View the webinar replay hosted by Christina Steiner, Oracle Alliances Marketing Manager at Kalypso. Register by visiting the Kalypso Next Generation of PLM page and scrolling down to Register Now.
For related research, watch The Future of PLM in CPG (webcast)to find out if PLM is ready to support the future of the digital consumer packaged goods industry.
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[post_content] => How do digital twins improve the way companies design, engineer, and operate today’s products and buildings? Register for this webinar as Jim Brown hosts a panel of experts to discuss how gaming engines can be applied to improve the business value of digital twins. The speakers will discuss:
How companies use digital twins to improve the way they design, engineer, create, and operate today’s products and built structures
The business case for immersive, interactive, high-fidelity visualizations and how game engines can help deliver them
Why game engines are different than existing 3D technologies
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[post_content] => How can you empower CAD users for product development success?
CAD is a critical product development tool. However, as product development environments become more complex, especially with teams distributed across multiple locations, and more groups needing access to CAD data, old ways of working may no longer be enough. What slows engineers down? Can the cloud help? We are researching common product development and collaboration challenges in our survey, Empowering CAD Users for Product Development Success. The survey takes just 10-15 minutes. As a thank you, we will send you a copy of the report summarizing the findings.
This survey is targeted especially for engineers, product development teams, and managers of those groups.
Please take the survey to share your thoughts.
In addition to the report, respondents will be entered into a drawing for one of twenty $25 Amazon gift cards.*
Individual responses will be kept confidential. Please feel free to forward this survey to others you feel have an opinion to share.
Thank you for your support, please check out our Active Research page for additional Tech-Clarity survey opportunities.
*See survey for eligibility rules
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Steffen Waite is the VP of Research for AECO and Industrialized Construction Software for independent research firm Tech-Clarity. His areas of expertise include BIM, digital twin, DfMA, ERP, PM, FM, and leveraging off-site pre-fab solutions for maximum build efficiency.
Steffen has over 30 years of experience, including construction management, product manufacturing, systems development, and virtual design and construction (VDC). After beginning his career as a project manager in building, ICI, and tunnel construction, his senior leadership roles focused on driving strategies around process, common data environments, manufacturing and assembly (DfMA), robotics, and BIM. He has a BASc (Civil Engineering) from the University of Toronto as well as certificates in Management (University of East Anglia) and BIM (University of Washington).
Mr. Waite is a thought leader who thrives on engaging with people with a passion for improving business and sustainability performance through digital enterprise strategies and software technology. His role at Tech-Clarity is to educate portfolio owners, design firms, general contractors, trade contractors, and component manufacturers on the value of technology for the built environment and asset operation.
When he’s not focused on technology, he is an avid mountain enthusiast (hiking, biking, and skiing) and spends time on the water either boating or surfing.
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[post_content] => How do you bridge the gulf between product engineering and manufacturing? In the product lifecycle, manufacturing sits at the center. Rapid product and process improvement, lower cost of quality, and business innovation rest on engineering and manufacturing working together effectively. Yet often they don’t or can’t.Tech-Clarity research shows that MES and PLM are the top two applications Top Performers use to manage manufacturing data. Yet, like the disciplines, they often have a gap between them. That break in the digital thread limits companies’ ability to be truly agile, to innovate at top quality and at minimal cost.Register to hear iBASEt’s Attila Labas, Razorleaf’s Jonathan Scott, and Tech-Clarity’s Julie Fraser as they discuss the issues and challenges of PLM-MES gap bridging. Download now to hear this recording of the live webinar.
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[post_content] => What do manufacturers need to look for as they plan to adopt cloud PLM? Our updated buyer’s guide shares requirements to help manufacturers ensure that their cloud SaaS PLM solution will meet their product innovation and digital transformation needs.
Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit our sponsor PTC (registration required).
For related research, please read some of our related buyer's guides, including How to Choose the Right PDM System and Choosing the Right PLM for the Medical Device Digital Thread.
Table of Contents
Cloud PLM Adoption Questions Shift
Increase the Value of PLM with SaaS
Buyer's Considerations
Review Deployment Options
Considerations for Adoption
Evaluate Pricing Options
Product Development Needs
Operational Considerations
Choosing the Right PLM
Choose the Right Partner
Special Considerations
Conclusions and Recommendations
Acknowledgments
PLM is the Digital Backbone for Manufacturing
Considerations for Digital Transformation with PLMThe pace of business is accelerating and companies must digitally transform to compete. Our research finds that PLM is critical to manufacturers’ digital transformations and initiatives including the digital twin and the digital thread. Today’s PLM system must serve as the product backbone of the digital manufacturing enterprise. But too many companies are stuck on old, outdated versions of their PLM system or need to move to the cloud to support their goals. Cloud SaaS can provide the modern, full featured PLM capabilities companies need while increasing agility, speed, collaboration, performance, availability, and security and simultaneously reducing cost, time to value, risk, and IT overhead.Not all “cloud” solutions, however, support digital transformation in the same way. Manufacturers should closely examine their requirements and be careful not to trade off essential PLM capabilities to meet those requirements.
