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One of the pleasures of working as an analyst in the software industry is watching software vendors evolve and transform. One of those opportunities was our recent conversation with Trace One about the new release of Trace One PLM, their specialty product lifecycle management (PLM) offering with a strong focus on food and beverage, specialty…
Jim Brown and I are intrigued by what consumer products companies and retailers can do to design products and trade more effectively and sustainably after our briefing with TradeBeyond. Their multi-enterprise PLM and supply chain collaboration platform is expanding. By acquiring Pivot88, they strengthened existing industry-specific capabilities, deepened their presence in apparel, and added quality,…
Can lithium-ion and other specialty battery manufacturers keep up with the growth potential in the new world fueled by electrons rather than heat? That all depends on how well they can master manufacturing. Lithium-ion batteries are inherently complex. It is an enormous challenge to make them at consistently high quality. Compounding the challenge are the…
What are the core fundamentals that manufacturers need in their digital thread? What do they need in their PLM system to serve as their digital thread backbone? Read our eBook, The Seven Building Blocks of the Digital Thread, to learn more. Please enjoy the summary* below. Please visit our sponsor PTC for the full research (registration…
What software capabilities will help you improve how you integrate mechanical, electronics, and electrical designs? Tech-Clarity’s buyer’s guide, How to Select the Ideal Solution for Today’s Smart Products: Buyer’s Guide for Electrical Design, explores this question. As companies strive to make modern products smarter, innovative and more affordable, the integration of mechanical, electrical and electronic…
In the second part of this two-part blog series, Michelle Boucher continues to explore the question, should you consider an agile methodology to support new product development, beyond just software? Proceeding from the first part, which explained what agile is and two reasons for using the agile methodology, the second part provides three more reasons…