without intellectual assets being exposed to unauthorized users. These capabilities help to consistently manage data across the enterprise — for EPCs they ensure that the integrity of their data or intellectual property is not lost, and for owner operators they allow for multiple modifications without planning shutdowns or interrupting day-to-day business operations. Click here to return to Contents Maple 12 Language Editions Increase Global Reach and Coverage of Software 3 June 2008 Maplesoft™ announced the release of several new language packs for the latest version of its flagship product, Maple™ 12. Now available in Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, and Japanese, Maple 12 breaks new ground in mathematics and engineering software, with an extensive new feature set. Maple provides a powerful interface for solving complex mathematical problems and creating rich technical documents. Maple 12 introduces a range of new tools built on Maple’s fundamental technology platform of smart documents, powerful mathematics, and seamless connectivity to the engineering design toolchain. For instructors, "Clickable Math" and "Clickable Engineering" features in Maple 12 eliminate the traditional complex command sets that still encumber other math systems. "Clickable Math" responds to the most common complaint of faculty who integrate software into the classroom – time is spent teaching the tool, not the concepts. With Maple 12 and Clickable Math, students are instantly productive and engaged. Since its release a few weeks ago, Maple has received many positive reviews for its direct connectivity between Maple 12 and popular CAD systems such as SolidWorks® and Autodesk Inventor®. CAD users are excited about the ability to deploy powerful mathematical capabilities to extend the range of analysis on CAD models. With the release of the language editions for Maple, these new enhancements are more widely accessible to users around the world. "With the language packs, we are sure that Maple’s reach will grow significantly," said Jim Cooper, CEO of Maplesoft. "Engineers and scientists, educators and researchers in different regions will now be able to access the unique power of Maple in a language of their choice." "This new version of Maple will help Japanese engineers reach new levels in the use of engineering software," said Yoichi Mizoguchi, Board Member and General Manager, Cybernet Systems Co. Ltd., Maplesoft’s reseller partner in Japan. "Building on earlier editions, Maple 12 will continue to transform the way engineers in our country take advantage of math-based software for engineering analysis." Pricing and Availability Page 60
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Single user licenses of Maple 12 are available for US $1895 for the professional edition and $995 for the academic version. Volume, upgrade and student discounts apply. Maple 12 is available directly from the Maplesoft web store or from a local Maplesoft reseller. Click here to return to Contents Mastercam X2 Now Certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009 28 May 2008 CNC Software, developer of Mastercam CAD/CAM software, announces that its Mastercam X2 CAD/CAM Software has been certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009 software by the Autodesk Inventor Certified Applications Program. To be certified, the product must meet certain guidelines and demonstrate a high level of quality as well as compatibility with Autodesk Inventor. Certification is given only after the product has been tested and approved. “We are very happy to be certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009. Many Mastercam customers receive Inventor files, so both communities can be assured of the seamless integration between our two products,” says Gary Hargreaves, Director of Business Development for CNC Software. “The flow from design to manufacture becomes easier for both Inventor and Mastercam customers, where the designer can be assured that the part designed in Inventor is precisely the part that is machined with Mastercam. Both companies are working together to provide customers with the best in CAD and CAM software. The Mastercam and Autodesk Inventor integration offers users a way to easily work between the two products and stay ahead of their competition.” Mastercam X2 has a direct add-in for Autodesk Inventor, a new way to boost productivity. Free to the Mastercam and Autodesk communities, Mastercam Direct enables users to open a model in Mastercam while in an Inventor session, and then update toolpaths to reflect changes to the model. Mastercam X2 is able to read in native Inventor files for design purposes and toolpath generation. “Autodesk Inventor software users can import part files and manufacture them quickly using Mastercam X2 MR2” says Hilde Sevens, CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) senior product line manager, Manufacturing Solutions at Autodesk. “Having partners, such as Mastercam in the Autodesk Certified Application Program assures users that the same standards of product quality we want for Autodesk Inventor are being extended to the Mastercam suite of solutions.” Mastercam Direct for Inventor is available at no charge from http://www.mastercam.com or through your local Mastercam Reseller. Click here to return to Contents MSC.Software Announces Integrated Enterprise Simulation for PTC Product Development Solutions 2 June 2008 MSC.Software announced an integrated simulation solution for the PTC Product Development Solutions within its release of SimEnterprise R3. MSC.Software's Advanced Enterprise Simulation Technology can now provide PTC users the ability to enhance the efficiency of product development resources, automate best practices for CAE as well as share and reuse information analysis vastly improving virtual product development efficiency. MSC.Software's SimEnterprise solutions allow users of PTC's CAD and PDM applications to enhance
