How DS Alliance partners adopted our Community blog

Just 5 months ago, we made this community blog become available to all customers and partners. Many things happened since then, and we have seen an enthousiastic partner community welcoming this announcement during our last Partner Summit.

This is quite an innovative approach, since this blog content is created collaboratively by our partner community (software, service, hardware partners). It gives each partner the opportunity to talk to a large community of users in one place. Under the PLM MarketPLace umbrella, our customer community is now able to find and share information about all complementary solutions adding value to DS offers.
Even more interesting for all: the attitude of our partner community. We have there plenty of technical, consulting and sales people, people loving to HEAR and LEARN from customers.

How you will benefit from this momentum

We have people willing to listen, share and talk. What are we going to talk about in the PLM field? Just what our customer and partner tell us!

So, what would be the most interesting and valuable blogpost to read in your mind? Please tell us what you think by answering this poll, or leave us a comment below.  

the PLM MarketPlace blog is yours!!
Keep connected,

Jacques

When talking with moto bikers, some of them tell they love their vehicle more than their wives! And at the end of the discussion, you imagine how desperate these women can be… (sounds a little bit cliché, doesn’t it? Bikers always take good care of their bike, making its maintenance always on time, polishing it and removing every single dead mosquito on the lights. But above all, they want their motorbike to be unique. And here comes the difficulty for parts manufacturers!

Zeel Design is one of them. The firm works on engineering, consulting and manufacturing of specialized parts and vehicles. They received a request from a customer wanting to enlarge the rear wheel of his Harley-Davidson. The challenge was to redesign some existing key-parts of the bike as accurately as possible but also as fast as possible.

The solution came thanks to Creaform. Creaform has developed the Handyscan 3D line of products. These revolutionizing self-positioning handheld 3D laser scanners provide very high accuracy files that can be exported to most CAD platforms and inspection and animation software. Due to its true portability, versatility and accuracy, the Handyscan 3D line of products makes 3D scanning more simple than ever.

Discover now how, by using the EXAscan, Zeel Design managed to reduce by 70-90% the time spent previously on CAD drawings and reverse engineering process. Results, both in terms of time saving and accuracy are astonishing!

In the end, whether you like it bigger or smaller, Creaform’s scanners can help you to make it in less time!

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.

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