Servicing Medical Equipment: World Class Service Management for Medical Equipment extends prior research on world class service management to the medical device industry. The research suggests that there are two fundamentals that service organizations must master to rise above the competition – operational control of service operations and equipment intelligence. The paper discusses how medical device…
- Preface
- About the Author
- Executive Overview
- Lifecycle Service for Medical Equipment
- Servicing the Top Line
- Bottom Line Results
- Managing Medical Equipment Complexity
- Establishing Operational Control and Equipment Intelligence
- Summary
- Recommendations
Business Intelligence Extending PLM Value: PLM Maturity Enables New Value from Analytics points out the significant value that has accumulated in PLM systems as implementations and usage have matured, and how manufacturers can tap into that value with business intelligence (BI) solutions.
Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Introducing the Issue
- Mining the Value from PLM Data
- Sources of Value from BI in PLM
- Special Considerations for BI in PLM
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- Manufacturers have moved forward along the maturity curve with their PLM implementations.
- PLM has evolved and expanded to incorporate more valuable, business-focused data in addition to technical information
Issue in Focus: The ROI of Product Portfolio Management: The “How to Guide” for Predicting Return on Investment for PPM explains that companies are frequently challenged when they are required to develop a credible, supportable financial model to determine the benefits of PPM initiatives. This “Issue in Focus” is intended to help guide companies in developing a realistic ROI based on a conservative financial model.
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
- Calculating the Benefits of Product Portfolio Management
- Growing the Top Line
- Calculating Cost Savings
- Incorporating the “Soft” Benefits
- Example
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- Footnotes
- Selecting higher value products
- Making better – and more timely – decisions to correct or cancel product development projects with limited return
- Improving time to market
- Improving product development efficiency
- Aligning their product portfolio with company strategy
- Balancing product development work with available resources
- Balancing the risk in their product portfolio
[post_title] => The Business Value of Innovation in Manufacturing
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => innovation-manufacturing
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:26:28
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:26:28
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1909
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[4] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1906
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-04-01 22:15:28
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-04-02 02:15:28
[post_content] => Jim Brown presents on this webcast sponsored by Siemens PLM. The presentation examines how manufacturers address the five critical dimensions of product complexity to achieve maximum profitability, and how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions help manage these five dimensions of product complexity on an enterprise scale, resulting in greater efficiency and better products. Complexities addressed in the webcast include:
- Mechanical Complexity
- Mechatronics
- Global Markets
- Global Design and Manufacturing
- Lifecycle Profitability
[post_title] => Innovating in Consumer Goods without Buckling under Compliance Pressures
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => innovating-cpg
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:26:27
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:26:27
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1902
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[6] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1886
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-28 00:38:31
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-28 04:38:31
[post_content] => Jim Brown presented with Garth Coleman of Dassault Systemes on a IndustryWeek webinar, Streamlining Product Documentation and Raising the Bar with 3D Communication. The webinar shared Tech-Clarity research on how to use 3D product communications to improve efficiency, time to market, quality, cost, and customer experience. Click the title to see the recorded webcast. Registration required on IndustryWeek site.
[post_title] => Streamlining Product Documentation and Raising the Bar with 3D Communication
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => product-documentation
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:26:27
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:26:27
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1886
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[7] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1878
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-28 00:31:05
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-28 04:31:05
[post_content] => 
Jim Brown presented on a series of three innovation-focused webcasts with Kalypso and Aras. Mr. Brown will present on topics including how to develop a world class product development strategy and how to leverage PLM solutions to realize the strategy. Click the titles below to view the recorded webcasts (registration required on Aras site).
Journey to Best in Class
The Top 5 Strategic Goals of PLM
Transforming PLM for the Economic Recovery
[post_title] => ACE Innovation Series Webcasts
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => innovation-webcasts
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:26:39
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:26:39
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1878
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[8] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1874
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-28 00:16:37
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-28 04:16:37
[post_content] => Interview with SPIKE Award Winner Kimberly-Clark - Jim Brown interviews Steve Paljieg of Kimberley-Clark on receiving the SPIKE award for use of social media and social technology in product innovation for their MomInspired program. Click the title to view the site on SPIKE! sponsor Kalypso's site.
