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Actify set to release SpinFire CAD viewer update

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Randall Newton

More than 50 updates or features including new measure and calculate tools. Actify has announced the next release of SpinFire, ...

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2007: Major acquisitions consolidate PLM industry

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GfxS staff

Two major acquisitions dominated the PLM scene in 2007: Siemens buying UGS and Oracle buying Agile. An analysis by CIMdata’s ...

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2007: Blurring and bridging the boundaries between PLM and factory automation

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GfxS staff

Increasing the communication between engineering and the factory floor has developed significantly, but still has a long way to go. ...

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Autodesk does about-face on PLM

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Randall Newton

Instead of cracking jokes about “only three companies with a PLM problem,” Autodesk will bring to market this year cloud-based ...

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Spatial releases Catia 3D geometry kernel for commercial use

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Randall Newton

CGM release gives Dassault Systèmes a direct competitor to Parasolid. Spatial also releases an update to its 3D InterOp translator ...

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2007: IBM and Dassault Systèmes redefine sales relationship

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GfxS staff

This agreement in 2007 set the stage for the 2009 acquisition of IBM PLM by Dassault. From the archives of ...

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2007: SAP PLM Road Map: High-Speed Rail Line or Head-On Train Wreck?

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GfxS staff

In detailed plans that read more like an internal memo than a press release, SAP announced a four-year road map ...

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2007: PLM products for hazardous substance compliance management

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GfxS staff

RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) compliance issues have taken center stage for many ...

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Open source Aras PLM attracts advanced search solution

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Randall Newton

Based on the Apache Lucene search library, Discover Innovator from Northridge Software brings Google-like queries to the growing PLM suite. ...

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Pushing the digital thread at Bell Helicopter

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Randall Newton

Bell Helicopter has been known as an innovator since its development of the V-22 Osprey. Today it is integrating the ...