Making the value of technology clear
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 Even worse, 20% of their time is spent working with outdated information, which often leads to wasted effort and rework.”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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[post_content] => Wish you could "spray on" the business benefits of enterprise software like PLM? Here's what that ad would look like. :-) Following that Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown and Schnitger Corp's Monica Schnitger share insights on how to implement PLM without having to spend a lot of time and money. It's all part of our fun, yet informative, PLM411 video series with discussions with industry experts, PLM users, and software industry leaders.
The video series is brought to you by Autodesk PLM360.
PLM411 brings you straight talk about how manufacturers can accelerate product innovation and product development with PLM.
For more visit PLM411.com or the Tech-Clarity YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/TJKyg2M-8Qs
Prior Episode: A tongue-in-cheek pitch for the SwivelChair 2020 to integrate systems followed by an informative discussion with TSM Control Systems Engineering Manager David Keeley. We touch on how the gap between PDM and ERP causes mistakes and inefficiency that get reflected in poor quality products and customer dissatisfaction. Then, David explains how newer PLM systems with the flexibility to manage metadata and processes fill the void and how TSM implements new processes quickly and inexpensively in a way not possible with traditional CAD- and PDM-centric packages.
Next Episode: Does ingesting a three letter acronym like ERP, CRM, or PLM improve business? Of course not. But implementing the right combination of enterprise software can improve manufacturing business performance. Enjoy our spoof on software acronyms and then listen to a more sincere discussion between Gavin Davidson of NetSuite and Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown.
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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.
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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.
Tech-Clarity Insight: The Best of Both Worlds for CAD - Taking the Pain Out of Multi-CAD Data within a Consolidated CAD Platform explores a new technological advancement in CAD that allows direct access to multi-CAD data. The report describes how the ability to open multi-CAD data with a simple File, Open, improves efficiency and collaboration.
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, PTC (free, no registration required).
After consolidating, there is still the need to take advantage of legacy data from other CAD tools for new or revised designs - this can be a challenge. A new technological approach provides the ability to directly open multi-CAD data, without converting it. With this method, engineers can open assemblies from other CAD tools without creating ‘copies’ of the original data. Data is only converted when it needs to change as part of the overall design.
Collaborating with partners or suppliers who are using other CAD tools can also be a potential challenge. With direct access, engineers can collaborate with multi-CAD data and reference it in their assemblies, without reassembling it when it changes. This report describes some of the technical approaches within CAD tools to make working with multi-CAD data as seamless as possible, while supporting the business benefits of a consolidated CAD platform.
Jim Brown will join M-Files' Greg Milliken in an informative webcast hosted by Kenneth Wong of Desktop Engineering. The webinar shares the complexity of today's engineering projects and how to combat the resulting negative business impacts. The webcast explains how companies can create an integrated view of their project-oriented information leveraging information management best practices and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies.
Register Now
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[post_content] => Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown shares his views on how the cloud changes the PLM Return on Investment equation. The post, Cloud PLM - A Big Return with a Smaller Investment, is a guest post on the PTC Creo blog.
The post is followed by an interesting PTC video that shares information on their new product, PTC PLM Cloud.
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Tech-Clarity Insight: The How-to Guide for Implementing PMI – Making Product and Manufacturing Information a Strategic Advantage explores how PMI can help a company and the business value it offers. The report provides guidance to successfully implement PMI, including recommendations to support adoption.
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, Siemens PLM, and their Drafting and Documentation page (free of charge, no registration required).
How Top Auto Companies Realize Innovation and Manage Complexity - Digitalization Drives Innovation and Program Performance in the Automotive Industry shares survey data and insights from the global automotive industry that detail the best practice processes and technologies the leaders use to drive higher profitability in the auto industry. The report shares that automotive OEMs and their supply chains are facing mounting product and product development complexity amid significant market growth. The report looks at the strategies, processes, and technologies auto companies are adopting (see graphic). Our research then analyzes the Top Performers - those reporting higher revenue and margin growth over the prior 24 months - to determine what they do differently and identifies a number of differentiating approaches detailed in the report.
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, Siemens PLM, and their Automotive PLM Leadership Page (free of charge, no registration required).
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Enterprise PLM Survey
In addition, 100 respondents will receive a $10 Amazon gift card. See rules and eligibility requirements below.
The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Individual responses will be kept confidential.
To be eligible for this offer, you must 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 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 video series is brought to you by Autodesk PLM360.
PLM411 brings you straight talk about how manufacturers can accelerate product innovation and product development with PLM.
