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Is trading off security to enjoy the benefits of the cloud worth it? Is the cloud-security tradeoff necessary? Why are some manufacturers still uneasy about adopting cloud software for product innovation and engineering?
There are clear benefits, but the transition started slowly. For a while, one of the most significant inhibitors to cloud adoption was a lack of “apples to apples” capabilities between traditional applications and those available on the cloud. But that disparity is no longer the issue as the market has evolved. So what’s leaving manufacturers hesitant about cloud migration?
For some companies we speak to, security still makes them uncomfortable starting their cloud transformation. It’s an important issue and one that they must consider. Let’s take a look at how companies perceive the security-cloud benefits tradeoff, the reality of the situation, and what they can do to objectively evaluate risks and rewards.
Read the full guest post in the Digital Transformation section of the Siemens PLM Community blog. The post covers the cloud-security tradeoff and how to evaluate security and mitigate risk in order to enjoy the implementation, operational, business, and strategic benefits of the cloud.
You can also learn more in our Cloud Security Discussion with Siemens EVP Bob Jones video interview.
Please enjoy the latest in a series of Tech-Clarity guest posts including The Subtle Shift to “Why Not Cloud?”, Cloud Engineering Software: More than Just Engineering Software on the Cloud, and Why Not to Justify Cloud Engineering Software.
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How can smaller companies and design teams manage CAD data without taking away from their time to innovate and respond to customers? Smaller companies and design teams compete based on innovation and agility but face many of the same challenges in managing 3D CAD files that their larger competitors do. CAD Data Management for Small Companies and Design Teams is designed to help companies with five and fewer designers address CAD Data Management complexity.
Please enjoy the summary below. For the full report, please visit our sponsor SOLIDWORKS (registration required).
Table of Contents*
Addressing CAD Data Management Complexity- Managing CAD is Challenging Regardless of Size
- CAD Management Difficulties Hamper Productivity
- The Persistent Struggle with Broken CAD Assemblies
- Smaller Companies Lack the Tools to Manage CAD
- Missed Targets are Common, but not Inevitable
- Managing CAD Helps Even the Smallest Companies
- Automating CAD Processes Improves Performance
- CAD Management Benefits and Research Conclusions
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
Managing CAD is Challenging Regardless of Size
CAD Management Challenges Managing CAD data is challenging. Respondents for this survey indicate that they suffer from typical data management challenges. They report issues with CAD data management basics – controlling, accessing, and sharing design data. The most commonly reported difficulty is searching for information. Far too often, technical resources struggle to find the CAD files they need to do their job. Respondents also face multiple challenges related to managing CAD files, including file conflicts, uncontrolled revisions, file duplication, and data loss. Many companies also report trouble collaborating because of difficulty sharing designs with others.
Smaller Companies Suffer as Well
The top CAD management challenges are relatively consistent across engineering teams including those as small as five or fewer engineers. The analysis only uncovered a couple of minor differences between the “five or fewer” respondents and those with twenty or more engineers. Smaller teams are:
- 28% more likely to work on the wrong revisions. This is likely because they have less formal processes and tools.
- 40% less likely to have issues with duplicate data. This may be due to the simplicity of their organization and less reuse of designs across regional and organizational boundaries.
CAD Management Difficulties Hamper Productivity
Challenges Cause Business Impacts Data management challenges are certainly frustrating to engineers. In some ways, though, they are so common that many simply consider them the cost of working with 3D CAD. But the impact is more than just an individual nuisance.
Low Productivity is the Status Quo
The clear business impact of CAD management challenges is wasted engineering time and effort. This time is spent searching for data and fixing problems. Over three-quarters, (79%) of small companies indicate they struggle with this.
CAD Management Benefits and Research Conclusions
Benefits of CAD Data Management CAD data management solutions provide the ability to control, access, and share CAD data. Extended PDM can go beyond this and offers greater value to include more communication / collaboration, enriched / extended product data, process automation, and a project / program focus. PLM offers even broader benefits. Those with Five or Fewer Engineers Report Important Benefits
Companies with five or fewer engineers leverage a variety of design data management solutions ranging from core CAD management to PLM. Responses to an open ended question on benefits show that they primarily perceive the value of the basics – keeping data under control, making it easy to find, and being able to share it with others. The results reported include improved design efficiency and throughput.
Conclusion
Survey analysis leads us to conclude that design data management solutions including PDM, PLM, or more focused CAD / Engineering Data Management solutions help even the smallest companies hit their product development targets.
Recommendations
Based on our experience and the results of this research, we recommend that:
- Smaller companies looking to improve product development performance should implement a design data management solution
- These companies should look for a solution with automation for basic processes like revision control and check in / check out
- Companies should start small, but make sure to leave themselves room to grow in the future by extending their CAD Data Management solution
You can download a PDF of the Escalating Cloud Value Along the Path to Cloud Adoption and Maturity infographic here, courtesy of Siemens.
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What’s the right size PLM to fit a midsized manufacturer? When looking for PLM for SMB (small to midsized businesses) it's important to remember that midsized companies need capabilities, but have limited resources. Midsized manufacturers need to choose a PLM system that brings core product design and development capabilities within reach, but also offers room to grow value over time. This eBook explores how much PLM is right for midsized companies.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview.
