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- Cost reduction
- Reduced IT resource needs
- Agility
- Scalability
- Flexibility
- Ability to work anytime, anywhere
- Rapid deployment and time to benefit / ROI
- Lower implementation risk
- Shifting capital investments to expenses
Succeeding in the Automotive Industry
The Industry Demands Product Excellence Ask people in the Automotive industry what leads to success and you’ll hear that product quality has a major impact. As you might expect, survey respondents report product quality as a profitability and success driver more frequently than any other factor. But innovation, reported as a profitability driver more frequently by Automotive companies than any other industry in our survey, isn’t far behind. Perhaps this isn’t surprising given the major changes facing the industry. The top success factors – quality, innovation, reliability, performance, and cost – are all related to product excellence. But today’s dynamic market also demands agility. In fact, OEMs were almost twice as likely as suppliers to report time-to-market as a critical success driver.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Auto_Success_Factors_Cloud_eBook-1024x725.jpg)
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Business Benefits of the Cloud
Cloud Software Provides Multi-Dimensional Benefits Why are other companies using the cloud? Cloud software provides benefits in three dimensions:- Business
- Implementation
- Operational
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Implementation Benefits of the Cloud
Automotive Values Faster Time to Value The implementation and adoption experience for cloud solutions is typically very different from with traditional solutions, offering some significant advantages. The Automotive industry has already enjoyed these benefits in other types of solutions. Many companies initially consider cloud solutions in order to save money. Affordability is an important factor in any industry. But cost is actually slightly less commonly mentioned as a benefit than faster time to implement. The cloud can save money, but it also helps companies be more agile, getting their solutions up and running faster. Faster implementations helps them achieve the intended business impacts of the applications – improving quality, innovation, reliability, performance, and product cost to drive company success – more rapidly.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cloud_Auto_PIP_eBook_Implementation_Benefits.jpg)
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Operational Benefits of the Cloud
Cloud Solutions offer Ongoing Benefits Beyond implementation benefits, there are ongoing operational benefits available from cloud deployments. The flexibility to scale user counts is the most frequently reported benefit, and one-half report computing scalability as an advantage. This kind of agility is particularly valuable for program-oriented companies and shifting demands for designing today’s vehicles, including ECAV. In addition, companies across industries report cost- and resource-related operational benefits. Over one-half cite reduced IT needs and well over one-third cite reduced software / hardware operational costs, making PIP more accessible and affordable.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Auto_Cloud_PIP_eBook_Operational_Benefits.jpg)
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Value-Added Services in the Context of Innovation Tasks
Transitioning to the Cloud Opens Opportunities One of the unique benefits of cloud solutions is the ability for the software vendor to provide links to services beyond the capabilities of the software. For example, an engineer working on a program could be offered help with their design task, sources to find capacity for an advanced manufacturing process, or a service to gather data from the supply chain on their behalf.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Value_Added_Services_Cloud_Auto.jpg)
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PIP Capabilities and Cloud no longer Require a Major Tradeoff
Mature PIP is now Available on the Cloud As seen earlier, the cloud offers benefits along multiple dimensions that help companies reduce cost and risk, while providing the tools they need to succeed. Despite the advantages of a cloud deployment, companies have traditionally had to choose between full-featured systems and cloud solutions. Fortunately, Automotive companies no longer have to sacrifice the capabilities they need to innovate and drive quality because they are available in cloud PIP solutions. Automotive Demands Capabilities and Cloud The majority of Automotive companies say software capabilities are more important than taking advantage of cloud-specific benefits. Over one-half of Automotive companies say they’re willing to give up “very little” or no software capability to use cloud software. A significant number say they won’t compromise software capabilities at all in order to gain the benefits available from the cloud. Although about one-third are willing to give up “some” features, less than 10% said they would give up “quite a bit” of functionality for the cloud.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cloud_Capability_Tradeoff_Automotive.jpg)
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Challenges Faced with Cloud Solutions
Cloud Solutions Address Security Concerns There are clearly challenges that have to be addressed with cloud computing, but there has been significant progress. For example, just less than one-half of Automotive companies still perceive security as a "significant risk.” Security is an important issue, of course, and one that requires attention regardless of whether a solution is deployed on the cloud or in a more traditional setting. Ironically, many companies including innovative startups are moving to the cloud to reduce security risk. They believe cloud solutions are more secure because cloud providers can leverage more dedicated security personnel and processes due to economies of scale.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cloud_PIP_Challenges_Automotive.jpg)