[post_title] => Interview with SPIKE Award Winner Kimberly-Clark
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => spike-kimberley-clark
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:25:48
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:25:48
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1874
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[9] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1871
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-28 00:10:47
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-28 04:10:47
[post_content] => Interview on Social Networking and PLM - Jim Brown interviewed at COFES by Nik Pavasa of Siemens PLM, primarily focusing on the use of social computing and social software in product development. Please view the recorded interview on the Siemens PLM blog, no registration required.
[post_title] => Interview on Social Networking in PLM - COFES 2010
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => social-plm
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:25:47
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:25:47
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1871
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[10] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1867
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-28 00:02:19
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-28 04:02:19
[post_content] => Social Technologies Define a New Era in Product Development - A brief presentation on how social computing is changing the way companies develop products. Feel free to watch video on the PTC website by clicking the title above, no registration is required.
[post_title] => Social Technologies Define a New Era in Product Development
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => social-product-development
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:25:47
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:25:47
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1867
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[11] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1863
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-27 23:55:17
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-28 03:55:17
[post_content] => An interview of Jim Brown by Dora Smith from Siemens PLM in 2010, highlighting the research Tech-Clarity is focusing on and Jim's views on the PLM market, social computing, and more.
Leveraging the Digital Factory: Enhancing Productivity from Operator to Enterprise provides visibility to the way manufacturers utilize Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) processes and solutions to help reduce cost, speed time to market, and improve product quality. The paper features interviews from companies that are leveraging MPM to digitally prototype plant layouts, material flow, production lines, workstations, and work assignments to perfect plans before committing to physical changes - resulting in efficient plants and processes that work the first time. MPM, also known as Digital Manufacturing, is an important element of any PLM strategy.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required). Special thanks to Proplanner and Autodesk for their support and for providing introductions to their customers. The interviews provide real-world examples for other manufacturers as they develop their own MPM and PLM strategies.
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Leveraging the Digital Factory
- The Bill of Process - Putting Manufacturing Processes First
- Laying out the Perfect Plant
- Optimizing the Lines
- Optimizing Workcells
- Material Flow at the Workcell Level
- Communicating with the Plant (Work Instructions)
- Pulling it All Together (Integration and Associativity)
- Getting to MPM
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
A Risk-Based Approach to Component and Supplier Management: Mitigating Risk with Component and Compliance Intelligence discusses the importance of a structured risk management process to mitigate supply risk and ensure products can be delivered to market reliably and cost-effectively, and the importance of having the right supply chain information to support the process.
Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor IHS.
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Identifying an Ecosystem of Supply Chain Risks
- Counterfeits and Fakes
- Obsolescence
- Regulatory Compliance
- Analyzing Risk
- Mitigating Risk: Knowledge is Power
- Mitigating Risk: Supply Chain Communication
- A Product Intelligence Framework for Risk Management
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- Identify potential risks
- Analyze risks and their potential impacts
- Mitigate risk proactively
Insight: Enabling Product Lifecycle Management: The CIO's Guide to Supporting a PLM Initiative- Provides PLM technology insight and understanding to prepare today's CIO to support Product Lifecycle Management. Points out unique implementation and support challenges the CIO and their team must be aware of in order to get the most business value out of PLM. 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
- Sharing Highly Sensitive Data
- Managing Large Data
- Broad Scale Adoption, Collaboration, and Integration
- Reducing Risk, Implementation Leadtimes, and Cost
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Complementary Roles of ERP and PLM: Leveraging Enterprise Applications to Maximize Product Profitability provides an overview of the roles that ERP and PLM can play in maximizing product profitability, describing recent implementations and key considerations to help manufacturers determine the right application approach for their business. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Business Strategies
- Enterprise Application Strategies
- The Power of ERP
- ERP Theme – Managing Orders
- ERP Theme – Centralized Control and Accounting
- The Power of PLM
- PLM Theme – Managing Product Knowledge
- PLM Theme – Speed to Market
- PLM Theme – Collaboration
- ERP and PLM Roles
- ERP and PLM – Better Together
- Recommendations
- Summary
- About the Author
Perspective: Developing Software-Intensive Products: Addressing the Innovation-Complexity Conundrum presents survey data and analysis to help manufacturers understand the benefits and challenges of developing products that derive a significant amount of their capabilities from software. The terms "embedded software" and "mechatronics" really don't describe the varied uses of software in today's products from automobiles to appliances. This report describes how companies can take advantage of the benefits available from software-intensive products while using using organization structure, business processes, and structured systems like ALM and PLM to address the significant challenges and business impacts resulting from added development complexity.
Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download a PDF of the report (free of charge, no registration required). The full report is also available from PTC for no charge and with no registration required.
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Increased Prevalence and Importance of Product Software
- Adopt a Software-Intensive Product Strategy
- Understand Challenges and the Resulting Business Impacts
- Organize for Success
- Look at the Big Picture
- Take an Integrated Approach to Enablement
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- About the Author
- About the Research
- Unified or integrated teams for electrical, mechanical, software engineering
- Use of systems modeling
- Unified or integrated solutions for designing software-intensive products
- Use of formal data / lifecycle management solutions (ALM and/or PLM)
[post_title] => Design West - Embedded Software Conference
[post_excerpt] =>
[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => open
[ping_status] => open
[post_password] =>
[post_name] => design-west
[to_ping] =>
[pinged] =>
[post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:26:27
[post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:26:27
[post_content_filtered] =>
[post_parent] => 0
[guid] => http://tech-clarity.com.s123766.gridserver.com/?p=1836
[menu_order] => 0
[post_type] => post
[post_mime_type] =>
[comment_count] => 0
[filter] => raw
)
[18] => WP_Post Object
(
[ID] => 1826
[post_author] => 2
[post_date] => 2012-03-24 10:28:30
[post_date_gmt] => 2012-03-24 14:28:30
[post_content] => The following presentations provide a historical view of events presented by Tech-Clarity. They are either past in-person events or online events that are no longer available online. Please contact us if you are interested in reviewing any of the presentation materials or discussing the contents. Or, if you see your event here and there is an online recording available, please let us know so we can make it available!
Servicing Medical Equipment: World Class Service Management for Medical Equipment extends prior research on world class service management to the medical device industry. The research suggests that there are two fundamentals that service organizations must master to rise above the competition - operational control of service operations and equipment intelligence. The paper discusses how medical device manufacturers can leverage lessons learned from other service-oriented industries as competition heats up in their own markets. At the same time, the paper points out distinct differences between servicing industrial equipment or consumer products and the healthcare industry, which requires additional rigor due to the need to protect patient welfare and meet regulatory requirements.
Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor Lawson.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
- Executive Overview
- Lifecycle Service for Medical Equipment
- Servicing the Top Line
- Bottom Line Results
- Managing Medical Equipment Complexity
- Establishing Operational Control and Equipment Intelligence
- Summary
- Recommendations
All Results for "All"
Business Intelligence Extending PLM Value
Business Intelligence Extending PLM Value: PLM Maturity Enables New Value from Analytics points out the significant value that has accumulated in PLM systems as implementations and usage have matured, and how manufacturers can tap into that value with business intelligence (BI) solutions. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to…
The ROI of Product Portfolio Management
Issue in Focus: The ROI of Product Portfolio Management: The “How to Guide” for Predicting Return on Investment for PPM explains that companies are frequently challenged when they are required to develop a credible, supportable financial model to determine the benefits of PPM initiatives. This “Issue in Focus” is intended to help guide companies in developing…
The Business Value of Innovation in Manufacturing
Jim Brown joined McGladrey to share his thoughts on the business value of innovation, the complexity of global manufacturing, and how ERP and PLM solutions can help. View the webinar replay.