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary their design environment efficiency through virtual test and validation while increasing the level of analysis through SimEnterprise. SimEnterprise solutions provide several distinct layers of simulation functionality that are fully integrated with PTC applications. The SimEnterprise solutions begin with the capabilities of MD Nastran for linear, non-linear and thermal analysis along with MD Adams for motion coupled with other integrated analysis capabilities for noise, vibration, and explicit analyses like drop test. PTC users can also select a next generation integrated pre and post processing environment exposing all disciplines in a multi-workspace environment with unique facilities for best practice capture of simulation methods. Captured best practice CAE methods can be directly distributed to ProE CAD users using MSC.Software's SimDesigner Enterprise template capability. SimManager can be combined for a complete, end-to-end enterprise simulation environment that enables integration with Windchill, adding complementary capabilities to manage simulation related content and automate processes for added productivity. SimEnterprise's flexible Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allows PTC users to start anywhere, tailoring the next generation enterprise simulation solution to maximize their efficiencies, accelerate time to market, and add time to increase innovation into their products. "Organizations need best-in-class simulation technology along with enterprise capable solutions for both design and simulation that work seamlessly together and allow users to optimize form, fit, and function concurrently," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer, MSC.Software. "MSC.Software is committed to providing best-in-class integrated enterprise simulations solutions that extend business value complementing PTC PLM solutions capabilities." Click here to return to Contents New Summer ’08 Release Expands Core Arena PLM Functionality to Facilitate Better Designs, Decisions, and Products 5 June 2008 Arena Solutions announced the launch of its new Arena PLM Summer ’08 release filled with improvements in every area of the product, with specific emphasis on change management and visibility. Summer ’08 solidifies Arena PLM as the epicenter of the product development environment and boosts customers’ ability to leverage the “single version of the truth” managed in the system. With new tools to push that truth—the centralized, revision-controlled product record—further upstream and downstream throughout the extended enterprise, companies can create superior designs, make smarter decisions, and build better products. New features added to Arena PLM’s change management platform let companies close the loop in the change process from the earliest stages of design to the final phases of production. For example, the new Arena PLM EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Adapter pushes the latest approved component data directly back into the electronic design environment, so the right parts are designed in from the start. With this integration, design and engineering groups can access constantly updated component information (such as preferred parts, descriptions, parametric information, symbols, footprints, and datasheets) from within their design environment. The EDA integration solution includes all necessary configuration tools and works with Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics’ DxDesigner and DxDataBook, and Cadence’s OrCAD Capture CIS, among others. “We’ve been testing the beta version of the EDA Adapter and can already see the integration between our EDA software and Arena PLM is a significant benefit. It helps our engineering and manufacturing teams stay in better sync. The tools are easy to use, accessible to everyone, and the integration is
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary seamless,” said Andy Aiello, chief operating officer, OpenPeak, Inc. “With the EDA Adapter, our electrical engineers can work with the big picture in mind, integrating approved data into our latest PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) designs from the start. It certainly stands to make our entire process easier and more efficient.” The Arena PLM Summer ’08 release also features important new functionality for managing change implementation, enabling the entire manufacturing team—both in-house and outsourced—to document steps taken to roll out approved changes and report current product status. This capability eliminates guesswork throughout the product development process by closing the loop between intended and accomplished change, allowing complete visibility into the implementation process, and situating everything about any given change in one central, accessible location. This increased feedback boosts companies’ confidence in their products, allowing them to know, without a doubt, that change happened the way it was intended. “We are very enthusiastic about the Summer ’08 release and the new improvements that have been added. Specifically, the change implementation