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…
- 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)
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Service Lifecycle Management Goes Mobile: Taking Field Service Applications into the Field is a guide to furthering the value of Service Lifecycle Management through the pragmatic implementation of mobile technology.
Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor Astea.
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Furthering Service Value with Mobile Technology
- Tie the Field to the Business
- Remove Paper from the Process
- Mobile Technology Enables Better SLM
- Mobile Technology Furthers the Benefits of SLM
- Taking SLM Mobile
- Mobile Apps - Not Backoffice Applications Taken on the Road
- Living Within the Reality of Mobile Constraints
- Get the Right Partner
- Summary
- About the Author
Successful PLM Programs: Maximizing Business Value through a Phased PLM Strategy reviews the characteristics of a phased approach for manufacturers to meet their PLM objectives, highlighting some relevant, successful PLM Programs.
Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor Dassault.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- An Incremental Approach to Strategic Value
- The PLM Program
- Potential PLM Projects – Phasing by Business Improvement
- Potential PLM Projects – Phasing by Organization
- Unexpected Benefits
- Launching the PLM Program
- Recommendations
- Summary
- About the Author
Living with the Dynamics of Electronic Components: The Importance of Component Event Management in a PLM Strategy discusses the inherent challenge of managing product lifecycles for products that contain electronic components, given that the components often have shorter lifecycles than the parent products. Introduces the concept of Component Event Management (CEM) to combat component obsolescence.
Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor IHS.
Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Product and Component Lifecycles - The Disconnect
- The Impact of Component Events
- The Fuses Have Been Lit
- The Windows of Opportunity Are Closing
- Enter Component Event Management
- Implementing Component Event Management
- Recommendations
- Conclusion
- About the Author
Mass Customization of Highly Configurable Products: Designing, Selling and Producing “Simple” Products discusses the challenges that mass customization places on manufacturing companies. Describes how customization makes seemingly "simple" products complex to design, sell and produce.Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Executive Overview
Imagine walking into a car showroom and saying “I want the late model sedan, but please give it to me with 4 more inches of legroom in the front, the tachometer moved to the left of the dash, and with an additional trunk release lever on the passenger side”. What you would find is that the automotive industry, while they offer many features and options on their products, has significant limitations in providing truly customized products. But these types of requests are commonplace for highly configurable products like windows, doors, kitchen or bath cabinets, office furniture and even some industrial equipment like hydraulic valves. It seems counter-intuitive, but the process of selling, designing, and producing what appear to be “simple” products becomes surprisingly complex when manufacturers introduce high levels of customization. And demand for customization is on the increase.
As Pine, Pepper and Rodgers said in a Harvard Business Review article in 1995, “Customers … do not want more choices. They want exactly what they want – when, where, and how they want it ... ”. This comment highlighted the increasing demand for products that are highly tailored to meet specific customer demands. This concept provided the motivation for many manufacturers to re-engineer sales and marketing processes to offer more customized products to their customers. The article highlighted increased production flexibility and more advanced design tools as key enablers of this concept. But the ability for manufacturers to meet demands for highly customized products, sometimes known as “mass customization”, varies greatly depending on the company’s ability to bridge the gap between selling a customized product and being able to produce it rapidly and cost effectively. Some industries are delivering mass customized products today, but those that do are struggling with manual and inefficient processes to bring together the configured sales process and the design and production of the configured item.
This paper explores opportunities for manufacturers to improve their competitiveness and profitability based on their ability to effectively provide customized products – products that can be delivered in a large number of variations or configurations - at cost levels comparable to mass production. The paper tries to answer the following questions:
- What challenges must manufacturers overcome in order to provide world-class performance in selling and delivering customized products?
- How can manufacturers provide customers with seemingly infinite flexibility in product choices and still keep their margins in check?
- How can manufacturers turn these capabilities into more deals won, and deals won at better margins?
- How can manufacturers improve their overall throughput and shorten the delivery cycle for mass customized products?
- How can manufacturers design and manage products in a way that streamlines and automates the customization effort once the product is ordered?
