Making the value of technology clear
Tech-Clarity is pleased to announce the expansion of our research team! Industry veteran and former Aberdeen Group Senior Research Analyst Michelle Boucher joins Tech-Clarity as Vice President of Research covering engineering software. Michelle brings a wealth of depth in engineering, product development, and research. For more on Michelle's background please visit her bio page.
As a combined team, we look forward to expanding and deepening our coverage of the product innovation, product development, and engineering software market as we continue our mission to make the value of technology clear to business. Jim Brown, President and Founder of Tech-Clarity says "Michelle brings new depth in research capabilities and market coverage, we are excited to have such a proven analyst joining our team."
Michelle’s research focus will include engineering tools and other software enablers for engineering and product development. Please follow Michelle on twitter and subscribe to Tech-Clarity to read Michelle's research.
For more information or to schedule a briefing please feel free to contact us.
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Michelle Boucher is the Vice President of Research for Engineering Practices for research firm Tech-Clarity. Ms. Boucher has spent over 20 years in various roles in engineering, marketing, management, and as an analyst. She has broad experience with topics such as product design, simulation, systems engineering, mechatronics, embedded systems, PCB design, additive manufacturing, improving product performance, process improvement, and mass customization. She graduated magna cum laude with an MBA from Babson College and earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering, with distinction, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Ms. Boucher began her career holding various roles as a mechanical engineer at Pratt & Whitney and KONA (now Synventive Molding Solutions). She then spent over 10 years at PTC, a leading MCAD and PLM solution provider. While at PTC, she developed a deep understanding of end user needs through roles in technical support, management, and product marketing. She worked in technical marketing at Moldflow Corporation (acquired by Autodesk), the market leader in injection molding simulation. Here she was instrumental in developing product positioning and go-to-market messages. Ms. Boucher then joined Aberdeen Group and covered product innovation, product development, and engineering processes, eventually running the Product Innovation and Engineering practice.
Ms. Boucher is an experienced researcher and author. She has benchmarked over 7000 product development professionals and published over 90 reports on product development best practices. She focuses on helping companies manage the complexity of today’s products, markets, design environments, and value chains to achieve higher profitability.
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Issue in Focus Integrating Product Design and Development Environments - Battling Complexity, Improving Productivity, and Compressing Time
discusses how a well-integrated CAD-PLM platform helps improve engineering and product development performance. This report describes the requirements and capabilities that manufacturers should look for in the latest generation of integrated systems for product design and development.
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 Systemes (free of charge, registration required).
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Tech-Clarity Insight - Consolidating CAD - The Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy offers insight into the strategic value companies can achieve by standardizing on a single CAD package. The report explains how to calculate an ROI for CAD consolidation based on direct cost savings. Perhaps more importantly, the research identifies a number of strategic benefits achievable by using a single solution across the enterprise.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report and a downloadable spreadsheet to help you calculate the value for your company please visit our sponsor PTC's for their CAD Consolidation Kit (free of charge, registration required).
Tony Lockwood of Desktop Engineering shared his thoughts on Tech-Clarity's Consolidating Design Software, Extending Value Beyond 3D CAD Consolidation. I like his description of "working in a multi-CAD environment with multiple disconnected tools and multiple money pits bleeding you dry at every junction of your process."
Read the short article by Tony on Desktop Engineering.
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Product Cost Management - A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost explains how manufacturers can design products for optimal cost in order to improve profitability. The research shares interviews with three industrial manufacturers on the way they work with their supply chains to reduce cost using an analytical, fact-based methodology to drive out unnecessary cost and negotiate fair pricing. The interviews also point out the value of enterprise-class software to enable PCM.
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 PCM from our sponsor please visit Siemens PLM's Teamcenter Product Cost Management page.