For the full report on PLM for SMB, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systemes (registration required).
Table of Contents*
- Midsized Manufacturers Stuck In-Between
- The Allure of Simple Solutions
- “Simple” Simply Falls Short for Midsized Manufacturers
- Collaborate for Successful New Product Development
- Manage Products and Programs Holistically
- Start Fast, Plan for the Future
- Consider the Cloud
- Get Started with the Right PLM Solution
- Acknowledgments
Midsized Manufacturers Stuck In-Between
Midsized Companies Compete on Speed and Agility Midsized manufacturers are taking advantage of growth opportunities armed with a combination of product innovation, agility, smart manufacturing, and digitalization. But developing successful products today is complex. These smaller companies have to innovate and introduce new products quickly and efficiently to compete with larger competitors. PDM May not be Enough, PLM May be too Much
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software can help. It drives better product development performance by managing product-related data, processes, and projects. While smaller companies may be able to control, access, and share product data with relatively simple Product Data Management (PDM) tools, larger manufacturers rely on full-featured PLM systems.
Midsized companies may find themselves in-between because:
- Product and organizational complexity drive them beyond basic PDM capabilities
- A full-featured PLM implementation may feel out of reach
Get Started with the Right PLM Solution
Get Started to Gain Value Core PLM can quickly add value to midsized manufacturers by helping them combat complexity, improve productivity, and collaborate. Recognize the potential value of a fully featured PLM with all of the bells and whistles, but be honest with yourself about whether your company can afford the time and effort to get there (at least right away). Start Small Start with the basics and get value quickly, but avoid the shortcomings of simple file sharing solutions that fall short for complex products and product development environments. Look for a solution that allows you to design in the context of your products in real time, but also in the context of processes and product development projects. In addition, look for PLM with automatic CAD and project updates to keep engineers focused on innovation instead of managing files and tasks. Leave Room to Expand Finally, make sure to leave room to grow as your business dictates, using the initial implementation as a foundation for greater value and improvement.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research 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.
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[post_content] => How can companies use the power of cloud computing to get more out of their simulation efforts? Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown shares his research on the value of simulation on the cloud in a lively web panel with Joby Aviation's Alec Clark and Jonathan Oakley of Dassault Systemes.
Read the guest post on the Dassault Systemes' Navigate the Future blog to get an overview of cloud value for product innovation and engineering and simulation on the cloud provides even greater value.
Watch the panel webcast to learn more about how to benefit from computing at the intersection of cloud and simulation courtesy of our sponsor, Dassault Systems (registration required).
Companies of all sizes are moving to the cloud, taking advantage of a variety of benefits. Many companies initially investigate the cloud to save money. Others want to focus their precious resources on designing and delivering innovative products instead of developing and supporting IT infrastructure. Regardless of the initial goal that drives their investigation, they can achieve value across multiple dimensions. Our research points to a number of important cloud benefits, including:
Implementation advantages that allow them to be more agile, accessing the capabilities and computing power they need when they need it- Operational advantages that allow them to improve performance and reduce IT resource needs
- Business advantages to lower cost and reduce risk
hurting profitability?
During this webinar, Tech-Clarity's Michelle Boucher shares some of her latest research on tool design and production. Daren Beeson from Siemens then shares examples of how tool shops have conquered the complexity of tooling design and production in the mold, tool, and die industry.
During this webinar, you will learn how you can:- Shorten job turn-around time with an integrated toolset
- Reduce tool cost by eliminating errors
- Improve tool quality
- Improve integration of the supply chain and communication throughout the development process
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How can companies digitally transform product innovation to improve the way they conceive, design, and develop products to improve profitability and achieve or sustain market leadership? We surveyed over 150 companies to find out. Our new survey report, Improve Product Innovation and Profitability through Increased Digital Maturity, shares how digital product innovation is fundamentally reshaping the industrial landscape and creates an opportunity for industrial companies to leapfrog their competition. Companies that digitalize are gaining competitive advantages, disrupting markets, and challenging the status quo by driving new levels of innovation, agility, product performance, and quality.
For the full report, please visit our sponsor Siemens (registration required).
To see how your company stacks up against the leaders in innovation, take our Digital Innovation Assessment.
Table of Contents- Digitalizing Product Innovation
- The Digital Innovation Imperative
- The Business of Innovation is Challenging
- Innovating and Developing Products is Hard
- Identifying the Top Innovators
- Top Performers have Higher Digital Innovation Maturity
- Innovation Leaders Leverage Digital Twins
- Higher Performing Innovators Employ a Digital Thread
- Top Performers Exhibit Digital Manufacturing Maturity
- Top Innovators Adopt Digital Innovation Platforms
- Conclusions
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
The Digital Innovation Imperative
Digitalization is Disrupting Everything The message from strategic advisors is clear. Go digital or die. Andrew Vaz, Global Chief Innovation Officer for Deloitte, predicts that “In today’s world of exponential change, organizations that get too comfortable with the status quo are at major risk of disruption.” Accenture’s CEO, Pierre Nanterme, shares that this is already happening, “Digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000.” This is a fundamental shift that can’t be taken lightly. Digitalization is Mandatory Digitalization is impacting industrial companies regardless of whether they produce a piece of equipment, a device, a vehicle, a marine vessel, a consumer good, a building, or some other physical item. We believe this shift will have major consequences. Our research concludes that “the manufacturing industry is changing rapidly and companies have to digitalize or risk losing their market position.”
