CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 January 2008
Company News
Siemens PLM Software Announces Set of "Major Milestones" in Digital Lifecycle Simulation
Siemens PLM Software announced a set of "major milestones" in the high-growth digital lifecycle simulation - or computer-aided-engineering (CAE) - segment of the PLM market that build on its CAE technology launches from 2007.
Chief among these milestones is the announcement of two key CAx wins for which CAE expertise was a key differentiator in Siemens PLM Software's selection:
Liao He Petroleum - a key enterprise under China National Petroleum that owns the third largest oilfield in China. "The rich large assembly and assembly analysis capabilities of NX are an important reason why it attracts us," said Gao Yuanwen, director of IT Department. "This combined with the powerful NX Nastran solver and the advanced pre and post processors as well as the complete integration with NX CAD, finally enabled us to make our choice. After a short time of use, we are already beginning to gradually achieve our expected goal."
Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group , the world's number one helicopter manufacturer and a division of EADS, a world leader in aerospace, defense and related services. Eurocopter selected Femap® and NXTM Nastran as an integrated platform for stress analysis and substantiation of military helicopter systems. "The integrated Visual Basic interface of Femap provides an unchallenged way to integrate our calculation tools to aid in further post processing, substantiation and documentation of stress analysis, particularly composite structures, leading to a faster automated process," said Christopher Bach, spokesman, Eurocopter.
In addition, Siemens PLM Software announced the appointment of Ken Blakely, a 23 year veteran of the digital lifecycle simulation industry, as vice president, CAE Business Development. At Siemens PLM Software, Blakely's focus is on working with the Marketing and Products groups to create sales programs designed to grow Siemens PLM Software's CAE revenue base on a global basis. He reports to John Graham, Siemens PLM Software executive vice president of Global Sales & Services.
"These key customer wins go a long way not only toward highlighting our growing momentum in CAE, but also toward demonstrating the value that our CAE solutions add in spanning the enterprise and mid-market levels," said Graham. "This is an ideal time to add Ken to our team. Ken's mission is essentially to facilitate our growth goals for CAE by leveraging the resources of the entire business behind them. We now have a recognized leader in our sales organization fully devoted to CAE, and we are confident this increased focus will help us fulfill the increased demand for our world-class simulation capabilities."
With NX 5, Siemens PLM Software launched nine new simulation products, while its recently announced Teamcenter 2007 portfolio incorporates the next stage in its end-to-end simulation data management environment. The new technology enables users to manage the eight unique analysis needs:
1. Scalability and consistency - to enable people in all parts of the organization and all phases of product development to be more productive.
2. Intelligent model generation - so that manufacturing companies can leverage the millions they invest to develop and document product designs.
3. Industrial-strength productivity - to meet industry trends that consistently point to continuing growth in model size and complexity.
4. Multi-physics, multi-disciplinary - to efficiently couple simulation applications, and allow the results of one simulation activity to be efficiently used as input to others.
5. Open integration - to enable companies to leverage large numbers of very specific analysis tools and maintain their competitive advantage.
6. Visualization and collaboration - for the up to 20 people who consume and interact with the information generated by each author.
7. Reusable processes and knowledge - to address the issues of too little time combined with a lack of trained, knowledgeable professionals.
8. Simulation process management - to combat the biggest single constraint on getting greater value from digital simulation investments - insufficient focus on managing CAE data, processes and workflows.
"Taken together, these highlights represent major milestones in Siemens PLM Software's commitment to strengthening our leadership in CAE and build on our already strong momentum in this space," said Tony Affuso, chairman and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. "With 40 years of CAE experience already under our belt, Siemens PLM Software has long pioneered excellence in this segment, and we are excited for the opportunities to serve our customers that our expanded focus on it presents."
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