Making the value of technology clear
The Managing Multi-CAD Complexity on a Budget eBook discusses the challenges of managing multi-CAD data and continues the conversation started in Tech-Clarity Insight The Basics of Managing CAD about whether a simpler, lower overhead, cloud-based data management solution is enough to manage CAD files. The eBook shares the experiences of engineers from Synaptics, Interactive CAD Solutions,…
Tech-Clarity is pleased to announce the expansion of our research team! Industry veteran and former Aberdeen Group Senior Research Analyst Michelle Boucher joins Tech-Clarity as Vice President of Research covering engineering software. Michelle brings a wealth of depth in engineering, product development, and research. For more on Michelle’s background please visit her bio page. As…
Issue in Focus Integrating Product Design and Development Environments – Battling Complexity, Improving Productivity, and Compressing Time discusses how a well-integrated CAD-PLM platform helps improve engineering and product development performance. This report describes the requirements and capabilities that manufacturers should look for in the latest generation of integrated systems for product design and development. Please…
Tony Lockwood of Desktop Engineering shared his thoughts on Tech-Clarity’s Consolidating Design Software, Extending Value Beyond 3D CAD Consolidation. I like his description of “working in a multi-CAD environment with multiple disconnected tools and multiple money pits bleeding you dry at every junction of your process.” Read the short article by Tony on Desktop Engineering.
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…
Tech-Clarity Insight: The Business Value of Knowledge-Enabled Decision-Making – Improving Product Development and Engineering Decisions shares the perspectives of three manufactures (Kimberly-Clark, Robert Bosch, and Rolls-Royce) on the value of applying knowledge-based decision-making techniques including semantic search and engineering tools. The paper also provides a template to calculate the ROI of a knowledge-based decision-making implementation…