Cloud PLM Adoption Questions Shift
The Shift from “If” Cloud PLM to “When and How”As recently as our 2019 buyer’s guide we observed that more companies were starting to ask “why not the cloud?” instead of “why consider cloud?” Although some companies and industries may still have obstacles that prevent them from moving to the cloud, cloud PLM solutions are quickly becoming the preferred approach. Our research shows that over one-half of manufacturers are considering cloud and about one-quarter already leverage the cloud to support product innovation and manufacturing1. Now the questions are “when and how?” to adopt Cloud PLM.Navigating the OptionsChoosing to move to the cloud is just the first step. There are still important decisions to make. The deployment choice impacts important factors including cost, security, resource requirements, performance, availability, upgradability, risk, and time to benefit. While it’s clear that the software industry is moving to a cloud SaaS model overall, not all cloud PLM solutions are following that model. Manufacturers need to go deeper into the deployment model than just “cloud.” This guide helps companies navigate the options and choose the best-suited cloud PLM solution for their business.Still a Solution First ApproachAlthough the priority for cloud solutions has increased, our surveys still show that the majority of companies put a higher priority on PLM capabilities than cloud deployment. They recognize that they don’t just need a cloud PLM system, they need a fully-featured PLM system on the cloud. Over ½ of companies stated that they were willing to give up “very little” or “no” functionality as a tradeoff for the IT benefits of the cloud.2 Companies are still not willing to shortchange functionality in this crucial area, effectively taking a “solution first” approach as opposed to a “cloud first.” Therefore, it’s important to evaluate the functional capabilities of a PLM system to ensure it will deliver the significant top- and bottom-line benefits they need from PLM.
Conclusions and Recommendations
Cloud SaaS Offers Compelling BenefitsCloud SaaS helps manufacturers achieve and extend the significant business value of PLM faster, with less risk, and lower total cost of ownership. It offers new opportunities to enhance global reach, secure design sharing, and collaboration. At the same time, it offers compelling operational benefits such as improved performance, security, access to new functionality, and scalability. But there are important things to consider when selecting a cloud PLM system, ranging from deployment options to considerations for certain industries and geographies.Recommendations for Cloud PLM SelectionTo help companies research and analyze potential solutions based on company needs, including needs that help deliver benefits well into the future, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations:
Evaluate functional solution capabilities to ensure that the PLM solution provides the rich capabilities required to support your business.
Recognize that there are significant differences in “cloud” PLM offerings.
Evaluate and select the optimal deployment and pricing models that give your business the most benefit considering cost, risk, and time to achieve value.
Consider how the deployment approach will impact future financial and operational value during updates, upgrades, and extensions
Consider the strategic value of cloud solutions for global deployments to support global design environments, remote workers, and secure supply chain collaboration.
Make sure to consider the future, including the transition to the digital enterprise. We believe that manufacturers that don’t digitally transform will be at a competitive disadvantage.
Narrow down solutions based on these high-level criteria to create a smaller list of solutions to evaluate.
Recognize that any solution selection process will require tradeoffs and understand which types of requirements are the most important to your company’s success and profitability.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the ebook and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor PTC (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the research, please contact us.
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[post_content] => Companies are making a significant shift to the cloud, how is that impacting PLM? What do manufacturers need to be aware of related to features, customization, and upgrades as they make the transition? Our survey results include insights from over one hundred manufacturers to find out.
Please enjoy the summary below.* For the full report, please visit our sponsor Aras (registration required).
For related content, watch the interactive webinar replay where Jim Brown shares in-depth insights from his conversations with customers.
Table of Contents
PLM is Moving to the Cloud
Cloud Transformation Patience is Over
Current State of PLM Boosts Cloud Opportunity
Take an Objective Look at Customization
Plan for the Reality of Customization
Understand Upgrade Processes
Ensure PLM Delivers Business Value
Conclusions
About the Research
Acknowledgments
Cloud PLM Adoption Accelerating
Develop Cloud Transition StrategyCompanies are making a significant shift to cloud software. To get a clearer picture of the manufacturing industry’s current state and future plans for cloud PLM, Tech-Clarity surveyed over one hundred larger manufacturers with over 500 employees. Survey results show that cloud PLM adoption is accelerating and becoming the norm.Understand ImplicationsManufacturers favor cloud solutions and the majority now use, or plan to use, cloud PLM. Although most companies are familiar with the benefits of the cloud, not all companies understand the implications of cloud deployment model and architecture choices. In particular, this survey examines several important considerations for ensuring they drive business value from their PLM implementation, including the impacts on:
Features needed to reach business goals
Customization to achieve business value and ensure user adoption
Upgrade timing to access innovation while remaining compliant
PLM is Moving to the Cloud
Manufacturers Now Favor the CloudThe shift to cloud software is a relatively recent, fundamental shift in IT architecture. Only 17% of companies participating in our 2018 study1 had a software strategy that called for only using the cloud, using the cloud unless no capable solution was available, or preferring the cloud. Instead, over one-third would choose the most capable solution and about one-quarter did not consider or allow the cloud.The 2022 survey reflects a dramatically different climate. Now, about three-quarters of companies favor, prefer, or mandate the cloud for their new software selections. In fact, only 4% of responding companies say they do not consider or allow the cloud. PLM Cloud Transformation has AcceleratedThose results detail companies’ overall cloud strategy, but how does that relate to PLM? PLM adoption has traditionally lagged behind other enterprise software solutions. While some attributed lower adoption to security concerns, we believe it was because companies were forced to choose between cloud solutions or fully-featured PLM. Either way, it’s clear that the PLM transformation is now picking up pace. Almost three-quarters of surveyed companies are either using cloud PLM or to planning to do so. Very few, on the other hand, are unwilling to use the cloud. Our experience shows that this is likely due to regulatory or customer mandates.
