Making the value of technology clear
How can consumer products companies improve engineering productivity? With customers expecting more from their products and stiff global competition, consumer products companies have their work cut out for them. New products must be innovative, sustainable, personalized, high quality, and reasonably priced to win over customers. Engineers are critical to successfully meet these requirements. Yet, engineers…
One of the pleasures of working as an analyst in the software industry is watching software vendors evolve and transform. One of those opportunities was our recent conversation with Trace One about the new release of Trace One PLM, their specialty product lifecycle management (PLM) offering with a strong focus on food and beverage, specialty…
Jim Brown had the opportunity to attend this year’s Autodesk University in San Diego, CA. The conference was well attended, with approximately 12,000 people in total. The mood was optimistic and there was lots of vibrant conversation all around. General Impression This year, the conference that we all know as “AU” felt a bit like “AI-U” as Autodesk highlighted their…
How can automotive companies optimize product cost while considering other requirements like the carbon footprint? We are researching automotive OEMs and suppliers to understand best practices for optimizing product cost. The survey explores topics like how to improve the accuracy of early product cost estimates, what it takes to produce winning bids, and the impact…
Did you know that engineers spend, on average, about a day a week on non-value-added data management tasks? That’s a lot of time spent on design data management that could be spent on driving product innovation and performance. That NVA time has a big business impact as well, including missed design deadlines that can delay…
Our research shows that engineers spend a significant percentage of their time, almost a day a week, on non-value-added data management activities such as finding information, working with the wrong data, recreating data, translating formats, and other common time wasting tasks. These time wasters cause them to miss deadlines, develop products with higher costs, miss…