Siemens PLM Software
 |
| Type |
Strategic business unit |
| Founded |
1963, Torrance, California |
| Headquarters |
Plano, Texas, U.S. |
| Key people |
Tony Affuso, Chuck Grindstaff, Paul Vogel, David Shirk |
| Industry |
CAD/CAE/CAM/PLM Software |
| Products |
PLM software and services — Teamcenter, NX, Tecnomatix, Velocity Series |
| Employees |
7300 (February 2007) |
| Parent |
McDonnell Douglas, 1976 - 1991
EDS, 1991 - 2004
UGS Corp., 2004 - 2007
Siemens, 2007 - present |
Siemens PLM Software (formerly UGS) is a computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. Siemens completed its $3.5 billion acquisition of UGS on May 7, 2007. The company is a business unit of Siemens Industry Automation division, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
Siemens PLM Software's flagship products are NX, a CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite,Teamcenter, an integrated set of PLM and collaboration (cPD) tools, Tecnomatix, a manufacturing and factory planning suite and Velocity Series, an application bundle focused at the mid-market that includes Solid Edge. The company's portfolio also contained NX I-deas, NX Nastran, Solid Edge, Imageware, Tecnomatix, Jack, Femap, D-Cubed, JT, PLM Vis, PLM XML, and Parasolid.
History
Siemens PLM Software Headquarters in Plano, Texas
The first commercial product developed by what is now known as Siemens PLM Software was called UNIAPT. Released in 1969 by a software company then called United Computing, UNIAPT was one of the world's first end-user CAM products. United Computing was founded in 1963 above a hair salon in Torrance, California, and went on to purchase the Automated Drafting and Machining (ADAM) software code from MGS in 1973. The code became a foundation for a product called UNI-GRAPHICS, later sold commercially as Unigraphics in 1975.
The following year, United Computing was acquired by the Aerospace company McDonnell Douglas, who created new CAD/CAM divisions, naming one the Unigraphics Group. Finally, in 1980, Unigraphics was released, marking the group's first true 3D modeling hardware and software offering.
Already home to McDonnell Douglas, the Unigraphics Group grew in St. Louis, Missouri, which became the new headquarters. In 1991, the McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration groups, including Unigraphics, were acquired by EDS, calling the new group EDS Unigraphics. Eventually, in 1997 EDS set up its Unigraphics division as a wholly owned subsidiary called Unigraphics Solutions. EDS took Unigraphics Solutions public while continuing to own majority controlling shares in Unigraphics. During this time, Unigraphics acquired a few companies itself including Engineering Animation, Inc., the former Ames, Iowa-based visualization company.
In 1999 the company acquired Applicon, a long term player in the EDA field.
Unigraphics changed its name to UGS in 2001. Also that year, EDS repurchased all outstanding UGS stock, and acquired a UGS competitor, SDRC. UGS and SDRC were merged into a single Line of Business (LOB) named EDS PLM Solutions. EDS sold off its EDS PLM Solutions business to the private equity group of Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners, and Warburg Pincus in 2004. The company resumed operating under the UGS name following the private equity sale.
In 2005, UGS purchased Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.
On January 24, 2007 the German electronics giant Siemens AG announced that they would acquire UGS for $3.5 billion. When the sale completed, UGS became part of Siemens Automation & Drives group as Siemens PLM Software.[1]
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