Summer time is always a good period to explore new areas and discover new things. This is true for the place you’ll visit this year, the new people you’ll meet but also for new areas on the Web. If, like me, you can’t really disconnect from work even during holidays (), remember to have a look to the different PLM MarketPlace channels all over the Web.

If you’re the lucky owner of a smartphone, remember to bookmark the mobile version of PLM MarketPlace to receive our Partners’ latest news right on your phone by the swimmingpool! You can also bookmark our RSS feed.

To keep aware of the latest business discussions around PLM MarketPlace’s referenced solutions, join, read and react on the PLM MarketPlace LinkedIn group. Have also a look at the members list to find new business contacts. By the way, we are close to reach our 1000th member, you maybe?

If you really can’t disconnect from work and your smartphone/laptop and want to chat with other PLM users/professionals/experts/partners, then PLM MarketPlace Twitter is made for you! Like LinkedIn, it is totally free. Just sign up and start discussing in less than 140 characters (it’s not always easy but an interesting exercise that definitely shows you how much a 3D drawing helps you to express an idea ).

Finally, after dinner and a walk by the marina, you might want to see a great TV show. What about the PLM MarketPlace TV shows introducing the program’s latest improvements and benefits? These are really great and made on TVnima! We would be very proud to count you among our audience!

Well… I hope everybody will find here the content he/she is looking for! Time for me to wish you a good holiday time and see you back in September with new and exciting announcements on PLM MarketPlace!

Anthony Rosendo

Vestas is a leader in wind energy equipment and holds a 23% market share at a global level. Every year each Vestas V90-3.0MW wind turbine can avoid 5000 tons of CO2. The power it generates matches 13,000 barrels of crude oil. Vestas wind turbines generate more than 50 million MWh every year which is enough electricity to supply every household in a country the size of Spain.

In order to offer high quality products, Vestas invests heavily to optimize the design of wind turbines with one priority: increase efficiency. Vestas believes that the design stage is equal to, or even more important than the manufacturing stage. Selecting IGE+XAO’s SEE Electrical as the electrical design reference software was key to Vestas China. The company was looking for a software package which would allow to design both electrical schematics and wiring diagrams, manage wires, cables and shielding and hence generates automatically all types of lists (product, wire, cable and terminal lists).

The first project for which SEE Electrical was deployed was the V60-850KW project. When this project was finished, engineers found that design time has been considerably shortened, efficiency has been significantly increased and the probability of making mistakes has dramatically been reduced. Diagrams are now standardized and the audit work has become much easier. In addition, importing product information through Excel, allows the precise match of wiring diagrams and real products. Also some design works, which was hard to make in the past due to the huge workload, could also be performed after implementing SEE Electrical.

“We are very pleased with SEE Electrical” declared Mr. Zhang Yanmin, Head of Vestas China Engineering department. “What we really appreciate is the fact that SEE Electrical is very intuitive and therefore easy to learn. We believe that SEE Electrical has significantly contributed to the success of our project”.

The IGE+XAO Team

Partner Summit 2009 was held on June 25th at the DS Campus in Vélizy with the participation of 150 executives from various partners and from Dassault Systèmes.

We thank the participating companies for cutting the time out of their busy schedule in order to be present and benefit from this great opportunity of staying connected:
3D-Connexion, ABGAM – SEGULA, Accenture, Advanced Micro Devices, Aikoku, Altair, Apriso, AutoForm Engineering, AVL List GmbH, Belleaventure, Blue Kiwi, CADCAM Design Centar, Capgemini, CD-adapco, CENIT AG Systemhaus, Cybernetix, DPS, Elsys, em engineering methods AG, ESI Group, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp, Geometric Global, Granta Design Ltd., Haption, HCL, Hewlett Packard Company, IBM, Icona Solutions Limited, IMS Software, Inc., Intercim, Keonys, L&T infotech, LMS International, Magestic Systems Inc, MECAmaster SARL, Mechdyne Corporation, Motion , Analysis Corporation, Mtorres, NVIDIA, Optis, PCO Innovation, Piterion, Processia, PROSTEP AG, Samtech, Scalabe Graphics, smartcable, Sofyne, Sogeti, Steria, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Tacton, TATA Technologies, TDM Systems, Thales IS, Theorem Solutions, TraceParts S.A., Transcat, T-Systems, UniPLM GmbH.

After a morning in the plenary where DS channel leaders updated everyone on go-to-market strategies and collaboration opportunities, the afternoon was dedicated to interaction in focus groups (PLM MarketPlace, Industries, Marketing,…). It was exciting to see and feel the energy in small speed dating session and in round table discussions with the partner ecosystem which was really interacting.

The Partner Summit continues - online – in a dedicated collaboration platform. Participants can find here the presentations and continue discussions around the go-to-market collaboration opportunities started at Partner Summit.

Make sure you do not miss Partner Summit 2010.

Best,
Michael

PS: Have a look to a related blogpost on 3D Perspectives. I really encourage you to take a minute to vote on the value of community participation. We are very interested to hear your opinion.

