Mass Customization of Highly Configurable Products: Designing, Selling and Producing “Simple” Products discusses the challenges that mass customization places on manufacturing companies. Describes how customization makes seemingly “simple” products complex to design, sell and produce.Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge,…
- What challenges must manufacturers overcome in order to provide world-class performance in selling and delivering customized products?
- How can manufacturers provide customers with seemingly infinite flexibility in product choices and still keep their margins in check?
- How can manufacturers turn these capabilities into more deals won, and deals won at better margins?
- How can manufacturers improve their overall throughput and shorten the delivery cycle for mass customized products?
- How can manufacturers design and manage products in a way that streamlines and automates the customization effort once the product is ordered?
Digital Manufacturing: The PLM Approach to Better Manufacturing Processes Discusses the use of technology—including 3D CAD and simulation—within a PLM strategy to help manufacturers develop more profitable products by optimizing the planning, development and deployment of better manufacturing processes. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Digital Manufacturing in a PLM Strategy
- Produce it Digitally – Before Investing
- Simulation Encourages Innovation
- Find the “Gotcha” Before Design Freeze
- Reduce the Need for Physical Prototypes and Mockups
- Build the Process in Parallel
- Optimize the Production Line – Before Deployment
- Optimize Assembly Sequences and Steps
- Communicate Processes to the Plant
- Don’t Forget the People Factor – Ergonomics
- Keep Production Equipment in Production
- Don’t Leave Manufacturing in a Vacuum
- Adopting Digital Manufacturing Concepts
- Managing the Digital Manufacturing Program
- Recommendations
- About the Author
The Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM: Extending PLM with Product Information Management explores how Product Information Management (PIM) can extend the value of PLM implementations by providing complementary tools and capabilities. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- “Products” and “Items”
- The “Single Source of Truth”
- The Demand for Commercial Product Information
- PIM and PLM Working Together
- Current State of PLM
- Table: Key Benefits PIM Adds to PLM
- Recommendations
- Summary
- About the Author
Maximizing Product Development Value: Realizing Value from New Products and Portfolios highlights key insights on realizing value from new products based on discussions with product development leaders. Analyzes a new approach to portfolio management that focuses on achieving the economic value available from new products. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- For Better Portfolios—Focus on the Value
- Visualize Where Project Value is Earned
- Managing for Value
- Asking the Real Portfolio Questions – Where to Invest
- Asking the Real Portfolio Questions – How Much to Invest
- Beyond the Bubbles – A New Breed of Portfolio Software
- Conclusion
- About the Author
Product Lifecycle Management Proving Value at Heinz: A PLM Case Study from the Consumer Goods Industry - Food and Beverage reviews the strategic value achieved by Heinz from implementing Product Lifecycle Management processed and software in their global business. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Heinz Recognizes a Business Need
- Heinz Takes a Global Approach
- Unique Considerations at Heinz
- Unique Technical Considerations
- Heinz Selects an Industry-Focused Solution
- The Prodika* Solution
- Heinz Adopts a Pragmatic Deployment Approach
- Meeting the Initial Goals
- Additional Benefits – Satisfying Retail Customers
- Key Observations
- Summary
- About the Author
- Reducing complexity in product portfolios and raw material management
- Decreasing the proliferation of new materials and sourcing relationships
- Cross pollinating best practices among and between business units
- Streamlining the way Heinz brings new products to market
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle: Reduced Risk and Lowered Costs Through Proactive EH&S examines the importance that regulatory compliance and product related EH&S play in protecting the value available from PLM across the product lifecycle. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Compliance Is Critical to Sustained Product Value
- Non-Compliance Surfaces at Inopportune Times
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found in Design
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found in Production
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found in Logistics
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found at Customer
- Implementing Design for Compliance
- Implementing Proactive Compliance Monitoring
- Documenting Compliance
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown contributes a column to Advantage for the Product Lifecycle. The first column, Executive Perspective: Successful PLM Starts with the End in Mind, was reprinted in Cadalyst. The article suggests that companies develop their PLM strategies to support their business strategies, and offers some examples of the business value available from PLM. The key advice is to focus PLM implementations on business value instead of "going live" with the software, which is only a means to the end - improving business performance.