functionality will give us access to important feedback, so we know exactly which steps have been taken toward accomplishing product changes and have a clear understanding about the status of our products in development,” said Omar Ahsan, senior vice president of operations of Desktop Factory. “Major enhancements to Arena PLM, like those we previewed in the Summer ’08 release, make it easier for us to deliver our 3D printers on time and on budget, and further blow away our competition. It is yet another reminder about how much we value this service and how critical it is to our business.” The Summer ’08 release also includes features that give customers greater flexibility in how they view information and greater control over how they interact with suppliers. In addition, the application is full of visibility and productivity enhancements that support better decision-making earlier in the product development process. Some of these enhancements include: The ability to mark files as private and keep them confidential from suppliers, which is the most requested feature by customers. This gives customers a finer degree of access control and greater confidence in their collaboration with suppliers. Multiple custom BOM (bill of materials) views, which enhance customers’ ability to customize Arena PLM according to the way they want to capture and organize information. More list panels—pop-up windows that display information from other areas of the application— throughout Arena PLM, which make it easier for users to get the information they need without navigating away from a page in which they are currently engaged. “The fact that we’ll be able to mark files as private is extremely positive for us. It allows us to save a chunk of time by streamlining our current process,” added Ahsan of Desktop Factory. “One of the prevailing discussions we have with our customers is around change. They know that change happens. We know that change happens. Change is a reality when you’re constantly innovating, working with distributed teams, and partnering with suppliers around the world. It can be extremely painful—and very expensive—without the right controls,” said Craig Livingston, chief executive officer of Arena Solutions. “The enhancements in our Summer ’08 release further establish Arena PLM as the epicenter of the product development process and the place where change is managed. These improvements enable customers to push product information upstream and downstream more efficiently and with more confidence and control than ever before.”
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary On Sunday, June 15, 2008, the product’s scheduled roll-out, 100 percent of Arena PLM users can access the innovations Arena has built into its Summer ’08 release. Thanks to the on-demand delivery model (also called software-as-a-service, or SaaS), not one Arena PLM customer will need to worry about upgrade installations, expensive and migration projects, customizations, or IT infrastructure. To view the Summer ’08 launch event, please visit the Arena Solutions website at http://www.arenasolutions.com/newsandevents/events/launch/r50/53Ab-r50summer-lp.html?ifid=10014 Click here to return to Contents PTC Announces Windchill® ProductPoint™ Its New SharePoint®-Based Solution for Product Development 2 June 2008 PTC announced Windchill ProductPoint, its new solution for capturing, handling, and sharing product development information. “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is breaking the milestone of 100 million licenses sold this year. Capitalizing on this momentum, PTC has developed Windchill ProductPoint based on the SharePoint platform and .NET framework. With Windchill ProductPoint, PTC extends the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint to offer product development companies the ability to manage and share structured product content in multiple CAD formats," said Brian J. Scott, vice president, worldwide industry strategy, Microsoft Corporation. "Microsoft and PTC have built a deep relationship throughout the development of Windchill ProductPoint and we look forward to furthering our partnership." Windchill ProductPoint will give SharePoint reach into the world of Product Development. Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft’s technology infrastructure for collaboration, has been well adopted across manufacturing companies as a backbone for Office applications, primarily for document sharing and management. With Windchill ProductPoint, PTC will enable SharePoint to understand CAD (computer-aided-design) data, increasing the reach of the familiar SharePoint user experience, and enhancing its usage across broader product development teams. For OEMs and suppliers, a future release of Windchill ProductPoint is planned to support the sharing of information among other Windchill-based systems. Small manufacturers may find that Windchill ProductPoint alone offers sufficient capabilities to meet their needs for protecting and sharing product data. Windchill ProductPoint benefits companies of all sizes, providing smaller companies with an ideal steppingstone into product lifecycle management (PLM) and giving larger companies with a SharePoint strategy the ability to extend their product development system to broader user communities. Highlights of Windchill ProductPoint include: Capabilities • Multi-CAD SharePoint services offer basic functions for managing Pro/ENGINEER data as well as other CAD file formats, their structures, and inter-relationships • ProductView™ services enable visual product interaction with 3D thumbnails, visualization of lightweight product viewables, and Web-based markup tools for redlining designs • Visual navigation and interrogation of files dependencies • Windchill Portlets present Windchill information (e.g. task lists) to users in a familiar SharePoint portal Page 64