Conclusions
The Transition is UnderwayA fundamental cloud PLM transition is underway and has accelerated. Despite a slower start than some other applications like ERP or CRM, manufacturers are rapidly pursuing cloud PLM solutions. Cloud PLM offers significant benefits, and companies appear to have transitioned from deciding “if” to implement a cloud solution for PLM and now are discussing “when” and “how.” Cloud Transformation Offers Additional Improvement OpportunitiesIn addition to cloud benefits, the large number of companies planning to replace their PLM system with a cloud offering can benefit from a “reset” if their PLM system does not move to the cloud quickly enough. This reset may be valuable because the common state of PLM hampers progress and value due to:
Outdated PLM systems that have not been recently upgraded, resulting in missed opportunity to take advantage of functional and technical enhancement opportunities. Our experience shows this is frequently due to dead-end customization approaches that make upgrades extremely challenging.
Multiple PLM systems, leading to high cost and operational disadvantages that limit PLM value.
Companies Must Consider PLM Approach and Architecture to Ensure ValueCloud is compelling but key architecture and solution decisions impact the value companies can achieve. Manufacturers need to carefully consider their chosen cloud PLM for its impact on:
The need and ability to customize PLM
The requirements and limitations related to controlling PLM upgrade timing
The ability to deliver the rich PLM capabilities they need to deliver value
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Aras (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us.
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[post_content] => Should you be improving continuous improvement (CI) in your company? For many companies, the answer is yes. Find out the difference between a typical continuous improvement program and one that’s better in this infographic to see whether you have room for improvement on your CI.Data is at the heart of any CI program. Yet often, gathering, cleansing, normalizing, and using the data is so cumbersome that fewer improvements can take place than are possible. Trusting the data is often a challenge, too. Nearly everyone has seen situations where incorrect data led to poor decisions. What if you had a system to manage the data for CI that ensured everyone contributed accurate data and then made it available for analysis at any time?Comparability and consistency of the data are other areas where CI often struggles. Because the metrics and goals for various CI projects are often completely different, it can be difficult to understand the true business value and prioritize where to focus. CI is designed for teams doing the work to participate in or even lead. That’s empowering, but it can be challenging to gain consistency and still fit the localized needs. What if you had a system that helped enforce best practices and translated potential and realized benefits into something comparable and meaningful to the business?Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research please visit our sponsor, PTC (registration required).For related research, read A New Era of Manufacturing Continuous Improvementto learn how to create a modern, balanced, improved continuous improvement program.
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[post_content] => What does the future look like for PLM in the CPG industry? Tech-Clarity led an interactive discussion with Pepsico and Kalypso PLM leaders in a Kalypso-hosted webinar. It was an interactive discussion with PLM industry leaders from a variety of roles to discuss the findings of our recent research on the Future of PLM in CPG. The panel brought together over six decades of PLM experience from industry, trusted advisors, and research perspectives. The panel, hosted by Kalypso's Consumer Industry Marketing Manager Hadley Bauer, consisted of:
Susan Hamel, PepsiCo's Senior Director of Global R&D, shared her experience in advancing the PLM agenda over the last 20 years
Colin Speakman, Kalypso's Consumer Goods Global Director, offered his experience, knowledge, and strong relationships with CPG companies
Jim Brown, Tech-Clarity's President of Product Innovation and Digital Transformation Research
We also gained insights from the audience through some poll questions.Review a summary blog post contributed by Jim Brown to the Kalypso Viewpoints blog.You can also read the complete research or watch the webinar replay on the Kalypso site.
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[post_content] => How can strategic sourcing professionals lower risk and cost in these uncertain times? This new paper by Procurement Leaders points to the potential of AI in a marketplace, and quotes Tech-Clarity’s Julie Fraser.Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit Procurement Leaders (registration required).Materials price increases and supplier risk have not abated since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditional procurement automation systems do not address those issues effectively. Thus, companies must find new ways to combat what appears to be a permanent situation. “Flipping the pyramid” to use mostly external data and combine internal data with it may hold the key. Marketplaces are once again taking the stage, and with advanced analytics behind them, the benefits are significant. This paper has a concrete example from Bose. Electronics is an example of an industry where many suppliers and parts are used by a multitude of companies, and available both direct from the manufacturer and from distributors. This makes it ideal for such a marketplace approach.Fraser points out that near real-time data about supply and logistics from outside still needs a way to get into context with internal data for analytics to perform. If a platform allows that, it can truly push out insights that lead to decisions for how to improve costs and reduce risk.Read the report to learn more. Thanks, Malcolm Wheatley for the opportunity to share our point of view along with many luminaries.
For related research with Julie Fraser, please read Procurement automation: advancing to the future.
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[post_content] => What can manufacturers do to gain full business value from IIoT investments? Julie Fraser shares three tips to create a firm foundation for success on The Peggy Smedley Show podcast.Hear four examples of how new technology infrastructure and architecture can support bridging the IT/OT divide. Plus a focus on process improvement and people. All of these can deliver strong IIoT business value - if you stay focused on them. Listen to this in this episode to get some ideas for what you might do to better ensure IIoT projects deliver business benefits.