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The Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) Approach: Strong Customer Relationships Result In Profit In The Service Industry overviews an approach to improve the profitability of services businesses by concurrently increasing service and lowering costs. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Improving Profitability in the Product Aftermarket
- Never Ignore a Call for Help
- Reduce Waste in the Call Center
- Avoid the Service Call (or at least Reduce the Urgency)
- Make the Right Calls First
- Close the Call the First Time
- Keep Technicians Productive, not Just Busy
- Turn the Service Call into an Opportunity
- Turn Service into Cash – Rapidly
- Stop Revenue Leaks
- Enhance the Customer Relationship
- Grow Revenue by Restarting the Service Lifecycle
- Turn to Proactive Management
- Driving SLM Changes into the Business
- Services Can’t Remain a Stepchild
- Make the Move to SLM – Change the Business Processes
- Enable the Change with Technology
- Get the Right Software
- Get the Right Partner
- Summary and Additional Information
- Summary
- About the Author
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Jim Brown is the President of Digital Transformation Research for independent research firm Tech-Clarity. He covers digital transformation across the product digital thread for manufacturing and industrial companies including PLM, PDM, product development, portfolio management, digital manufacturing, IoT, EAM, SLM, and other solutions.
Jim founded Tech-Clarity in 2002 and has over 30 years of industry experience in the manufacturing and software industries. He began his career in manufacturing engineering and software systems at GE before pursuing management consulting at Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He subsequently served as a strategy, marketing, and product development executive for software companies specializing in ERP, PLM, Supply Chain, and related manufacturing solutions. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Jim is actively researching the impact of digital transformation and technology convergence in manufacturing. His research analyzes the business value available from new initiatives and technologies including cloud computing, advanced analytics, AI, product innovation platforms, service transformation, augmented reality, the digital twin, and the digital thread.
Mr. Brown is an experienced author and speaker and enjoys engaging with people with a passion to improve business performance through digital enterprise strategies and supporting software technology. When he’s not focused on technology, he is a scuba instructor and plays in an old guy ice hockey league.
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Tech-Clarity is an independent research firm dedicated to making the business value of technology clear. We analyze how companies improve innovation, product development, design, engineering, manufacturing, and service performance through the use of digital transformation, best practices, software technology, industrial automation, and IT services.
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Tech-Clarity Issue in Focus: Optimizing Product Portfolios with Advanced PPM: Applying Value Optimization to Portfolio Decision Making explains how companies can gain greater levels of product portfolio profitability by using value optimization techniques to make portfolio decisions. Describes how the basic best practices of PPM can be extended by Advanced PPM concepts.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Introducing the Issue
- The Basics of Product Portfolio Management
- The Next Level of Portfolio Decision Making
- Realizing Optimal Portfolio Value
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Introducing the Issue
Companies are gaining significant business value by implementing Product Portfolio Management (PPM) best practices. According to Tech-Clarity’s Issue in Focus: The ROI of Product Portfolio Management, effective portfolio management can improve both top-line performance and bottom-line profitability. PPM does this by helping companies align their product portfolios with business objectives, effectively allocate resources to their projects, and better execute product development projects. Despite the value achieved from these standard PPM best practices, most companies fail to reach the highest possible levels of profitability because they lack a clear understanding of the potential financial value of the products in their portfolio. Part of the problem is that current best practices and technology lack an effective way to assess risk and uncertainty and can’t predict their impact on product value. These impacts can be in the range of millions of dollars. Decision-makers can’t afford to ignore this uncertainty, and can’t make optimal portfolio decisions without a realistic picture of the likely range of values returned from candidate projects in the portfolio. To get the most out of limited product development resources, companies need to be able to optimize the value of their product portfolios in addition to managing them through a product development processes with standard PPM best practices. Advanced PPM processes and technology enable this by providing a systematic approach to determine financial value. As Tech-Clarity’s Maximizing Product Development Value report concludes, “Creating high value portfolios is much simpler when the factors that create and destroy value for a project are clearly identified, quantified, and managed over the life of the project.” The result is extending “on-time” and “on-budget” to “on-profit.” With this understanding, companies can develop portfolios that provide an optimal financial return based on sound business analysis. [post_title] => Advanced PPM [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => advanced-ppm-wp [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:27:30 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:27:30 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://tech-clarity.com/?p=2730 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [19] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 2677 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2011-09-19 14:30:06 [post_date_gmt] => 2011-09-19 18:30:06 [post_content] =>
Issue in Focus: Systems and Software Driven Innovation - Complexity and Opportunity in the Mechatronic Era describes the fundamental shift to increased software and electronics in traditionally mechanical products, sometimes known as "mechatronics." The report explains the need to manage the resulting design complexity and how to take advantage of the opportunities offered by systems and software based products.
