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Makersite extends PLI Value with Product Costing

Makersite Delivers Product Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) We have been impressed with Makersite and their focus on Product Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI), as we shared in our earlier briefing insight. Makersite is a small company that has big customers, and they’re helping those companies make significant gains on compliance, cost, sustainability, and supply chain risk. Their #PLI…

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Jim Brown - July 8, 2026 - Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Product Cost Management, BOM, Supply Chain, Should Cost, Product Costing, AI, Makersite, Components, PCM

Oracle’s Vision for Agile 2014+

What does the future hold for Oracle’s PLM solutions? Oracle has big plans for PLM that include Agile PLM, Agile PLM for Process, and the recently released Oracle Innovation Management solution. Not to mention continued support for the (once considered sunset) Eigner PLM solution. This post shares a bit of Agile history followed by my insights on their…

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Jim Brown - April 23, 2014 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Oracle, OPM, Vendor, Oracle for Process Manufacturing, Vision, Eigner, Product Lifecycle Management, e6, Cloud, A9, Strategy, SRM, PCM, Food & Beverage, Process Industries, PLM, CAD Data Management, PDM, XML, Agile, Prodika

Tech-Clarity TV – Optimizing Product Cost with PCM

In this episode of Tech-Clarity TV, Jim Brown shares Tech-Clarity’s views on how manufacturers can analyze and optimize costs for manufactured goods during the design phase. It also shares the value of using a knowledge-based cost to negotiate and make process improvements with suppliers. Learn more from the related report, Product Cost Management – A Knowledge-Based Approach to Optimizing…

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Jim Brown - January 17, 2014 - Filed Under: Video, Presentations & Videos, Tech-Clarity TV - Tagged With: PCM, Product Cost Management, Cost Optimization, Supplier Negotiation, Manufacturing Cost, Cost Analysis, Tech-Clarity TV, Video

Product Cost Management – A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost

Product Cost Management – A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost explains how manufacturers can design products for optimal cost in order to improve profitability. The research shares interviews with three industrial manufacturers on the way they work with their supply chains to reduce cost using an analytical, fact-based methodology to drive out unnecessary…

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    Jim Brown - December 23, 2013 - Filed Under: Published Research - Tagged With: Research, Agricultural Equipment, Product Lifecycle, Database, PCM, Supplier Negotiation, Product Cost Management, Continuous Improvement, Product Cost, Manufacturing Cost, Supply Chain, Insight, Optimization, Automotive, Should Cost, Cost Optimization

    Product Cost Management as a Link Between Enterprise Systems

    I have been discussing product cost management with Eric Hiller for some time and we recently caught up to discuss Siemens PLM’s PCM acquisition. Eric has contributed his views on my PLM and Product Cost Management (PCM) post and followed up with a guest ClarityonPLM post titled Product Cost a Priority? Not now, I’m Busy….

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    Jim Brown - October 29, 2012 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: SCM, Acquisition, SolidWorks, Enterprise Systems, PCM, Product Cost Management, Suite, ERP, MRP, PTC, Costing, Siemens PLM, Integration

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