Industry watchers didn't have to wait long to see what market moves the Siemens Automation & Drives (A&D) acquisition of UGS in the spring might engender among leading competitors in the automation and the product life-cycle management (PLM) space. Dassault's Deimia division announcement in early December that it was partnering with Rockwell is being seen as a smart move for both companies, giving the duo an interesting competitive distinction for its bidirectional synchronization capability - at least for the short term. Together, the Siemens and the Delmia/Rockwell announcements do significantly advance the emergence of digital manufacturing - all to the good of end users.
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