For more visit PLM411.com or the Tech-Clarity YouTube Channel.
http://youtu.be/4dhorSaqTQ8
Prior Episode: A silly story about how one product developer convinced his company to improve product development with PLM, along with a candid discussion between host Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Brian Roepke of Autodesk about the benefits of cloud-based solutions and why Autodesk chose to bring a cloud PLM solution to market.
Next Post: Wish you could "spray on" the business benefits of enterprise software like PLM? Here's what that ad would look like. :-) Following that Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown and Schnitger Corp's Monica Schnitger share insights on how to implement PLM without having to spend a lot of time and money.
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[post_content] => This episode of Tech-Clarity TV reviews the basics of managing CAD and extends the findings to include multi-CAD data. The original report, The Basics of Managing CAD, concludes that lower-overhead, cloud-based solutions are a viable choice for companies that find PDM or PLM out of reach but don't want to suffer from the pitfalls of unmanaged (or manually managed) CAD files. The eBook followup, Managing Multi-CAD on a Budget, finds that simpler, cloud-based solutions are also an option in multi-CAD environments, but that there are some special multi-CAD requirements the must be addressed.
http://youtu.be/Fxpxn0RWN50
Watch this and more educational videos on the Tech-Clarity YouTube channel.
For the full multi-CAD ebook, please visit our sponsor GrabCAD (free of charge, registration required).
For the full report, please visit our sponsor, GrabCAD (free of charge, registration required)
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The Facts about Managing Product Data - The Real Story on PDM Value and Accessibility offers insights to help uncover the truth about managing product data. The research shares analysis of over 2,500 responses to a multi-national survey investigating the challenges, uses, and implementation experiences of companies that use CAD files. The analysis shows that Top Performers - those with better ability to develop products efficiently, design high quality products, develop products quickly, and meet design project / program cost targets - are more likely to use PDM. It also uncovers some interesting facts, for example that only 8% of manufacturers without PDM report that they don't have problems managing data.
Given that so many that could benefit from PDM haven't implemented it, the research reviews the barriers to PDM adoption. Specifically the report evaluates the belief that PDM has to take a lot of time and cost a lot of money to implement. The findings are intended to help companies make a facts-based decision on how PDM can help them improve their business by clearing up some common urban legends surrounding data management. For example, some say that companies that primarily use 2D CAD and office documents don’t benefit from PDM, which the data shows is simply not true.
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 managing product data please visit our sponsor, Autodesk, and their Data Management Microsite.
This paper has been translated into local languages thanks to our sponsor, Autodesk.
To get the real story and prompt a practical discussion, Tech-Clarity surveyed over 2,500 companies about their experiences managing data. It’s time for companies to stop believing the urban legends about PDM and get the facts so they can start improving their businesses. After all, the alternative is unmanaged (or manually managed) data, which is inefficient at best and risky at worse. As The Basics of Managing CAD explains, “Some recognize the shortcomings and risks of a manual (data) management approach, while others are one mistake away from learning the hard way.”
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Tech-Clarity's Systems Engineering Buyer’s Guide helps manufacturers develop criteria to evaluate software solutions to support Systems Engineering on a set of high level criteria. 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:
an interactive assessment based on our Systems Engineering Buyer’s Guide. The assessment asks where you have the most trouble as well as your company's current capabilities. It then uses your responses to recommend the top three areas of systems engineering you should look at first.
To download this interactive assessment please visit our sponsor, PTC, here (free of charge, registration required) and receive personalized recommendations to help you prioritize buying criteria based on your company's needs.
To set the foundation for expert systems engineering practices, companies should focus on the entire systems engineering process, ensuring there are solutions for all aspects of systems engineering. This will enable companies to be even more competitive in ways that will lead to higher growth and greater profitability.
This guide is not an all-encompassing requirements list. It provides a high level overview for systems engineering. In addition to the systems engineering capabilities discussed in this buyer’s guide, companies should also consider needs for the tools of individual engineers for each engineering discipline.
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[post_content] => PLM411 tells a silly story about how one product developer convinced his company to improve product development processes and performance with PLM and helped them understand the different needs of PLM and ERP. The short clip is followed by a discussion between host Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Brian Roepke of Autodesk about the benefits of cloud-based solutions and why Autodesk chose to bring a cloud PLM solution to market.
The video series is brought to you by Autodesk PLM360.
PLM411 brings you straight talk about how manufacturers can accelerate product innovation and product development with PLM.
