Making the value of technology clear
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The Getting the Most from PLM - PLM Drives Tangible Business Value eBook is the result of a joint research project between research firm Tech-Clarity and innovation consulting firm Kalypso. We researched over 100 companies to determine how some companies get much higher levels of value from their Product Lifecycle Management implementations. The report shows that leading companies go beyond tactical (yet valuable) cost and efficiency gains to improve innovation and drive higher profit margins and revenue.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the eBook to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit our research partner Kalypso (free of charge, no registration required).
Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher will share recent research on PDM, PLM and the cloud at an event put on by MasterGraphics, "Cloud ERP / PLM: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Connected Data." She will discuss some misconceptions and how to set the right foundation for incremental strategic improvement.
The event will be held in Milwaukee on August 13th. More information about the event can be found here.
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[post_content] => Jim Brown presented findings from his recent research on Enterprise PLM in this Engineering.com webcast, Top PLM Performers Manage More Than CAD. The recording is now available on-demand, including a very active Q&A session.
Watch the replay now (no charge, registration required)
Sponsored by Autodesk PLM 360
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Product Lifecycle Management Beyond Managing CAD, The Business Value of PLM shares survey results exploring the value of PLM beyond managing design files such as CAD. While the research finds that most Top Performers manage CAD in PLM, they also do a lot more. The research shows that Top Performers - the ones that report higher revenue growth, margin expansion, cost reduction, and product innovation - are much more likely to extend PLM further and take more holistic, process-oriented, enterprise-wide view.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit Engineering.com (free of charge, registration required, sponsored by Autodesk).
Reducing Program Risk with Earned Value Management explores the business value of Earned Value Management (EVM) processes and tools and how they can streamline program execution and drive down risk. The eBook shares a brief overview of EVM in business terms and shares how EVM helps companies gain control of programs, monitor and correct program health, boost visibility and management oversight, and demonstrate program control to customers. The eBook also shares how companies can leverage PLM to file the gap most companies have in creating an Earned Value Management (EVMS) system.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systèmes (free of charge, registration required).
Large programs are notoriously difficult to deliver on time and on budget. But expectations are high on program managers and program management offices (PMOs) even in the face of increased complexity from multi-discipline initiatives, intense budget scrutiny, and globally dispersed supply chains. Earned Value Management (EVM) helps reduce risk on high cost, high risk, time-sensitive programs. It improves a program’s odds for success and provides accountability and traceability into cost and schedule variances. It adds a new level of control, oversight, discipline, and rigor to program management to prevent cost overruns, missed scheduled milestones, and late delivery dates.
EVM improves program management by eliminating subjectivity. The approach lets program managers factually quantify program spending and progress. It provides a mechanism to identify and mitigate issues early before things get too far off track. It also offers a standard, proven way for customers and program sponsors to audit progress to gain confidence that the programs they’re funding are on track. Many companies choose to adopt EVM to improve program success. Others are required to use EVM for specific customers, contract types, and contract values or may need to demonstrate earned value to justify billing. Either way, EVM adds value and improves confidence in program delivery.
Compliance with ANSI/EIA-748 is required for DoD cost or incentive type contracts valued at or greater than $20 million. For cost or incentive type contracts valued at or greater than $50 million, compliance with the management attributes of the ANSI/EIA-748 32 GLs is demonstrated through a formal EVMS validation process. - Defense Contract Management Agency Instruction 208
Tech-Clarity's new eBook, An Action Plan to Improve Your Product Portfolio, helps companies start down the path to better product profitability through PPM. The research shares insights on how to recognize the need for PPM, prepare your organization for the PPM journey,determine the potential ROI, and select a software vendor partner. It's a comprehensive look at how your company can start down the path to better portfolios (and profits).
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit our sponsor Planview (free of charge, registration required).
Product Portfolio Management improvements drive top line growth, expand margins, improve corporate agility, and reduce overhead costs. Given the value, is it any wonder that more manufacturers are turning to PPM? Product Portfolio Management (PPM) has become mission critical for today’s product development companies. It helps companies drive strategic value by filling the pipeline with the right ideas, selecting the right projects and products, applying the right resources, and providing the right level of visibility to manage and make good decisions. Benchmarks show PPM processes and technology offer powerful business improvements, including double-digit percentage improvements in:
This guide is intended to help you get started. Tech-Clarity Buyer’s Guides help lead companies through vendor selection for their critical enterprise applications. For the most part, our guides focus on software, service, and vendor requirements. But several things make acquiring PPM different:
Material Trends for Engineering and Production
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To be eligible for this offer, you must complete the survey and be a professional with job responsibilities related to or supporting the development, release, or manufacture of products. Vendors and consultants who sell software, solutions, or services to support product development are not eligible. Students without relevant professional work experience are also not eligible. A valid work email is required to receive the gift card. To verify eligibility, your work email must include the domain of your place of employment. Email addresses will be kept confidential and will not be used for any direct sales or marketing purposes. Duplicate responses will be disqualified. Winners will be notified when the survey is closed.
