Delcam completes 10 years as world’s leading CAM specialist

Delcam has announced that the company has completed a decade as the world’s leading CAM specialist. The latest NC Software and Related Services Market report from leading analysts CIMdata shows that, in 2009, Delcam again had the highest vendor revenues of all the CAM-centric companies. The company first achieved its global leadership in 2000, when it overtook Japanese developer Hitachi Zosen, and has kept that position ever since.

The CIMdata report also confirmed that Delcam has the largest development team in the industry, with 165 people working on the company’s CAM software. Only two other companies employ more than 100 CAM developers; Siemens PLM with 121 and Dassault with 110. Furthermore, the company was reported to have shipped more industrial seats of CAM software than any other supplier during the year.

The past ten years have seen Delcam increase its market share significantly. The company’s revenues have increased from £17.0 million in 2000 to £31.8 million last year. Over the same period, CIMdata reports that total vendor revenue has fallen, from $806 million in 2000 to $804 in 2009. This was mainly the result of the current economic downturn, with miniscule growth in 2008 followed by a sharp decline of over 15% during 2009.

This increased market share has come about in three ways: growth in the sales of Delcam’s established PowerMILL and ArtCAM systems, the acquisition of the FeatureCAM and PartMaker families of software, and the addition of new programs, in particular the Delcam for SolidWorks integrated CAM system and the dedicated software for the dental and orthotics industries.

The breadth of the current Delcam range should enable the company to continue its growth, according to Delcam Marketing Manager, Peter Dickin. "Our complete set of CAM programs comprises the world’s most comprehensive collection of machining software from any supplier, 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.”