Longview Advisors Releases Findings of 3D Data Use

By DE Editors

In Longview Advisors’ (Loveland, CO)  recently released survey of professionals in discrete manufacturing,  documentation shows persistent inefficiency in design data handling, even though effective technological solutions are available. The 2008 Collaboration & Interoperability Market Report includes results and analysis from Longview’s fourth annual survey, along with articles on related industry topics.

Another key finding in the industry best-practices survey indicate that engineers are spending an average of 3 to 10 hours per week fixing CAD data, but only a third of them are using data translation tools. Yet, 45 percent of respondents who do use third-party translation software indicate that the applications give satisfactory results better than 75 percent of the time.

The free annual publication compiles results from Longview’s survey, containing responses from 538 manufacturing professionals in subjects like data exchange practices, preferred platforms and formats, 3D data handling and deployment processes, tool requirements matching, CAD translation effectiveness and other related topics.

The 2008 Collaboration & Interoperability Market Report is available for free download (pdf) from Longview Advisors.

Also,  Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Conference and Exhibition (CIC),  announced that Glenn Gise, Senior Technology Manager at Black & Decker,  will give the keynote address on his company’s IT transition, to kick off the fourth annual conference, a two-day event covering current challenges and solutions in design collaboration (May 18-20, 2009 in Estes Park, CO).

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.