Digital Product Innovation is Compelling
Many companies struggle, however, with where to begin their digitalization journey. Innovation is a smart place to start. Few things impact a company’s bottom line more than the results of their product innovation and product development processes. In fact, three-quarters of executive respondents report that product innovation is one of the most important factors impacting their company’s success and profitability. What could be a more strategic place to begin?
Top Performers have Higher Digital Innovation Maturity
Analyzing Top Performers’ Innovation Advantages Researchers used the performance bands to understand how digital maturity correlates with innovation performance. In addition to financial performance, Top Performers report higher capabilities compared to their competitors in their ability to:- Get new / changed products to market quickly
- Design innovative products
- Meet market cost requirements
- Develop high-performance products
- Deliver high-quality / reliable products
- Digital Twin
- Digital Thread
- Digital Manufacturing
- Digital Innovation Platform
Conclusions
Industry is Transforming Digitalization is fundamentally transforming the manufacturing industries. The shift is allowing manufacturers to improve quality, agility, and innovation to disrupt their markets. Companies that embrace this change will find new opportunities and distance themselves from their competition. Those that continue to focus solely on tactical issue will fall behind. Top Performing Innovators have Higher Digital Maturity Digital product innovation is critical to company success and profitability. Digitalizing product innovation helps companies better bring new / changed products to market, design innovative products, meet market cost requirements, develop high performance products, and deliver high quality / reliable products. The end result is significantly greater revenue and margin growth. Top Performers are achieving superior levels of performance with higher digital maturity, including increased adoption of digital twin, digital thread, and digital manufacturing techniques. Support Digital Maturity with a Digital Product Innovation Platform Top Performers support digital approaches like the digital twin with digital technology. These leading companies are digitalizing data and processes to improve product innovation performance. These capabilities are available from digital innovation platforms that combine digital data and processes with the right capabilities to design, optimize, and validate products. In addition, these platforms bridge the gap to help companies ramp up production effectively and efficiently. Digital Opportunities Extend Beyond Product Development The analysis from this survey investigates the benefit of improving product innovation and product development through digitalization. The benefits of digitalization, and digital innovation platforms, go well beyond this into the full lifecycle of a product. Digitalizing product innovation is a great place to start and build a foundation to grow on. This summary is an abbreviated version of the research 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. 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This episode of Tech-Clarity TV highlights Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown and Siemens' EVP of Global Sales & Customer Success, Bob Jones, discussing the motivation to transition to cloud software and how companies think about cloud adoption. Learn more from our guest blog series on the value of the cloud for product innovation and engineering or get more information about Siemens Cloud Solutions from Siemens Digital Industries Software. https://youtu.be/rKCxrpgH_Sc Transcript: Jim Brown: Cloud adoption is significantly accelerating in the product innovation and engineering market. What does that look like to industrial companies? I'm here at Siemens today to get some clarity. Hi, this is Jim Brown, President of Tech-Clarity, where we make the business value of technology clear. Today, I'm at Siemens. I'm joined by Bob Jones, thank you, Executive Vice President. We are going to talk a little bit about the acceleration of Cloud and the customer view on moving to Cloud for product innovation and engineering software. First, let's talk about why this is happening, and what your customers are seeing. In our research, we see a lot about different reasons companies are moving to the Cloud, and some of the traditional benefits that, lower risk, lower cost, lower the barriers to adoption and that kind of thing. But we also are seeing some really unique elements of the Cloud that are really unachievable with traditional implementations, and some really transformational things companies are doing with their business. What are your customers asking for, if they ask you for the Cloud? Are they asking for transformation? Are they asking for, "Hey, we just want to save a little bit of money on infrastructure?" What do you see? Bob Jones: First of all, I would say Cloud is definitely part of the conversation with virtually all of our customers, from an enterprise level down to the SMB customer. But, as you pointed out, it's a variety of reasons. Some of our customers that have been with us for a while are going through a refresh of their IT infrastructure, and they're looking at, is Cloud a way to drive some type of cost efficiency, or overall productivity improvement for them? That's a common theme we're talking to a lot of our existing customers. Other customers are talking to us about Cloud, either from just pure productivity and efficiency, but also to possibly use Cloud to solve some of their business challenges they may have, such as they've added or acquired a company with facilities in different locations. And then that gives them a bigger burden or challenge on how are they're going to connect those and drive the collaboration they need. And Cloud is a way to help them achieve that. Other good examples are to improve or increase how fast they can implement the technology they need to solve their particular business issues. They see Cloud as a way to accelerate that overall time to value for them, as well as reduce the risks that they have to take on themselves. So, it's a variety of reasons we're seeing where customers want to work with the Cloud. The last thing I would comment is, especially when you think about the enterprise customers, they can't just flip to the Cloud. So, what we see a lot is, they may have a new business initiative that they want to extend the leverage of our technology to solve. And so now we get into this hybrid situation. They've an existing on-premise infrastructure that's driving a lot of their business, and they have a new initiative that they want to deploy, and they look to us to help them deploy that in the Cloud while it still has connectivity to their on-premise infrastructure. And that, I think, is paramount to the enterprise customers. Firstly, they can't make that move overnight. It's going to be a migration. And that's why it's critical for us to support what we call a hybrid Cloud strategy, and allow our customers to leverage their existing on-premise, and extend