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Simulation-Driven Design

How Simulation-Driven Design Optimizes Products from the Start

How can design engineers balance conflicting time, cost, and quality goals? As businesses and products grow in complexity, design engineers have much to consider to produce optimal product designs. This is particularly true for smaller and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that struggle with the same challenges as their larger counterparts, but have fewer resources to address…

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  • eBooks

Michelle Boucher - January 13, 2026 - Filed Under: eBooks, Survey Results, Published Research - Tagged With: SMB, CAE, Simulation, Analysis, Trade-offs, Optimization, SME, Simulation Driven Design

SMB Operations Software

Alpiconn Ready to Deliver SMB Operations Software Beyond Greece

How can small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) – specifically manufacturers and warehouses – gain an operations digital thread that connects from materials movement through production and quality? Ideally, with well-integrated, easy-to-deploy software. Alpiconn has been delivering a combination of MES, WMS, CMMS, QMS, and traceability for the past decade. By focusing on practicality, flexibility, and…

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Julie Fraser - September 25, 2025 - Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Operator Guidance, SMB, Operations Management, Workflow, QMS, MES, Traceability, AR, Labeling, WMS, CMMS

Design Data Management

Effective Design Data Management and Collaboration

Small engineering teams have many of the same challenges as larger ones, but have fewer resources to address them. How can small design teams manage product development complexity through better collaboration and design data management and the cloud to meet their design targets? Please enjoy the summary* below. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Siemens…

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  • Survey Results

Jim Brown - November 14, 2024 - Filed Under: Published Research, Survey Results - Tagged With: Midsize Manufacturer, PLM, Survey, Small Design Teams, SMB, PDM, Collaboration, Product Lifecycle Management, Cloud, Challenges, Multi-CAD, Design Data Management, Benefits

Lightweight Operations Apps

Smart Production Solutions Offers Lightweight and Preconfigured Operations Apps to Extend ERP

How can smaller manufacturers quickly and sustainably enable plant and warehouse MES functionality? Smart Production Solutions and its initial ERP partner, Infor, have an answer: JobControl and StockControl, smart and intuitive apps based on REST APIs. Modern Operations Software The founder, Eric Klement, is ex-Infor and saw a need for simple MES solutions for smaller…

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  • Insights

Julie Fraser - September 12, 2024 - Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: SaaS, MES, MOM, Production, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Production, Job Control, Stock Control, Operations Apps, Lightweight Apps, SMB, Preconfigured Apps, ERP

Office PLM

Is Office PLM Right for Small to Midsize Manufacturers?

What’s the right amount of PLM for small to midsized manufacturers? We had a briefing with Office PLM to understand their offering. I spoke with Philip Thurman and he explained that Office PLM has all of the features a PLM system needs, but is affordable and installs in a couple of hours. I’m sure we…

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  • Insights

Jim Brown - September 26, 2023 - Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: PLM, SMB, Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management, Midsize, Extended PDM, Simple

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