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Issue in Focus: Integrating Cloud PLM: Considerations for Systems Integration in the Cloud offers advice and insight on the integration questions companies face as they explore the applicability of Cloud PLM for their business. The report discusses existing issues such as what to integrate and how to define roles for different systems. It also analyzes new considerations that are unique to integration cloud solutions, taking lessons from more mature cloud enterprise ecosystems such as CRM.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Please join Tech-Clarity and Autodesk on this webinar to share what leading companies do differently in design.
Leading manufacturers start differentiating in engineering, according to results from a recent survey of industrial equipment manufacturers. “What really sets the top performers apart is how they go about designing products," the results show according to Jim Brown. The presentation will share the best practices, engineering techniques and advanced design disciplines that leaders employ to gain an advantage.
Register and learn more about their best practices!
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I was happy to be asked to sit on a panel focused on data management at Solid Edge University this year. I presented a keynote earlier in the day based on my recent survey on managing engineering data. Each of the panel members brought a different perspective. Panel members included:
Issue in Focus: Improving Engineering Decision-Making with PLM - Better Products through Information-Driven Decisions discusses the importance of enabling engineers and product developers to make informed decisions when developing products. The report discusses how PLM must provide efficient and rapid access to product information - in context - so engineers can make optimal, information-driven decisions and develop better, more profitable products.
Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
I have been truly touched to see how much support we have received from the industry on our new web show. There have been numerous tweets and posts about what Chad and I are trying to accomplish - start some serious debates about PLM and engineering software issues without taking ourselves to seriously.
From Oleg posting about PLM Edutainment to this post and podcast interview by Kenneth Wong of Desktop Engineering. My thanks go out to those that believe in what we are doing.
By the way, I wonder if that picture of us on the set is me showing Chad the size of the wad of wasabi he will be brushing his teeth with?
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[post_content] => Please join Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Matt Klassen of PTC as they present on this Automotive News webinar, Managing the Sky-Rocketing Complexity of Automotive Systems Engineering. As complexity skyrockets, car and subsystem manufacturers must rethink their software systems engineering approach.
Attend to learn:
View the archived event, presented by Microsoft.
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[post_content] => See Jim Brown's contributed article in Advantage for the Product Lifecycle, SAP Extends Technical Publishing to the Enterprise. The article explains the opportunity for manufacturers to improve their technical communications processes with solutions like Right Hemisphere, including Dassault System's 3DVIA (Composer), Anark, PTC's Arbortext, Cortona3D, Immersive Design, Lattice Technology, Quadrispace, and others. Beyond that, the article points out SAP's unique opportunity to integrate advanced publication capabilities from Right Hemisphere further into the enterprise.
Note: SAP acquired Right Hemisphere in 2011
Note 2: It has been a while since I have had an update with some of these companies, please feel free to provide insight into them and others so I can schedule some briefings to catch up. 
For more of Tech-Clarity's views on technical publications, please see Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business of 3D Technical Communications: Evolving Strategies to Document Products and Tech-Clarity Insight: Better Service with Better Product Information.
NOTE: Link to original article removed because it is no long available at the destination site.
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Tech-Clarity Spotlight: A Ten Point Guide for Streamlining Real-time Embedded Software Development offers ten practical suggestions that companies can use to combat complexity and streamline embedded software development.
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.
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Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Developing Industrial Equipment - Top Performers Drive Growth and Profitability with Advanced Design Practices and Enabling Technology explores best practices used by top performing industrial equipment manufacturers. The report shares insights from a survey of over 350 industrial equipment companies, and indicates what those that have most successfully grown their revenue and margins over the last two years do differently in product design and development.
Please enjoy the Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the a summary of the report in PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
To download the full report (free of charge, registration required), please visit the Autodesk Manufacturing Genius page.
Note: Please see related article Product Design Strategies Take Manufacturers to the Top by Travis Hessman in IndustryWeek quoting Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Ed Martin of Autodesk.
Tech-Clarity Spotlight: A Ten Point Guide for Streamlining Product Development with Systems Engineering offers ten practical suggestions that manufacturers can use to improve product development for the increasing number of products that rely on embedded software.