the value they're getting from that technology through Cloud deployments of further extension of our technology, our footprint. Jim Brown: One of the things that I always love, we've done this in a couple of surveys, is to understand what companies are looking for primarily when they're looking for new product innovation and engineering software. Are they looking for Cloud software to support product innovation and engineering, which would be a Cloud-first kind of approach? Or are they looking for product innovation and engineering software that meets their needs, that solves their problems, and then looking secondarily towards Cloud adoption? What's that first filter? I think it's probably different in some areas, but what we've seen consistently in product innovation and engineering is that it really is about making sure that they have the right capabilities, the right functionality to support their business first, and then looking secondarily at, “okay, what's the best deployment option for that?” I think that makes a lot of sense, given how important product innovation engineering, and even through operations, is to the lifeblood of a company. What do you see as the priority for the companies that you talk to? Bob Jones: Well, first, I'd say it's very consistent with the experience that I'm having, and my team across the globe is having with customers. We may see, sometimes, where an engagement has a requirement that you support the Cloud in order to be considered as a possible supplier to them. But I would not say it's a Cloud first. It's more what you were alluding to. Our customers have a particular business problem, whether it's they need to improve the overall design process, or their collaboration process, or they need to have better connectivity from engineering to manufacturing. They're first and foremost focused on, can we help them solve those business problems that require a certain set of capabilities within our technology? And then, through the evolution of that dialogue, we get into, okay, what is the right method to deploy this technology? And that's where the Cloud discussion typically comes in, is what makes the most sense from a reliability standpoint, from a cost standpoint, agility? Should they leverage existing infrastructure they have on-premise? Or should they leverage a Cloud deployment? But rarely do I see this Cloud-first comment where it's got to be all about the Cloud. It's more, what's the problem we need to solve? And really, how does help them solve that problem? And again, that is something that I think is critical for anybody in our space to understand, because I think it's unfair for technology companies, it's unfair to their customers to say, "You must deploy in the Cloud." You're almost holding the customer hostage. Our strategy is what we call “your way your pace,” because we understand that. And it's not just the top tier of Fortune 100 companies, even mid-tier companies have existing technology deployments that are most likely on-premise. They can't throw all that away. They've got to have this flexibility. How do I solve this problem? And does Cloud help me solve this problem more efficiently, in a lower-cost way? Or does Cloud help me solve this problem in a much higher reliable way? Jim Brown: Well, thank you very much, I really appreciate it. And I'd like to thank you for joining us as well. And you can certainly learn more. We've got a series of these videos as well as guest blog posts on the Siemens site that you can read. And also, please read more from our research and from Siemens. Thanks very much. Bob Jones: Thank you, Jim. [post_title] => Cloud Adoption Perspective with Siemens EVP Bob Jones (Video) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => cloud-adoption-2 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:29:57 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:29:57 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=8274 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [11] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 8222 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2019-10-07 10:07:00 [post_date_gmt] => 2019-10-07 14:07:00 [post_content] => How does your product innovation process stack up against our digital maturity assessment framework? How can you digitally transform product innovation to improve business performance? Tech-Clarity is excited to announce our new Assessment Center with the introduction of the Digital Product Innovation Maturity Assessment.
Digital Maturity Assessment Framework
The assessment helps you understand how your company compares to others in four critical pillars of our digital maturity assessment framework for product innovation:- Digital Twin
- Digital Thread
- Digital Manufacturing
- Digital Innovation Platform
The online tool leverages our research showing that Top Performers in digital product innovation – those that achieve higher revenue growth, margin expansion, and product innovation – have higher levels of digital innovation maturity. Our analysis also shows these top innovators achieve better operational innovation results, including better ability to get products to market quickly, design innovative products, meet market cost requirements, develop high-performance products, and deliver high-quality products. This resource helps you understand how your company can improve digital innovation maturity to gain these business benefits.
Digital Product Innovation Analysis
The analysis calculates your digital innovation maturity based on a short, 5-minute questionnaire. Your company can easily compare your performance to average and leading businesses against our digital maturity assessment framework. Registered users gain access to a personalized report with tailored recommendations to guide their digital innovation transformation. The report includes exclusive early access to our upcoming survey report, Improve Product Innovation and Profitability through Increased Digital Maturity. Thank you to our sponsor, Siemens Digital Industries Software. You can learn more from Siemens about digital transformation on their website.Digital Maturity Assessment Framework Definitions
The digital maturity assessment framework uses the following digital innovation pillar definitions:- A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical item. The model represents a specific product, configuration, piece of equipment, plant, city, or other physical asset with enough fidelity to predict, validate, and optimize performance and behavior.
- The digital thread ties product information, decisions, and history together in a structured, integrated way that captures product innovation throughout the product lifecycle and incorporates streamlined design creation by sharing and/or reusing design data across the stages of innovation.
- Digital manufacturing is the application of digitalization to the design, optimization, validation, and commissioning of production.
- A digital product innovation platform supports integrated, digital product models coupled with integrated applications to design, optimize, validate, and collaborate on products. It supports digital twins, the digital thread, and digital manufacturing.