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Windchill PLM Connector enables sharing of CAD data across Windchill-based systems in support of customer or supplier collaboration, or internal collaboration among different divisions Benefits • Improve efficiency and collaboration through access of engineering content to broader product development teams • Minimal learning curve, due to familiar Microsoft environment • Version control offers advantages over network drive-based storage systems and FTP sites, thus enabling effective concurrent engineering • Leverages the easy and fast deployment characteristics of SharePoint and can be deployed on an existing SharePoint implementation • Low total cost of ownership since Windchill ProductPoint uses the Windows SharePoint Services infrastructure, which is included with all Microsoft Server solutions • As a component of the PTC Product Development System, a flexible and scalable configuration of PTC solutions specifically designed and tested to work together, Windchill ProductPoint contributes key capabilities needed for successful product development. “Windchill ProductPoint enhances Microsoft SharePoint by enabling teams to manage and share structured product development information typically created by CAD and engineering applications," said James Heppelmann, executive vice president and chief product officer, PTC. “Windchill ProductPoint significantly enhances the utility of SharePoint for product development. Smaller companies will find this new solution to be a good entry point for PLM, while larger companies will see the solution as a natural extension to their product development system. Windchill ProductPoint demonstrates PTC’s commitment to providing scalable solutions that help customers of all sizes optimize their product development processes.” Windchill ProductPoint Availability Windchill ProductPoint is being announced and demonstrated at the PTC/USER World Event on June 2, 2008. It is expected to be available in CYQ4 2008*. For more information about Windchill ProductPoint, please visit http://www.ptc.com/go/windchillproductpoint. *The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion. Click here to return to Contents PTC Introduces ProductView™ Visual Collaboration Software, Represents New Generation of Unified, Scalable Visualization Platform 2 June 2008 PTC introduced ProductView 9.1, the newest version of PTC’s visual collaboration software. With its breakthrough performance gains, intuitive task-focused user interface and MCAD-ECAD collaboration capabilities, this release enables a customer to adapt to their changing visual collaboration needs without having to install disparate tools or develop custom integrations. PTC is the only company that offers one scalable visual collaboration platform, which also contributes to a broader, integral PTC® Product Development System (PDS). ProductView 9.1 accelerates a manufacturer’s ability to gain product
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary insight in order to improve decision making and reduce time to market of new products. Product development is a highly visual activity and manufacturers have often struggled with multiple technology solutions to support the various forms and complexity levels of visual information required by different stakeholders. PTC’s ProductView 9.1 alleviates these challenges by offering an ultra scalable visual collaboration platform that supports customer needs ranging from simple desktop viewing to the interactive exploration of massive million part digital mockups. Its scalability means that ProductView 9.1 allows for loading volumes of viewable data previously unachievable, increases overall productivity with superlative performance, and extracts the most value from customers’ existing hardware investment. Additionally with this release, the ProductView 9.1 family achieves an industry-first through its support of the ProSTEP IDX (Interdomain Design Exchange) standard. With this capability, PTC becomes the first provider of mechanical computer-aided-design (MCAD) solutions to adhere to this openly defined method for communicating incremental design changes bi-directionally between the mechanical and electrical domains. This optimizes customers’ ability to preview and assess the potential cross-functional impact of design changes and avoid costly errors. ProductView MCAD Professional, a key component of the ProductView 9.1 family, offers the following new capabilities and usability enhancements: • New, intuitive task-based user experience aligned to the Microsoft® Office 2007 user interface paradigm • Hierarchical visual navigation and drill-down using unique 3D thumbnail capabilities • Automatic multi-weight re-purposing and improved file compression capabilities enabling fast information access tailored to individual’s roles • Multi-core readiness by parallel threading of computational processes, taking full advantage of today’s multi-core CPUs and delivering stunning performance • Enhanced queries on spatial proximity and meta-data to provide interactive real-time graphical reports and reduce visual complexity • Improved construction geometry creation, reuse, and management, useful for taking measurements and