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The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. Individual responses will be kept confidential.
To be eligible for this offer, you must complete the survey and be a professional with job responsibilities related to or supporting the development, release, or manufacture of products. Vendors and consultants who sell software, solutions, or services to support product development are not eligible. Students without relevant professional work experience are also not eligible. A valid work email is required to receive the gift card. To verify eligibility, your work email must include the domain of your place of employment. Email addresses will be kept confidential and will not be used for any direct sales or marketing purposes. Duplicate responses will be disqualified. Winners will be notified when the survey is closed.
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Michelle Boucher will join Kenneth Wong, Senior Editor from Desktop Engineering and Simon Floyd, Director of Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management Solutions from Microsoft for a very interesting webcast on Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 2:00 pm EDT.
The webinar will examine some of the latest advancements in product development technologies, specifically the combination of topology optimization software and 3D printers, and how they can be used to solve some of today's key design challenges. Topology optimization software allows you to achieve material savings and lower weight by placing material only where it is needed. However, the unique shapes proposed by the software are not always manufacturable with traditional manufacturing techniques. 3D Printing creates exciting new opportunities to produce these optimized shapes.
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[post_content] => PDM/PLM Satisfaction Survey - Status Quo is Satisfactory but Needs are Changing 
shares the results of a survey of over 500 PLM users exploring their satisfaction with their Product Data Management (PDM) and/or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems. The report conveys the perspectives of a large number of PLM users ranging in seniority, position, and industry. The study includes statistics based on survey responses and analysis of open-ended questions and concludes that PLM users are generally satisfied with current PLM systems but have low expectations, and that those expectations will likely grow as they become more accustomed to today's consumer-oriented applications.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
For more information on PLM, please visit our sponsor Aras.
The research shows that there is significant room for improvement in PLM. Today’s PLM is a valuable business system that offers benefits to executives and downstream users but frequently burdens companies’ direct contributors and challenges infrequent users due to complex user interfaces which result in long learning curves. Although users express satisfaction with the current state of PLM, they were quick to offer areas that need improvement. The most frequently requested changes include improvements to:
A Ten Point Guide Using the Internet of Things to Change the Game for You Business eBook shares ten tips for companies who would like to know what they should think about to evolve their business and its products for the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT offers new opportunities for innovation, but it came be difficult to know where to start. These ten tips provide guidance to help companies identify where they should focus their initial efforts.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF for more details (free of charge, no registration required). Special thanks to IBM for sponsoring the distribution of this research. For more information, visit IBM’s continuous engineering page.
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The CAD Collaboration for Small Design and Engineering Firms eBook explores the challenges of sharing CAD and related design data with customers and 3rd parties and how cloud-based CAD management solutions can help. The report furthers the discussion started in Tech-Clarity Insight - The Basics of Managing CAD about whether a simpler, lower overhead, cloud-based data management solution can cover the basics without the cost and time required to implement more formal solutions. This eBook shares the experiences of small engineering firms including Mechanical Color, Paul Hammerstrom Design, and Zalaco, LLC. The research concludes that Cloud-based CAD collaboration tools can provide the best of both worlds for smaller firms - the basic CAD management features they need with the ease of use of personal file sharing tools like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, and others.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full CAD Collaboration ebook, please visit our sponsor GrabCAD (free, registration required).
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[post_content] => Jim Brown will join Jeff Makarewicz of Giffin, Inc. and Autodesk's Kevin Robinson to share insights about product data management (PDM) on this exciting webcast on Tuesday, April 21. The presenters will discuss the findings from the report and how they impact manufacturers including Giffin.
Register now!
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Tech-Clarity Insight: Unlocking Engineering Value for Small and Medium Businesses with Product Design on the Cloud
explores the business benefits of a design environment on the cloud. The report examines the savings from an IT perspective as well as the strategic value and competitive advantage it can provide product development.
Please enjoy the summary below, or for the full report visit our sponsor, Dassault Systemes (free of charge, registration required).
