Product lifecycle management (PLM) heavyweights Dassault Systemes and UGS Corp. closed out 2005 on a high note, both hitting the billion-dollar mark, enjoying double-digit revenue gains that surpassed the industry average as well as benefiting from healthy increases in sales of PDM (product data management) software.“PLM Heavyweights UGS, Dassault Break Billion-Dollar Mark” a Managing Automation� news article
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Tech-worker gap
Nuclear winter is over in the high-tech job market.
Software developers, design and systems engineers, network administrators and others are finding companies with a slew of openings eager to make offers and willing to negotiate better pay and benefits.
Online job postings in Phoenix alone top 3,000 and classified ads proliferate, a huge change from 2001-02, when the information-technology industry went through a cold, brutal shakedown.
“That winter has thawed, and we are definitely into … Tech-worker gap
PLM more than just hype
Previously, a company would have agonisingly developed drawings, physical models and made endless expensive tests before taking a product to market with little or no proven prospects it will return a profit. Now it is a case of utilising available market data and actually fast tracking a product or service to exactly meet the criteria dictated by current market demand.
But instead of time-consuming drawings, these are designed, tested and refined quickly and accurately in the digital 3D environment, so wastage is virtually negligible.
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