Can manufacturers gain an effective digital twin capability spanning from product concept to supply chain, production process, production execution, factory automation, and controls? Dassault Systèmes believes it can deliver that today. Their UNIV+RSES vision expanded deep into the plant floor with their July acquisition of Ascon’s Qube technology and team. This new edge-to-cloud platform complements…
Product Lifecycle
Siemens Opcenter’s TCO and Scalability Help Fuel Digital Thread
What if MES were fully natively integrated into an end-to-end suite across the product and production lifecycle? For years, industry analysts have remarked that Siemens had acquired all the pieces—if only they could put them together. We recently had a briefing that focused on the MES, Opcenter, and the progress made toward the end-to-end goal:…
The PLM – MES Gap and Why Bridging it is Urgent Now
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…
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…