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[post_content] => What can you expect for PLM ROI? How will it help your business?Engineers waste a lot of valuable time on non-value-added work. However, our research finds that Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can help. It provides business value by empowering engineers to focus more of their valuable time on innovation, design, and engineering. Still, how can it help YOUR company? Tech-Clarity's 5-minute online assessment leverages our research to help you assess and predict the business value of PLM at your company so that you will have a better understanding of PLM's Return on Investment (ROI).
The Online Assessment
This online assessment asks a few questions to understand the goals of your business, your development environment, your top challenge, and the complexity of your products. It then calculates the expected time and cost savings, plus increased revenue opportunities, based on the experiences of companies that develop similarly complex products. In addition to the calculated values, the assessment produces a customized report explaining how PLM can help your company meet its top goals and solve your biggest challenge.Take the online assessment here.You will also have the option to save, print, and share the results.Learn more about Teamcenter PLM from our sponsor, Siemens. For related research, you may be interested in our eBook, The Business Value of Reducing Engineering Time Wasters.
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[post_content] => What should you consider to ensure your MBE strategy is successful?Manufacturers adopting a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) strategy report improved traceability and agility, faster delivery, greater efficiency, and lower costs. What should you consider to realize similar benefits? An MBE is an organization that uses digital models to support commissioning, operating, servicing, and decommissioning a product, thereby eliminating many of the process and coordination challenges associated with managing products with paper-based, manual processes throughout their lifecycle.Adopting a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Strategy? What You Should Know, a research report based on a survey of 250 discrete manufacturers, establishes a "state of the market" for MBE adoption. In addition, it identifies best practices and considerations to help you progress to higher maturity levels during your MBE adoption journey. This understanding should help manufacturers better plan and prepare for the journey by leveraging people, process, and technology to maximize return on investment as early as possible.Please enjoy the summary below.* For the full report, please visit our sponsor iBASEt (registration required).
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
MBE Definition
Adopting MBE
Top Performers
Maturity Index
MBE Impact
Adoption Challenges
Recommendations
About the Research
Acknowledgments
The MBE Vision
Realizing the Vision
The ultimate vision for MBE is for every function to leverage the product model across the entire product lifecycle (see graphic). However, this vision will take time to realize. By planning for it now, your company can start experiencing some of the early benefits, but it can be tricky figuring out how to get started. This eBook provides guidance to help you begin, proceed along the journey, and anticipate potential challenges that could inhibit progress.
Adoption Conclusions
Challenges Evolve
As companies start their journey, they run into many process challenges. However, as they work through it, process is less likely to be a top challenge.
On the other hand, technology is less of an adoption hurdle early on. However, as the journey progresses and companies automate more, technology plays a more prominent role and it becomes a bigger challenge.
Overall, the people and culture challenges are the biggest adoption hurdle, regardless of where companies are in the journey.
Success ConsiderationsDo not let technology concerns hold you back as you start the MBE journey. MBE offers benefits early on, while technology does not become a bigger issue until later.
Upfront, think more about process. This is an opportunity to modernize and rethink how processes should work without the limitations of current approaches. Today's environment and products have evolved significantly, so processes developed decades ago will likely hold you back.
Do not overlook people and culture changes. Executive support is critical, and training needs must be addressed regularly throughout the journey. Employees need to understand the value of the new approach, why it is better for them, and how it will help them do an even better job, in less time, with higher quality.
Vendors who have a strong vision for MBE can be a great asset. Those involved in standards organizations such as NIST will likely support the latest standards. Look for software solutions that will leverage semantic PMI to automate work.
Recommendations
Recommendations and Next Steps
Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations to adopt an MBE strategy:
Use MBE as an opportunity to rethink your business operations to enable greater efficiency, lower cost, and improve quality while better serving your customers.
Consider using the MBE Maturity Index as a framework to guide your adoption journey.
Ensure executives are involved enough to provide support and leadership as needed.
Establish new processes structured around a 3D model to help overcome ingrained 2D processes.
Use CAD tools with more mature capabilities for model-based product definitions, MBD.
Work with software vendors who have a vision for how Operations should leverage semantic PMI. Keep in mind, MBE spans multiple domains and includes solutions for Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality.
Use vendors who are involved with standards organizations so that you can benefit from the best practices developed by these independent organizations.
Do not overlook the people challenges. Meeting training needs and ensuring all staff understand the business value and benefit to them will be critical to overcome the cultural resistance to change. This should be an ongoing consideration, especially as new technology is introduced throughout the entire journey.
*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor iBASEt (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us.
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[post_content] => What has changed in the past 30 years of manufacturing? Listen to the Manufacturing IT Podcastepisode where Julie Fraser shares her thoughts with host Daniel Langley. We wander through topics from cigars and sexism to rebranding manufacturing
and remaking companies to be more customer-centric and serious about ESG to overcome the skills shortage. You’ll hear the excitement of myriad new technologies allowing visions of data-driven operations coming to reality. We touch on research and why technology matters to businesses.
Watch the podcast on YouTube or listen on Apple Music.
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[post_content] => Has the time come to do continuous improvement (CI) on the approach to CI? We think so. There is a new era in manufacturing, so it’s time for a new era in continuous improvement programs. We interviewed manufacturers, consultants, and associations to validate the notion we explain in this white paper. Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research please visit our sponsor, PTC (registration required).