Please also see the related Tech-Clarity TV Episode - Optimizing Product Cost with PCM
The Business Value of Product Data Management - Achieving Rapid and Extendable Benefits with Preconfigured PDM shares the perspectives of three small to midsize manufacturers on the value they receive from PDM software. The report also offers Tech-Clarity's views on the business value of PDM and explains how preconfigured PDM solutions can help companies gain value quickly and cost effectively.
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 the Teamcenter Rapid Start page on the Siemens PLM website (free of charge, registration required).
| Company | Description |
| Veeraja Industries | Total solutions provider of coolant filtration, chip removal and coolant management |
| Flovel Energy | Fully integrated hydro power equipment supplier |
| Weir Valves & Controls | End-to-end whole plant solutions to nuclear, fossil-fired and renewable power stations |
Tech-Clarity Insight - PLM's Role in Enabling Design for Environment discusses the tremendous challenges manufacturers face from sustainability demands and regulations. The report discusses how companies can adopt a strategy and culture that helps them address sustainability and compliance needs early in design and how PLM software provides a platform of capabilities that can be applied to today's - and tomorrow's - DFE needs. The report also introduces the Tech-Clarity Sustainability Maturity Framework to help companies determine how advanced their processes are and how they can be improved.
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 the Teamcenter Sustainability and Environmental Compliance page on the Siemens PLM website (free of charge, registration required).
Tech-Clarity Insight - Top 5 Misconceptions about Innovation Management Software - Busting Myths to Improve Innovation, Time to Market, and Profitability discusses common misconceptions related to innovation, ideation, portfolio management, and project management software suites. These myths cause confusion and prevent companies from moving forward with important process improvements that innovation management software enables.
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 the Planview website (free or charge, registration required).
Tech-Clarity Insight - Managing Design Data with SharePoint - Improving Product Design and Development using Low Overhead Collaboration Infrastructure explains how general document management and collaboration infrastructure can be extended to manage product designs. The report reviews the business benefits of controlling, accessing, and sharing design data and the challenges manufacturers face in unmanaged environments. It then shares the experiences of four small to midsize manufacturers, Eurotech Benelux, FPEE, Teledyne, and Theebo Tech, in various levels of maturity using SharePoint for design data.
The report concludes that manufacturers can get significant value from SharePoint-based solutions, but that SharePoint requires some important extensions in order to be effective. With these modifications, however, companies can take advantage of relatively low-cost infrastructure software from Microsoft that requires few IT resources to manage.
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 Siemens PLM's Solid Edge SP page (free of charge, registration required).
With special thanks to Siemens PLM, you can also download the full Managing Design Data with SharePoint paper in French (Gérer les donné de conception avec SharePoint) or download a French summary of Managing Design Data with SharePoint (free of charge, no registration required).
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Webcast Details:
Want to increase the upsides and ROI from product innovation? For many this includes taking a new approach to innovation - one which incorporates best practice processes and technology. For fast moving organizations, the challenges can seem daunting – and some are concerned about stifling innovation. But is that fact or fiction?
Attend this webinar and be among the first to learn the highlights and findings contained in the latest white paper from industry expert Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity. Joined by Planview’s New Product Development Evangelist, Carrie Nauyalis, Brown will cover the top five innovation management myths found in manufacturers today, as well as practical tips and recommendations for disproving them and moving forward. All attendees will receive a free copy of the white paper.
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[post_content] => Elisabeth Eitel of Machine Design covered Tech-Clarity's Best Practices for Factory Adaptability report. 
Hear her views on the results in Machine Design article Survey results: Manufacturers tell how they implement change.
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Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Factory Adaptability - Top Performers Implement Change Faster and More Confidently shares survey results from over 250 manufacturers examining how they implement change in their factories. The study reviews the practices of the "top performers," those that implement change more effectively in their plants, to determine best practice processes and technology for engineering change management.
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 Autodesk's Factory Design Software Page (free of charge, no registration required). Note: The link isn't instantly evident, look for the "become a top performer" section that looks like the thumbnail below.