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An Opportunity for Improvement – Standards and Audits
Standards and Audits Reduce Security Risk One of the ways that companies can mitigate cloud-oriented risks in the previous chart is through the use of standards and formal audit processes. In fact, manufacturers across industries who currently use cloud standards and audit processes are over 50% less likely to consider security a "significant risk,” although the majority still say it's at least a "concern.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the largest challenge Automotive companies face with the cloud, or expect to face, is security. But when asked about cloud standards and audit processes to ensure application performance and security, it appears that most Automotive companies aren’t adopting them.![Cloud Standards versus Risk](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cloud_Standards_versus_Security_Risk.jpg)
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Conclusions
The Cloud Opportunity is Compelling Cloud solutions offer benefits along implementation, operational, and business dimensions. They provide companies the flexibility and agility they need to compete in today’s changing Automotive market as old and new players alike try to capitalize on the transition to electric, autonomous vehicles. Cloud Computing without Tradeoffs With the right cloud solution Automotive companies don’t have to choose between capabilities and the cloud. They can leverage the functionality they need to compete and gain value from them faster than previously possible. Automotive companies face a number of challenges in order to leverage the benefits of the cloud, including security, which should be addressed through SLAs, standards, and audit procedures. It’s important to understand, though, that in many ways cloud deployments actually help with these challenges by offering shared services with dedicated specialists. Cloud Adoption in Automotive will Accelerate We see cloud PIP adoption accelerating in the Automotive industry, providing compelling benefits. We expect to see cloud solutions become a primary option as manufacturers seek to compete with innovative, new companies in new categories like ECAV. Companies are not willing to trade off the PIP features that directly impact their success drivers – quality, innovation, reliability, performance, and product cost.Recommendations
Recommendations and Next Steps Today’s highly capable solutions offer the power of mature PIP capabilities along with cloud benefits, providing the flexibility and affordability that makes advanced features available to Automotive companies of all sizes.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Top_Benefits_Cloud_Engineering_Software_PIP.jpg)
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- Focus on quality and innovation to drive success and profitability
- Leverage a Product Innovation Platform (PIP) to help them develop innovative, high quality products with high performance, great reliability, and lower cost
- Adopt cloud solutions to enable anytime, anywhere access to capabilities
- Reduce implementation cost and risk while increasing flexibility and agility with the cloud
- Achieve faster time to benefit and adoption of new capabilities through cloud deployments
- Adopt cloud standards and audit procedures to mitigate security risk
- Implement Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to further reduce risk
About the Research
Data Gathering Tech-Clarity gathered and analyzed over 300 responses to a web-based survey on the use of cloud software. Survey responses were gathered by direct e-mail, social media, and online postings by Tech-Clarity and Dassault Systèmes. Of those, 254 were manufacturers or engineering firms (primarily excluding consultants, software vendors, and academia) of which 100 serve the Automotive Industry. Demographics The respondents represented a mix of company sizes, including 19% from smaller companies (less than $250 million), 13% between $250 million and $1 billion, 13% between $1 billion and $5 billion, and 26% greater than $5billion. 29% did not disclose their company size. Company sizes were reported in US dollar equivalent. The respondents were comprised of over about two-thirds (63%) individual contributors, more than one-quarter (30%) manager or director level, 3% who indicate they are VP or executive levels, and 4% other roles. Of the respondents, 52% were in engineering or design roles (including industrial / manufacturing engineering), 15% were in Information Technology (IT), 13% were analysts / simulation experts, and the remainder were from a variety of organizations including Program Management, Service, Manufacturing, Sales, Quality, and General Management. The companies were primarily OEMs (51%), with 30% component/subsystem suppliers, 7% part suppliers, 4% contract designers, 4% contract manufacturers, and 4% others. The respondents reported doing business globally, with the about two-thirds of companies doing business in the North America (66%), about the same amount doing business in Western Europe (62%), 34% doing business in the Asia-Pacific regions, 22% in Eastern Europe, 14% in Latin America, 5% in Australia, 3% in the Middle East, and 2% in Africa. Note that the numbers total greater than 100% because companies reported doing business in multiple geographies.![Automotive Cloud eBook Survey Respondents](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Auto_Cloud_Supply_Chain_Role.jpg)
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- Collaboration
- Infinite Computing
- IoT and Analytics
- Scalability
![Cloud Engineering Software Value](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Relative-Cloud-Value-Tech-Clarity.png)
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Disruption Demands Digitalization and the Digital Twin
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How the Digital Twin Drives Value
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- Products (equipment, devices, etc.)
- Production (machines, lines, plants)
- Infrastructure (cities, etc.)