For related research, read Getting Beyond Percentages to Insights with OEE to learn how to accelerate improvements with your equipment.
Table of Contents
Executive Overview
New Era in Manufacturing
The Problem-Solving Story
Five New-Era CI Needs
New Era in Manufacturing
Expected and Engaging
Distributed and Elevated
Diverse Yet Harmonized
Learning-focused and Digital
Enabling CI Sequels
Recommendations
References
About the Author
Executive Overview
There’s a new Era in Manufacturing; it is time for a new era of continuous improvement (CI). This is a time of digital approaches delivering an array of new capabilities and insights that can move the business beyond unpleasant trade-offs.In this new era, CI gets enterprise-wide standardization and support and keeps the enthusiasm of local teams and employees. It delivers both local breakthroughs and views that support executives in understanding progress and prioritizing resources for the following CI projects in ways that make sense to everyone.Appropriate digitalization enables CI teams to get reliable access to all of the data they need from a wide variety of sources. Beyond that, it supports them in gaining rich insights from the data with far less effort than ever before.Goals and results are translated into a shared, visceral unit of improvement that matters to shop floor operators, supervisors, managers, and executives: time. By feeding shared understanding, this digitally-supported CI is more likely to keep generating enthusiasm and benefits even as the business shifts and changes.
Recommendations
Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations:
Assess and understand how well your CI program matches your current and future needs for competitiveness and responsiveness to the unexpected
Continue to train on CI best practices from organizations such as AME
Make CI systematic, and begin to ingrain good practices in the culture and processes
Engage everyone: top executives through all levels of management to associates
Leverage industry resources such as MESA’s Analytics Guidebook to develop a strategy that harmonizes business and operational metrics
Go beyond financial to time metrics to harmonize and prioritize projects
Explore modern software explicitly designed to support performance improvement and measurement in manufacturing
Use digital means to support your CI process and your organization’s ongoing success
This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor PTC (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us.
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Customer expectations for rapid, complete shipments are rising constantly. How can a business set supply chain strategy to meet current and future needs? Listen to this webcast from July 19, 2022 where Julie Fraser explores this with Kenny William of Parts Town and Victoria Brown of Körber Supply Chain. Both have deep experience in ensuring that warehouse management software (WMS) keeps products moving even when customer expectations change.
You will hear and learn about:
how to manage uncertainty
examples of how to stay agile
WMS software flexibility and ability to support constant change
keeping up with process improvements
accelerating movement through the warehouse
Whether you’re an innovator at core or know you need to be more so to keep a strong market position, this fireside-chat-style webinar will illuminate some of the ways to create extraordinary customer experiences with your supply chain strategy. Register for the webcast replay to hear this discussion on the impact customer expectations have on organizations.
For related research, please read our Warehouse Management Systems Buyer's Guideto learn the key factors to consider when selecting warehouse management software (WMS).
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[post_content] => Beyond implementing lab technologies, what can laboratories do to leverage them effectively? We surveyed 222 people working in corporate labs to find out.Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systemès BIOVIA (registration required).
Table of Contents
Current Situation
Challenges
Technology - The Solution?
Additional Needs
Recommendations
About the Research
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Technology Pays Off, but Maximum Performance Requires MoreCan new technology in the laboratory help make companies more successful? Apparently. Almost universally, those who use them report they deliver significant business benefits. Yet constant changes, including changes in processes, materials, and technology, create challenges. To minimize inefficiency, most labs have worked toward good processes and practices. All of that is still not delivering total potential value.This research of 222 respondents from labs worldwide indicates that new technologies and processes are insufficient. Very few respondents report good – let alone excellent – performance on throughput, cycle time, documentation for compliance, or analyzing data and making sound decisions. It appears that greater integration and data standardization, a data-centric mindset, and process shift are also required.
Recommendations
Recommendations and Next Steps
Don’t rest on current processes and practices' successes; leverage new technology. You can expect excellent benefits.
Choose technologies that will deliver the performance improvements your business most needs from the lab.
Recognize that new technology may cause challenges for the lab. Prepare both education on the goals and training on the changes needed for each role to leverage it fully.
Be sure you gain significant benefits from each new technology you deploy; measure and quantify gains.
Beyond investing in new technology, be prepared to standardize and integrate it, possibly with a single platform.
Learn about industry standards such as Allotrope and consider whether they might support and guide your efforts in making laboratory data broadly usable.
Focus on not just having data but making it accessible and ready to aggregate, correlate, and use in new ways, such as advanced analytics.
Ensure that data scientists and lab domain experts work together closely to generate actionable insights that deliver business value from the data.
Realize that the data-centric mindset and approach are likely to be missing or immature, so get a top management sponsor who can support a culture shift and appropriate resources.
This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systemès BIOVIA (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us.
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[post_content] => What does MES need for manufacturing IT agility and to stay current in our uncertain world? It’s more than fit and functionality: a modern IT architecture. We talked to leading high-tech manufacturers to understand their vision for this.Please enjoy the summary below. For the full paper, please visit our sponsor Critical Manufacturing (registration required).
