Making the value of technology clear
Tech-Clarity Insight - Consolidating CAD - The Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy offers insight into the strategic value companies can achieve by standardizing on a single CAD package. The report explains how to calculate an ROI for CAD consolidation based on direct cost savings. Perhaps more importantly, the research identifies a number of strategic benefits achievable by using a single solution across the enterprise.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report and a downloadable spreadsheet to help you calculate the value for your company please visit our sponsor PTC's for their CAD Consolidation Kit (free of charge, registration required).
Tony Lockwood of Desktop Engineering shared his thoughts on Tech-Clarity's Consolidating Design Software, Extending Value Beyond 3D CAD Consolidation. I like his description of "working in a multi-CAD environment with multiple disconnected tools and multiple money pits bleeding you dry at every junction of your process."
Read the short article by Tony on Desktop Engineering.
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Product Cost Management - A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost explains how manufacturers can design products for optimal cost in order to improve profitability. The research shares interviews with three industrial manufacturers on the way they work with their supply chains to reduce cost using an analytical, fact-based methodology to drive out unnecessary cost and negotiate fair pricing. The interviews also point out the value of enterprise-class software to enable PCM.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
For more information on PCM from our sponsor please visit Siemens PLM's Teamcenter Product Cost Management page.
Please also see the related Tech-Clarity TV Episode - Optimizing Product Cost with PCM
The Business Value of Product Data Management - Achieving Rapid and Extendable Benefits with Preconfigured PDM shares the perspectives of three small to midsize manufacturers on the value they receive from PDM software. The report also offers Tech-Clarity's views on the business value of PDM and explains how preconfigured PDM solutions can help companies gain value quickly and cost effectively.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit the Teamcenter Rapid Start page on the Siemens PLM website (free of charge, registration required).
| Company | Description |
| Veeraja Industries | Total solutions provider of coolant filtration, chip removal and coolant management |
| Flovel Energy | Fully integrated hydro power equipment supplier |
| Weir Valves & Controls | End-to-end whole plant solutions to nuclear, fossil-fired and renewable power stations |
Tech-Clarity Insight - PLM's Role in Enabling Design for Environment discusses the tremendous challenges manufacturers face from sustainability demands and regulations. The report discusses how companies can adopt a strategy and culture that helps them address sustainability and compliance needs early in design and how PLM software provides a platform of capabilities that can be applied to today's - and tomorrow's - DFE needs. The report also introduces the Tech-Clarity Sustainability Maturity Framework to help companies determine how advanced their processes are and how they can be improved.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit the Teamcenter Sustainability and Environmental Compliance page on the Siemens PLM website (free of charge, registration required).
Tech-Clarity Insight - Top 5 Misconceptions about Innovation Management Software - Busting Myths to Improve Innovation, Time to Market, and Profitability discusses common misconceptions related to innovation, ideation, portfolio management, and project management software suites. These myths cause confusion and prevent companies from moving forward with important process improvements that innovation management software enables.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required). For the full report, please visit the Planview website (free or charge, registration required).
Tech-Clarity Insight - Managing Design Data with SharePoint - Improving Product Design and Development using Low Overhead Collaboration Infrastructure explains how general document management and collaboration infrastructure can be extended to manage product designs. The report reviews the business benefits of controlling, accessing, and sharing design data and the challenges manufacturers face in unmanaged environments. It then shares the experiences of four small to midsize manufacturers, Eurotech Benelux, FPEE, Teledyne, and Theebo Tech, in various levels of maturity using SharePoint for design data.
The report concludes that manufacturers can get significant value from SharePoint-based solutions, but that SharePoint requires some important extensions in order to be effective. With these modifications, however, companies can take advantage of relatively low-cost infrastructure software from Microsoft that requires few IT resources to manage.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit Siemens PLM's Solid Edge SP page (free of charge, registration required).
With special thanks to Siemens PLM, you can also download the full Managing Design Data with SharePoint paper in French (Gérer les donné de conception avec SharePoint) or download a French summary of Managing Design Data with SharePoint (free of charge, no registration required).
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Want to increase the upsides and ROI from product innovation? For many this includes taking a new approach to innovation - one which incorporates best practice processes and technology. For fast moving organizations, the challenges can seem daunting – and some are concerned about stifling innovation. But is that fact or fiction?
Attend this webinar and be among the first to learn the highlights and findings contained in the latest white paper from industry expert Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity. Joined by Planview’s New Product Development Evangelist, Carrie Nauyalis, Brown will cover the top five innovation management myths found in manufacturers today, as well as practical tips and recommendations for disproving them and moving forward. All attendees will receive a free copy of the white paper.
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[post_content] => This episode of Tech-Clarity TV provides insight and guidance on how to buy the best Product Data Management (PDM) system for your business. The video describes the high-level criteria that manufacturers can use to determine which software solution will best meet their needs. The requirements span functional, implementation, adoption, support, and vendor considerations. In addition, the report shares some specific PDM needs for small and larger manufacturers and discusses the importance of industry needs. Enjoy!
