Why is managing CAD/CAM important to job shops? How does poor manufacturing data management negatively impact job shop performance and profits? More importantly, what lessons learned can they from managing product data to add control without burdening already busy resources? Read the full report here, or download the full PDF, courtesy of Siemens. You can…
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Smart Manufacturing and IoT: How Connectivity and IoT Need Each Other for New Manufacturing Insights
Can smart manufacturing, connectivity, and IoT reduce the tradeoffs of serving customers well? In this blog post, Julie Fraser explains both the importance of moving to smart manufacturing and how connectivity and IIoT support each other in moving a company forward. No company can afford to stay behind – moving to digital approaches is a…
Edge2Web Moves from Tools to Manufacturing Intelligence Application on AWS (Insight)
As a production metrics maven, I’m energized by a recent briefing for Jim Brown and me with Edge2Web, Inc. about their expansion to a second platform and first foray into applications. Now its low-code IoT tools Director and Flow Server run both on Siemens Digital Industries Software MindSphere and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This opens…
Top 5 Metrics to Stop Measuring Innovation in the Rearview Mirror (webcast)
Join Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown in a lively discussion with Planview NPD Evangelist Carrie Nauyalis discussing how to effectively measure product innovation. The duo will discuss the pitfalls of measuring innovation based on prior performance, the top five measures companies can use to measure innovation capability, and what’s needed to get started measuring innovation to improve outcomes….
7 Ways to Outperform Your Competitors in NPD (eBook, survey results)
This eBook shares survey results analyzing companies’ ability to hit new product development (NPD) targets, then offers seven practical tips identified by the research as best practice processes, organization, and technology leveraged by the top performing product developers. The research provides recommendations to companies based on the approaches taken by the Top Performers, those that are able to outperform…