Today’s global environment is so competitive, it has become very difficult for companies to stand out from the competition. To be profitable, companies must design better products, at less cost, in less time while offering customers something unique. This can be especially challenging for small and medium size businesses (SMBs) who face many of the same challenges large companies do, but with fewer resources to address them. With this in mind, they do not have any resources to spare. Yet, research published in Tech-Clarity’s report, Reducing Non-Value Added Work in Engineering, “Engineers spend a third of their time on non-value added work. Even worse, 20% of their time is spent working with outdated information, which often leads to wasted effort and rework.” Figure 1 shows the breakdown of that non-valued added time.
Turning to a design platform on the cloud can be a way to help. The adoption of cloud technology continues to grow as applications for both personal and business applications become readily available.
As stated in Tech-Clarity’s Assessing the Cloud PLM Opportunity, “Cloud computing is generally recognized as the next generation of information technology (IT) architecture. Large and small companies alike are using cloud solutions to simplify their IT infrastructure. These companies are taking advantage of lower costs, faster time to value, and increased agility available from Internet-based applications. Many companies have already moved applications such as e-mail, customer relationship management (CRM), collaboration, and other systems into the cloud.” As an example, companies such as Salesforce.com have proven success with a cloud-based, enterprise solution, even with highly sensitive customer data. ERP is another example that is finding success on the cloud. Based on research done for Tech-Clarity’s report, Modernizing Manufacturing Systems with the Cloud, “…cloud ERP results in a better, lower risk implementation than most companies could support in-house, offering web class performance and reliability.”
Given the success of other cloud applications, it makes sense that those benefits would also extend to a design environment on the cloud. Companies such as AKKA Technologies have found just that. AKKA Technologies is a French company that provides engineering and technology consulting services for the transportation and mobility, aerospace and defense, energy, life sciences, and hi-tech industries. Philippe Obry, Chief Innovation Officer at AKKA Technologies says, “Designing products on the cloud has led to a 30-40% reduction in development time. The time savings come from combining the expertise of multiple team members on a single platform and giving them easy access to the design data.”
Such significant time savings can turn into a real competitive advantage. This report details the business value and return on investment that can be achieved when designing products on the cloud.
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Join Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher on this webcast for consumer goods companies. Michelle will be joined by Raymond Wodar, Director and Business Experience Consultant at Dassault Systèmes and the discussion will be moderated by Kara Romanow, Executive Editor, at CGT Consumer Goods Technology.
The webcast will be held on Wednesday, March 25 at 2:00 EDT.
You are invited to join us to learn:
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Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher will present at DriveWorks World to share research on the business impact of a successful Engineer-to-Order process. She will highlight key best practices for both quoting and engineering that will lead to greater profitability.
The event will be held in Chicago March 16th - 20th. More information about the event can be found here and registration details are here.
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Tech-Clarity Spotlight: A Ten Point Guide for Using the Internet of Things to Change the Game for Your Business offers ten tips for companies looking to take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT offers great potential for companies to bring new innovations to their products, but it came be difficult to know where to start. These ten tips provide guidance to help companies get started with the IoT.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF for more details (free of charge, no registration required). Special thanks to IBM for sponsoring the distribution of this research. For more information, visit IBM's continuous engineering page.
To be eligible for this offer, you must complete the survey and be a professional with job responsibilities related to or supporting the development, release, or manufacture of products. Vendors and consultants who sell software, solutions, or services to support product development are not eligible. Students without relevant professional work experience are also not eligible. A valid work email is required to receive the gift card. To verify eligibility, your work email must include the domain of your place of employment. Email addresses will be kept confidential and will not be used for any direct sales or marketing purposes. Duplicate responses will be disqualified. Winners will be notified when the survey is closed.