For related research, please watch the MES Architecture for More Resilient, Responsive, and Agile Manufacturing webcast.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Nothing is Stable
Production Process Impact
The Challenge of Enterprise MES
Modern MES Capabilities
Containerization for Deployment Choice
Container Orchestration to Optimize IT Performance
DevOps Environment for Progress
Extending DevOps for Ecosystem Access
Deployment Coordination
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Executive Summary
Digital transformation aims to enhance agility. It must encompass every aspect of a business, including information technology (IT), business teams, and production operations, including the operations technology (OT) teams. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and related plant floor software have been challenging to implement, maintain, and upgrade. However, manufacturers operating in uncertain times need better agility to succeed with continuous improvement and operational excellence.The ability to change quickly has become more complex. Today, it involves greater collaboration. Investment in new digital technologies, operating systems, and software applications has become a top strategic priority. This shift is now driving a digital transformation across manufacturing IT systems.Upgrading to a modern Manufacturing IT system unlocks exponential performance improvement by improving responsiveness. Manufacturers can leverage containerization strategies and DevOps environments by investing in new IT solutions with an advanced technology architecture to improve efficiency, customer satisfaction, and profit margins.
FIGURE 6: OPENING DEVOPS FOR ECOSYSTEM ACCESS BEYOND THE SOFTWARE PROVIDER TO SERVICES PARTNERS AND MANUFACTURING IT TEAMS ENABLES ALL PARTIES TO KEEP THE SOFTWARE CURRENT AND OPTIMIZED
Conclusion
Today’s relentless pace and scope of change have forever altered how manufacturers operate. This requires companies to change the evaluation and selection process for purchasing software and systems. Companies can no longer risk staying with legacy IT systems or MES software applications in a world of extreme change and uncertainty. Even many current MES products cannot keep up.Innovation in the software industry has yielded an array of new architectures, deployment methodologies, and hosting options. They are finally arriving on the factory floor. These advanced technologies can overcome the challenges associated with uncertainty by streamlining the configuration, standardization, and update processes related to application management. Orchestrated containerization and new DevOps platforms improve collaboration and facilitate enterprise MES deployment. This agility in architecture and tooling is fundamental to overcoming extreme uncertainty.Manufacturers can implement a modern MES to unlock these benefits – provided it is built on a fully up-to-date architecture. With this foundation, is it possible to:
Establish a perfect fit in every site and line, even with special one-off needs
Manage, customize, and update applications consistently from a Center of Excellence (CoE)
Boost performance and progress from a digital transformation strategy by using a single enterprise manufacturing software suite that is agile, responsive, and fully supports both line of business and IT needs.
We can expect the challenges and uncertainty manufacturers face to remain or even intensify. Digital transformation that modernizes the architecture of plant floor applications such as MES, scheduling, maintenance, quality, automation, and IIoT can deliver the agility manufacturers need. Those that embrace this change and implement new modern manufacturing IT systems will be better prepared to navigate a more resilient, profitable course into the future.This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Critical Manufacturing (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us.
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Tech-Clarity Celebrates 20 Years of Making the Value of Technology Clear
A message from Jim Brown, President of Tech-Clarity...
Tech-Clarity recently turned 20 years old.I have to admit that it snuck up on me. I didn’t think much about it until I started getting “congratulations on your work anniversary” messages on LinkedIn. Two decades is a long time to do anything, let alone have the same job. But here it is, and I couldn’t be happier about it. And I have a lot of thanks to offer.
Why Tech-Clarity?
Seeing how software technology can help improve business performance in manufacturing is a fascinating thing. I had the chance to experience it from a variety of angles – in manufacturing, as a management consultant, and as a product manager and marketing leader in the software industry. Everywhere I went, I saw a consistent need. Tech people didn’t understand business people, and business people didn’t understand tech people. Somebody needed to bridge the gap in understanding between software and the business value it drives. That’s why Tech-Clarity was created with the mission to make the business value of technology clear.
Time has Passed, Surely People “Get it” Now?
So much has changed over the last 20 years. Technology has evolved at a blistering pace. Business has transitioned from business process re-engineering, to lean, to digital transformation. The way people educate themselves about software has also changed, from attending conferences and reading paper reports to consuming eBooks, videos, infographics, interactive benchmarking tools, animations, and more. The web and the rise of social media put extensive information at everyone’s fingertips. Yet, even as younger, more tech-savvy generations have entered the workforce, the need – and our mission – has not changed. In fact, we believe it’s more important today than ever because business people are a more significant part of the process.