- Something wrong with the physical asset that can be corrected
- Something wrong with the virtual model or simulation that leads to new understanding and provides knowledge for future modeling and simulation efforts
Applying Virtual Twins in the Manufacturing Industry
Target the Right Virtual Twins for Manufacturing There are many ways to gain value by applying the digital twin approach in the manufacturing industries. In the plant, the typical ways to create value are from creating twins for products and for production assets. Let’s discuss how to create and drive value from each of these.![Industrial IoT and Digital Twin in Action](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Plant-IIoT.png)
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Creating the Complete Digital Twin in Manufacturing
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Improve Equipment Performance and Availability
Monitor and Optimize Equipment Performance The first way we’ll examine the business value of the digital twin in the plant is by improving equipment performance. Today’s manufacturers need to get the most out of available production assets. Manufacturers can use the digital twin to monitor equipment and production via the IIoT. They can aggregate, filter, and analyze sensor and control data in the context of the virtual twin to find issues. The resultant information can be shared in dashboards and put into action with alerts so issues like reduced production rates can be addressed before they arise or escalate. Predict and Improve Equipment Availability One of the most promising ways manufacturers improve productivity is through predictive analytics. Instead of maintaining production equipment on estimated service intervals, manufacturers can monitor equipment to identify when it begins to show signs of wear or failure, such as higher temperatures or vibration. But analytics can also find hidden patterns, anomalies, or trends in operational data that may indicate a pending equipment failure. Transitioning to predictive service allows manufacturers to reduce downtime and avoid the cost of unnecessarily taking equipment offline for maintenance when it’s not necessary. Of course, not every issue can be predicted, and in those cases IoT and the digital twin can provide the intelligence needed to improve issue identification, reduce repair time, and analyze root causes. The resulting enhanced productivity from better equipment performance and availability directly drives improved profitability.![PaaS Industrial IIoT](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PaaS.jpg)
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Improve Product Quality
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Next Steps
The Digital Industrial Revolution Requires Action Today’s manufacturers need to deliver high operational efficiency in order to compete. It’s time for them to digitalize to gain important benefits – agility, productivity, quality, cost, customer satisfaction, and responsiveness – and remain competitive into the future. Manufacturers can apply the digital twin concept to products, plants, or both to drive new levels of quality and productivity. The digital twin and the IIoT are key digitalization enablers with tangible, proven value.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Dashboard-1024x295.png)
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- Gain equipment intelligence and improve uptime
- Shift from preventative to predictive maintenance
- Monitor production to rapidly identify and correct quality or productivity issues
- Leverage actual results from the physical twin to improve simulations by feeding the digital twin with observed production scenarios and parameters
- Explore new business models by applying digital twin capabilities to their own products
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BOM Processes Rely on Inadequate Solutions
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Table of Contents
- BOM Processes Rely on Inadequate Solutions
- The BOM is the Fundamental Communication Tool
- The BOM Process Status Quo
- The Five Fundamentals of a Successful BOM Process
- 1) Aim for Accuracy
- 2) Keep Data Current
- 3) Manage Complete BOMs
- 4) Communicate BOM Data Clearly
- 5) Put BOM Data into Action
- Next Steps
- Acknowledgments
The BOM is the Fundamental Communication Tool
BOMs are the Backbone of the Manufacturing Industry BOMs are the fundamental way that manufacturers define, communicate, and realize their products. The bill of material is essentially the backbone of the manufacturing business, specifying what to buy and what to build. In many companies, BOM communication has to bridge disciplines across company boundaries. BOMs are The Primary Communication Tool in Industry Sound BOM processes create a bridge that crosses all parts of the organization. They document engineering designs and provide the information that Purchasing needs to order parts. Then, they deliver the data needed for Manufacturing to plan and execute orders. BOM data also serves as the backbone for others to roll up important attributes like weight, costs, and more.![](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BOM_Processes_Immature_Quote.jpg)
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- Helps improve productivity
- Reduces the number of shipments delayed by missing parts
- Drives down scrap from using wrong parts or revisions
- Improves cost through item reuse
The BOM Process Status Quo
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The Five Fundamentals of a Successful BOM Process
Get BOM Processes in Control Manufacturers who are ready to replace spreadsheets and email and get BOM processes under control can do so with reasonable effort. By focusing on the basics, they can make rapid improvements to productivity and reduce the impact of BOM-related errors. This leads to the question “What are the most important factors needed to improve BOM process?” We’ve identified five key areas that can easily be addressed and make a big impact on the business. Focus on the Fundamentals BOM Processes should be implemented and enabled in a way that ensures that they are:- Accurate
- Current
- Complete
- Clear
- Actionable
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1) Aim for Accuracy
![How Top Performers Implement, Operate, and Maintain PLM Integration – Tech-Clarity Data Accuracy Chart](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Product_Data_Inconsistencies_Chart.jpg)
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2) Keep Data Current
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3) Manage Complete BOMs
![Digitalcarbon BOM Quote](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Digitalcarbon_quote_BOM_Collaboration.jpg)
![Digitalcarbon BOM Quote](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Digitalcarbon_quote_BOM_Collaboration.jpg)
4) Communicate BOM Data Clearly
![BOM Solution for Visual BOM Process](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DawnEquipment_Visual_BOM_Quote.jpg)
![BOM Solution for Visual BOM Process](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DawnEquipment_Visual_BOM_Quote.jpg)
![Visual BOM Solution](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Verdetch_Products_BOM_Process_Quote.jpg)