Issue in Focus: Designing Products for Performance, Risk, and Compliance - Leveraging Product Analytics to Optimize Design Decisions and Tradeoffs shares the importance of proactively providing designers with insight into the many impacts of their design decisions. Product analytics is critical to help companies design and develop products with optimal cost, compliance, weight, performance, and other characteristics. This paper extends Tech-Clarity's earlier research on Making Design Tradeoffs and introduces product analytics as an important part of the engineering / PLM software suite.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
This eBook, A Guide to Manufacturing Transformation, discusses the current resurgence of global manufacturing and shares how ERP and PLM systems help. It offers advice for manufacturers to capitalize on new opportunities presented by the recovery and evolution of the manufacturing industry. The eBook is a collaboration between Cindy Jutras of Mint Jutras and Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download the eBook (free of charge, no registration required).
Visit this page for more information and a case study on modernizing modern manufacturing, including how cloud systems can help, provided by our sponsors, Autodesk and NetSuite.
The manufacturing industry is undergoing one if its most significant transformations in decades. The years of industrialized nations gaining significant economic advantages from shifting production to low cost, developing nations are coming to an end. Today’s economic landscape and rising wages in formerly low-cost countries make offshoring less attractive.
Developed nations are now “right shoring” their operations and adopting “design anywhere – build anywhere” strategies that allow them to shift work across the globe and produce closer to raw materials or customers. Manufacturers in emerging economies are moving up the value chain to develop more innovative, high quality products. These shifts are causing many changes and creating many opportunities. They are also introducing new competition and new threats.
Manufacturers are turning to systems and automation to help them take advantage of the manufacturing transformation. Enterprise systems are enabling the transformation much the same way Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) played a significant role in streamlining and re-engineering manufacturing enterprises in the 1990’s. As the bar is raised on expectations from today’s manufacturers, both ERP and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can play a significant role in helping companies stay ahead or leapfrog their competition.
The manufacturing transformation is underway. The enterprise systems ecosystem supporting manufacturing is changing as well. Are today’s enterprise systems ready to support this more competitive environment? Will they be within the reach of companies that weren’t able to take advantage of them in the past?
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This eBook, A Guide to Manufacturing Transformation, discusses the current resurgence of global manufacturing and shares how ERP and PLM systems help. It offers advice for manufacturers to capitalize on new opportunities presented by the recovery and evolution of the manufacturing industry. The eBook is a collaboration between Cindy Jutras of Mint Jutras and Jim Brown…
Tech-Clarity Insight The Basics of Managing CAD – When Brute Force Fails and PDM is too Much explains the need to manage CAD files and the current options available to manufacturers. The report analyzes the positives and negatives of manually managed approaches, implementing PDM/PLM, and utilizing cloud-based file management services. The research then reviews the…
Tech-Clarity is pleased to announce the expansion of our research team! Industry veteran and former Aberdeen Group Senior Research Analyst Michelle Boucher joins Tech-Clarity as Vice President of Research covering engineering software. Michelle brings a wealth of depth in engineering, product development, and research. For more on Michelle’s background please visit her bio page. As…
Michelle Boucher is the Vice President of Research for Engineering Practices for research firm Tech-Clarity. Ms. Boucher has spent over 20 years in various roles in engineering, marketing, management, and as an analyst. She has broad experience with topics such as product design, simulation, systems engineering, mechatronics, embedded systems, PCB design, additive manufacturing, improving product performance,…
Issue in Focus Integrating Product Design and Development Environments – Battling Complexity, Improving Productivity, and Compressing Time discusses how a well-integrated CAD-PLM platform helps improve engineering and product development performance. This report describes the requirements and capabilities that manufacturers should look for in the latest generation of integrated systems for product design and development. Please…
Read Kalypso founding partner George Young and Tech-Clarity President Jim Brown discuss their perspectives on enabling software for NPDI in Consumer Goods Technology’s 2014 Readers Choice Awards for New Product Development and Introduction Software.
