How do you bridge the gulf between product engineering and manufacturing? In the product lifecycle, manufacturing sits at the center. Rapid product and process improvement, lower cost of quality, and business innovation rest on engineering and manufacturing working together effectively. Yet often they don’t or can’t. Tech-Clarity research shows that MES and PLM are the…
Product Lifecycle
BOM Transformation: How to Bring Service in to the Product Lifecycle (webcast)
Listen to Airbus Helicopters’ Nicolas De Mauroy, PTC’s Service Practice Lead Keith Garguilo, and Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher, discuss how to improve the quality of the information made to service technicians by using the engineering BOM to produce the service BOM. By watching this event, you will learn about: The capabilities needed to transform EBOMs into SBOMs….
Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown Sharing IoT Thoughts at PTC Event
PTC caught some of my views on the Internet of Things on camera at a recent event. The videos include some of my thoughts along with those of PTC’s Jill Newberg and fellow analysts Joe Barkai and Gartner’s Tuong Nguyen. The first one is on the IoT closing the loop in PLM, where I discuss…
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…
Dynamics of Electronic Components
Living with the Dynamics of Electronic Components: The Importance of Component Event Management in a PLM Strategy discusses the inherent challenge of managing product lifecycles for products that contain electronic components, given that the components often have shorter lifecycles than the parent products. Introduces the concept of Component Event Management (CEM) to combat component obsolescence….
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle
Regulatory Compliance Across the Product Lifecycle: Reduced Risk and Lowered Costs Through Proactive EH&S examines the importance that regulatory compliance and product related EH&S play in protecting the value available from PLM across the product lifecycle. Please enjoy the free Executive Summary below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free of…