ELYSIUM'S MultiCAx series is the best solution to save both money and time. Why don’t you solve the issues regarding various CAD systems with our MultiCAx products?

Now you can find the most powerful product line for data exchange on the ELYSIUM’s catalog page in the PLM MarketPlace. The MultiCAx series is an excellent infrastructure for multi-CAD environment: Elysium MultiCAx-IDEAS 3DXML Plug In, Elysium MultiCAx-Inventor 3DXML Plug In, Elysium MultiCAx-OneSpaceDesigner 3DXML Plug In, Elysium MultiCAx-Parasolid 3DXML Plug In, Elysium MultiCAx-ProE 3DXML Plug In, Elysium MultiCAx-UGNX 3DXML Plug In, Elysium V5 MultiCAx-IDEAS Plug In, Elysium V5 MultiCAx-Inventor Plug In, Elysium V5 MultiCAx-OneSpaceDesigner Plug In, Elysium V5 MultiCAx-Parasolid Plug In, Elysium V5 MultiCAx-ProE Plug In, Elysium V5 MultiCAx-SolidWorks Plug In and Elysium V5 MultiCAx-UG Plug In.

Elysium’s MultiCAx enables non-V5 data or non-3DXML data to be handled with your CATIA V5 environment. MultiCAx saves not only money but also precious time. Designers and engineers can work easily on 3D models created by different CAD systems.

Because of our advanced and sophisticated translation technique, less than 0.1% of models generate an error when Pro/E, NX, NX Ideas, CADCEUS, Inventor, OSD, Parasolid and/or SolidWorks data is imported into ENOVIA, DELMIA or CATIA V5, and when Pro/E, NX, NX Ideas, CADCEUS, Inventor, OSD, Parasolid and/or SolidWorks data is translated into 3dxml format. With MultiCAx modules installed, CATIA V5 users simply import data from different CADs to their environment, and all models will be translated perfectly.

Users can treat the imported data without thinking about whether its original environment was CATIA V5 or anything else.

Our solutions offer many advantages:

a) Powerful translation Because MultiCAx uses genuine API for translation, MultiCAx can translate massive assembly data as far as it can be imported to a CAD.

b) Industry-proven Product Data Quality (=PDQ) Due to Elysium’s unique technology, high PDQ is promised.

c) High accuracy When MultiCAx translate the model A into A’ to use in a different CAD, MultiCAx avoids deformation as possible. Unavoidable deformations are limited within the tolerance.

You want to know how you can take advantage of our MultiCAx solution, and to get more information? Please click here.

The Elysium Team 

As you may know, I’m here at the PLM Forum in Manheim, Germany to represent the PLM MarketPlace.

Yesterday, I was exchanging on our “online shopping” experiences with a few colleagues from DS and some of our Partners. It appeared to me that online shopping is not “natural” for everybody, maybe because I’m a “digital native” as Jacques says! As we were talking, the discussion came to the PLM MarketPlace and some people asked me how it is possible today to sell PLM software online?

Well, my answer was simple: “we do it like eBay or Amazon sell books, CDs, DVD,…”. As a matter of fact, it is not 100% true, of course! PLM is much more complex than the latest book of Tom Clancy. But if we focus on the online shopping process, this is exactly the same!

Have a look at this video to see how Amazon and PLM MarketPlace are close:

See the similarities?:
- Intuitive search
- Product data sheets
- Add to cart button
- Check out
- Contact form

Only five key and quick steps to get the most appropriate product! Of course, the purpose of PLM MarketPlace is not to allow you to pay online but to find a solution you need and then to be assisted by a VAR to get an appropriate price and the knowledge to implement and use it. Connecting Partners in fact!

So, in a nutshell, as I told to my folks yesterday: “PLM MarketPlace is a kind of Amazon for PLM”: browse, find, be contacted, buy!

Ready to shop?

Anthony

At the heart of the 48th Paris Airshow at Le Bourget.

Despite the rain, we had some great in flight demo yesterday, including the latest Falcon 7X, the A380, the Antonov AN148 and, on the military side, the Rafale and F-16.
On the ground, you can enjoy a close look at the Boeing B777F from Air France, the Airbus A380 and A321, the Dassault Falcon family but also some impressive equipements from the US Air Force (including the huge C-17).

GE90 blades on Air France' Boeing B777F © Paul Marais-Hayer

But Paris Airshow is not all about planes made of composite and heavy metal! I really encourage you to take some time to visit the different booths and chalets where you will find some of our PLM MarketPlace partners: Airbus Cimpa, ESI Group, Optis and Samtech. All of them would be really pleased to welcome you on their booth and tell you more about their solutions.

Are you planning to visit them before enjoying a flight demonstration? OK, it's an advice from an aviation enthusiast, but listen: Paris Airshow is a unique opportunity to mix business and pleasure, so don't hesitate anymore and join us!

Well gotta leave: I've got a slot to visit my future bizjet

Anthony [live from Paris Airshow]