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.
You might also be interested in viewing the Dr. Dobb’s Webcast – Ten Point Guide to Streamlining Product Development with Systems Engineering with Tech-Clarity and IBM.
Issue in Focus: Meeting Fixed Product Launch Windows - Managing Portfolios When Time to Market is Non-Negotiable discusses the importance of stepping up product portfolio management (PPM) and new product development (NPD) performance when companies have to hit product launch windows dictated by external factors such as holidays, important industry trade shows, high fashion seasons, etc.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required). The full paper is also be available in the Planview Resource Center, sponsored by Planview.
Take a look at this webcast on Dr. Dobb's to hear me discuss some tips on how manufacturers can use systems engineering best practices to improve product development. There is more embedded software in today's products than ever - it's time for manufacturers to learn how to take advantage of the opportunities it offers while maintaining quality and productivity.
It's worth a listen, if not for me for the great commentary by Steve Shoaf and Greg Gorman of IBM.
View the replay now
View the Related Tech-Clarity Spotlight Paper
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Social Business Collaboration can help companies develop better products. It can also help them more effectively include their supply chain in product development to improve innovation. Product development is a team sport and benefits from collaboration across the supply chain. Formal collaboration approaches such as PDM or PLM are effective, but are sometimes worked around because they don't support ad-hoc processes as well as social media. Also, setting up new users such as suppliers can take more time and effort than people are willing to invest. Ad-hoc file sharing is easier, but puts IP at risk and creates duplicate data that leads to mistakes, scrap, and rework.
The episode of Tech-Clarity TV expands on a previous episode of Tech-Clarity TV on Social Business Collaboration and the conundrum between control and free-flowing information exchange available from social computing. It explains the pluses and minuses of different approaches to collaborate with supply chain partners. For more information on Social Business Collaboration, please take a look at our white paper Issue in Focus: Social Business Collaboration and the Product Lifecycle: Combining the Collaborative Power of Social Media with PLM, sponsored by Nuage. I hope you enjoy the video.
http://youtu.be/5yvSGl_FhTU
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Issue in Focus: Consolidating Design Software: Extending Value Beyond 3D CAD Consolidation discusses the value of consolidating on suites of engineering and design tools to take advantage of integration to increase efficiency, remove the need to translate CAD files, and maintain design intent throughout the design process.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
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Tech-Clarity will present with Kalypso on the upcoming Brighttalk summit on Balancing PPM for Business and IT. Pamela Soin and Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown will discuss best practices for managing product portfolios in a session titled Developing the Right New Products for Customers and your Business. The conference is sponsored by CA Technologies. Register Now by…
Jim Brown will present his view on engineer to order (ETO) business value and best practices on the Mobilize Your Product Knowledge to Win More Engineer to Order Business webcast with Brian Grogan of Siemens PLM and Kip Alexander of Babcock & Wilcox. The presentation will discuss the business benefits and resulting complexity of customized…
Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business Value of Knowledge-Enabled Decision-Making – Improving Product Development and Engineering Decisions shares the perspectives of three manufactures (Kimberly-Clark, Robert Bosch, and Rolls-Royce) on the value of applying knowledge-based decision-making techniques including semantic search and engineering tools. The paper also provides a template to calculate the ROI of a knowledge-based decision-making implementation…
Jim Brown will participate in a live discussion on IM Channel 1 with PPM guru Pamela Soin of Kalypso and Doug Shandonay, Innovation IT Lead Business Partner at Kimberly-Clark, in a presentation on Integrated Innovation: How to Make Innovation Everyone’s Job on February 7. Register for the Live Event (or watch the replay) As…
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown will present with Ken Klapproth, Director of Product Management for IHS Product Design on a webcast discussing the business value and ROI of knowledge enabled decision making for R&D, product development, and engineering. Jim will share some findings from his upcoming white paper Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business Value of Knowledge-Enabled Decision-Making. …
Issue in Focus: Integrating Cloud PLM: Considerations for Systems Integration in the Cloud offers advice and insight on the integration questions companies face as they explore the applicability of Cloud PLM for their business. The report discusses existing issues such as what to integrate and how to define roles for different systems. It also analyzes…
Please join Tech-Clarity and Autodesk on this webinar to share what leading companies do differently in design. Leading manufacturers start differentiating in engineering, according to results from a recent survey of industrial equipment manufacturers. “What really sets the top performers apart is how they go about designing products,” the results show according to Jim Brown….