interrogating designs • Model-based Design (MBD) visualization including enhanced support for annotated models, access to view manager information from Pro/ENGINEER and understanding the association between annotation and model geometries • Optional 64-bit support of massive digital mockups (consisting of over one million parts and one billion polygons) • Smart tools for rapid creation of exploded views • Optional toolkits for embedding ProductView into Web, Java, and Microsoft Office applications “The ultra-scalable architecture of PTC’s ProductView 9.1 clearly demonstrates superlative performance for opening and displaying large 3D models,” said Jeff Zemsky, PLM program manager, PlugPower. “The new user interface provides more capability and power while making many tasks easier. This release truly establishes PTC as the foremost provider of visual collaboration software.” “During this past year, PTC has been working to consolidate its Division® and InterComm® products
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary under the umbrella of ProductView, providing customers one complete platform for visual collaboration,” said James Heppelmann, executive vice president and chief product officer, PTC. “ProductView 9.1 is a significant milestone towards realizing our vision of providing industry-leading solutions for digital development activities that require intensive visual display and manipulation. PTC customers deploying the new ProductView MCAD Professional solution will accelerate their ability to gain product insight and improve decision making ability – two critical aspects of optimizing product development processes.” ProductView 9.1 and ProductView MCAD Professional Product Availability ProductView 9.1 and ProductView MCAD Professional is scheduled to be available September 2008. The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion. Click here to return to Contents Right Hemisphere's 3D Visualization Technology to Integrate With SAP PLM 2 June 2008 SAP PLM Customer Value Network - Right Hemisphere® announced that SAP AG has licensed and will be integrating Right Hemisphere's 2D and 3D visualization technology into the SAP PLM Solution. Right Hemisphere's visualization technology will serve as the standard for viewing, collaborating and publishing graphical product data for SAP's next generation of enterprise applications. The next release of SAP® Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) -- which is slated to begin shipping later this year -- will be the first SAP application to integrate and take advantage of Right Hemisphere's 3D technology. This technology integration will also allow SAP users to incorporate additional Right Hemisphere client and enterprise software products into their IT infrastructure for stateof-the-art 2D and 3D product graphics authoring, management and publishing capabilities. "For a little over a year now, we've been steadily and methodically marching down a path of closer cooperation and integration with SAP and its enterprise software products," said Michael Lynch, CEO at Right Hemisphere. "Now that we've fully engaged with SAP and have successfully completed the necessary integration and certification work, we have the foundation in place to deliver exceptionally high value to SAP's customers. Together with SAP, we see an enormous opportunity to unify key product data and eliminate some of the inefficiencies and duplication of effort that occur downstream in the enterprise." Last month, Right Hemisphere announced a worldwide value-added reseller agreement with well-known SAP Special Expertise and Software Development Partner CENIT AG to distribute and support its software in North America and Europe. In 2007, Right Hemisphere's Deep Server™ 4.1 enterprise software successfully achieved SAP Certified Integration status for its integration with SAP PLM, Release 4.7. Earlier in 2007, Right Hemisphere received an equity investment from SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG. By incorporating Right Hemisphere's Deep Server enterprise software into a SAP IT infrastructure, manufacturing companies get a holistic and visual anytime, anywhere view of their product line data, including pricing, ordering, support and service information. Deep Server can automatically merge visual data from engineering and text-based business data from SAP applications. Once deployed, Deep Server can extract and receive computer-aided design (CAD) metadata, bill of materials (BOM)
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CIMdata PLM Industry Summary structures, and CAD geometry files stored in SAP PLM application-based systems. After extracting data from SAP PLM, Deep Server can generate lightweight 3D product models, combine these models with associated SAP ERP application-based product data, generate graphic derivatives and collaborative 3D documents, and import all of those files and documents back into SAP PLM. The imported data will also be associated with the parent CAD data records -- known as document information records. Right Hemisphere's Deep Server software can also combine text and visual data, and publish it into a variety of outputs including HTML, Microsoft® Office® and Adobe® PDF® files. These outputted files can then be used for training, user, and support manuals; parts catalogs; and any other kind of documentation needed to support a manufactured product. Deep Server automates and accelerates the production of product-related documentation, effectively reducing the time and expense traditionally required to