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With all of the value available, it’s no wonder that companies are moving to the cloud. How do they support the decision shift to cloud solutions? Some may justify the change solely on infrastructure cost savings. We believe, however, that the most important thing about justifying the switch to cloud engineering software is not to do it at all. What!? To be clear, the point we’re trying to make is “don’t justify cloud engineering software, justify engineering software deployed on the cloud.” Maybe we’re mincing words, but there’s a clear message to our advice. Before justifying cloud engineering software, understand the value the solution can provide and make sure you get the right engineering software. Only then should you start to think about the right deployment option. Additional analysis on data from a recent survey shows that manufacturers agree.
Read the full guest post for more information.
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How do top performing companies better leverage Product Data Management to hit their product development targets? We surveyed over 165 manufacturers and gained some telling insights. Our research finds that the current state of design data management continues to yield too many problems, too much wasted time, and missed product development targets. Top Performing companies, on other hand, spend less non-value-added time on data management and are better able to hit their product development goals. How do these Top Performing manufacturers improve product development performance and spend less time managing data? Let's find out.
Please enjoy the summary below. For the full report, please visit our sponsor Autodesk (registration required).
Table of Contents
- It’s Time to Get More from Product Data Management
- Design Data Management Challenges Persist
- Data Management Challenges Hamper Performance
- Challenges, Impacts will Increase with Complexity
- Top Performers Beat NPD Targets, Waste Less Time
- Top Performers Rely Less on Informal Technology
- Top Performers Extend PDM
- Weighing the Cloud PDM Option to Improve ROI
- PDM Provides Extendable Value
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
Design Data Management Problems Persist
Back to the Basics: Finding Files For those that work with CAD files every day it’s probably no surprise to see “finding the right information” and “wasted time searching for data” are challenges reported by almost one-half of respondents. Many companies struggle with the basics of PDM; controlling, accessing, and sharing product data.
Putting Data into Context
The top data management challenges, however, go beyond managing files. They include change management and managing configurations and BOMs. These processes require more than controlling files, they demand the ability to put the data into a product context. This involves managing the complex relationships between parts and assemblies to accurately manage and communicate product details.
NPD Extends Challenges
Beyond core data management challenges, companies struggle when supporting new product development (NPD). NPD crosses both departmental and company boundaries, raising the stakes on data management. Not surprisingly, the top challenges stem from collaborating with others across the business and the supply chain, and managing designs along with their associated NPD projects. Challenges also include extending designs to incorporate manufacturing information and supporting cross-departmental processes.
Data Management Challenges Hamper Performance
Challenges Have Significant Business Impacts Design data management challenges cost businesses time and money. They also limit the amount of time engineers and designers can focus on innovation. Too Much Wasted Time The most common impact of data management challenges is ”wasted time and effort.” In fact, the survey shows that companies waste an average of 20.3% of their technical resources’ time on nonproductive data management tasks. That’s about one work day a week of non-value-added time. Some companies report even more waste.
Companies Routinely Miss NPD Targets
The impacts of these challenges also include missed deadlines and budgets. About two-thirds of companies routinely miss design due dates, project/program budgets, and time to market goals by more than 5%. About one-third miss quality targets at that level. Manufacturers lose time and money because of inadequate data management.
PDM Provides Extendable Value
PDM Provides Tangible Business Benefits PDM provides significant value by helping companies control, access, and share product data. PDM helps companies reduce non-value-added data management time and better hit their product development targets. It’s important to note that the benefits are not only available to the select Top Performers, but to all. PDM Provides a Platform for Future Value PDM implementations – and value – can expand over time. Only about one-third of respondents implemented PDM in a single implementation. Over one-half implemented in multiple or phased projects, while a small number adopted a continuous improvement approach. PDM value increases as companies extend usage. Companies can extends PDM in multiple directions to gain more value, including:- More people / roles
- More departments
- More locations
- More processes
- More product details
Get Started and Grow Value
PDM offers an opportunity for companies to get started and grow. Our research, “The Facts About Managing Product Data,” details that it doesn’t have to take a lot of time and money to implement PDM. Further, it shows that starting small doesn’t seem to hamper performance, an almost identical percentage of Top Performers start with limited scope as do Others.
Based on these findings, we recommend that companies start small, gain value, and then extend PDM scope and benefits over time.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research 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.
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[post_content] => Do you worry about overheating in your product designs? Are you sure you have specified the right pump for your system? Do you make design decisions related to air flow, heat transfer, pressure, and other related physical phenomena?
During this on-demand webinar titled, "Are you using CFD during design?" Tech-Clarity's Michelle Boucher and Chris Watson from Siemens explain different ways Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) may help you develop even better designs. During the webinar, you will learn:
- The value of frontloading CFD in the design process
- Use cases where frontloading CFD adds value and why
- How to avoid challenges to make frontloading CFD adoption easier
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How can manufacturers grow profits by designing, selling and producing personalized products? Manufacturers have significantly increased the level of personalization in their products over the past five years, and customization will accelerate over the next five. Why? Companies across the manufacturing industries recognize that tailoring products drives increased differentiation, higher sales, and better margins. How can manufacturers take advantage of this trend to drive better top line growth and bottom line profits? We surveyed 285 companies to find out. Let’s take a look!