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How do leading “to order” manufacturers support their sales, quote, and manufacturing processes? The survey is closed, thank you. Thank you for your help and support! Rules To be eligible for this offer, you must complete the survey and be a professional with job responsibilities related to or supporting the development, release, or manufacture of…
Concept Design Survey How do leading companies develop conceptual models? Please share your experience. We are conducting new research on concept development. We are exploring questions such as, what are best practices for developing concepts? Are there approaches to concept development that will save time during detail design? Can technology help?? If you already completed the survey –>…
The Getting the Most from PLM – PLM Drives Tangible Business Value eBook is the result of a joint research project between research firm Tech-Clarity and innovation consulting firm Kalypso. We researched over 100 companies to determine how some companies get much higher levels of value from their Product Lifecycle Management implementations. The report shows that…
Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher will share recent research on PDM, PLM and the cloud at an event put on by MasterGraphics, “Cloud ERP / PLM: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Connected Data.” She will discuss some misconceptions and how to set the right foundation for incremental strategic improvement. The event will be held in Milwaukee on August…
Jim Brown presented findings from his recent research on Enterprise PLM in this Engineering.com webcast, Top PLM Performers Manage More Than CAD. The recording is now available on-demand, including a very active Q&A session. Watch the replay now (no charge, registration required) Sponsored by Autodesk PLM 360
Product Lifecycle Management Beyond Managing CAD, The Business Value of PLM shares survey results exploring the value of PLM beyond managing design files such as CAD. While the research finds that most Top Performers manage CAD in PLM, they also do a lot more. The research shows that Top Performers – the ones that report higher…
Reducing Program Risk with Earned Value Management explores the business value of Earned Value Management (EVM) processes and tools and how they can streamline program execution and drive down risk. The eBook shares a brief overview of EVM in business terms and shares how EVM helps companies gain control of programs, monitor and correct program health, boost visibility…
Tech-Clarity’s new eBook, An Action Plan to Improve Your Product Portfolio, helps companies start down the path to better product profitability through PPM. The research shares insights on how to recognize the need for PPM, prepare your organization for the PPM journey,determine the potential ROI, and select a software vendor partner. It’s a comprehensive look at…
Material Trends for Engineering and Production How are new materials impacting your design and production processes? Please share your experience. What are your plans for new materials? What challenges should you be aware of when using new materials? What are so of the best practices when using new materials such as composites? If you already completed the…
Switching CAD Tools Have you gone through a change in CAD tools? Are you considering a change? Please share your experience. How did the process go? What drove the change? What should companies expect when making a change? If you already completed the survey –> please share with a colleague or on social media using the “Share/Save”…
Michelle Boucher will join Kenneth Wong, Senior Editor from Desktop Engineering and Simon Floyd, Director of Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management Solutions from Microsoft for a very interesting webcast on Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 2:00 pm EDT. The webinar will examine some of the latest advancements in product development technologies, specifically the combination of topology…
PDM/PLM Satisfaction Survey – Status Quo is Satisfactory but Needs are Changing shares the results of a survey of over 500 PLM users exploring their satisfaction with their Product Data Management (PDM) and/or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems. The report conveys the perspectives of a large number of PLM users ranging in seniority, position, and industry. The study…
A Ten Point Guide Using the Internet of Things to Change the Game for You Business eBook shares ten tips for companies who would like to know what they should think about to evolve their business and its products for the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT offers new opportunities for innovation, but it came be difficult to know where…
Jim Brown joins Patrick Tickle of Planview to discuss the implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) on product strategy and portfolio planning. Hear how today’s manufacturing leaders wonder whether they are a manufacturer or a software company. Spoiler alert – they are becoming both. Register now for the May 13 webcast sponsored by Planview. Free…
The CAD Collaboration for Small Design and Engineering Firms eBook explores the challenges of sharing CAD and related design data with customers and 3rd parties and how cloud-based CAD management solutions can help. The report furthers the discussion started in Tech-Clarity Insight – The Basics of Managing CAD about whether a simpler, lower overhead, cloud-based data management solution can…
Jim Brown will join Jeff Makarewicz of Giffin, Inc. and Autodesk’s Kevin Robinson to share insights about product data management (PDM) on this exciting webcast on Tuesday, April 21. The presenters will discuss the findings from the report and how they impact manufacturers including Giffin. Register now!
Tech-Clarity Insight: Unlocking Engineering Value for Small and Medium Businesses with Product Design on the Cloud explores the business benefits of a design environment on the cloud. The report examines the savings from an IT perspective as well as the strategic value and competitive advantage it can provide product development. Please enjoy the summary below, or for the…
Join Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher on this webcast for consumer goods companies. Michelle will be joined by Raymond Wodar, Director and Business Experience Consultant at Dassault Systèmes and the discussion will be moderated by Kara Romanow, Executive Editor, at CGT Consumer Goods Technology. The webcast will be held on Wednesday, March 25 at 2:00 EDT. You are invited to join us to learn:…
Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher will present at DriveWorks World to share research on the business impact of a successful Engineer-to-Order process. She will highlight key best practices for both quoting and engineering that will lead to greater profitability. The event will be held in Chicago March 16th – 20th. More information about the event can be found…
Tech-Clarity Spotlight: A Ten Point Guide for Using the Internet of Things to Change the Game for Your Business offers ten tips for companies looking to take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT offers great potential for companies to bring new innovations to their products, but it came be difficult to know where to start….