The Five Degrees of Product Complexity
Jim Brown presents on this webcast sponsored by Siemens PLM. The presentation examines how manufacturers address the five critical dimensions of product complexity to achieve maximum profitability, and how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions help manage these five dimensions of product complexity on an enterprise scale, resulting in greater efficiency and better products. Complexities addressed…
Innovating in Consumer Goods without Buckling under Compliance Pressures
Tech-Clarity, Inc. President Jim Brown, joins a Consumer Goods Technology webcast and Dr. John Sottery of Dassault Systemes on this web presentation, Increase the Velocity of Value Creation in Your Organization. Jim will share his perspective on how companies can develop highly innovative products in shorter time through the use of best practices and PLM…
Streamlining Product Documentation and Raising the Bar with 3D Communication
Jim Brown presented with Garth Coleman of Dassault Systemes on a IndustryWeek webinar, Streamlining Product Documentation and Raising the Bar with 3D Communication. The webinar shared Tech-Clarity research on how to use 3D product communications to improve efficiency, time to market, quality, cost, and customer experience. Click the title to see the recorded webcast. Registration…
ACE Innovation Series Webcasts
Jim Brown presented on a series of three innovation-focused webcasts with Kalypso and Aras. Mr. Brown will present on topics including how to develop a world class product development strategy and how to leverage PLM solutions to realize the strategy. Click the titles below to view the recorded webcasts (registration required on Aras site). Journey…
Interview with SPIKE Award Winner Kimberly-Clark
Interview with SPIKE Award Winner Kimberly-Clark – Jim Brown interviews Steve Paljieg of Kimberley-Clark on receiving the SPIKE award for use of social media and social technology in product innovation for their MomInspired program. Click the title to view the site on SPIKE! sponsor Kalypso‘s site.
Interview on Social Networking in PLM – COFES 2010
Interview on Social Networking and PLM – Jim Brown interviewed at COFES by Nik Pavasa of Siemens PLM, primarily focusing on the use of social computing and social software in product development. Please view the recorded interview on the Siemens PLM blog, no registration required.
Social Technologies Define a New Era in Product Development
Social Technologies Define a New Era in Product Development – A brief presentation on how social computing is changing the way companies develop products. Feel free to watch video on the PTC website by clicking the title above, no registration is required.
An Interview with Dora
An interview of Jim Brown by Dora Smith from Siemens PLM in 2010, highlighting the research Tech-Clarity is focusing on and Jim’s views on the PLM market, social computing, and more.
Leveraging the Digital Factory
Leveraging the Digital Factory: Enhancing Productivity from Operator to Enterprise provides visibility to the way manufacturers utilize Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) processes and solutions to help reduce cost, speed time to market, and improve product quality. The paper features interviews from companies that are leveraging MPM to digitally prototype plant layouts, material flow, production lines,…
A Risk-Based Approach to Component and Supplier Management
A Risk-Based Approach to Component and Supplier Management: Mitigating Risk with Component and Compliance Intelligence discusses the importance of a structured risk management process to mitigate supply risk and ensure products can be delivered to market reliably and cost-effectively, and the importance of having the right supply chain information to support the process. Click here…
Enabling PLM: The CIO’s Guide to Supporting a PLM Initiative
Insight: Enabling Product Lifecycle Management: The CIO’s Guide to Supporting a PLM Initiative– Provides PLM technology insight and understanding to prepare today’s CIO to support Product Lifecycle Management. Points out unique implementation and support challenges the CIO and their team must be aware of in order to get the most business value out of PLM….
Complementary Roles of ERP and PLM
Complementary Roles of ERP and PLM: Leveraging Enterprise Applications to Maximize Product Profitability provides an overview of the roles that ERP and PLM can play in maximizing product profitability, describing recent implementations and key considerations to help manufacturers determine the right application approach for their business. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report…
Developing Sofware-Intensive Products
Perspective: Developing Software-Intensive Products: Addressing the Innovation-Complexity Conundrum presents survey data and analysis to help manufacturers understand the benefits and challenges of developing products that derive a significant amount of their capabilities from software. The terms “embedded software” and “mechatronics” really don’t describe the varied uses of software in today’s products from automobiles to appliances….
Design West – Embedded Software Conference
Jim Brown shares the results of a recent survey in a presentation with Matt Klassen of PTC at Design West, 2012 in San Jose, California. The presentation reveals the “Innovation-Complexity Conundrum.” Manufacturers are increasing the amount, importance, and innovation derived from product software resulting in important business benefits – but driving increased product development complexity….
Prior Tech-Clarity Presentations (sorry, no longer available online)
The following presentations provide a historical view of events presented by Tech-Clarity. They are either past in-person events or online events that are no longer available online. Please contact us if you are interested in reviewing any of the presentation materials or discussing the contents. Or, if you see your event here and there is…
Social Networking in Product Innovation, Product Development, and Engineering
Jim Brown presents on the use of social computing and social networking to improve product innovation. Jim presented research at a Tekes sponsored meeting in Finland on how manufacturers use social media to transform their product development processes, including the use of open innovation and crowdsourcing. View the Video Replay