Please enjoy the summary below. For the full Growing Product by Personalizing Products eBook, visit our sponsor SolidWorks (registration required).
Table of Contents
Customization is Compelling- Customization Offers Business-Level Benefits
- Customization Growth Continues
- Customizing Products is Challenging
- Challenges Lead to Negative Business Impacts
- Customization Prep Reduces Innovation Time
- Identifying Top Performers in Customizing Products
- Top Performers Better Exploit Customization Benefits
- Top Performers use More Modern Configurators
- Top Performers Provide a Compelling Experience
- Next Steps
- About the Research
- Acknowledgements
Customization Offers Business-Level Benefits
Personalization Aimed at Profits
People have been talking about mass personalization, lot sizes of one, customization, and other configuration strategies for years. Why does this strategy continue to show up in corporate agendas? It’s likely a natural reaction to limited choices dictated by mass production and cost reduction. But at a more basic level, it’s a simple matter of money.
We asked survey respondents to share the benefits their companies get from selling customized products. The results show that customization helps drive growth and profitability. The most commonly mentioned benefits, increasing sales and differentiating from competitors, grow the top line. But the benefits also extend to driving higher bottom line profitability. About one-half of respondents report they increase profit margins by personalizing.
Additional Goals
There are other drivers as well. For example, there are industries where customization is simply a necessity. In these cases, products typically need to fit into unique customer situations, like fitting a piece of equipment into existing plant infrastructure. Another example is that 84% of Aerospace & Defense respondents say configuration is an industry necessity, most likely to meet specific customer performance specifications.
Consumer-oriented companies, including Apparel / Footwear and Consumer Products, also report benefits related to consumer experience. In addition to increasing sales through customization, both are more likely than other industries to benefit from gaining a “cool factor” and offering a compelling website experience from personalization.
Customization Growth Continues
Configuration Continues to Climb Our data shows that product configuration has been growing significantly for at least a decade. Will growth continue? We asked responding companies how much the amount of configuration / personalization / customization in their products changed over the last five years, and how much they expect it to increase over the next five. Results show that the level of customization will continue to grow.
Almost three-quarters of surveyed companies say that the level of customization has increased over the last five years. Very few companies, only 3%, say it had decreased. Looking to the next five years we see a similar picture. In fact, about one-half say that customization will increase “significantly” over that time period. As we depict in the graph, it’s important to remember that future growth is in addition to the increases they’ve already seen!
Consumer Industries Growing Faster
Consumer-oriented companies are experiencing the greatest increases. Over 40% of Apparel / Footwear and Consumer Products companies have grown customization significantly, with almost three-quarters expecting significant growth! High Tech / Electronics also expects to grow more than average over the next five years. Personalization hasn’t reached its peak!
Conclusions and Next Steps
Product Customization is Growing and Creating Business Value This survey confirms our prior research in finding that product personalization has been growing for some time. Beyond that, this survey indicates that the growth will increase over the next five years. Based on our experience and the findings from this research, we believe that product customization is a compelling business strategy that spans manufacturing industry segments. Responding companies that offer customized products report sales growth and margin expansion. Companies that report higher performance than their competition in designing, selling, and delivering customized products – the Top Performers – share that they achieve even greater profitable growth. Top Performers Take Different Approaches, Reap Higher Benefits Analysis of the Top Performers shows that they are more likely to use product configurators to support selling personalized products. Beyond that, they also use them differently in four basic ways. In particular, they:- Use configurators with more modern capabilities
- Provide a visual, 3D, interactive configuration experience
- Provide a compelling, customer-centric customization experience
- Connect product configuration with commerce
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research 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.
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What is the impact of disruptive industry forces like digital transformation and sustainability on long-term business success, and how are companies responding? Companies are facing pressure from all angles, threatening their long-term survival and success. Business is digitalizing and customers are demanding more. The workforce is aging. Natural resources are increasingly constrained as populations grow and urbanize. New technologies like artificial intelligence and the IoT are creating opportunities but upsetting the status quo. As if that’s not enough to deal with, political uncertainty is the new reality.
What sustainability pressures are executives worried about and what strategies are they adopting in response? We surveyed over 150 executives from companies with greater than 1,000 employees to find out.
Please enjoy the summary below. For the full Executive Strategies for Long-Term Business Success research, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systemes (registration required).
Table of Contents
- Disruptive Forces Threaten Business Sustainability
- Business Risk and Disruption are on the Rise
- What Drives Long-term Company Success?
- What’s Driving Company Strategy?
- Innovation Basics and Beyond Lead to Success
- Workforce Development is Critical to Success
- Economic, Environmental, and Social Sustainability
- Executives Must Lead Their Companies to Succeed
- Execution Faces a Variety of Barriers
- Sustainability has Unique Challenges
- Managing Change is a Multi-Faceted Issue
- Conclusions and Next Steps
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
Business Risk and Disruption are on the Rise
Market Reinvention is Increasing Surveyed executives share that their markets have experienced increased business risk and disruption over the last five years. About three-quarters of companies say this turmoil has increased, with almost one-quarter saying it has increased “significantly.”
Larger Companies Face Greater Risk
Larger companies are experiencing greater challenges. A full one-half of companies with over 10,000 employees say that risk and disruption have increased “significantly.” The status quo is changing, and market leaders are at risk of disruption while challengers have great opportunities.
