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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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[post_content] => Tech-Clarity and Kalypso are looking for product-oriented companies to share their views on how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) helps them with their new product development and product innovation performance.
People willing to take between 5 to 10 minutes to take the survey will be given a free copy of the resulting report. Please share your experience.
Take the survey now! All responses will be shared in aggregate form only. Thank you in advance for participating.
PDM Buyer's Guide - Ensuring Maximum Value from Product Data Management is an educational tool to help manufacturers evaluate and select the right data management solution to improve design, product development, and engineering performance. PDM helps companies control, access, and share information. This guide offers advice and requirements related to:
Jim will present on the Visual Design Management for Faster Project Completion webcast, a part of the Engineering.com Product Design Webinar Series.
Register for the Visual Design Management webcast.
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Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity published an article, 7 Tips to Speed Time to Market, on Innovation Management as a part of the Planview Learning Series. In the article, Jim overview some recent research on time to market and identifies a number of time-proven methods that help get products to market faster.
You can also download the underlying research, Issue in Focus: Meeting Fixed Product Launch Windows for more information, Provided courtesy of Planview, Registration Required.
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Tech-Clarity Insight: Modernizing Manufacturing Systems with the Cloud - Leveraging Cloud ERP to Improve Systems and Business Performance shares insights from three manufacturers and Tech-Clarity's research into cloud enterprise systems to assess the cloud opportunity for ERP. The report discusses how the cloud ERP business model helps overcome financial and IT resource contraints that keep manufacturers in the Old ERP Trap.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Learn more about this webcast by visiting the online registration page on the Plex Systems' website.
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Register here for the May 16 event or the reply directly.
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[post_content] => Jim Brown presents on this information webcast focused on the impact of knowledge loss in Research and Development and strategies to alleviate it. Jim will share insights based on his experience as well as his report The Business-Value of Knowledge-Enabled Decision-Making.
Issue in Focus: 3D Virtual Training in the Industrial Environment: Combining Learning Science and VR Technology to Add Value and Reduce Risk reviews the science behind training using 3D Virtual Reality (VR) and discusses the opportunity for industrial companies to leverage 3D Virtual Training. The research presents how 3D Virtual Training stimulates learning, discusses how gaming technology has made virtual simulators accessible to today's manufacturers, and shares a number of real world examples of using 3D Virtual Training to overcome training challenges common to industrial settings.
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 3D Virtual Training, please see additional information from Dassault Systems on 3DVIA Studio.
Register for the webcast or click to view the replay.
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An exciting new article by Jim Brown explains how PPM software extends the business value manufacturers receive from ERP, PLM, and other enterprise applications. The discussion explains the importance of time to market and how PPM has emerged alongside other enterprise apps to help companies create and deliver compelling, profitable product portfolios. Read the article, Product Portfolio Management: Getting Products to Market Faster on Enterprise Apps Today.
This article was a follow up to Tech-Clarity's When Time to Market Gets Critical.
There is also a great webcast featuring Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity, Monica Alderson of Hallmark Cards and Carrie Nauyalis of Planview. View the replay of this CGT webcast, sponsored by Planview on the topic.
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Tech-Clarity is conducting a research study on how top performing manufacturers manage change in their manufacturing facilities. Thank you for your interest and your participation in our survey!
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 – 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…
Tech-Clarity and Kalypso are looking for product-oriented companies to share their views on how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) helps them with their new product development and product innovation performance. People willing to take between 5 to 10 minutes to take the survey will be given a free copy of the resulting report. Please share your…
Tech-Clarity would like to announce participation as a charter member and advisor of Microsoft’s Innovation Management Consortium and the release of a new white paper from Microsoft sharing the Microsoft Innovation Management Framework. The paper announces the consortium and shares a wealth of information and experience from Microsoft and other consortium members, including: A repeatable…
PDM Buyer’s Guide – Ensuring Maximum Value from Product Data Management is an educational tool to help manufacturers evaluate and select the right data management solution to improve design, product development, and engineering performance. PDM helps companies control, access, and share information. This guide offers advice and requirements related to: Software functionality Implementation User adoption Support…
Jim Brown will present his views on getting design data under control to improve time to market and design project cycle times. He will discuss how to use data management to simplify engineering efforts, reduce complexity, and prevent errors from incorrect revisions. He will also touch on the benefits of using a visually-oriented approach to…
Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity published an article, 7 Tips to Speed Time to Market, on Innovation Management as a part of the Planview Learning Series. In the article, Jim overview some recent research on time to market and identifies a number of time-proven methods that help get products to market faster. You can also download…
Tech-Clarity Insight: Modernizing Manufacturing Systems with the Cloud – Leveraging Cloud ERP to Improve Systems and Business Performance shares insights from three manufacturers and Tech-Clarity’s research into cloud enterprise systems to assess the cloud opportunity for ERP. The report discusses how the cloud ERP business model helps overcome financial and IT resource contraints that keep manufacturers…
Hear Jim Brown discuss the myths and realities of Cloud ERP and how cloud-based systems can help manufacturers get out of the Old ERP Trap. Hear how cloud ERP helps overcome financial and IT resource constraints that keep companies stuck on outdated ERP systems that don’t provide the information they need to make good, timely business decisions….
Jim Brown presents on this information webcast focused on the impact of knowledge loss in Research and Development and strategies to alleviate it. Jim will share insights based on his experience as well as his report The Business-Value of Knowledge-Enabled Decision-Making. Register to view the live event or view the replay. Sponsored by IHS.
Issue in Focus: 3D Virtual Training in the Industrial Environment: Combining Learning Science and VR Technology to Add Value and Reduce Risk reviews the science behind training using 3D Virtual Reality (VR) and discusses the opportunity for industrial companies to leverage 3D Virtual Training. The research presents how 3D Virtual Training stimulates learning, discusses how…
Jim Brown will set the stage for this Industry Week webcast featuring Mercury Marine’s John Bayless. Jim’s presentation will feature the fundamentals of PLM including: Product and Product Development Complexity Knowledge-Based Decisions and Information Overload Operational and Business Value of PDM and PLM Thanks to Siemens PLM for sponsoring this educational webcast! Register for the…
An exciting new article by Jim Brown explains how PPM software extends the business value manufacturers receive from ERP, PLM, and other enterprise applications. The discussion explains the importance of time to market and how PPM has emerged alongside other enterprise apps to help companies create and deliver compelling, profitable product portfolios. Read the article,…
Tech-Clarity is conducting a research study on how top performing manufacturers manage change in their manufacturing facilities. Thank you for your interest and your participation in our survey! If you already completed the survey –> please share with a colleague using the “Share/Save” options above. If you haven’t taken the survey –> please: click here…
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