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…
- Start with Requirements
- Take Time for Conceptual Design
- Optimize the Architecture
- Reuse at all Levels of Design
- Simulate the System
- Manage Change
- True Transparency
- Track and Trace it All
- Validate and Verify with the V
- Manage Configurations Continuously
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.
Table of Contents
- Introducing the Issue
- Create a Realistic Portfolio Plan
- Roadmap Product to Launch Window Relationships
- Create Detailed Project Plans
- Recognize and Account for Risk
- Execute
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Introducing the Issue
Tech-Clarity research shows that reducing time to market is a high priority for companies targeting product development performance and profitability improvements. Speed is critical because the winner of the product development race can take advantage of premium pricing, higher profit margins, and a jump on the competition to lock in market share. On the other hand, the impact of delayed time to market can be significant, for example:- A pharmaceutical company may lose $1 million per day a launch is late
- Government contractors missing milestones may forgo incentives and face penalties
- Industrial products companies can miss customer commitments and expectations
- A confectionary company missing the Easter season faces significant bottom-line impact
- A high-tech company delaying release beyond an important trade show or investor conference can damage their brand and be punished by investors
- A toy company missing the Christmas season faces a huge lost opportunity
- A high fashion apparel company missing the Spring season is just not acceptable and will damage relationships with their retail partners
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.
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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
- Introducing the Issue
- Consolidate Upstream from Detailed Design
- Consolidate Downstream from Detailed Design
- Live with Supply Chain Realities (Multi-CAD)
- Leverage the Past (Legacy Designs)
- Understand the Bigger Picture
- Address the Pain (with a Little Help from IT)
- The Expanded ROI Model
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
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
- Introducing the Issue
- The Cloud Meets PLM
- Evaluating the Key Features and Benefits of Cloud Computing
- Leverage Economies of Scale
- Eliminate Non-Value Added Work
- Take Advantage of Cloud Level Systems Performance
- Enhance Flexibility and Agility, Reduce Business Risk
- Final Considerations
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
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
- Executive Overview
- 3D Product Communication: Operational View
- 3D Product Communication: Strategic View
- Improve Technical Documentation Efficiency
- Improve Engineering Efficiency
- Improve Documentation and Communication
- Improve Collaboration
- Improve Manufacturing
- Improve Service
- Get Started
- Extend the Business Value
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
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).
Table of Contents
- Introducing the Issue
- Why Social Business Collaboration Makes Sense
- Why Social Business Makes Sense for Product Development
- What will Socially Capable PLM Look Like?
- How Do We Get There?
- Social Software Goes PLM
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- Lack of understanding and integration with product data
- Insufficient security and intellectual property (IP) protection
- Minimal support for managing business processes
- Lack of domain expertise
- Disconnection from the underlying context – the 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 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...
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Lean IT Overhead
- Reuse
- Collaboration
- Enabling the Bigger Product Development Picture
- The Corporate Advantage
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
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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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 products
- Developing products quickly
- Developing innovative products
- Developing products efficiently
- Executive Overview
- Importance of Effective Data Management
- Data Management Challenges Impact Time and Quality
- Complexity, more than Size, Creates Issues
- Wasting Time on Nonproductive Data Management
- Identifying the Top Business Performers
- Best Data Management Practices of World Class Companies
- Enabling World Class Data Management (and results)
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- About the Research
- Are more able to find the data they need, share it with others, manage their design projects, and provide the correct data to manufacturing
- Spend 25% less time on nonproductive data management tasks
Tech-Clarity Insight Integrating PLM and MES - Realizing the Digital Factory expands the discussion on the roles that ERP and PLM play in manufacturing to include the role of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). The paper discusses the business need for integrating the solutions, automating the integrated product and production lifecycle, and closing the loop between designs and products. The report includes experiences shared through interviews with a leading aerospace manufacturer, a Siemens electronics plant, and ATK Space Systems.
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
- Why Now?
- Product Innovation and Execution Roles
- Integrating the Product and Production Lifecycle
- Automating the Integrated Product and Production Lifecycle
- Closing the Loop between Designs and Products
- Summary
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Enjoy!
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Tech-Clarity Issue in Focus: Digital Prototyping in the Plant: Improving Manufacturing Agility with the Digital Factory discusses how digital prototyping solutions can help manufacturers achieve greater agility by leveraging a digital factory approach. This is particularly important today as the manufacturing industries - particularly the automotive industry - are faced with the need to drastically improve efficiency and adapt to rapidly changing market and production landscapes.
