established PLM players, and is very quick to deploy. Autodesk, which fi nalized its acquisition of CAM developer Delcam in February, also plans to link its CAM offerings, which include the cloud-based CAM 360, with PLM 360. Developer of AutoCAD and many multiphysics simulation offerings including SIM 360, Autodesk now offers users a full suite of software for design, manufacturing, and simulation. “There’s the challenge of carefully evolving where we go with cloud-based products and making them complementary with our other products,” said Ron Locklin, Autodesk’s director, PLM 360, Industry Strategy Marketing. Autodesk has offered Vault, the company’s on- premise PLM solution, for many years. The com- pany announced a new workfl ow engine in one of last year’s PLM 360 releases, and typically releases updates to PLM 360 every fi ve to six weeks. “We’ve been releasing updates monthly, but we’re starting to throttle back,” said Locklin. While the releases show investment and offer rapid advances in PLM 360 to
“All that’s needed for game-changing innovation
is having the right people with the right resources.”
customers, they can also present challenges in train- ing, sales and deployment. “Obviously the popularity and frequent releases are a double-edged sword.” Another SaaS PLM developer, Arena Solutions
(Foster City, CA), in October 2013 updated its cloud- based PLM software with Arena Demand, Arena Projects, Arena Exchange and Arena API. Its custom- ers focus on high-technology, medical and industrial manufacturing, said Steve Chalgren, Arena vice president, Product Management and Strategy. Arena’s PLM offering helps customers shepherd product development from birth through the end of
the lifecycle, as opposed to focusing more on the design end, noted Chalgren. “The fact of the matter is most OEMs today outsource at least some, often all, of their manufacturing,” he said. “The reason is be- cause there is a lot of expensive, specialized manu- facturing technology out there. These days you rarely can manufacture a product end-to-end inhouse.” With Arena’s SaaS-based PLM solutions, users get simplicity and collaboration with anyone in their supply chain, at an attractive price point. “When you think about time-to-market and quality, the key thing you have to deliver is to get that design out to your manufacturing team,” Chalgren, “and then keep them all in sync.”
Stronger Links to the Shop Floor With several recent acquisitions including manu- facturing execution systems (MES) developers Inter- cim and Apriso, PLM developer Dassault Systèmes (Vélizy-Villacoublay, France) has sought to augment its 3DExperience platform’s connection with the shop fl oor. “We’re all about having the virtual world and the real world seamlessly go back and forth so you can take issues you have in the real world off-line, optimize them, and improve the real world,” said Patrick Michel, vice president, Delmia Digital Manu- facturing Offers, Dassault Systèmes. “In order to have a good virtual simulation, you need to have the live update from what’s really happening in your global production system.”
Digital manufacturing systems accomplished some up-front optimization over the years, Michel said, but it never carried over into the execution, the full production. With Apriso’s MES expertise, he add- ed, Dassault Systèmes is seeking to better leverage its assets from the virtual world. In February, Dassault Systèmes announced availability of Release 2014x of the 3DExperience platform’s on-premise and on- the-cloud portfolio that includes CATIA, SolidWorks, Enovia PDM, Simulia fi nite element analysis (FEA)
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