What Now? Thanking Everyone (and sorry for inevitably missing some)
After 20, what I feel most is grateful. I have so much to be thankful for and so many people to thank. First, I want to thank Michelle Boucher for being the “A-Team” and helping us continuously improve. You have been the stable presence in “Team Tech-Clarity.” Thanks to Julie Fraser, who expanded our coverage as product innovation and engineering converged with manufacturing operations, and for all of the wisdom you provide. And thank you to Mandy Jiang for helping our research reach and inspire so many people. I also want to thank James White and Jeff Hojlo for the roles they played on our analyst team. I also want to express my gratitude to my team at Aberdeen Group. I learned a lot from them as Tech-Clarity was acquired to create the Product Innovation and Engineering practice. I also learned from the manufacturing team when they joined us before I left to resume the Tech-Clarity mission independently. I was fortunate to work with some talented and amazing people, many of whom have gone on to bigger and better things. Thank you to Chad Jackson for helping create and lead the practice, and to a team that always made things work, including Michelle Boucher, Risa Barnett, Dave Houlihan, Maura Buxton, Marjorie Westerman, Dave Mesgar, Adam Hollander, Scott Mitchem, Ric Stanley, and Dave Ableman. A special thanks also to Matt Littlefield, Mehul Shah, and Cindy Jutras, who put up with me as we merged our teams – we were ahead of the times!Thanks to my friends at COFES, including Brad Holtz and Joel Orr, for trusting me as a part of the team. Thanks also to Pete Wells, Lynne Allen, and Jim Doxey for teaming up on the Board of Directors to keep the spirit alive. May it rise again in some form. Thanks to our partners along the way. Thanks to my clients. There are too many of you to name, but please know how much I appreciate your support over the years. I am deeply touched and appreciative for your trust and willingness to support our mission. Thank you to the multitude of manufacturers that I’ve surveyed, interviewed, and worked with for keeping me grounded in the reality of what it takes to design and produce products amidst increasing complexity. Thanks to my family and especially my wife Cori Brown for their support and understanding of why what we do at Tech-Clarity means so much to me.
Time to Get Started on the Next 20 Years
In addition to feeling grateful, I feel energized. I am excited about how digital transformation is fundamentally changing the manufacturing industry in profound ways. There are so many cool things happening in manufacturing itself and the engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise software that supports it. With the technological evolution and advances and the lines blurring between business and technology, we still need education on how tech drives better business results.The Tech-Clarity team and I are looking forward to the next 20 years!
Be a Part of It
I invite you to be a part of it. Click the follow button on the Tech-Clarity, Inc. LinkedIn page. Visit our website to sign up for our newsletter and surveys. And most of all, keep us up to date on all of the cool, innovative things you’re seeing and doing. Let’s keep moving forward. There is still a lot of business value to be uncovered and realized. Thanks again for the opportunity to be a part of it.
Our History in Visuals (Just for Fun)
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[post_content] => How does the right PLM help improve product development collaboration to create agility, speed, and quality in product innovation? What collaborative capabilities should companies look for when they select a PLM platform?Products and product development have become increasingly challenging as manufacturers push the boundaries of product innovation and product development velocity. Manufacturers have to be increasingly agile to react to changing customer needs and market opportunities in the global economy. To support this, today’s product innovation process requires contributions from many roles across the enterprise and the supply chain. Efficient and effective design collaboration across departments, customers, the supply chain, and regulators is more critical than ever.
Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit our sponsor PTC (registration required).
For related research, please read some of our previous buyer's guides, 'How to' Choose the Right PDM System,Engineering Buyer's Guide for Multi-Discipline Systems, or PLM for the Medical Device Digital Thread.
Table of Contents
Introducing the Buyer's Guide
The Collaboration Imperative
What to Look for: Digital Thread
What to Look for: Design for X
What to Look for: Concurrent Engineering
What to Look for: Partner Collaboration
Considerations by Role
Special Considerations
Implementation and Adoption
Vendor Considerations
Conclusions and Next Steps
Acknowledgments
Introducing the Buyer’s Guide
Structure of the GuideThis buyer’s guide analyzes the strategic necessity of effective multi-enterprise collaboration and shares the criteria companies should consider when choosing a supporting PLM solution. The guide begins with functional requirements needed to streamline collaboration and create digital continuity across the product lifecycle. The guide looks at collaboration capabilities along four critical categories:
Supporting the digital thread
Allowing “design for x”
Enabling concurrent engineering
Ensuring secure partner collaboration
The guide covers each of these needs and then goes beyond functional considerations to identify special considerations, vendor requirements, and important factors to ensuring successful implementation and adoption.
Conclusions and Next Steps
Effective Multi-Enterprise Collaboration is MandatoryBetter multi-enterprise collaboration streamlines and improves product innovation processes to get the right products to market, the right way, at the right time. It helps companies get products to market faster and avoid costly, time-consuming errors. Beyond that, collaboration allows manufacturers to embrace product and product development complexity to push the boundaries of product innovation, product development speed, and agility. To operate effectively in this complex environment, manufacturers must collaborate effectively across departments, customers, the supply chain, and regulators. PLM Serves as the Backbone for Multi-Enterprise CollaborationPLM is the backbone for multi-enterprise collaboration. Companies must choose a PLM platform that can serve as the foundation to improve product development collaboration to create agility, speed, and quality in product innovation.To do this, they must select a PLM system that allows them to:
Support the digital thread
Allow “design for x”
Enable concurrent engineering
Ensure secure partner collaboration
Go Beyond Product RequirementsAs with any software selection, recognize that product capabilities are important but only one part of the criteria. Manufacturers must keep in mind factors related to implementation, adoption, security, integration, and vendor support to make sure they get full value from their chosen solution.*This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our PTC (registration required).If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us.
