IBM has taken a comprehensive look at innovation in last year's IBM CEO Study and identified key challenges that top business priorities. In another study, IBM also assessed the PLM capabilities of more than fifty companies in the automotive industry, covering the innovation-related concerns of the boardroom, as well as detailed design and engineering tradeoffs.

Peter Robison, worldwide Director of Automotive PLM Solutions, and Fatema Maher, worldwide Marketing Manager Automotive PLM, share some of IBM's thoughts about the state of product lifecycle management, design and engineering, and the potential contribution of simulation in driving product development.
Number of pages in report, 16.

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CPDA's newsletter, Tech Trends in PLM Update, highlights the critical issues in PLM research.

Contents:
• Lean PLM: The PLM Challenge to Enable the Lean Enterprise
• Linking Requirements to Design Artifacts
• Enabling Innovation through PLM Integration

Number of pages in report, 11.

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Acrobat 3D Version 8 unleashes a heavy dose of disruptive technology into the product manufacturing landscape. Users can now embed precise 3D geometry while maintaining model topology. In addition, Version 8 supports the generation of industry standard STEP and IGES files for input into downstream applications.

CPDA takes a deeper technology look at Version 8's implementation architecture, algorithmic approach, and execution flows. The potential far-reaching role of Acrobat 3D in the product development industry begs the question: Is Acrobat 3D based on a rigorous geometric and topological underpinning that will stand the tests of time and the critical dependencies that will be placed on it? The investigation's findings were impressive, and give added insight into Adobe's aggressive strategy for rightfully positioning themselves as a major industry player in product manufacturing.
Number of pages in report, 14.

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