Tech-Clarity Insight – Consolidating CAD – The Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy offers insight into the strategic value companies can achieve by standardizing on a single CAD package. The report explains how to calculate an ROI for CAD consolidation based on direct cost savings. Perhaps more importantly, the research identifies a number of strategic…
Tony Lockwood of Desktop Engineering shared his thoughts on Tech-Clarity’s Consolidating Design Software, Extending Value Beyond 3D CAD Consolidation. I like his description of “working in a multi-CAD environment with multiple disconnected tools and multiple money pits bleeding you dry at every junction of your process.” Read the short article by Tony on Desktop Engineering.
Product Cost Management – A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost explains how manufacturers can design products for optimal cost in order to improve profitability. The research shares interviews with three industrial manufacturers on the way they work with their supply chains to reduce cost using an analytical, fact-based methodology to drive out unnecessary…
The Business Value of Product Data Management – Achieving Rapid and Extendable Benefits with Preconfigured PDM shares the perspectives of three small to midsize manufacturers on the value they receive from PDM software. The report also offers Tech-Clarity’s views on the business value of PDM and explains how preconfigured PDM solutions can help companies gain…
Tech-Clarity Insight – PLM’s Role in Enabling Design for Environment discusses the tremendous challenges manufacturers face from sustainability demands and regulations. The report discusses how companies can adopt a strategy and culture that helps them address sustainability and compliance needs early in design and how PLM software provides a platform of capabilities that can be…
Tech-Clarity Insight – Top 5 Misconceptions about Innovation Management Software – Busting Myths to Improve Innovation, Time to Market, and Profitability discusses common misconceptions related to innovation, ideation, portfolio management, and project management software suites. These myths cause confusion and prevent companies from moving forward with important process improvements that innovation management software enables. Please…
Tech-Clarity Insight – Managing Design Data with SharePoint – Improving Product Design and Development using Low Overhead Collaboration Infrastructure explains how general document management and collaboration infrastructure can be extended to manage product designs. The report reviews the business benefits of controlling, accessing, and sharing design data and the challenges manufacturers face in unmanaged environments….
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown will present his views on product innovation and innovation management software on the Separating Fact from Fiction to Power Product Innovation webcast. Jim will join Carrie Nauyalis of Planview to share findings from his upcoming Top 5 Misconceptions about Innovation Management Software report and Carrie’s provocative views on companies that “fake innovation.”…
Elisabeth Eitel of Machine Design covered Tech-Clarity’s Best Practices for Factory Adaptability report. Hear her views on the results in Machine Design article Survey results: Manufacturers tell how they implement change.
Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Factory Adaptability – Top Performers Implement Change Faster and More Confidently shares survey results from over 250 manufacturers examining how they implement change in their factories. The study reviews the practices of the “top performers,” those that implement change more effectively in their plants, to determine best practice processes and…
Issue in Focus: Designing Products for Performance, Risk, and Compliance – Leveraging Product Analytics to Optimize Design Decisions and Tradeoffs shares the importance of proactively providing designers with insight into the many impacts of their design decisions. Product analytics is critical to help companies design and develop products with optimal cost, compliance, weight, performance, and…
Tech-Clarity and Kalypso are looking for product-oriented companies to share their views on how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) helps them with their new product development and product innovation performance. People willing to take between 5 to 10 minutes to take the survey will be given a free copy of the resulting report. Please share your…
Tech-Clarity would like to announce participation as a charter member and advisor of Microsoft’s Innovation Management Consortium and the release of a new white paper from Microsoft sharing the Microsoft Innovation Management Framework. The paper announces the consortium and shares a wealth of information and experience from Microsoft and other consortium members, including: A repeatable…
Tech-Clarity Insight The Basics of Managing CAD - When Brute Force Fails and PDM is too Much