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Table of Contents
- Introducing the Issue
- The Mechatronics Imperative
- The Complexity of Mechatronic Products
- Managing Change in Mechatronic Products
- Working Together – The Systems View
- The Opportunity to Innovate with Systems and Software
- Competing through Software Driven Innovation
- Enabling Software Driven Innovation
- PLM and Software Driven Innovation
- The Current Reality of PLM for Systems
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Introducing the Issue
Modern products increasingly incorporate a combination of mechanical, electrical, and software components that allow innovative designers to take advantage of sensors and logic to solve problems and provide capabilities in new ways. This impacts the way companies innovate. As manufacturers develop their next generation of products, they are more likely to turn to electronics and software to make a “smarter” mousetrap as opposed to innovating solely in their mechanical design. Over the last decade, there has been a steady, fundamental shift towards increased software and electronics in traditionally mechanical products. Engineers have added more monitoring and more sophisticated controls, and have increased the amount of product functionality and value delivered through software as compared to mechanics. Examples of this shift range from automobiles, to mobile devices, to “simple” household appliances. This changing paradigm requires multiple design disciplines to work together to develop a working system. Systems that rely more heavily on the combination of mechanics, electronics, and software demand more integrated engineering and validation processes. The shift has driven higher levels of product development and engineering complexity starting in the early requirements phase of a product, continuing through design, making a significant impact on product testing and validation, and continuing as a configuration management issue throughout the product lifecycle. [post_title] => Systems and Software Driven Innovation [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => systems-sw-innovation [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:27:29 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:27:29 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://tech-clarity.com/?p=2677 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) ) [post_count] => 20 [current_post] => -1 [in_the_loop] => [post] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1797 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2012-03-23 18:42:57 [post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-23 22:42:57 [post_content] =>
Mass Customization of Highly Configurable Products: Designing, Selling and Producing “Simple” Products discusses the challenges that mass customization places on manufacturing companies. Describes how customization makes seemingly "simple" products complex to design, sell and produce.Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Executive Overview
Imagine walking into a car showroom and saying “I want the late model sedan, but please give it to me with 4 more inches of legroom in the front, the tachometer moved to the left of the dash, and with an additional trunk release lever on the passenger side”. What you would find is that the automotive industry, while they offer many features and options on their products, has significant limitations in providing truly customized products. But these types of requests are commonplace for highly configurable products like windows, doors, kitchen or bath cabinets, office furniture and even some industrial equipment like hydraulic valves. It seems counter-intuitive, but the process of selling, designing, and producing what appear to be “simple” products becomes surprisingly complex when manufacturers introduce high levels of customization. And demand for customization is on the increase.
As Pine, Pepper and Rodgers said in a Harvard Business Review article in 1995, “Customers … do not want more choices. They want exactly what they want – when, where, and how they want it ... ”. This comment highlighted the increasing demand for products that are highly tailored to meet specific customer demands. This concept provided the motivation for many manufacturers to re-engineer sales and marketing processes to offer more customized products to their customers. The article highlighted increased production flexibility and more advanced design tools as key enablers of this concept. But the ability for manufacturers to meet demands for highly customized products, sometimes known as “mass customization”, varies greatly depending on the company’s ability to bridge the gap between selling a customized product and being able to produce it rapidly and cost effectively. Some industries are delivering mass customized products today, but those that do are struggling with manual and inefficient processes to bring together the configured sales process and the design and production of the configured item.
This paper explores opportunities for manufacturers to improve their competitiveness and profitability based on their ability to effectively provide customized products – products that can be delivered in a large number of variations or configurations - at cost levels comparable to mass production. The paper tries to answer the following questions:
- What challenges must manufacturers overcome in order to provide world-class performance in selling and delivering customized products?