![Visual BOM Solution](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Verdetch_Products_BOM_Process_Quote.jpg)
5) Put BOM Data into Action
![BOM Processes Intertwined](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DawnEquipment_BOM_Process_Intertwined_Quote.jpg)
![BOM Processes Intertwined](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DawnEquipment_BOM_Process_Intertwined_Quote.jpg)
Next Steps
Go Beyond the Status Quo to Prevent Mistakes Today’s BOM process status quo, frequently relying on inadequate technology like spreadsheets and email, leads to inefficiency, excess cost, mistakes, quality issues, and late orders. The consequences of poor processes, especially for a smaller company, can be significant. As David Anderson of Verdetech Products shares, “Sometimes you get away with things by luck, but a major problem could kill a company.” It’s time for companies to raise the bar on BOM data and processes.![BOM Process Spreadsheet](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BOM_Cloud_Solution_Spreadsheet_Quote.jpg)
![BOM Process Spreadsheet](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BOM_Cloud_Solution_Spreadsheet_Quote.jpg)
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Acknowledgments
About the Author Jim is a recognized expert in enterprise software for manufacturers with over 25 years of experience in application software, management consulting, and research. He has extensive knowledge on how industrial companies use product innovation, product development, engineering, and other enterprise solutions to improve business performance. Jim is actively researching the value of improving product innovation and operational performance through digitalization. [post_title] => The Five Basics of Effective BOM Processes (eBook) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => billofmaterials-management [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:28:16 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:28:16 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=7823 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 1 [filter] => raw ) [7] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 7799 [post_author] => 2572 [post_date] => 2019-05-01 14:32:36 [post_date_gmt] => 2019-05-01 18:32:36 [post_content] =>![non-value added](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sodius_graphs_for_blogs.jpg)
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Focus on the Work You Enjoy
As an engineer, what gets you excited about your job? For most, it’s getting to work on really cool projects and innovating. Unfortunately, a good chunk of your time is wasted on other things, taking you away from the work you enjoy doing and the work that adds value for your company.How Do You Limit Non-Value Added Work?
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The Cost of Outdated Information
When design work is based on outdated information, error will be inevitable. These errors result in costly rework and redesign. Wasting even more time to correct these problems means poor efficiency which can delay time to market. As the design nears completion, there are fewer options to fix problems, so errors become much more expensive and time consuming to fix. Plus, with limited options, solutions may be less than ideal, which will hurt product quality or drive up cost. Of course, if problems are missed entirely, there will be even bigger quality problems in the field. The combination of poor quality, higher cost, and late to market all hurt competitiveness which can reduce revenue opportunities. This problem gets even worse when multiple engineering disciplines are involved. When products integrate mechanical components, electronics, and embedded software, there are inherent silos. Continue to the Sodius Willert blog for the full post. [post_title] => How to Avoid Non-Value Added Work for Engineers (guest post) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => non-value-added-work [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:25:36 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:25:36 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=7799 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [8] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 7516 [post_author] => 2572 [post_date] => 2019-04-25 11:30:48 [post_date_gmt] => 2019-04-25 15:30:48 [post_content] =>How do you navigate complex, omnichannel environments and manage multiple sources of data to make the best decisions? Can predictive analytics help?
Tech-Clarity’s Retail Analytics Buyer's Guide explains how predictive analytics provide better visibility across your retail business so that you can make better decisions to become more competitive. As the retail industry faces significant disruption, new approaches are required to survive. With volatile markets and fierce competition, the right decisions are critical to survival. Unfortunately, complex omnichannel environments, global supply chains, and dynamic development teams make it practically impossible to get timely visibility into the business. Even if you can, will you have confidence in your decisions? With the right predicative analytics solution, you can overcome these challenges, but only if you select the right technology. The research identifies eight capabilities to look for in a predicative analytics solution. These capabilities will help you make better decisions about your retail business.
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WHY ARE PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS CRITICAL FOR TODAY’S RETAILERS?
In the retail industry, you need to support a complex, global, omnichannel environment, while navigating a dynamic market filled with economic volatility. It is not easy, especially as consumers have become more empowered and demanding through social media and online resources. To be successful, you need to make fast decisions, identify opportunities, respond to changing trends, react to competitors, adjust to shifts in the supply chain, and more. It’s complex. In many cases, margins are so thin that missing a trend, failing to spot an opportunity, or making the wrong decision can significantly hurt profitability. A few weak seasons can be disastrous for a brand.
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Making things even harder, the barriers to entry have dropped. It’s no longer enough to compete by becoming the biggest brand and leveraging scale. Online marketplaces have expanded the reach of start-ups and small companies. In many cases, the playing field has been leveled as resources that were only available to the largest companies are now available to everyone. This situation has further intensified the competition. Retail companies who can respond to market changes before their competitors will have the advantage.
To survive, retail companies must be nimble enough to react quickly, but they can only do that with the right insights. Information and knowledge are now competitive weapons and technology can be key to unleashing its potential. That knowledge comes from every aspect of the organization from business operations, product trends, supplier information, and more. This buyer’s guide reveals how retail companies can capitalize on their knowledge and uncovers eight capabilities that will help put the right technology in place to support them.
