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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).
Table of Contents
Please join us as Jim Brown presents his research on Product Portfolio Management (PPM) in this CGT webcast, How to Effectively Manage Your Product Portfolio to Consistently Hit Launch Windows. Please join the live event on August 16 or view the on-demand, recorded webcast at your convenience.
Jim is joining Monica Alderson, Project Management Director for Consumer Solutions at Hallmark Cards and Carrie Nauyalis, NPD Solution Marketing Manager, Planview in an interactive discussion about what to do when time to market gets critical due to inflexible launch windows driven by external forces. As one consumer goods industry insider likes to say, "You can't negotiate with Christmas."
View the replay of this CGT webacast, sponsored by Planview
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Issue in Focus: Assessing the Cloud PLM Opportunity: Evaluating the Benefits, Requirements, and Considerations explores the opportunity to leverage cloud computing technology with PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). The paper is intended to help companies evauluating PLM in the cloud by sharing information and experiences from more mature cloud enterprise applications including CRM.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download a PDF that overviews the report (free of charge, no registration required).
For the full report, please visit the Autodesk PLM360 Resource Center under Analyst Research (no registration required).
Table of Contents
Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business of 3D Technical Communications: Evolving Strategies to Document Products explains how companies are changing their views on technical documentation to a more strategic approach, including the use of 3D to go beyond flat, static documents to incorporate richer, interactive, more realistic representation of products.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download a PDF that overviews the report (free of charge, no registration required). For the full report visit the Dassault Systemes website (registration required).
Table of Contents
Issue in Focus: Social Business Collaboration and the Product Lifecycle: Combining the Collaborative Power of Social Media with PLM explores the possibility that companies could adopt a social business collaboration platform to improve product development processes and add proven PLM capabilities as needed to establish a socially capable PLM system.
Tech-Clarity believes that social product innovation is inevitable due to the inherent social nature of product development and the enhanced collaborative capabilities that social computing offers. But the assumption was that PLM solutions would adopt social computing concepts because it was too much to reinvent the PLM wheel in social media. But what if that prediction was wrong? Perhaps there is another path – one that brings PLM capabilities to social software. This report explores the possibility that companies could adopt a social business collaboration platform to improve product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and add proven PLM capabilities as needed.
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 Insight: Consolidating CAD - Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy examines the strategic and tactical value of standardizing on a single CAD package. The research papers provides a framework for determining the cost savings available from consolidating tools.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Note: We are in the process of updating this research to consider the integration of broader design suites beyond mechanical CAD for detailed design. Stay tuned...
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Tech-Clarity joined PTC Global Services to benchmark how PLM implementation approaches impact the results companies achieve. See Jim Brown share some of the results from that study. The results share what top performers do differently in their PLM implementations in order to achieve higher levels of business performance. The top performers improved time to market, product cost, and product development efficiency at five times the level of other companies with their PLM implementations.Learn how:
http://youtu.be/u3AxKFNiat4
You can also learn more by reading about the survey on Aligning Your Organization for PLM Success: What Does It Really Take? from Rob Leavitt, Director of Thought Leadership of PTC Global Services.
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[post_content] => Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Managing Design Data - How Effective Data Management Fundamentals Enable World-Class Product Development
shares survey results on the processes and technology that top-performing manufacturers use to manage their technical product data. The survey benchmarks manufacturers on their design performance and determines which respondents outperform the others in:
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).
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…
Please join us as Jim Brown presents his research on Product Portfolio Management (PPM) in this CGT webcast, How to Effectively Manage Your Product Portfolio to Consistently Hit Launch Windows. Please join the live event on August 16 or view the on-demand, recorded webcast at your convenience. Jim is joining Monica Alderson, Project Management Director…
Issue in Focus: Assessing the Cloud PLM Opportunity: Evaluating the Benefits, Requirements, and Considerations explores the opportunity to leverage cloud computing technology with PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). The paper is intended to help companies evauluating PLM in the cloud by sharing information and experiences from more mature cloud enterprise applications including CRM. Please enjoy the…
Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business of 3D Technical Communications: Evolving Strategies to Document Products explains how companies are changing their views on technical documentation to a more strategic approach, including the use of 3D to go beyond flat, static documents to incorporate richer, interactive, more realistic representation of products. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below,…
Social Product Collaboration is the intelligent use of social computing and social media techniques to improve performance in a business setting. It leverages the free-flowing information found in social media and couples it with the control necessary to protect information in an environment where there is sensitive data, such as new product development in a…
Issue in Focus: Social Business Collaboration and the Product Lifecycle: Combining the Collaborative Power of Social Media with PLM explores the possibility that companies could adopt a social business collaboration platform to improve product development processes and add proven PLM capabilities as needed to establish a socially capable PLM system. Tech-Clarity believes that social product…
Tech-Clarity Insight: Consolidating CAD – Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy examines the strategic and tactical value of standardizing on a single CAD package. The research papers provides a framework for determining the cost savings available from consolidating tools. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the…
Tech-Clarity joined PTC Global Services to benchmark how PLM implementation approaches impact the results companies achieve. See Jim Brown share some of the results from that study. The results share what top performers do differently in their PLM implementations in order to achieve higher levels of business performance. The top performers improved time to market,…
Tech-Clarity Perspective: Best Practices for Managing Design Data – How Effective Data Management Fundamentals Enable World-Class Product Development shares survey results on the processes and technology that top-performing manufacturers use to manage their technical product data. The survey benchmarks manufacturers on their design performance and determines which respondents outperform the others in: Designing high quality…
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