create and maintain this documentation. Right Hemisphere's solutions are already deployed in some of the industry's most respected manufacturing companies such as Bell Helicopter, Chrysler, Halliburton, Joy Mining Machinery, and Sikorsky Aircraft. With support for over 130 2D and 3D formats, Right Hemisphere's software provides an open environment for enterprise-wide product communication and collaboration that seamlessly connects with other enterprise systems, eliminates various inefficiencies, and helps manufacturers get their products and support materials to market faster. Click here to return to Contents SimManager R3 Delivers Breakthrough Productivity with Workgroup to Enterprise Scalability 2 June 2008 MSC.Software announced the release of SimManager R3. R3 delivers major improvements to performance and scalability of the system, empowering companies to simulate more productively by enabling more consistent and reliable simulation for teams from departmental to extended enterprise. SimManager gives product development executives the confidence to replace slow and expensive physical prototypes and tests with virtual equivalents that can be modified easily and tested quickly in order to provide greater insight into product performance. Leveraging SimManager's proven and scalable capabilities to manage simulation content and automate standard processes, manufacturers worldwide are simulating more design possibilities, leading to product innovation and lasting competitive advantage. SimManager R3 improves upon the only proven and scalable solution for enterprise simulation management by introducing important new capabilities: • Introduction of SimManager Workgroup Edition to provide out of the box simulation content management, in a fraction of the time and cost of using legacy PDM solutions. • New and improved user interface and and graphical process builder that accelerate simulation process configuration and user productivity. • Enhanced methods and process automation to dramatically reduce repetitive, manually intensive work • Direct integration to MSC applications including Patran, ADAMS, EASY5, SimXpert, and SimDesigner and open support of 3rd party applications • Improved utilization of web-services, supporting enhanced enterprise integration and compatibility with IBM's Websphere Process Server Page 68
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Improved performance scalability, proven to support global enterprises and their supply chains in automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, electronics, consumer products, and other industries "SimManager is the only enterprise simulation management solution today that has repeatedly delivered proven results in various industries such as Aerospace, Automotive, Shipbuilding, Heavy Equipment & Machinery Industry, Consumer Packaged Goods and Electronics in more than twenty real-world, fullproduction enterprise scale settings," said Bill Weyand, Chief Executive Officer, MSC.Software. "SimManager R3 raises the bar for simulation productivity and will enable the world's most successful companies to simulate more and build lasting competitive advantage in their industries." SimManager leverages the full power of MSC.Software's comprehensive simulation technology-MSC SimEnterprise Solutions-to provide the collaborative insight manufacturers require for enhanced productivity and long-term success. The result is faster, more innovative design methodologies that decrease development costs and establish unprecedented competitive advantage. MSC SimEnterprise Solutions bring together simulation analysis and workspace tools, content and process management, and best practices automation in a seamlessly integrated environment. From industry-standard solvers to automation of simulation content and process management, SimEnterprise Solutions let you build on your simulation success as your requirements grow. MSC solutions can be combined for a complete, end-to-end enterprise simulation environment, or deployed separately depending upon your business requirements. Click here to return to Contents SPT Group and CD-adapco Announce Initiative To Enhance Computational Flow Assurance 3 June 2008 The SPT Group, a vendor and developer of flow assurance software and services, and CD-adapco announced an initiative to investigate and grow the potential between SPT’s OLGA® and CD-adapco’s STAR brand software systems. The two companies will work closely with the market to define and implement streamlined processes for using the best features of both OLGA® and the STAR solvers to improve the timely, practical insight that can be gained by engineers using computational flow assurance. “SPT Group sees the initiative with CD-adapco as an important contribution to our existing activities. Linking the pre-integrated 3D flow model in OLGA® to detailed CFD models for process equipment gives consistent model details and efficient simulations. This yields exiting possibilities and ultimately gives our customers increased insight and confidence in their future designs,” says Norbert Hoyer, Executive Vice President of Business Development in SPT Group. “We are happy to add CD-adapco to our continuously growing list of OLGA Technology Partners” says Bjarte Håtveit responsible for the OLGA partner activities. “CD-adapco is pleased to be able to work with such a recognized leader as SPT to bring improved practical benefits to engineers involved in flow assurance work, via integrated processes involving an intelligent, judicious combination of OLGA® and STAR technologies,” said Dennis Nagy, CD-adapco’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and Energy Sector Business Director. “As the world’s oil and gas challenges move to harsher arctic and deep subsea environments, the needs for more refined insight into the physical behavior of exploration and production systems and equipment, to insure optimal operation and avoid failure risks, can be met by the intelligent use of multi-fidelity simulations such as those available from SPT and CD-adapco.” Page 69
