Making the value of technology clear
Engineers are the engines of product innovation. Their efforts turn product dreams and concepts into reality and, maybe most importantly, into company profits. Most companies recognize that their engineers need the right tools to get their work done. They enable them with a range of specialty tools for different aspects of design, analysis, and simulation. These are high-value solutions that help people design things that would be practically unachievable by more manual methods.
Why then, is there so much inefficiency in engineering? Our research, Reducing Non-Value-Added Work in Engineering, finds that technical resources spend about one-third of their time on non-valued-added (NVA) activity. The most significant portion of wasted time is spent simply searching for the information they need to do their jobs. For electrical engineering, too much time is lost searching for parts, looking up specs, waiting for data, reworking designs because of bad libraries, or resolving problems that other design teams already solved on an earlier design.
Beyond accessing the data they need, engineers spend a tremendous amount of time keeping work-in-progress (WIP) designs and processes under control. Or, perhaps worse, they waste time fixing problems resulting from poor control. These activities cost engineers, and their companies, significant time and money. More importantly, they slow the pace of innovation resulting in poor efficiency, excess cost, and late products. Engineers are constantly forced to take data management shortcuts in order to maintain schedule, mortgaging future gains in productivity to meet pressing deadlines.
EDM is a critical element of the enterprise ecosystem. It integrates with PLM and ERP to provide the detailed WIP support needed for electrical designs in the context of an overall product innovation process. Electronic EDM is the missing element that gives electrical engineers the tools they need to be efficient and effective and get away from today’s high levels of NVA time. As a result, engineering can reduce non-value-added work, improve quality, reduce risk, and speed up design cycles and time to market.
Electrical EDM helps manufacturers:
By ensuring technicians and customers have access to up-to-date service and parts information, you will increase customer satisfaction, leading to repeat business, a stronger brand reputation, and greater service revenue. The key is selecting the right solution. This Buyer’s Guide reveals what to look for in a service information management solution.
Invest in a solution that will improve customer satisfaction. This will lead to increased revenue growth.
Read the post (free of charge, no registration required).
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Top 5 Ways to Measure Product Innovation, Choosing Metrics to Drive Innovation Performance shares the importance of measuring innovation to improve innovation capability and outcomes.
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).
For any of these metrics to be effective, companies need to have the right process and data management infrastructure in place, including:
Tech-Clarity’s BOM Management Buyer’s Guide - Boost Performance with Digital BOMs provides criteria for manufacturers to evaluate software solutions to support their Bill of Material and product structure data and processes. Tech-Clarity’s Buyer’s Guides go beyond software functionality to provide a framework of requirements that impact implementation success and long-term ROI, including:
This Buyer’s Guide is a reference tool for manufacturers selecting a system to improve the maturity of their BOM management practices. The guide is composed of sections covering software, service, and vendor requirements plus some special considerations. These are all important factors that impact implementation success and ROI.
Each of these sections includes a checklist with key requirements to investigate when selecting software to enable and improve BOM management. The guide also touches on special considerations for companies with “to order” products and a few special considerations to keep an eye on by industry. It also touches on the importance of improving BOM management to support digital enterprise opportunities including the Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR).
Register for the December 13 webcast (free of charge, registration required). Sponsored by Dassault Systemes BIOVIA.
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[post_content] => This Tech-Clarity TV animation explains how companies can combat industry disruption from new, innovative companies and business models in the food and beverage industry by adopting the digital enterprise. It's no secret that companies like Amazon, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and more are changing the way consumers and consumer packaged goods companies relate. This video shares how companies can become more innovative and agile to compete with these challengers through the value of digitalization, and provides an example of what a digital food and beverage company looks like.
https://youtu.be/9eWSdupjl3Y
The video series is sponsored by Siemens, a leader in digitalization. For more information on digitalization in the food and beverage industry, please see our series of blog posts on digitalization in the food and beverage industry on the Siemens blog and related video on Raising the Bar in R&D with Digitalization.
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[post_content] => Join Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown in a lively discussion with Planview NPD Evangelist Carrie Nauyalis discussing how to effectively measure product innovation. The duo will discuss the pitfalls of measuring innovation based on prior performance, the top five measures companies can use to measure innovation capability, and what's needed to get started measuring innovation to improve outcomes.
Register for the November 30th webcast now, sponsored by Planview (free of charge, registration required).