- How can manufacturers provide customers with seemingly infinite flexibility in product choices and still keep their margins in check?
- How can manufacturers turn these capabilities into more deals won, and deals won at better margins?
- How can manufacturers improve their overall throughput and shorten the delivery cycle for mass customized products?
- How can manufacturers design and manage products in a way that streamlines and automates the customization effort once the product is ordered?
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Digital Manufacturing
Digital Manufacturing: The PLM Approach to Better Manufacturing Processes Discusses the use of technology—including 3D CAD and simulation—within a PLM strategy to help manufacturers develop more profitable products by optimizing the planning, development and deployment of better manufacturing processes. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to download the full…
The Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM
The Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM: Extending PLM with Product Information Management explores how Product Information Management (PIM) can extend the value of PLM implementations by providing complementary tools and capabilities. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration…
Maximizing Product Development Value
Maximizing Product Development Value: Realizing Value from New Products and Portfolios highlights key insights on realizing value from new products based on discussions with product development leaders. Analyzes a new approach to portfolio management that focuses on achieving the economic value available from new products. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the…
Product Lifecycle Management Proving Value at Heinz
Product Lifecycle Management Proving Value at Heinz: A PLM Case Study from the Consumer Goods Industry – Food and Beverage reviews the strategic value achieved by Heinz from implementing Product Lifecycle Management processed and software in their global business. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the…
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle: Reduced Risk and Lowered Costs Through Proactive EH&S examines the importance that regulatory compliance and product related EH&S play in protecting the value available from PLM across the product lifecycle. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of…
What’s Wrong With Application Software?
What’s Wrong With Application Software – A Possible Solution? discusses how model-based architectures offer potential benefits to companies by more naturally assembling solutions into business processes. Originally published on Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC). Click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Executive Perspective: Successful PLM Starts with the End in Mind
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown contributes a column to Advantage for the Product Lifecycle. The first column, Executive Perspective: Successful PLM Starts with the End in Mind, was reprinted in Cadalyst. The article suggests that companies develop their PLM strategies to support their business strategies, and offers some examples of the business value available from PLM. The…
The Value of PLM in Product and Service Leadership – Myths of PLM
Jim Brown presents at an invitation-only SAP customer event at SAP North American headquarters in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. The presentation focuses on the top myths regarding product lifecycle management (PLM). Event is invitation only by SAP.
The Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) Approach
The Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) Approach: Strong Customer Relationships Result In Profit In The Service Industry overviews an approach to improve the profitability of services businesses by concurrently increasing service and lowering costs. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no…
Webcasts: Learn what Social Business Collaboration and Advanced Product Portfolio Management Have in Common
A quick peek into some research on Social Business Collaboration and Advanced PPM. What do these two very interesting topics have in common? Live webcasts featuring Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity next week, Thursday and Friday February 16-17. OK, I admit it was a cheap trick, but I hope it convinces you to learn about one…
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Jim Brown is the President of Digital Transformation Research for independent research firm Tech-Clarity. He covers digital transformation across the product digital thread for manufacturing and industrial companies including PLM, PDM, product development, portfolio management, digital manufacturing, IoT, EAM, SLM, and other solutions. Jim founded Tech-Clarity in 2002 and has over 30 years of industry…
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Tech-Clarity is an independent research firm dedicated to making the business value of technology clear. We analyze how companies improve innovation, product development, design, engineering, manufacturing, and service performance through the use of digital transformation, best practices, software technology, industrial automation, and IT services. Our mission is to help manufacturers learn how to improve business…
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Tech-Clarity Issue in Focus: Optimizing Product Portfolios with Advanced PPM: Applying Value Optimization to Portfolio Decision Making explains how companies can gain greater levels of product portfolio profitability by using value optimization techniques to make portfolio decisions. Describes how the basic best practices of PPM can be extended by Advanced PPM concepts. Please enjoy the…
Systems and Software Driven Innovation
Issue in Focus: Systems and Software Driven Innovation – Complexity and Opportunity in the Mechatronic Era describes the fundamental shift to increased software and electronics in traditionally mechanical products, sometimes known as “mechatronics.” The report explains the need to manage the resulting design complexity and how to take advantage of the opportunities offered by systems…