Mentor Graphics One of Top Five Vendors in the Global Digital Manufacturing Market

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Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global digital manufacturing (DM) market report from 2016-2020. This research report also lists three other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period.

Competitive vendor landscape

The impact of digital revolution is noticeable in several areas such as the healthcare, finance, and manufacturing sectors. Large volumes of product data and new computing techniques, artificial intelligence, automation, additive technologies, and human machine interface have changed the face of manufacturing. DM changes everything about the manufacturing process, be it the supply chain, R&D, operations, sales, marketing, services, or factory operations. Digital connectivity has become inevitable between designers, managers, workers, and end-users.

DM is one of the emerging PLM solutions in the world. DM allows engineers to create a virtual environment of the manufacturing process, from defining the product to its manufacturing. It creates digital models of tools, assembly lines, work centers, plant layouts, and resources. “DM supports simulation, visualization, analytics, and collaboration to develop products and manages the manufacturing process efficiently. In case there is a change in the manufacturing process, DM smoothens the flow of product and plant information without hampering the process of product designing. Its simulation feature helps in the validation of robotics and automation programs. The implementation of six sigma and management of lean operations is easier using DM,” says Amrita Choudhury, a lead product lifecycle management analyst from Technavio.

The global DM market is fragmented with the presence of a large number of PLM software vendors. Many vendors are enhancing their market potential through various innovative strategies and M&A.

Key Vendors:

Autodesk

Autodesk was established in 1982 and is headquartered in San Rafael, California, US. It offers a wide range of software products for designers, engineers, and architects. Autodesk in DM provides a platform to efficiently design manufacturing layouts and allows for equipment placement scenarios. It is used by manufacturers and factory owners, machine and equipment builders, and engineering service providers.

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes was established in 1981 and is headquartered in Cedex, France. It engages in the development of software applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Some of its subsidiaries include 3DVIA, Archivideo, and Simpoe. The company serves the aerospace and defense; consumer goods and retail; CPGs and retail; AEC; energy, process, and utilities; financial and business services; high-tech; industrial equipment; life sciences; marine and offshore; natural resources; and transportation and mobility industries.

Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics was established in 1981 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, US. The company designs and produces EDA software and hardware solutions for electrical engineering and electronics. The company offers various solutions such as 3-D IC design and test, accelerating ARM-based design, aerospace and military, automotive, DO-254, fabless/foundry ecosystem solutions, and low-power solutions.

One of the key solutions offered by the company is FloTHERM. This solution performs thermal analysis, creates virtual models, and tests design modifications of the electronic equipment before the physical prototyping.

PTC

PTC was established in 1985 and is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, US. It develops technology solutions that include services and software. Its solutions allow consumers to optimize business functions, including supply chain, engineering manufacturing, and services.

The company has more than 1,300 service professionals and over 750 partners worldwide. It has operations in 30 countries, including the US, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, India, Japan, China, and Australia. It serves over 28,000 customers globally.

Siemens PLM Software

Siemens PLM Software was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas, US. It engages in the designing, developing, and marketing of PLM software solutions. The company operates as a subsidiary of Siemens and was formerly known as UGS PLM Software.

Siemens Tecnomatix offers solutions for optimization, simulation, layout, execution, and manufacturing process planning. It launched Tecnomatix 10 in 2011 and Tecnomatix 12 in 2014. Tecnomatix 360 is available on Google store, which allows you to walk through a factory floor. Tecnomatix provides manufacturing planning, manufacturing simulation, manufacturing production and electronics manufacturing.

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