HOW DO PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS HELP?
The top challenges uncovered by research conducted by BOF and McKinsey reveal the importance of getting instant insights. The economic uncertainty related to events such as Brexit, a rise in protectionist policies in the US, a volatile stock market, and more can erode consumer confidence and make it even harder to predict buying trends. Key insights will help overcome some of this uncertainty. With online shopping and social media, consumers are more informed than ever, creating a need for retailers to know how they can best influence buying behavior. The right data, in context, will help. Merchandise needs to be at the right place at the right time while avoiding excess inventory. Retailers need to offer consumers the experiences that will keep them coming back, with the right products that reflect the latest trends. Again, analytics will guide those decisions.
SELECT THE RIGHT RETAIL PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SOLUTION FOR YOUR NEEDS
By selecting the right software, you should get timely insights to help you bring the right products to market, optimize the management of supply chains, influence buying behavior and more. These needed insights will help you make smarter decisions which should lead to better operating margins
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the eBook and does not contain the full content. A link to download the full eBook is available above.
If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the research, please contact us using the “Contact” link below.
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Transcript
The food and beverage industry is facing major disruption New competitors are adopting digital technologies and taking on the largest of companies, competing with unprecedented innovation and agility. Consumers are demanding more. To rise to the challenge, food and beverage plants need to increase flexibility while maintaining high productivity and compliance to ensure consumer confidence. The digital revolution has begun. Food companies have to leverage digital tools including the Internet of Things, the Digital Twin, the Cloud and Analytics to drive agility and consumer responsiveness. Using the IoT, digital food and beverage companies tap into data from a variety of sources and use analytics to gain deep consumer insights. Then, they quickly reformulate digital recipes to respond to trends. They leverage plant automation to capitalize on changing preferences. Digitalization allows food and beverage companies to get products that consumers want to market faster than the competition. But leading companies go beyond just internal agility and responsiveness. They use the IoT to gain advanced insights to optimize recipes and production schedules. The digital plant acts as one with their supply chain to rapidly adjust to changing supply and demand. Digital food and beverage companies also turn to digitalization to drive higher productivity. They reduce downtime by monitoring equipment health and servicing equipment before it fails using the Industrial IoT and predictive maintenance. They improve yields by identifying and correcting production issues in real-time. They use the IoT and analytics to benchmark performance to identity improvement opportunities. They use the digital twin of their plant to simulate and validate the impact of changing equipment. They quickly deploy new recipes, packaging and equipment using virtual commissioning. Finally, they identify opportunities to more accurately simulate production based on IoT data and a closed loop digital twin to better reflect reality and improve optimization using real-world information. Digitalization helps food and beverage companies improve throughput, increase uptime, decrease cost, improve quality and support high levels of traceability and compliance. It enables companies to raise the bar on innovation and agility without compromising productivity, cost or quality. The time has come for food and beverage plants to digitalize in order to survive in the digital age. To learn how, watch the rest of our video series on digitalization in the food & beverage industry. And learn more from our sponsor, Siemens PLM, a leader in digitalization for the food & beverage industry. [post_title] => IoT, Industrial IoT, and Digital Twins in Food & Beverage Production (animation) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => iot-twin-foodbeverage [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-12-02 15:05:38 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-12-02 20:05:38 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=7752 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [11] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 7580 [post_author] => 2572 [post_date] => 2019-04-03 14:25:01 [post_date_gmt] => 2019-04-03 18:25:01 [post_content] =>How can you get the quickest return on your investments in technology?
As we look ahead to the coming decade, technology will become increasingly critical for your company to stay competitive. New technology can include CAD, CAE, PLM, 3D printing, IoT, and more. However, for that technology to work for your business, your implementation must be successful. With a new technology, often it is the cultural changes that can derail the project. Starting with a plan to overcome challenges like this can be the most important part of a successful implementation. Tech-Clarity’s Ten Practices to Successfully Implement Technology shares 10 best practices to support the implementation and adoption of new technology so that you can get the expected return on your technology investments as quickly as possible.
Please enjoy the summary* below.
For the full eBook, please visit our sponsor SOLIDWORKS (free of charge, registration required).
HOW CAN YOU GET THE MOST FROM YOUR TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS?
Staying competitive in today’s global market means developing exceptional products that are innovative, high quality, and cost-effective. With so much to consider, how can you get ahead? For many, technology, including software tools, is the answer. Technology investments can help you grow your business, expand your customer base, and extend your services. With great software tools, you can accomplish more than you thought possible. Unfortunately, ignoring opportunities for improvement can stagnate the business, which can eventually lead to lost market share.
The key is selecting the right technology solution and successfully adopting it. This eBook identifies best practices for successful technology adoption to position your company for success for the next decade.
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TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS INNOVATION EFFORTS
Outsource vs. Internal Development?
