Jim Brown and I are intrigued by what consumer products companies and retailers can do to design products and trade more effectively and sustainably after our briefing with TradeBeyond. Their multi-enterprise PLM and supply chain collaboration platform is expanding. By acquiring Pivot88, they strengthened existing industry-specific capabilities, deepened their presence in apparel, and added quality,…
Archives for October 2023
How to Engineer Innovation with Simulation and Test
How can you help engineers manage complexity to make more informed design decisions? As the role of product development teams becomes increasingly critical to product differentiation, growing complexity continues to make the job harder. However, with the right technologies, and by connecting simulation and test, you can empower development teams to engineer products that will…
The Manufacturing Digital Twin – Buzz or Bullseye?
How can CPG companies cut through the noise to get value from a manufacturing digital twin of their production process? How does it differ in design, commissioning, and operational phases? The market is filled with a combination of marketing hype and real case studies about how digital twins help companies digitally transform and drive new…
Graphisoft Delivers New Capabilities, Progress on Integrated Design Vision
I had the opportunity to visit Graphisoft’s Budapest headquarters for their recent Building Together | Connect event. I left the event with several key takeaways: They showed significant progress and alignment around their strategic vision to integrate AEC design processes across disciplines They delivered on a variety of enhancement requests for their existing customer base…
Redefining Semiconductor MES
How do you manage a semiconductor production facility? Most people in the chip industry would say: with semiconductor MES. With its complex processes and products that cannot be clearly seen with the naked human eye, the semiconductor industry began broadly adopting MES in the 1980s and 1990s. And therein lies the problem. The systems that…
Transformation for Supply Chain Resilience
What is the most important way a company can help supply chain resilience so it has a positive impact on the business? What are Top-Performing companies doing differently than others? How important are autonomous systems and artificial intelligence (AI)? What does the transformation of supply chain planning entail? Read this new survey-based eBook to find…