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Click here to return to Contents Synopsys Delivers Comprehensive Design Support for TSMC 40-Nanometer 4 June 2008 Synopsys, Inc. announced that it is delivering comprehensive support for TSMC Reference Flow 9.0 targeting 40-nanometer (nm) processes, including 40G and 40LP. Technologies that enable design readiness include: low power design and verification provided by the Eclypse™ Low Power Solution using the industry standard Unified Power Format (UPF); advanced Design-for-Test (DFT) capabilities; complete 40-nm design rule support for place-and-route; transparent half-node design flow; statistical leakage analysis; and enhanced design-for-manufacturing (DFM) capabilities. The two companies also extended the scope of their library distribution agreement to include TSMC's 45-nm and 40-nm Standard Cells, I/Os and Memory Compilers in Synopsys' DesignWare® Library product. Low power design techniques provided in connection with Reference Flow 9.0 include multi-supply voltage, level shifter and isolation cells, power gating, IR analysis, low power clock tree synthesis, and static timing and leakage analysis. With the new reference flow, designers utilize UPF to specify consistent low power design techniques at all levels of their design flow. New low power DFT capabilities covered by Reference Flow 9.0 include power-aware ATPG, multi-mode scan insertion and the TetraMAX® N-Defect function to predictably achieve the highest test quality while reducing the cost of test. These technologies are available with the Galaxy™ Design Platform and Discovery™ Verification Platform. Because tight integration between design and manufacturing is becoming increasingly important to achieve high yield, Synopsys is announcing enhanced support for TSMC Reference Flow 9.0, including improvements in both physical and electrical DFM capabilities for 40-nm readiness. For productivity gains during implementation, designers can use concurrent yield optimization for critical area reduction and hierarchical critical area analysis. Electrical DFM support has been improved to include table-based DFM-LPE extraction flow. In addition, PrimeYield LCC links to TSMC's enhanced Shape-to-Electrical (S2E) DFM engine, enabling contour-based extraction for timing and leakage simulation down to 40nm. For faster turnaround time, PrimeYield LCC supports hierarchical LPC analysis. These enhancements in Reference Flow 9.0 identify additional manufacturing issues before tapeout, improving time-to-silicon and reducing potential delays due to redesign. "Synopsys and TSMC have worked together to keep pace with the evolving challenges of deep submicron design," said ST Juang, senior director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC. "Synopsys' integration of UPF low power standards in Reference Flow 9.0 is just one example of the cutting-edge technology included in this flow." "We've worked closely with TSMC to ensure that our design platforms, with advanced signoff analysis, DFM and low power technologies, offer the solutions that designers need to address complex, deepsubmicron challenges," said Rich Goldman, vice president of Strategic Market Development at Synopsys. "We look forward to a continued relationship with TSMC to address the challenges at 40nanometer and below processes and offer our mutual customers a complete, low- risk solution from RTL to silicon." About TSMC Reference Flow 9.0 Support Reference Flow 9.0 accommodates comprehensive Synopsys-based RTL-to-GDSII using the Eclypse Low Power Solution with UPF support, the Galaxy Design Platform for RTL synthesis, physical Page 70
CIMdata PLM Industry Summary implementation and signoff, and the Discovery Verification Platform with VCS®, HSPICE®, and HSIM™/Nanosim® for RTL verification and circuit simulation. As an integral part of the Reference Flow 9.0, Galaxy support includes: -- Design Compiler® and Design Compiler Graphical technology logic synthesis -- Power Compiler™ multi-voltage power management -- DesignWare Library and TSMC Nexsys Standard Cells and I/O libraries -- MVSIM and MVRC for voltage aware simulation and verification -- DFT MAX 1-pass test synthesis -- IC Compiler physical implementation, including low power clock tree synthesis (CTS) -- PrimeTime®, PrimeTime SI, PrimeTime Advanced on-chip variation modeling (AOCVM), and PrimeTime VX static timing and signal integrity sign-off -- PrimeRail power network sign-off -- PrimeTime PX full-chip power and statistical leakage analysis -- Star-RCXT™ extraction -- Hercules™ PVS physical verification -- TetraMAX automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) -- PrimeYield LCC and PrimeYield CMP for design-for-yield analysis Synopsys Professional Services is a global TSMC Design Center Alliance partner and provides expertise in chip implementation and flow deployment with Reference Flow 9.0. Synopsys also distributes TSMC libraries through the DesignWare Library. Click here to return to Contents
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