Innovation often requires new skills. Many find they lack the internal expertise to take advantage of new materials, use the latest manufacturing techniques, support connectivity, or benefit from other industry advancements. When faced with this challenge, you can outsource or try to develop the skills internally. Regardless of which option you choose, technology will make it easier.
Support Outsourcing with Technology
For some, outsourcing can be a great option as a way to tap into expertise that you lack. When outsourcing, technology can ensure good collaboration, support communication, keep design data in sync, and protect intellectual property. As an example, cloud solutions can offer a platform to share data with third parties in a secure manner.
Technology Lowers Internal Development Cost
For other companies, especially smaller businesses, the overhead associated with outsourcing may be too much. It takes time to familiarize a third party with your product lines, manage quality, and coordinate changes, especially for highly engineered products. In these cases, it may be easier to do everything in-house. Again, technology can make that easier with software tools that have embedded intelligence to guide the design or manufacturing process.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND NEXT STEPS
Technology can have a significantly impact on your business in a positive way. It can be the key to help you expand, grow, and evolve your business. However, as good as the technology may be, it will only help your company if you take the right steps to ensure the adoption is successful.
The following checklist will help you achieve success:
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- Determine Your Business Needs Upfront
- Be Open to Change
- Keep the Focus on Customers
- Consider Vision and Future Needs
- Keep it Simple
- Automate Tedious Workflows
- Manage Scope
- Manage the Role of Team Members
- Overcome the Resistance to Change
- Provide Training
- Establish Success Factors
By following these ten recommendations, your company will be better positioned to successfully adopt technology and realize the expected ROI even faster.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the eBook and does not contain the full content. A link to download the full eBook is available above.
If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the research, please contact us using the “Contact” link below.
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How do you empower engineers to design the best products possible?
Research from Tech-Clarity’s Revolutionizing Simulation For Design Engineers research report finds that design engineers lack confidence in design decisions 28% of the time. The research identifies the most common ways engineers deal with this uncertainty, its impact, and how to improve confidence. This research study, based on a survey of 195 companies, examines the design process and identifies top challenges that hold engineers back. The report reveals how to empower engineers with insight to improve product quality, lower cost, and accelerate time-to-market, all while developing more innovative products and the role that CAE can play.
Please enjoy the summary* below.
For the full research report, please visit our sponsor PTC (free of charge, registration required).
ENGINEERING DECISIONS CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOUR PRODUCTS
How do you empower engineers to design the best products possible?
Engineers want to design great products. Unfortunately, factors like increasing product complexity, competing design criteria, and knowing how design decisions impact other parts of the design make it hard. On top of this, ever-shrinking timelines mean engineers have their work cut out for them. Yet, exceptional engineering has become critical to success in today’s competitive global market.
WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT FOR YOUR PRODUCT’S MARKET SUCCESS?
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Product Quality
As companies face mounting pressure from global competitors, engineering criteria have become essential to competitively differentiate products. In fact, 80% of survey respondents believe that product quality is the most important product attribute to keep products competitive (see graph). Reliability and cost come next. This indicates customers have high expectations for quality and durability but don’t want to overpay. To be successful, companies should balance these criteria.
Engineering Decisions Are Critical – and Not Easy
Requirements for quality, reliability, and cost often conflict so balancing them is no small feat. Unfortunately, product complexity makes it hard for engineers to know the full impact of each design decision. Indeed, 76% of survey respondents rate design decisions that impact product competitiveness as ‘somewhat hard’ to ‘extremely difficult.’ This leads many engineers to overengineer, which unfortunately drives up cost.
Companies who can make this decision process easier will have an advantage.
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RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE ENGINEERING DECISIONS
To help improve engineering decisions, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations:
- Empower design engineers with simulation tools to help guide their decisions.
- Use simulation as early as possible during concept and design.
- Rely on simulation as a design tool to optimize the design and provide directional guidance.
- Consider new approaches to simulation that are tailored for design engineers and make setting up an analysis easier.
- Look for a simulation solution that can offer instant results.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the report and does not contain the full content. A link to download the full report is available above.
If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the research, please contact us using the “Contact” link below.
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What should Life Sciences companies look for in a solution to help them simultaneously improve profitability and patient outcomes using remote device monitoring via the IoT?
Our new Improving Service Performance and Patient Outcomes with Remote Monitoring Buyer's Guide helps Life Sciences companies understand the business and social value of monitoring equipment with the IoT. It then offers evaluation criteria for companies to use as requirements to select a solution to achieve that value. The research also shares the experience of Varian Medical Systems and how they've used the IoT to drive improved service and customer relationships.
Please enjoy the summary below. For the full report, please visit our sponsor PTC (no charge, registration required).