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[post_content] => Jim Brown will moderate this IEEE webcast featuring Gentherm Director of Engineering Systems Marinko Lazanja and PTC's Senior Director of Product Management Graham Birch. The webcast will share the importance of managing Bills of Material and product structures to avoid common inefficiencies and errors, but also to serve as the digital product backbone for the digital enterprise. The webinar will be an interactive discussion focusing on the things companies should look for when evaluating a solution to support BOM Management, including:
You can also register for a November 28 European webcast at 8:00 AM Eastern featuring PDM Vision Group's Jonas Härdner, Graham Birch, and Jim Brown.
This webcast is free of charge, registration required. Sponsored by PTC.
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[post_content] => This episode of Tech-Clarity TV explores how food and beverage industry can avoid industry disruption from a new class of competitors, including the likes of Amazon, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and others. It shares how digitalization can help R&D innovate faster, readily customize products to customer needs, and respond to the market with both agility and quality.
This video is part of a series of videos showing how digitalization can help food and beverage companies compete with these innovative, digital industry competitors that are disrupting the status quo.
The video series is sponsored by Siemens, a leader in digitalization for the food and beverage industry. For more information, see Tech-Clarity's series of guest posts on how Food & Beverage Companies can Avoid Industry Disruption on the Siemens blog.
https://youtu.be/iAWvoRQz4v4
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[post_content] => Listen to Christopher Rösner, General Requirements Manager at e.GO mobile AG, Tech-Clarity's Michelle Boucher, and Che Curnew, Senior Technical Sales Specialist at PTC discuss the benefits of a better approach to requirements management. This event is an interactive interview to share different perspectives and experiences on requirements management. The discussion includes topics such as:
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[post_content] => Listen to Airbus Helicopters’ Nicolas De Mauroy, PTC's Service Practice Lead Keith Garguilo, and Tech-Clarity's Michelle Boucher, discuss how to improve the quality of the information made to service technicians by using the engineering BOM to produce the service BOM. By watching this event, you will learn about:
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Close the Engineering Skills Gap:Prepare New Graduates to Be Real-World Ready shares new research on the gap between the skills graduating engineers have and skills companies would like to see. The research examines the evolving needs of the engineering department. The results reveal that engineering departments expect to grow so we will need more engineers. On top of that, the required skills will also expand. Complicating the situation, as the most experienced engineers approach retirement age, companies must figure out how to replace that knowledge. This makes the skills of new engineers especially critical. The study identifies these needed skills. It also reveals the types of program that give new graduates the experience hiring managers want to see.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required) thanks to our sponsor Siemens PLM.
For more information, please visit the Siemens PLM Community blog to read Engineering our way out of the skills gap.
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[post_content] => Jim Brown provided a guest post to the Siemens PLM Community blog discussing how analytics can unlock new value for CPG and Food & Beverage companies. The post shares how big data analytics can uncover hidden relationships and create valuable insights from the vast amounts of data available to today's food companies. It offers examples of how companies can develop product intelligence, create production / process intelligence, and pursue more advanced initiatives to turn information into a competitive weapon.
This is the last of several posts that drill down on Surviving the New Competitive Landscape in Food and Beverage, a post that shares three ways that consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies can start their digitalization journey and how the digital enterprise can help them avoid industry disruption.
The full post, The Analytics Opportunity for Food and Beverages in the Digital Age can be found on the Siemens PLM blog (free of charge, no registration required).
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Tech-Clarity's Medical Devices Manufacturers Software Selection Guide for 2018 helps manufacturers identify the right buying criteria for software solutions to support developing, producing, and servicing medical devices. For 2018, the guide has also been updated to include additional considerations for the Internet of Things (IoT). This buyer's guide also takes into account unique needs for medical device companies including regulatory compliance and support for the FDA's Case for Quality.
