Making the value of technology clear
What are your thoughts on the state of product development? We are researching the state of product development, including the challenges, capabilities, and future plans manufacturers have. We are exploring questions such as, what challenges do you face? How well do hand-offs between engineering and manufacturing work? Can you find the skilled workers you need?…
ComplianceQuest made some significant announcements at its recent ConQuest customer conference. The first was to identify the space where they play, as a platform and integrated software suite to clean up the messy “middle office.” They also continued to add more agentic AI to the platform to support the people using the applications sitting on…
Last week, we had a chance to attend the Hitachi Digital Services Analyst & Advisor event in Dallas. The gathering offered compelling insights into the company’s strategic direction and differentiated capabilities. Through a series of thought-provoking presentations and fireside chats, one theme emerged with clarity and consistency: Hitachi Digital Services’ deep-rooted engineering expertise sets it…
What should MedTech companies consider when integrating ALM and PLM? Software has become a crucial component in MedTech products. However, with software development managed in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and hardware managed in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the separate systems can create silos within the product development team. With increasing regulatory pressures and trends such…
We were recently alerted to a company we weren’t covering because a long-time business friend took a key position there. After a quick review of what they do, Julie Fraser and Jim Brown decided to team up on the briefing because we could already see a combination of QMS and PLM capabilities. We learned that…
How can recipe-based producers ensure cost-efficiency and consistent, high-quality products no matter where they are formulated or produced? By implementing enterprise recipe management (ERM) with a manufacturing execution system (MES) to deliver closed-loop data flows in and out of production. Leading Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), specialty chemical, and other manufacturers are standardizing for ERM. Quite…