Life Sciences Companies are Dramatically Improving Service by Digitalizing
Digitalization is changing the way innovative medical device, biotech, and related companies provide value and drive profitability. Research shows that one of the most compelling digital transformation opportunities is to revolutionize service, specifically:
- Deloitte finds1 that predictive maintenance can increase uptime and availability by 10-20 percent and reduce overall maintenance costs 5-10 percent
- Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher shares2 that service is critical, that medical device downtime can impact lives, and that predictive maintenance can offer a significant advantage to minimize patient impact
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Table of Contents
- Improve Service ROI, Build your IoT Foundation for the Future
- Remote Monitoring Drives Service Performance
- Access Equipment and Device Data
- Communicate with Devices
- Leverage the Edge to Pre-Process Data
- Share Actionable Service Information
- Plan for Implementation and Adoption
- Select the Right Strategic Partner
- Next Steps
- Buyer’s Guide Checklist
- Acknowledgments
Improve Service ROI, Build your IoT Foundation for the Future
Industries are Digitally Transforming
Life Sciences companies have a tremendous opportunity to improve service operations and outcomes. At the same time, many are investigating how to benefit from the Internet of Things (IoT). Remotely monitoring medical equipment is a great way to accomplish both.
As our related Improving Service with Remote Monitoring Buyer’s Guide explains, a remote monitoring initiative allows companies to quickly achieve IoT value. In fact, the most common way that companies gain tangible ROI from IoT is through improved service. At the same time, it also paves the way for even more substantial benefits from initiatives like healthcare analytics.
Equipment Monitoring Has Proven Value
The IoT lets companies transform service to generate more – and more profitable – service revenue. They do this by moving from reactive to proactive to predictive service, and leveraging advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and big data analytics. They can also adopt new service delivery processes like remote service. But the most common first step is reducing cost of service through remote monitoring.
Next Steps
Get Started
Leveraging the IoT can help companies improve service for themselves and their customers by reducing cost and transitioning to proactive and predictive service. Remote monitoring allows companies to identify and resolve issues remotely, providing faster service and increased uptime while reducing the cost of truck rolls and putting service technicians on site.
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It can go beyond cost savings to create a new source of revenue from paid upgrades or remotely enhancing equipment capabilities or permissions by “unlocking” enhanced capabilities via a subscription. It also offers Life Sciences companies an opportunity to help ensure devices are available and operating optimally to serve patient needs.
Improve Service and Patient Outcomes
Medical device, biotech and other life science innovators embarking on a remote monitoring initiative to improve service should look for the capabilities outlined in the sections of this guide to help ensure they get the value they seek. In addition, they can use the following checklist as high-level criteria to compare offerings.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the report and does not contain the full content. A link to download the full report is available above.
If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us using the "Contact" link below.
- Deloitte, “Making Maintenance Smarter”
- Tech-Clarity, “Medical Device Manufacturer’s Selection Guide for 2018”
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Tech-Clarity's Preparing for EU MDR explains the impact of the EU MDR on your product data. While complying to the EU MDR may require an investment, taking the steps now to prepare your product data will not only support EU MDR compliance, but will position your company to support future regulatory requirements. In addition, these investment will also lead to greater efficiencies that will enable you to have more bandwidth to focus on innovation and quality. This report provides recommended steps to help you prepare and how software technology will make it easier.
Please enjoy the summary* below.
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The EU MDR: A Challenge and an Opportunity
The reasons for the new regulation are admirable. As stated, "This Regulation aims to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market…[it] sets high standards of quality and safety for medical devices in order to meet common safety concerns..." Essentially, the EU wants to ensure that medical devices are safe, high quality, meet stated expectations, and improve patient health. The EU also wants to take advantage of the technological and scientific progress made over the last 20 years.
Better Devices, but There’s Work to Do
The Opportunity
While the scope of the new regulation is quite broad, its implications are especially significant for product teams who will – either directly or behind the scenes – participate in the product submissions process.
This eBook shares advice to prepare product data for regulatory submissions through a programmatic and extensible approach. In this view, EU-MDR compliance serves as a catalyst for implementing sound product design, change and configuration control best practices across your product development lifecycle.
Recommendations
To establish a foundation to comply with the EU MDR, medical device companies should look to adopt a product-centric approach. Based on this research and our experience, we recommend that medical device companies do the following to support the EU MDR and a product-centric approach:
- Use the EU MDR as an opportunity to improve product related processes to improve efficiency and create more bandwidth to focus on innovation and device quality.
- To meet the increased data requirements, consider a product-centric approach. A product-centric approach uses product data, specifically CAD models, as the primary design artifact rather than a PDF. This approach establishes traceability and breaks down silos between the engineering data and documentation, making it easier to collect the data for EU MDR submissions.
- A PLM system will support this a product-centric approach can serve as a foundation for EU MDR, a PLM system supports the digital thread to tie product information, decisions, and history together in a structured, integrated way that captures product innovation and knowledge throughout the product lifecycle.
To adopt a product-centric approach, consider the following steps:
- Obtain Executive support: An Executive is required to support adoption across multiple departments and make the initiative a priority.
