OEMs spend significant time and effort pulling together data to meet Integrated Product Support (IPS) requirements. Creating and aggregating product sustainment data is inefficient due to disconnected data and processes. How can PLM help OEMs and suppliers develop and capture high quality IPS data to meet standards like SAE GEIA-0007C without creating redundancy and excess…
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Augmentir Expands AI-Based Connected Worker Platform and Customer Value
What would add value to a comprehensive, AI-based connected frontline worker (CFW) platform? Augmentir has added more customized and agentic AI, and we see considerable potential benefits. This company launched in 2019 with AR and deep machine learning-based AI, and has most recently added a no-code industrial AI agent studio. This is an addition to…
Top Five Five Factors for a Successful IIoT Implementation (webcast replay)
Jim Brown presented his recent research on building versus buying IIoT infrastructure in the upcoming Top 5 Factors for a Successful Industrial IoT Implementation webcast on Engineering.com (sponsored by Autodesk). The webcast also featured Autodesk’s Head of IoT, Bryan Kester, sharing how IIoT can help improve product service, close the loop on engineering designs, and…
The Integrated ERP-PLM Strategy
Insight: The Integrated ERP-PLM Strategy: Closing the Loop on Product Innovation reviews the importance of an integrated ERP-PLM strategy to provide a rapid, confident flow of innovation information to and from Manufacturing. The paper discusses a strategy to close the loop between Engineering and Manufacturing to get the most business value from innovation in all…
A New Product Portfolio Management Opportunity for Engineering-Centric Businesses
A quick peek into some research on … how product portfolio management (PPM) can be more closely tied to engineering projects. The research, Issue in Focus: Product Portfolio Management in a PLM Strategy – Closing the Loop on Product Planning explores the connection between PLM and PPM for manufacturers that focus on intense engineering programs as opposed to high-volume products like consumer packaged goods (CPG).