I was happy to be asked to sit on a panel focused on data management at Solid Edge University this year. I presented a keynote earlier in the day based on my recent survey on managing engineering data. Each of the panel members brought a different perspective. Panel members included: Simon Floyd, Microsoft Ken Amman,…
Issue in Focus: Improving Engineering Decision-Making with PLM – Better Products through Information-Driven Decisions discusses the importance of enabling engineers and product developers to make informed decisions when developing products. The report discusses how PLM must provide efficient and rapid access to product information – in context – so engineers can make optimal, information-driven decisions…
I have been truly touched to see how much support we have received from the industry on our new web show. There have been numerous tweets and posts about what Chad and I are trying to accomplish – start some serious debates about PLM and engineering software issues without taking ourselves to seriously. From Oleg…
Please join Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Matt Klassen of PTC as they present on this Automotive News webinar, Managing the Sky-Rocketing Complexity of Automotive Systems Engineering. As complexity skyrockets, car and subsystem manufacturers must rethink their software systems engineering approach. Attend to learn: Challenges organizations face in the design of complex systems across multiple…
See Jim Brown’s contributed article in Advantage for the Product Lifecycle, SAP Extends Technical Publishing to the Enterprise. The article explains the opportunity for manufacturers to improve their technical communications processes with solutions like Right Hemisphere, including Dassault System’s 3DVIA (Composer), Anark, PTC’s Arbortext, Cortona3D, Immersive Design, Lattice Technology, Quadrispace, and others. Beyond that, the…
Tech-Clarity Spotlight: A Ten Point Guide for Streamlining Real-time Embedded Software Development offers ten practical suggestions that companies can use to combat complexity and streamline embedded software development. 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…
An article by Travis Hessman of IndustryWeek related to the recent industrial equipment survey report Best Practices for Developing Industrial Equipment by Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity. Quotes Jim and his research extensively and includes some insightful remarks from Ed Martin of Autodesk as well.
Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Developing Industrial Equipment – Top Performers Drive Growth and Profitability with Advanced Design Practices and Enabling Technology explores best practices used by top performing industrial equipment manufacturers. The report shares insights from a survey of over 350 industrial equipment companies, and indicates what those that have most successfully grown their…
Tech-Clarity Spotlight: A Ten Point Guide for Streamlining Product Development with Systems Engineering offers ten practical suggestions that manufacturers can use to improve product development for the increasing number of products that rely on embedded software. Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF for more details…
Issue in Focus: Meeting Fixed Product Launch Windows – Managing Portfolios When Time to Market is Non-Negotiable discusses the importance of stepping up product portfolio management (PPM) and new product development (NPD) performance when companies have to hit product launch windows dictated by external factors such as holidays, important industry trade shows, high fashion seasons,…
Take a look at this webcast on Dr. Dobb’s to hear me discuss some tips on how manufacturers can use systems engineering best practices to improve product development. There is more embedded software in today’s products than ever – it’s time for manufacturers to learn how to take advantage of the opportunities it offers while…
Social Business Collaboration can help companies develop better products. It can also help them more effectively include their supply chain in product development to improve innovation. Product development is a team sport and benefits from collaboration across the supply chain. Formal collaboration approaches such as PDM or PLM are effective, but are sometimes worked around because…
Issue in Focus: Consolidating Design Software: Extending Value Beyond 3D CAD Consolidation discusses the value of consolidating on suites of engineering and design tools to take advantage of integration to increase efficiency, remove the need to translate CAD files, and maintain design intent throughout the design process. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or…
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Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business Value of Knowledge-Enabled Decision-Making - Improving Product Development and Engineering Decisions