Digital Manufacturing: The PLM Approach to Better Manufacturing Processes Discusses the use of technology—including 3D CAD and simulation—within a PLM strategy to help manufacturers develop more profitable products by optimizing the planning, development and deployment of better manufacturing processes. 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
- Digital Manufacturing in a PLM Strategy
- Produce it Digitally – Before Investing
- Simulation Encourages Innovation
- Find the “Gotcha” Before Design Freeze
- Reduce the Need for Physical Prototypes and Mockups
- Build the Process in Parallel
- Optimize the Production Line – Before Deployment
- Optimize Assembly Sequences and Steps
- Communicate Processes to the Plant
- Don’t Forget the People Factor – Ergonomics
- Keep Production Equipment in Production
- Don’t Leave Manufacturing in a Vacuum
- Adopting Digital Manufacturing Concepts
- Managing the Digital Manufacturing Program
- Recommendations
- About the Author
The Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM: Extending PLM with Product Information Management explores how Product Information Management (PIM) can extend the value of PLM implementations by providing complementary tools and capabilities. 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
- “Products” and “Items”
- The “Single Source of Truth”
- The Demand for Commercial Product Information
- PIM and PLM Working Together
- Current State of PLM
- Table: Key Benefits PIM Adds to PLM
- Recommendations
- Summary
- About the Author
Maximizing Product Development Value: Realizing Value from New Products and Portfolios highlights key insights on realizing value from new products based on discussions with product development leaders. Analyzes a new approach to portfolio management that focuses on achieving the economic value available from new products. 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
- For Better Portfolios—Focus on the Value
- Visualize Where Project Value is Earned
- Managing for Value
- Asking the Real Portfolio Questions – Where to Invest
- Asking the Real Portfolio Questions – How Much to Invest
- Beyond the Bubbles – A New Breed of Portfolio Software
- Conclusion
- About the Author
Product Lifecycle Management Proving Value at Heinz: A PLM Case Study from the Consumer Goods Industry - Food and Beverage reviews the strategic value achieved by Heinz from implementing Product Lifecycle Management processed and software in their global business. 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
- Introduction
- Heinz Recognizes a Business Need
- Heinz Takes a Global Approach
- Unique Considerations at Heinz
- Unique Technical Considerations
- Heinz Selects an Industry-Focused Solution
- The Prodika* Solution
- Heinz Adopts a Pragmatic Deployment Approach
- Meeting the Initial Goals
- Additional Benefits – Satisfying Retail Customers
- Key Observations
- Summary
- About the Author
- Reducing complexity in product portfolios and raw material management
- Decreasing the proliferation of new materials and sourcing relationships
- Cross pollinating best practices among and between business units
- Streamlining the way Heinz brings new products to market
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle: Reduced Risk and Lowered Costs Through Proactive EH&S examines the importance that regulatory compliance and product related EH&S play in protecting the value available from PLM across the product lifecycle. 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
- Compliance Is Critical to Sustained Product Value
- Non-Compliance Surfaces at Inopportune Times
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found in Design
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found in Production
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found in Logistics
- Moment of Regulatory Crisis– Found at Customer
- Implementing Design for Compliance
- Implementing Proactive Compliance Monitoring
- Documenting Compliance
- Recommendations
- About the Author
Tech-Clarity's Jim Brown contributes a column to Advantage for the Product Lifecycle. The first column, Executive Perspective: Successful PLM Starts with the End in Mind, was reprinted in Cadalyst. The article suggests that companies develop their PLM strategies to support their business strategies, and offers some examples of the business value available from PLM. The key advice is to focus PLM implementations on business value instead of "going live" with the software, which is only a means to the end - improving business performance.
Event is invitation only by SAP.
