How do you manage system family engineering? As today’s products become increasingly complex, managing their different configurations becomes exponentially more challenging. Trying to trace which features you need to support required functions can be tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone. At the same time, the age of digital transformation has driven companies to find new ways to…
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Michelle Boucher Speaks at Big Lever’s Momentum 2021 Symposium
What role should feature-based Product Line Engineering (PLE) play in a digital transformation strategy? On May 11-12, 2021, Big Lever will be holding their Momentum 2021 Symposium and this question will be the underlying theme of the event. Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher will join the list of speakers and she will explore the question, why should…
How Product Line Engineering (PLE) Creates a Competitive Advantage
How Product Line Engineering (PLE) Creates a Competitive Advantage: Removing Time, Cost, and Complexity from the Systems Lifecycle discusses the growing importance of embedded software in today’s products and the resulting complexity. The report highlights the negative impacts of not managing this complexity. Despite these impacts, there are benefits of using the right software. Those using the right…
3 Ways Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Will Help You – Guest Post on PTC Blog
Michelle Boucher describes 3 ways model-based systems engineering (MBSE) can help product development teams in this PTC guest post. While developing today’s complex systems can be extremely challenging, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) can make it easier. MBSE uses a system model as a visual reference to support the development process. This guest post explains how a system model improves…
Webinar: Product Line Engineering – Increasing Competitive Advantage by Reducing Complexity Across the Lifecycle
During this webinar, Michelle Boucher joins Charles Krueger, CEO of BigLever Software. Together they discuss strategies for handling increasing complexity, meeting varying customer needs, and managing product lines, especially for software-intensive products. The webinar focuses on product line engineering and includes a discussion on: Successful approaches to product line engineering (PLE) for managing product variation How embedded software, combined with the…