- Create a product data hub: Your data needs to be accessed from a central location with traceability across the lifecycle. You can accomplish this with either a single database or a data hub that connects to multiple data sources. A PLM system with a connection platform will enable the latter option.
- Structure and manage data: Structure your product data so that it is centralized and you can find it. Consider starting with your CAD data.
- Identify a cross-functional team: Take advance of the collective expertise of your teams to help identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.
- Automate Product Lifecycle Processes: Map out your current processes and then how you would like them to work. Look for opportunities for technology to automate the workflow to minimize the amount of manual work.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the eBook and does not contain the full content. A link to download the full eBook is available above.
If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the research, please contact us using the “Contact” link below.
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Event Synopsis
In the IoT era, service transformation is the new frontier of innovation. For life sciences and medical device innovators, remote monitoring is the superpower that unlocks service value through reduced service costs, improved customer satisfaction, and greater insight. When it comes to choosing the best remote monitoring software, medical device makers have many factors to consider. Fortunately, you don’t have to make the decision alone. In this upcoming February 28 discussion, Jim Brown and Anthony Moffa put remote monitoring under the microscope. Hear the crucial steps to choosing a remote monitoring solution and learn:- The three stages of connected services maturity.
- The critical role of software analytics – and what to look for.
- How to make the most of your IoT investment from device design all the way through to maintenance and service.
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Is Your CAD Tool Ready for the 2020s?
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How Will You Stay Competitive in the 2020s?
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Table of Contents
- Automotive Innovators Gaining Value from Real-Time, Immersive 3D
- Add Excitement and Efficiency to Marketing and Sales
- Increase Insight and Iteration in Product Innovation and Design
- Add Realism and Immersion to R&D and Engineering
- Boost Productivity and Quality in Manufacturing Engineering
- Reduce Constraints and Add Interest to Training
- Unleash Innovation and Explore Additional Uses
- Roadblocks and Speed Bumps Removed
- The Automotive Industry Is Hitting the Accelerator
- Lead, Follow the Leaders, or Fall Further Behind
- About the Author
- Experience Automotive Emotion in Action
A car represents a unique blend of advanced technology and consumer desires, and automotive marketing campaigns are tailored to evoke both rational and emotional responses from customers. Auto companies and advertising agencies have become highly adept at showing lifelike driving experiences. Today’s customers have the opportunity to experience a car in a spectacular setting, even before a single unit has been produced.
Innovators Taking 3D Beyond the Basics
The innovators are doing even more, gaining value by sharing interactive, real-time 3D experiences across the enterprise and the supply chain. They can create buyer excitement with fully immersive configurators that customers can interactively explore in 3D. They can collaborate on interior designs in global, virtual reality design reviews to innovate and catch errors early. They can analyze the impact of manufacturing engineering decisions on perceived quality by viewing fit and finish in real-time under a variety of lighting conditions. They can even interactively experience airflow simulation results by stepping inside a virtual smoke stream. Or, they can train operators to assemble engines in augmented reality before the line is built and without expensive mockups.
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Opportunities Span the Automotive Enterprise
The opportunities are extensive. This eBook examines the benefits along multiple dimensions, including the following:
- Marketing and Sales
- Product Innovation and Design
- R&D and Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Training
The eBook shares valuable insights from interviews with industry leaders Ford and Teague, and highlights from a recent industry conference with speakers from Audi, EDAG, and Team One. It concludes with some valuable insights to help auto companies better understand the opportunities and enabling technologies available to help them take advantage of real-time, interactive, immersive 3D.
Real-time 3D Is Coming, Ready or Not
The value of using real-time, immersive 3D in the automotive industry is compelling. The leaders will continue to innovate and expand on their lead. More importantly, lowered barriers to entry mean more companies will be able to take advantage of real-time 3D benefits, including startups that are embracing digitalization in order to displace industry veterans. Immersive, real-time 3D is quickly becoming a critical part of the modern technical toolkit for the automotive industry. We believe the innovators will continue to push forward, while those that don’t adopt immersive 3D technologies will fall further behind.
Getting Started
It’s time for companies to find an opportunity or a problem and address it. Companies should start small with a proof of concept (POC) as a first step. The POC, however, should provide value and not just serve as a learning exercise. Create value, learn, and build on that knowledge with next steps. Companies can choose a project similar to the ones described here, leveraging the experience of the pioneers, or unlock the creativity of their own organization by, for example, holding a “hackathon.”
The Time to Act Is Now
If your company has been waiting to get involved with real-time 3D, now is the time. The costs have dropped tremendously. The time required to build valuable solutions in 3D is much lower. Specialized development resources are now ready to go. Computing power is available onsite or via the cloud. Real-time, immersive 3D use cases have never been more in reach. Companies that adopt real-time 3D can still gain an advantage, while automotive companies can reap significant benefits in multiple dimensions of their business:
- Marketing and Sales
- Product Innovation and Design
- R&D and Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Training
- Autonomous Vehicle Training
- VR Analytics
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