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
- Introducing the Issue
- Adapting and Optimizing Workstations, Lines and Plants
- Designing Optimal Tooling and Equipment
- Collaborating Electronically to Retool the Plant
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Register for the Event
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Insight: The Integrated ERP-PLM Strategy: Closing the Loop on Product Innovation reviews the importance of an integrated ERP-PLM strategy to provide a rapid, confident flow of innovation information to and from Manufacturing. The paper discusses a strategy to close the loop between Engineering and Manufacturing to get the most business value from innovation in all its forms.
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
- Introducing the Issue
- What to Expect from ERP
- What to Expect from PLM
- Closing the Loop on Product Innovation
- Developing the ERP-PLM Strategy
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Issue in Focus: Product Data Accessibility: Getting Value from All of Your Product Data explains the importance for manufacturers to be able to access and share product data, regardless of whether it is centralized in a system like PDM or not. Explains that accessing product data and centralizing it are not absolutely linked, and describes emerging technologies that can help.
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
- Introducing the Issue
- Access All of Your Product Data
- Virtually Consolidate Data from Disparate Locations
- Liberate Product Data from Disparate Applications
- Aggregate and Use All Product Data
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- Control and secure product-related data
- Improve the ability to quickly find and reuse information
- Share product knowledge with other departments
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.
The Systems Engineering Imperative
Tech-Clarity research shows that manufacturers have grown the amount of software in their products, the importance of product software, and the level of innovation driven by software over the last five years. Products that combine mechanical, electrical, and software are compelling, but add tremendous product development complexity leading to quality issues, poor productivity, and delayed time to market. Tech-Clarity offers the following ten tips to help companies overcome these challenges by streamlining product development using systems engineering best practices:- Start with Requirements
- Take Time for Conceptual Design
- Optimize the Architecture
- Reuse at all Levels of Design
- Simulate the System
- Manage Change
- True Transparency
- Track and Trace it All
- Validate and Verify with the V
- Manage Configurations Continuously
All Results for "All"
Meeting Fixed Product Launch Windows
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,…
Dr. Dobb’s Webcast – Ten Point Guide to Streamlining Product Development with Systems Engineering
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…
Tech-Clarity TV Social Supply Chain Collaboration
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…
Consolidating Design Software
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…
Webcast on Meeting Inflexible Product Development Launch Windows
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…
Assessing the Cloud PLM Opportunity
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…
The Business of 3D Technical Communications: Evolving Strategies to Document Products
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,…
Tech-Clarity TV Social Business Collaboration and the Social Collaboration Conundrum
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…
Social Business Collaboration and the Product Lifecycle
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…
Consolidating CAD – Benefits of a Unified CAD Strategy
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 TV – Best Practices for Implementing PLM
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,…
Best Practices for Managing Design Data Survey Report
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…
Integrating PLM and MES – Realizing the Digital Factory
Tech-Clarity Insight Integrating PLM and MES – Realizing the Digital Factory expands the discussion on the roles that ERP and PLM play in manufacturing to include the role of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). The paper discusses the business need for integrating the solutions, automating the integrated product and production lifecycle, and closing the loop between…
Pre-Announcing Tech4PD – a new Web Show with a Twist
OK, I am jumping the gun on this announcement, but I am excited and want to share the good news. Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights and I are teaming up on a web show. I can’t announce where it will be hosted yet because we are still working out the details. The show will address…
Top 5 PLM Myths
Autodesk just published a two-part series on the “Top 5 PLM Myths” on YouTube. A quick listen and hopefully some good general advice on PLM. Part 1: My portion, I look excited about it, don’t I? It’s true, I really do get excited about this stuff! Part 2: Brian Roepke of Autodesk offers his perspective…
Digital Prototyping in the Plant
Tech-Clarity Issue in Focus: Digital Prototyping in the Plant: Improving Manufacturing Agility with the Digital Factory discusses how digital prototyping solutions can help manufacturers achieve greater agility by leveraging a digital factory approach. This is particularly important today as the manufacturing industries – particularly the automotive industry – are faced with the need to drastically…
Systems Engineering and PLM Webcast
Jim Brown will share his views in a webcast titled Best Practices for Systems Engineering using Product Lifecycle Management. This joint webcast with Tech-Clarity and Siemens PLM Software will discuss how leading companies are leveraging system engineering and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) concepts and approaches to define, model and analyze the product while ensuring that…
The Integrated ERP-PLM Strategy
Insight: The Integrated ERP-PLM Strategy: Closing the Loop on Product Innovation reviews the importance of an integrated ERP-PLM strategy to provide a rapid, confident flow of innovation information to and from Manufacturing. The paper discusses a strategy to close the loop between Engineering and Manufacturing to get the most business value from innovation in all…
Product Data Accessibility
Issue in Focus: Product Data Accessibility: Getting Value from All of Your Product Data explains the importance for manufacturers to be able to access and share product data, regardless of whether it is centralized in a system like PDM or not. Explains that accessing product data and centralizing it are not absolutely linked, and describes…