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The Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) Approach: Strong Customer Relationships Result In Profit In The Service Industry overviews an approach to improve the profitability of services businesses by concurrently increasing service and lowering costs. 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
- Improving Profitability in the Product Aftermarket
- Never Ignore a Call for Help
- Reduce Waste in the Call Center
- Avoid the Service Call (or at least Reduce the Urgency)
- Make the Right Calls First
- Close the Call the First Time
- Keep Technicians Productive, not Just Busy
- Turn the Service Call into an Opportunity
- Turn Service into Cash – Rapidly
- Stop Revenue Leaks
- Enhance the Customer Relationship
- Grow Revenue by Restarting the Service Lifecycle
- Turn to Proactive Management
- Driving SLM Changes into the Business
- Services Can’t Remain a Stepchild
- Make the Move to SLM – Change the Business Processes
- Enable the Change with Technology
- Get the Right Software
- Get the Right Partner
- Summary and Additional Information
- Summary
- 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
All Results for "All"
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
Reduce Risk and Accelerate Benefits with PLM Vivo
Jim Brown presents on this webcast sponsored by Oracle and Kalypso. The webcast introduces a new pre-configured PLM offering aimed at helping food and beverage companies better implement PLM. View a Replay of the Event
SLM Goes Mobile
Service Lifecycle Management Goes Mobile: Taking Field Service Applications into the Field is a guide to furthering the value of Service Lifecycle Management through the pragmatic implementation of mobile technology. Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor Astea. Table of Contents Executive Overview Furthering Service Value with Mobile Technology Tie the…
Successful PLM Programs
Successful PLM Programs: Maximizing Business Value through a Phased PLM Strategy reviews the characteristics of a phased approach for manufacturers to meet their PLM objectives, highlighting some relevant, successful PLM Programs. Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor Dassault. Table of Contents Introduction An Incremental Approach to Strategic Value The…
Dynamics of Electronic Components
Living with the Dynamics of Electronic Components: The Importance of Component Event Management in a PLM Strategy discusses the inherent challenge of managing product lifecycles for products that contain electronic components, given that the components often have shorter lifecycles than the parent products. Introduces the concept of Component Event Management (CEM) to combat component obsolescence….
Mass Customization of Highly Configurable Products
Mass Customization of Highly Configurable Products: Designing, Selling and Producing “Simple” Products discusses the challenges that mass customization places on manufacturing companies. Describes how customization makes seemingly “simple” products complex to design, sell and produce.Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge,…
Digital Manufacturing
Digital Manufacturing: The PLM Approach to Better Manufacturing Processes Discusses the use of technology—including 3D CAD and simulation—within a PLM strategy to help manufacturers develop more profitable products by optimizing the planning, development and deployment of better manufacturing processes. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to download the full…
The Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM
The Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM: Extending PLM with Product Information Management explores how Product Information Management (PIM) can extend the value of PLM implementations by providing complementary tools and capabilities. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration…
Maximizing Product Development Value
Maximizing Product Development Value: Realizing Value from New Products and Portfolios highlights key insights on realizing value from new products based on discussions with product development leaders. Analyzes a new approach to portfolio management that focuses on achieving the economic value available from new products. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the…
Product Lifecycle Management Proving Value at Heinz
Product Lifecycle Management Proving Value at Heinz: A PLM Case Study from the Consumer Goods Industry – Food and Beverage reviews the strategic value achieved by Heinz from implementing Product Lifecycle Management processed and software in their global business. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the…
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle: Reduced Risk and Lowered Costs Through Proactive EH&S examines the importance that regulatory compliance and product related EH&S play in protecting the value available from PLM across the product lifecycle. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of…
What’s Wrong With Application Software?
What’s Wrong With Application Software – A Possible Solution? discusses how model-based architectures offer potential benefits to companies by more naturally assembling solutions into business processes. Originally published on Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC). Click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required).
Executive Perspective: Successful PLM Starts with the End in Mind
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown contributes a column to Advantage for the Product Lifecycle. The first column, Executive Perspective: Successful PLM Starts with the End in Mind, was reprinted in Cadalyst. The article suggests that companies develop their PLM strategies to support their business strategies, and offers some examples of the business value available from PLM. The…
The Value of PLM in Product and Service Leadership – Myths of PLM
Jim Brown presents at an invitation-only SAP customer event at SAP North American headquarters in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. The presentation focuses on the top myths regarding product lifecycle management (PLM). Event is invitation only by SAP.
The Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) Approach
The Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) Approach: Strong Customer Relationships Result In Profit In The Service Industry overviews an approach to improve the profitability of services businesses by concurrently increasing service and lowering costs. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of charge, no…
Webcasts: Learn what Social Business Collaboration and Advanced Product Portfolio Management Have in Common
A quick peek into some research on Social Business Collaboration and Advanced PPM. What do these two very interesting topics have in common? Live webcasts featuring Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity next week, Thursday and Friday February 16-17. OK, I admit it was a cheap trick, but I hope it convinces you to learn about one…