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This ebook, Science Lifecycle Management in the Enterprise Ecosystem, explains the value of Science Lifecycle Management (ScLM) solutions and how they complement other enterprise solutions like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and ERP. It provides a quick way to get up to speed on the ScLM vision by sharing insights from Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly. The eBook overviews how ScLM integrates scientific functions ranging from electronic lab notebooks (ELN) to informatics and simulation with other solution suites to improve quality, efficiency, compliance, and scientific innovation.
Please enjoy the excerpt below, or click the eBook or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
ERP and PLM are the two primary systems used to enable manufacturing businesses. Tech-Clarity’s research describes the roles ERP and PLM play and how they work alongside other enterprise systems. But the discussion has always stopped short of the lab and the value of R&D – developing and validating new materials, compounds, and processes that are the building blocks for product-level innovation.
The lab is involved in all phases of the product lifecycle. Now, visionary companies are taking a more holistic, integrated view of how science enables the enterprise. An integrated ecosystem of solutions has emerged, Scientific Lifecycle Management (ScLM). ScLM starts in early discovery with capabilities like high throughput science, molecular simulation, and lab notebooks and extends through product development, testing, and validation.
Leading companies are extending the advantage of ScLM by integrating it more broadly into their enterprise processes and systems including ERP and PLM. This eBook shares insights and experience from two companies that have started their ScLM journeys with visions toward fully integrated enterprise ecosystems that support the business of manufacturing, product innovation, and scientific exploration and discovery.
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Issue in Focus - The Evolution of Digital Prototyping - Extending "Right First Time" Value Beyond Design explains that manufacturers must go beyond getting form, fit, and function right to compete in today's global markets. Digital prototyping offers tremendous business benefits by letting designers get innovative products right. But it also allows them to make intelligent tradeoffs to optimize products for sustainability, cost, weight, supply, and more. Digital Prototyping can add significant additional value by allowing companies to get products "right for market" and get manufacturing processes right early in design. The evolution and expansion of 3D design, simulation, and digital prototyping suites now makes these capabilities more accessible.
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 digital prototyping and how to improve product performance, visit our sponsor Autodesk's Manufacturing Genius Site.
helps manufacturers develop criteria to evaluate design review software based 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:
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download the PDF (free of charge, no registration required) thanks to our sponsor, PTC.
You can also hear more about the Design Review Buyer's Guide on Tech-Clarity TV on our YouTube channel.
Design review is a proven, low-risk process that helps manufacturers enhance quality, reduce time to market, improve productivity, and bring more innovative products to market. It supports a product development process that solicits input and feedback from a variety of people with varied expertise and points of view. This collaborative approach allows manufacturers to tap into their distributed product expertise and get products right the first time.
Achieving these desirable benefits requires more than sharing CAD files or implementing visualization tools. The guide identifies key business capabilities that must be adopted and the software needed to support them. It goes beyond software functionality to address the broader needs of the business, offering buying criteria that cover product, infrastructure, implementation, service, and business requirements. The guide also touches on special considerations for those with highly complex products and a few special considerations to consider by industry.
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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 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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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 basic necessities of CAD management - controlling, accessing, and sharing files - in order to uncover what a "just the basics" solution requires to determine if there are lower overhead methods (such as cloud services) that can be applied. The report shares the experience of two companies, Hippo Engineering and HemoSonics, that have adopted a cloud based approach to managing CAD files.
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, GrabCAD (free of charge, registration required).
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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 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 |
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV shares our views on the importance of Science Lifecycle Management (ScLM) and how ScLM complements ERP and PLM in the enterprise systems ecosystem. The report complements a recent Tech-Clarity eBook on ScLM that features interviews with R&D, Manufacturing, and Operations experts from J&J and Unilever.
Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity joined Carrie Nauyalis, NPD Solution Evangelist at Planview in this thirty minute webcast. The presentation shared how most companies lack consistency, transparency, and the right culture to successfully innovate and rapidly bring products to market. View a replay of the 30 minute Three Elements webcast presented by Planview (free, registration required)
Motorola Addresses Conflict Minerals with Compliance Infrastructure explains how Motorola extended the comprehensive platform that allows them to design products for environmental compliance to address US Dodd-Frank act conflict minerals requirements. The eBook explains how the process and software platform that enables Motorola to comply with RoHS, REACH, and other regulations gave them a tremendous head start when the need to track…
Tech-Clarity’s Regulatory Explosion Demands Product Development Changes to Ensure Compliance and Reduce Product Risk offers a compelling view of the growth in the number of global product regulations, the expanding scope of these mandates, and the increase in local variations. The graphic also shares the resulting business impact of this complexity and points out important benefits that…
This ebook, Science Lifecycle Management in the Enterprise Ecosystem, explains the value of Science Lifecycle Management (ScLM) solutions and how they complement other enterprise solutions like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and ERP. It provides a quick way to get up to speed on the ScLM vision by sharing insights from Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli…
Issue in Focus – The Evolution of Digital Prototyping – Extending “Right First Time” Value Beyond Design explains that manufacturers must go beyond getting form, fit, and function right to compete in today’s global markets. Digital prototyping offers tremendous business benefits by letting designers get innovative products right. But it also allows them to make intelligent tradeoffs to optimize products for…
Tech-Clarity’s Design Review Buyer’s Guide – Selecting the Right Visualization and Collaboration Solution helps manufacturers develop criteria to evaluate design review software based 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…
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…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV looks at the future of product design software (CAD) and product development environments (PLM) and how they should work together. The video is based on our Integrating Product Design and Development report that shares how a well-integrated CAD-PLM continuum helps improve engineering and product development performance. Please see our sponsor…
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 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,…
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…
In this episode of Tech-Clarity TV Jim Brown discusses the financial and strategic benefits of consolidating onto a single CAD tool. The information is based on a recent Tech-Clarity report, Consolidating CAD – The Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy. The report provides a way to calculate the cost savings available from systems rationalization. These…
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…
In this episode of Tech-Clarity TV, Jim Brown shares Tech-Clarity’s views on how manufacturers can analyze and optimize costs for manufactured goods during the design phase. It also shares the value of using a knowledge-based cost to negotiate and make process improvements with suppliers. Learn more from the related report, Product Cost Management – A Knowledge-Based Approach to Optimizing…
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…
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