Longview Survey Reveals Only 33 Percent Use Translation Tools

Longview Advisors, in their recently released survey of professionals in discrete manufacturing, finds evidence of 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. .

“The survey shows a large portion of companies reporting ongoing CAD migration projects,” says Longview Advisor President David Prawel. “Last year, our study showed the CAD migration market of software and services is about $5.7 billion this year.”

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, forty-five percent of respondents who do use third-party translation software indicate that the applications give satisfactory results better than 75 percent of the time.