Tech-Clarity’s Buyer’s Guides go beyond software functionality to provide a framework of requirements that impact implementation success and long-term ROI, including:
Tech-Clarity’s Medical Devices Manufacturers Software Selection Guide for 2018 helps manufacturers identify the right buying criteria for software solutions to support developing, producing, and servicing medical devices. For 2018, the guide has also been updated to include additional considerations for the Internet of Things (IoT). This buyer’s guide also takes into account unique needs for medical device…
The Managing Work in Progress in Electrical Design ebook shares best practices for managing electrical engineering data, designs, and processes. The research explains the role that Electronic Data Management (EDM) plays alongside other solutions including PDM, ALM, and PLM that manage mechanical CAD, software development, and the overall product development process respectively. EDM plays a…
Tech-Clarity’s Buyer’s Guide for Managing Service Information identifies the biggest challenges of managing service and parts information. It then looks at how Top Performing companies overcome these companies and what they look for in a software solution to support them. One of the top things they do is leverage the information produced by engineering to support…
Jim Brown contributed his thoughts on Accelerating CPG Innovation with an Innovation Platform to the Dassault Systèmes 3D Perspectives Blog. He shares his views on the innovation imperative in CPG and how consumer goods companies can take innovation to the next level using a modern Product Innovation Platform (PIP). The post explains how an effective…
Top 5 Ways to Measure Product Innovation, Choosing Metrics to Drive Innovation Performance shares the importance of measuring innovation to improve innovation capability and outcomes. 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…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV explains how food and beverage companies can survive in the digital age as new, agile, innovative companies disrupt their markets. It shares how these food and CPG companies can use analytics as a competitive tool to better sense and respond to customer needs and gain deeper understanding of their products, processes,…
Tech-Clarity’s BOM Management Buyer’s Guide – Boost Performance with Digital BOMs provides criteria for manufacturers to evaluate software solutions to support their Bill of Material and product structure data and processes. Tech-Clarity’s Buyer’s Guides go beyond software functionality to provide a framework of requirements that impact implementation success and long-term ROI, including: Software requirements Implementation Integration User…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV explains how digital food and beverage companies improve agility, innovation, and productivity through better connectivity between R&D and the plant, streamlined production operations, and analytics. This video is part of a series of videos showing how digitalization can help food and beverage companies compete with innovative, digital industry competitors that…
How do chemical companies apply digital to the chem lab? Digitalization is streamlining the way companies innovate and bring products to market. Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown will share findings from his research on how chemical companies leverage the digital enterprise to improve efficiency and reduce cost while dealing with mounting regulatory and sustainability pressure. Register for…
This Tech-Clarity TV animation explains how companies can combat industry disruption from new, innovative companies and business models in the food and beverage industry by adopting the digital enterprise. It’s no secret that companies like Amazon, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and more are changing the way consumers and consumer packaged goods companies relate. This video shares how…
Join Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown in a lively discussion with Planview NPD Evangelist Carrie Nauyalis discussing how to effectively measure product innovation. The duo will discuss the pitfalls of measuring innovation based on prior performance, the top five measures companies can use to measure innovation capability, and what’s needed to get started measuring innovation to improve outcomes….
Jim Brown will moderate this IEEE webcast featuring Gentherm Director of Engineering Systems Marinko Lazanja and PTC’s Senior Director of Product Management Graham Birch. The webcast will share the importance of managing Bills of Material and product structures to avoid common inefficiencies and errors, but also to serve as the digital product backbone for the…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV explores how food and beverage industry can avoid industry disruption from a new class of competitors, including the likes of Amazon, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and others. It shares how digitalization can help R&D innovate faster, readily customize products to customer needs, and respond to the market with both agility and…
Listen to Christopher Rösner, General Requirements Manager at e.GO mobile AG, Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher, and Che Curnew, Senior Technical Sales Specialist at PTC discuss the benefits of a better approach to requirements management. This event is an interactive interview to share different perspectives and experiences on requirements management. The discussion includes topics such as: How a Requirements Management solution can help…
Listen to Airbus Helicopters’ Nicolas De Mauroy, PTC’s Service Practice Lead Keith Garguilo, and Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher, discuss how to improve the quality of the information made to service technicians by using the engineering BOM to produce the service BOM. By watching this event, you will learn about: The capabilities needed to transform EBOMs into SBOMs….
Close the Engineering Skills Gap:Prepare New Graduates to Be Real-World Ready shares new research on the gap between the skills graduating engineers have and skills companies would like to see. The research examines the evolving needs of the engineering department. The results reveal that engineering departments expect to grow so we will need more engineers. On top of that,…
This infographic shares our research on how Top Performing companies achieve better NPDI performance than their competitors, excelling at revenue growth, margin expansion, and delivering innovative products. The infographic starts by providing a graphical view of the unfortunate truth about new product development, companies miss their quality, cost, requirements, regulatory compliance, project budget, and time…
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown hosted a panel discussion at the recent Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Forum in Florida. The participants shared their perspectives on the cloud and their experience moving PLM to the cloud using the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Participants include: Kavi Parupally, Senior Director of Business Apps, Rockwell Collins Javier Glatt, CEO, CADMakers, Inc. Jeff Walters, VP…
In this PTC guest post, How to Select a Service Information Management Solution Michelle Boucher introduces some of the business advantages achieved by investing in service. The post outlines what is driving investments in service for 2017/18. It also looks at the top initiatives Top Performing companies use to support their goals for 2017/18. The post also touches on…
Jim Brown provided a guest post to the Siemens PLM Community blog discussing how analytics can unlock new value for CPG and Food & Beverage companies. The post shares how big data analytics can uncover hidden relationships and create valuable insights from the vast amounts of data available to today’s food companies. It offers examples…
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