Watch the Buying PDM video now on the Tech-Clarity YouTube channel.
For more information on the PDM Buyer's guide you can view a summary of the PDM Buyer's Guide on our site (free, no registration required).
The full PDM Buyer's Guide is available on PTC’s PDM Resource Center (free of charge, registration required).
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[post_content] => Elisabeth Eitel of Machine Design covered Tech-Clarity's Best Practices for Factory Adaptability report. 
Hear her views on the results in Machine Design article Survey results: Manufacturers tell how they implement change.
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Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Factory Adaptability - Top Performers Implement Change Faster and More Confidently shares survey results from over 250 manufacturers examining how they implement change in their factories. The study reviews the practices of the "top performers," those that implement change more effectively in their plants, to determine best practice processes and technology for engineering change management.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report to download a PDF overview (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit Autodesk's Factory Design Software Page (free of charge, no registration required). Note: The link isn't instantly evident, look for the "become a top performer" section that looks like the thumbnail below.
Issue in Focus: Designing Products for Performance, Risk, and Compliance - Leveraging Product Analytics to Optimize Design Decisions and Tradeoffs shares the importance of proactively providing designers with insight into the many impacts of their design decisions. Product analytics is critical to help companies design and develop products with optimal cost, compliance, weight, performance, and other characteristics. This paper extends Tech-Clarity's earlier research on Making Design Tradeoffs and introduces product analytics as an important part of the engineering / PLM software suite.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Watch the 3D Virtual Training video on the Tech-Clarity YouTube channel.
For more detailed information and a recap of some of the science behind 3D Virtual Training, read the report, Issue in Focus: 3D Virtual Training in the Industrial Environment: Combining Learning Science and VR Technology to Add Value and Reduce Risk.
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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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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…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV introduces the Tech-Clarity Sustainability Maturity Framework to help companies assess their current capabilities to design for environmental concerns and put plans in place to improve their processes. This is a critical capability for manufacturers given the tremendous number of demands facing their businesses today and the significant growth of requirements…
Tech-Clarity Insight – PLM’s Role in Enabling Design for Environment discusses the tremendous challenges manufacturers face from sustainability demands and regulations. The report discusses how companies can adopt a strategy and culture that helps them address sustainability and compliance needs early in design and how PLM software provides a platform of capabilities that can be…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV explains how Product Data Management (PDM) serves as a foundation for profitability and growth for today’s manufacturers. In this episode, Jim explains how PDM’s ability to control, access, and share product data helps companies gain business value today and provides a scalable backbone for future growth, value, and ROI. …
Tech-Clarity Insight – Top 5 Misconceptions about Innovation Management Software – Busting Myths to Improve Innovation, Time to Market, and Profitability discusses common misconceptions related to innovation, ideation, portfolio management, and project management software suites. These myths cause confusion and prevent companies from moving forward with important process improvements that innovation management software enables. Please…
Tech-Clarity Insight – Managing Design Data with SharePoint – Improving Product Design and Development using Low Overhead Collaboration Infrastructure explains how general document management and collaboration infrastructure can be extended to manage product designs. The report reviews the business benefits of controlling, accessing, and sharing design data and the challenges manufacturers face in unmanaged environments….
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown will present his views on product innovation and innovation management software on the Separating Fact from Fiction to Power Product Innovation webcast. Jim will join Carrie Nauyalis of Planview to share findings from his upcoming Top 5 Misconceptions about Innovation Management Software report and Carrie’s provocative views on companies that “fake innovation.”…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV provides insight and guidance on how to buy the best Product Data Management (PDM) system for your business. The video describes the high-level criteria that manufacturers can use to determine which software solution will best meet their needs. The requirements span functional, implementation, adoption, support, and vendor considerations. In addition, the report…
Elisabeth Eitel of Machine Design covered Tech-Clarity’s Best Practices for Factory Adaptability report. Hear her views on the results in Machine Design article Survey results: Manufacturers tell how they implement change.
Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Factory Adaptability – Top Performers Implement Change Faster and More Confidently shares survey results from over 250 manufacturers examining how they implement change in their factories. The study reviews the practices of the “top performers,” those that implement change more effectively in their plants, to determine best practice processes and…
Issue in Focus: Designing Products for Performance, Risk, and Compliance – Leveraging Product Analytics to Optimize Design Decisions and Tradeoffs shares the importance of proactively providing designers with insight into the many impacts of their design decisions. Product analytics is critical to help companies design and develop products with optimal cost, compliance, weight, performance, and…
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV focuses on how industrial companies leverage 3D Virtual Reality and their own 3D digital assets to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and risk profile of training in industrial settings. The video includes information from a recent research report that shares insights and examples of how VR technology can be applied to…
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