For more visit PLM411.com or the Tech-Clarity YouTube Channel.
http://youtu.be/76Ztc6am75E
Prior Episode: A jab at collaboration software getting you on the "same page" followed by a discussion with Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights on Engineering Change Management and how PLM software can help.
Next Episode: A tongue-in-cheek pitch for the SwivelChair 2020 to integrate systems followed by an informative discussion with TSM Control Systems Engineering Manager David Keeley. We touch on how the gap between PDM and ERP causes mistakes and inefficiency that get reflected in poor quality products and customer dissatisfaction. Then, David explains how newer PLM systems with the flexibility to manage metadata and processes fill the void and how TSM implements new processes quickly and inexpensively in a way not possible with traditional CAD- and PDM-centric packages.
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[post_content] => 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 of charge, registration required.
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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!
Does ingesting a three letter acronym like ERP, CRM, or PLM improve business? Of course not. But implementing the right combination of enterprise software can improve manufacturing business performance. Enjoy our spoof on software acronyms and then listen to a more sincere discussion between Gavin Davidson of NetSuite and Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown. The video series is brought…
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…
Wish you could “spray on” the business benefits of enterprise software like PLM? Here’s what that ad would look like. 🙂 Following that Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown and Schnitger Corp‘s Monica Schnitger share insights on how to implement PLM without having to spend a lot of time and money. It’s all part of our fun, yet informative,…
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….
Tech-Clarity Insight: The Best of Both Worlds for CAD – Taking the Pain Out of Multi-CAD Data within a Consolidated CAD Platform explores a new technological advancement in CAD that allows direct access to multi-CAD data. The report describes how the ability to open multi-CAD data with a simple File, Open, improves efficiency and collaboration. Please enjoy the…
Jim Brown will join M-Files‘ Greg Milliken in an informative webcast hosted by Kenneth Wong of Desktop Engineering. The webinar shares the complexity of today’s engineering projects and how to combat the resulting negative business impacts. The webcast explains how companies can create an integrated view of their project-oriented information leveraging information management best practices and Enterprise Content Management…
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown shares his views on how the cloud changes the PLM Return on Investment equation. The post, Cloud PLM – A Big Return with a Smaller Investment, is a guest post on the PTC Creo blog. The post is followed by an interesting PTC video that shares information on their new product, PTC PLM Cloud.
Tech-Clarity Insight: The How-to Guide for Implementing PMI – Making Product and Manufacturing Information a Strategic Advantage explores how PMI can help a company and the business value it offers. The report provides guidance to successfully implement PMI, including recommendations to support adoption. Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free…
How Top Auto Companies Realize Innovation and Manage Complexity – Digitalization Drives Innovation and Program Performance in the Automotive Industry shares survey data and insights from the global automotive industry that detail the best practice processes and technologies the leaders use to drive higher profitability in the auto industry. The report shares that automotive OEMs and their…
Enterprise PLM Survey Please share your views on how manufacturers leverage Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes and systems. If you already completed the survey –> please share with a colleague or on social media using the “Share/Save” options above. If you haven’t taken the survey –> please: CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY NOW! Please fill out this questionnaire to receive…
A tongue-in-cheek pitch for the SwivelChair 2020 to integrate systems followed by an informative discussion with TSM Control Systems Engineering Manager David Keeley. We touch on how the gap between PDM and ERP causes mistakes and inefficiency that get reflected in poor quality products and customer dissatisfaction. Then, David explains how newer PLM systems with the…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV reviews the basics of managing CAD and extends the findings to include multi-CAD data. The original report, The Basics of Managing CAD, concludes that lower-overhead, cloud-based solutions are a viable choice for companies that find PDM or PLM out of reach but don’t want to suffer from the pitfalls of…
The Facts about Managing Product Data – The Real Story on PDM Value and Accessibility offers insights to help uncover the truth about managing product data. The research shares analysis of over 2,500 responses to a multi-national survey investigating the challenges, uses, and implementation experiences of companies that use CAD files. The analysis shows that Top Performers – those with better…
Tech-Clarity’s Systems Engineering Buyer’s Guide helps manufacturers develop criteria to evaluate software solutions to support Systems Engineering on a set of high level criteria. 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 capabilities Implementation User adoption Support Vendor characteristics / attributes Industry or…
PLM411 tells a silly story about how one product developer convinced his company to improve product development processes and performance with PLM and helped them understand the different needs of PLM and ERP. The short clip is followed by a discussion between host Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Brian Roepke of Autodesk about the benefits of…
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