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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CAD Collaboration for Small Design and Engineering Firms
The CAD Collaboration for Small Design and Engineering Firms eBook explores the challenges of sharing CAD and related design data with customers and 3rd parties and how cloud-based CAD management solutions can help. The report furthers the discussion started in Tech-Clarity Insight – The Basics of Managing CAD about whether a simpler, lower overhead, cloud-based data management solution can…
Choosing an ERP to Fit PLM?
What I learned this week … came from a question in response to my post on The Evolving Roles of ERP and PLM in Manufacturing. The question as asked was “For a mid-size company that has a complex Bill of Materials, are there specific ERP systems that integrate well with CATIA and SmarTeam?”

