Consumer Packaged Goods Archives

Profiting from Smart Products (survey results)

Smart products are the new norm. How can manufacturers differentiate and grow profitability as even their smart products become commodities? Our … [ read more ]
Avoiding Engineering Time Wasters (survey invitation)

What engineering tasks do you find to be the biggest time wasters? How would it help if those tasks consumed less time? Can PLM or PDM help? We are … [ read more ]
Transforming CAD Data Management (webcast)

How can engineers improve efficiency, personal productivity and find the information they need faster? Join this live Onshape webcast with James … [ read more ]
Predictive Quality for Medical Devices (eBook)

Could medical device companies improve both patient outcomes and profit? Yes, and Predictive Quality for Medical Devices: Comprehensive Data to Move … [ read more ]
Business Sustainability and Transformation Strategies (survey results)

With the crisis phase of COVID-19 passing, how are companies adjusting corporate strategies and priorities to address intensified business risk and … [ read more ]

Driving Innovation with the CPG Digital Thread (eBook)

July 24, 2019 by Jim Brown Leave a Comment

How can CPG companies drive higher innovation performance and profitability by embracing the digital thread? Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies live and die by product innovation. Delivering products that anticipate and meet market needs creates consumer loyalty and brand affinity. Developing a profitable product requires the combined knowledge of countless individuals, each contributing their expert

Revolutionizing Food & Beverage Production with the Digital Twin and Industrial IoT (eBook)

July 17, 2019 by Jim Brown Leave a Comment

How can food and beverage companies use the digital twin and industrial IoT to dramatically improve production performance? This eBook shares the value of the digital twin and IIoT for companies that produce food and consumer packaged goods. Then, it shares some practical examples and advice to get started down the path to streamline R&D

Accelerating CPG Innovation with an Innovation Platform (guest post)

January 22, 2018 by Jim Brown Leave a Comment

Jim Brown contributed his thoughts on Accelerating CPG Innovation with an Innovation Platform to the Dassault Systèmes 3D Perspectives Blog. He shares his views on the innovation imperative in CPG and how consumer goods companies can take innovation to the next level using a modern Product Innovation Platform (PIP). The post explains how an effective

Analytics for Food and Beverage in the Digital Age (guest post)

October 24, 2017 by Jim Brown Leave a Comment

Jim Brown provided a guest post to the Siemens PLM Community blog discussing how analytics can unlock new value for CPG and Food & Beverage companies. The post shares how big data analytics can uncover hidden relationships and create valuable insights from the vast amounts of data available to today’s food companies. It offers examples

Producing Food and Beverages in the Digital Age (guest post)

October 3, 2017 by Jim Brown Leave a Comment

Jim Brown contributed a guest post to the Siemens PLM Community blog discussing how digitalization impacts the production of consumer packaged goods such as food and beverages. Digital enterprise in the food and beverage industry opens up a number of opportunities to improve manufacturing productivity and agility, all while maintaining or improving cost and quality.

Choosing Cost versus Quality in CPG (infographic)

September 28, 2017 by Jim Brown Leave a Comment

This infographic shares survey results about quality and cost management in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. It visually communicates the results of our research that shows how Top Performing CPG companies are able to achieve better quality and better cost of quality, without trading one for the other. The research shares the methods these leading