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[post_content] => What does the future of PLM look like in the CPG industry? Watch this webcast to gain insights into the value of PLM, its importance to broader supply chain and digital thread processes, and its ability to help CPG companies innovate smarter and faster than ever before. Jim shares the findings from his survey on the future of PLM in CPG and engages an industry expert panel including:
What does the future of PLM look like in the CPG industry? Watch this webcast to gain insights into the value of PLM, its importance to broader supply chain and digital thread processes, and its ability to help CPG companies innovate smarter and faster than ever before. Jim shares the findings from his survey on…
How do digital twins improve the way companies design, engineer, and operate today’s products and buildings? Register for this webinar as Jim Brown hosts a panel of experts to discuss how gaming engines can be applied to improve the business value of digital twins. The speakers will discuss: How companies use digital twins to improve…
How can you empower CAD users for product development success? CAD is a critical product development tool. However, as product development environments become more complex, especially with teams distributed across multiple locations, and more groups needing access to CAD data, old ways of working may no longer be enough. What slows engineers down? Can the…
Steffen Waite is the VP of Research for AECO and Industrialized Construction Software for independent research firm Tech-Clarity. His areas of expertise include BIM, digital twin, DfMA, ERP, PM, FM, and leveraging off-site pre-fab solutions for maximum build efficiency. Steffen has over 30 years of experience, including construction management, product manufacturing, systems development, and virtual…
How do you bridge the gulf between product engineering and manufacturing? In the product lifecycle, manufacturing sits at the center. Rapid product and process improvement, lower cost of quality, and business innovation rest on engineering and manufacturing working together effectively. Yet often they don’t or can’t. Tech-Clarity research shows that MES and PLM are the…
What do manufacturers need to look for as they plan to adopt cloud PLM? Our updated buyer’s guide shares requirements to help manufacturers ensure that their cloud SaaS PLM solution will meet their product innovation and digital transformation needs. Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit our sponsor PTC (registration required). For…
Companies are making a significant shift to the cloud, how is that impacting PLM? What do manufacturers need to be aware of related to features, customization, and upgrades as they make the transition? Our survey results include insights from over one hundred manufacturers to find out. Please enjoy the summary below.* For the full report,…
Should you be improving continuous improvement (CI) in your company? For many companies, the answer is yes. Find out the difference between a typical continuous improvement program and one that’s better in this infographic to see whether you have room for improvement on your CI. Data is at the heart of any CI program. Yet…
What does the future look like for PLM in the CPG industry? Tech-Clarity led an interactive discussion with Pepsico and Kalypso PLM leaders in a Kalypso-hosted webinar. It was an interactive discussion with PLM industry leaders from a variety of roles to discuss the findings of our recent research on the Future of PLM in…
How can strategic sourcing professionals lower risk and cost in these uncertain times? This new paper by Procurement Leaders points to the potential of AI in a marketplace, and quotes Tech-Clarity’s Julie Fraser. Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit Procurement Leaders (registration required). Materials price increases and supplier risk have…
What can manufacturers do to gain full business value from IIoT investments? Julie Fraser shares three tips to create a firm foundation for success on The Peggy Smedley Show podcast. Hear four examples of how new technology infrastructure and architecture can support bridging the IT/OT divide. Plus a focus on process improvement and people. All…
What can you expect for PLM ROI? How will it help your business? Engineers waste a lot of valuable time on non-value-added work. However, our research finds that Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can help. It provides business value by empowering engineers to focus more of their valuable time on innovation, design, and engineering. Still, how…
What should you consider to ensure your MBE strategy is successful? Manufacturers adopting a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) strategy report improved traceability and agility, faster delivery, greater efficiency, and lower costs. What should you consider to realize similar benefits? An MBE is an organization that uses digital models to support commissioning, operating, servicing, and decommissioning a…
What has changed in the past 30 years of manufacturing? Listen to the Manufacturing IT Podcast episode where Julie Fraser shares her thoughts with host Daniel Langley. We wander through topics from cigars and sexism to rebranding manufacturing and remaking companies to be more customer-centric and serious about ESG to overcome the skills shortage. You’ll…
Has the time come to do continuous improvement (CI) on the approach to CI? We think so. There is a new era in manufacturing, so it’s time for a new era in continuous improvement programs. We interviewed manufacturers, consultants, and associations to validate the notion we explain in this white paper. Please enjoy the summary*…
Customer expectations for rapid, complete shipments are rising constantly. How can a business set supply chain strategy to meet current and future needs? Listen to this webcast from July 19, 2022 where Julie Fraser explores this with Kenny William of Parts Town and Victoria Brown of Körber Supply Chain. Both have deep experience in…
Beyond implementing lab technologies, what can laboratories do to leverage them effectively? We surveyed 222 people working in corporate labs to find out. Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systemès BIOVIA (registration required). Table of Contents Current Situation Challenges Technology – The Solution? Additional Needs Recommendations About…
What does MES need for manufacturing IT agility and to stay current in our uncertain world? It’s more than fit and functionality: a modern IT architecture. We talked to leading high-tech manufacturers to understand their vision for this. Please enjoy the summary below. For the full paper, please visit our sponsor Critical Manufacturing (registration required)….
Tech-Clarity Celebrates 20 Years of Making the Value of Technology Clear A message from Jim Brown, President of Tech-Clarity… Tech-Clarity recently turned 20 years old. I have to admit that it snuck up on me. I didn’t think much about it until I started getting “congratulations on your work anniversary” messages on LinkedIn. Two decades…
How does the right PLM help improve product development collaboration to create agility, speed, and quality in product innovation? What collaborative capabilities should companies look for when they select a PLM platform? Products and product development have become increasingly challenging as manufacturers push the boundaries of product innovation and product development velocity. Manufacturers have to…