For the last six years, Tech-Clarity has been researching what it takes for companies to drive continued business success, focusing on the Pillars of Business Sustainability. Our 2024 report expanded from seven pillars to eight with the addition of the Supply Chain Resilience pillar and adds a look into what companies want to achieve from…
Autodesk University 2024 Focuses on AI, Platform, Core Products, and more AI
Jim Brown had the opportunity to attend this year’s Autodesk University in San Diego, CA. The conference was well attended, with approximately 12,000 people in total. The mood was optimistic and there was lots of vibrant conversation all around. General Impression This year, the conference that we all know as “AU” felt a bit like “AI-U” as Autodesk highlighted their…
Digitally Transforming the Factory Lifecycle
How can manufacturers digitally transform the way they plan, design, build, and operate their factories? How are Top Performers able to hit their critical program timelines, project spend, manufacturing quality, and agility targets better than Others? This survey of 180 companies explains how leading manufacturers better collaborate, employ digital twins, leverage digital tools, and integrate…
The Business Value of an Industrial System of Engagement
How can manufacturers get more value from the product digital thread data that lies across their systems and data ecosystem? How can they pull together disparate industrial information and put it into action to allow better data-driven insights and collaboration? It’s time to explore digital transformation with an Industrial System of Engagement (SOE). Please enjoy…
Saving Time in CAD Design
Did you know that engineers spend, on average, about a day a week on non-value-added data management tasks? That’s a lot of time spent on design data management that could be spent on driving product innovation and performance. That NVA time has a big business impact as well, including missed design deadlines that can delay…
The Game of Avoiding Wasted Time in CAD Design
Our research shows that engineers spend a significant percentage of their time, almost a day a week, on non-value-added data management activities such as finding information, working with the wrong data, recreating data, translating formats, and other common time wasting tasks. These time wasters cause them to miss deadlines, develop products with higher costs, miss…