Few are Exempt from the Impact
Today’s industrial revolution is extremely broad. Out of all of the companies surveyed, only 4% said that this market upheaval has decreased. No participants indicate it has decreased “significantly.”
It’s Time to Act
Executives have to sustain business performance despite these conditions – or better yet find a way to capitalize on the disruption. Let’s take a deeper look at the business sustainability challenges companies face and what they’re doing about it.
What’s Driving Company Strategy?
Executives are Looking to the Future
With disruption and competing needs, what do companies take into consideration when developing and executing their business strategies? The most commonly reported corporate strategy and initiatives drivers are new market opportunities and long-term growth objectives. In fact, only 13% of respondents indicate that short-term profits influence their direction, reflecting a longer-term horizon for these decisions.
Companies Respond to Outside Pressure
Executives also report that consumer pressure and non-governmental organization (NGO) reporting influence their strategy decisions, as do financial market perception and regulation.
Although the overall results show only about one one-third of respondents say regulation impacts strategy, C-Level execs are 40% more likely to view governmental regulations as a driver than VPs and Directors. In addition, companies with over 5,000 employees are almost twice as likely to drive strategy based on government regulation.
Regulation and Oversight Drive Sustainability
Corporate responsibility and environmental issues do not directly make the list of top strategic influences, but other driving forces such as consumer pressure, NGO reporting, and regulation influence these important issues indirectly.
The influences vary by regions. For example, North America is more focused on consumer pressure and regulation than the average across regions, while Europe is more focused on NGO reporting. These factors likely drive these markets toward sustainability.
Conclusions and Next Steps
Industry Risk and Disruption Demand Change
Global markets are undergoing major disruption. Companies have to adapt to survive and prosper into the future. Current shifts in business models, technology, the environment, and socio-economic factors can challenge leaders and provide challengers the opportunity to become a disruptor. One thing is certain, the status quo is changing rapidly.
Companies are Choosing their Sustainability Initiatives
Executives are identifying and prioritizing the actions they believe will take their businesses into the future. Today, companies are focused most commonly on economic sustainability, with a strong emphasis on product and service innovation. They are keenly focused on making the transition to digital business models in order to stand the test of time.
At the same time, they recognize the need for greater environmental and social responsibility, particularly reacting to regulatory demands. In addition, customer perceptions and NGO reporting are likely encouraging sustainable approaches.
Finally, executives recognize they need to invest in the workforce of the future. This includes getting the most out of existing resources as well as attracting and retaining new talent. In order to gain value from their human resources, they are also focused on the ability to capture company knowledge and know-how.
Putting Initiatives into Action
There are numerous initiatives underway, each with their own level of executive sponsorship, funding, enterprise change management, and technology support. Companies have to take on the challenge of prioritizing and supporting each of these initiatives in order to create long-term, sustainable business success. In particular, surveyed companies would benefit from more attention to enabling enterprise technology.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research 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.
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What should you look for in a simulation solution for design engineers in your organization? How do a design engineer’s needs differ from those of an analyst? Why should a company even invest in simulation for design engineers in the first place?
Tech-Clarity’s Simulation Buyer’s Guide for Design Engineers helps answer these questions. Based on a survey of 195 companies, this report reveals what Top Performing companies value most in a CAE solution for design engineers. While this report is not an exhaustive list of requirements, it serves as a guide to help you focus on the selection criteria that matter most to design engineers.
Please enjoy the summary* below.
For the full Buyer’s Guide, please visit our sponsor PTC (registration required).
THE ROLE OF SIMULATION DURING DESIGN
How Simulation Helps
What if you could improve your design efficiency by 7% or lower your lower your prototype costs by 10%? Our survey results found that Top Performing companies have experienced these benefits and more since their design engineers started using simulation. So what’s the best way to see similar results? Let’s explore that question.
How Design Engineers Use Simulation
Products have gotten so complex; it is hard to know how a design decision will impact the rest of the design. Simulation can provide insight, enabling you to evaluate different options, design with greater confidence, and ultimately engineer better products. It also helps you catch potential problems early on. As a result, there are fewer delays and less excess cost caused by problems discovered during test or production.
In fact, design engineers get so much value from simulation, 65% would like to conduct more simulations than they currently do. Results from Tech-Clarity's Revolutionizing Simulation for Design Engineers show that it is mostly the tools that hold them back, as many solutions are not particularly well suited for the needs of a design engineer. This buyer's guide reveals what to look for in a simulation solution to meet those needs.
WHY INVEST IN SIMULATION FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS?
Design Better Products Companies invest in simulation for design engineers for a variety of reasons (see graph). Comparing responses from 2018 to 2016 reveals a trend that simulation is becoming more intertwined with the design process. Better insight for design engineers remains a top reason to invest in simulation, with even more companies citing it in 2018 than 2016. Unfortunately, "quality issues" was not an option choice in 2016, but in 2018, over 1/3 of respondents are investing in simulation to find problems during the design process rather than at the end.
SELECT THE RIGHT SIMULATION FOR YOUR NEEDS
Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations to select the right simulation solution for your design engineers:- Empower design engineers with simulation tools to help guide their decisions.
