Delcam continues to rank as the world’s leading specialist supplier of manufacturing software and services in the latest NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment from US consulting and market research firm, CIMdata.
The company increased its market share by achieving sales growth of 15 per cent from 2006 to 2007, compared with an overall growth in vendor revenues of less than 8 per cent. The report also confirmed that Delcam has the largest overall staff numbers devoted to CAM, including the largest CAM development team in the industry.
“For several years, we have aimed to build our company’s sales by diversifying outside our traditional market in the mould, tool and die sector and increasing our business in other areas, in particular in the automotive and aerospace sectors,” Delcam’s managing director, Hugh Humphreys, said. “We have achieved consistently above-average increases in sales through significant acquisitions, in particular, the FeatureCAM and PartMaker ranges of software, and through organic growth.
“Together, our complete set of CAM programs, PowerMILL, FeatureCAM, PartMaker and ArtCAM, comprises the world’s most comprehensive collection of machining software, giving us an unrivalled ability to provide solutions to all of a company’s programming needs,” he claimed. “This benefits larger companies, which can meet all of their CAM needs from a single supplier. At the same time, smaller companies can choose exactly the system they need for their particular combination of products and machine tools, rather than having to accept a compromise solution from a CAM supplier with a more limited range of software.”
On the development team front, Mr Humphery underlined the CIMdata report's statement that “over time one would expect the organisation with the most resources to provide a greater breadth and depth of internally developed product” . He is also confident of an even better showing in next year’s report. “We had our best quarter ever in the first three months of 2008,” he reported. “I am confident that this pattern will be repeated over the complete year.”
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