- Understand your needs for a simulation solution.
- Consider how the needs of a design engineer are different from those of an analyst.
- Focus on how simulation can best integrate with the design process to improve design decisions.
- Select a simulation solution that will be easy for your design engineers, integrates with your existing CAD tool, and supports existing workflows.
- Consider a solution that makes it easy to set up an analysis and includes features that minimize preprocessing steps and provides quick results.
- Ensure the solution supports design optimization.
- Select a vendor who can provide the required support resources when needed.
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PLM for SMB – Finding PLM to Fit Midsized Manufacturers (eBook)
What’s the right size PLM to fit a midsized manufacturer? When looking for PLM for SMB (small to midsized businesses) it’s important to remember that midsized companies need capabilities, but have limited resources. Midsized manufacturers need to choose a PLM system that brings core product design and development capabilities within reach, but also offers room…
Next-Level Simulation with Cloud Computing (webcast + guest post)
How can companies use the power of cloud computing to get more out of their simulation efforts? Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown shares his research on the value of simulation on the cloud in a lively web panel with Joby Aviation’s Alec Clark and Jonathan Oakley of Dassault Systemes. Read the guest post on the Dassault Systemes’…
Cloud Security Discussion with Siemens EVP Bob Jones (Video)
How have manufacturers’ perspectives on cloud security changed, and what can they do to mitigate cloud risk? This episode digs into the cloud security issue for product innovation and engineering software. Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown and Siemens’ Digital Industries Software EVP Global Sales & Customer Sucess Bob Jones discuss the evolving view of security for cloud…
Moldmakers: Design and Produce Tools Faster
How can moldmakers better manage processes to meet delivery dates, without hurting profitability? During this webinar, Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher shares some of her latest research on tool design and production. Daren Beeson from Siemens then shares examples of how tool shops have conquered the complexity of tooling design and production in the mold, tool, and…
Digital Product Innovation Maturity (survey results)
How can companies digitally transform product innovation to improve the way they conceive, design, and develop products to improve profitability and achieve or sustain market leadership? We surveyed over 150 companies to find out. Our new survey report, Improve Product Innovation and Profitability through Increased Digital Maturity, shares how digital product innovation is fundamentally reshaping…
Cloud Adoption Perspective with Siemens EVP Bob Jones (Video)
Why are companies adopting the cloud for product innovation and engineering? How do they prioritize cloud adoption against the software functionality they need to drive product innovation? This episode of Tech-Clarity TV highlights Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown and Siemens’ EVP of Global Sales & Customer Success, Bob Jones, discussing the motivation to transition to cloud software…
Digital Maturity Assessment Framework for Product Innovation (assessment tool)
How does your product innovation process stack up against our digital maturity assessment framework? How can you digitally transform product innovation to improve business performance? Tech-Clarity is excited to announce our new Assessment Center with the introduction of the Digital Product Innovation Maturity Assessment. Digital Maturity Assessment Framework The assessment helps you understand how your…
Cloud Strategy Discussion with Siemens SVP Brenda Discher (Video)
Why is cloud adoption for product innovation and engineering software picking up momentum? This episode of Tech-Clarity TV focuses on the reasons cloud adoption for product innovation and engineering is increasing. Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown and Siemens’ SVP of Business Strategy & Marketing Brenda Discher discuss the value of cloud adoption, including how the cloud supports…
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Why Not to Justify Cloud Engineering Software (guest post)
How should manufacturers justify their transition to cloud engineering software? Cloud solutions offer value in implementation, operational, business, strategic, and other dimensions unique to design and product development. So why do we believe the decision shouldn’t focus on the benefits of cloud engineering software? If you’re guessing there’s a twist, you’re right, but we think…
Extending PDM Beyond Design Data Management (survey results)
How do top performing companies better leverage Product Data Management to hit their product development targets? We surveyed over 165 manufacturers and gained some telling insights. Our research finds that the current state of design data management continues to yield too many problems, too much wasted time, and missed product development targets. Top Performing companies, on…
CFD webinar : Are you using CFD during design?
Do you worry about overheating in your product designs? Are you sure you have specified the right pump for your system? Do you make design decisions related to air flow, heat transfer, pressure, and other related physical phenomena? During this on-demand webinar titled, “Are you using CFD during design?” Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher and Chris Watson from…
Growing Profits with Personalized Products (survey results)
How can manufacturers grow profits by designing, selling and producing personalized products? Manufacturers have significantly increased the level of personalization in their products over the past five years, and customization will accelerate over the next five. Why? Companies across the manufacturing industries recognize that tailoring products drives increased differentiation, higher sales, and better margins. How…
Executive Strategies for Long-Term Business Success (survey results)
What is the impact of disruptive industry forces like digital transformation and sustainability on long-term business success, and how are companies responding? Companies are facing pressure from all angles, threatening their long-term survival and success. Business is digitalizing and customers are demanding more. The workforce is aging. Natural resources are increasingly constrained as populations grow…
Simulation Buyer’s Guide for Design Engineers
What should you look for in a simulation solution for design engineers in your organization? How do a design engineer’s needs differ from those of an analyst? Why should a company even invest in simulation for design engineers in the first place? Tech-Clarity’s Simulation Buyer’s Guide for Design Engineers helps answer these questions. Based on…