| Insight: Better Service from Better Product Information: Evolving to Visual, Product-Centric Service Communication -
Discusses the importance of having accurate, timely product information at hand in order to profit from service and satisfy customers in the service lifecycle. Highlights the importance of detailed, visual service information such as 3D graphics and animations to communicate product details, and explains how companies are leveraging PLM assets to improve service performance. (See
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| Issue in Focus: Social Business Collaboration and the Product Lifecycle: Combining the Collaborative Power of Social Media with PLM -
Explores the possibility that companies could adopt a social business collaboration platform to improve product development processes and add proven PLM capabilities as needed to establish a socially capable PLM system. (See
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| Issue in Focus: Product Data Accessiblity: Getting Value from All of Your Proudct Data -
Explains the importance for manufacturers to be able to access and share product data, regardless of whether it is centralized in a system like PDM or not. Explains that accessing product data and centralizing it are not absolutely linked, and describes emerging technologies that can help. (See
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| Insight:
Improving Portfolio Decision-Making: Marrying PPM Best Practice Processes and Technology to Drive ROI -
Describes the ability for Product Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives to improve portfolio decision-making and ultimately company profitability. Explains that companies can take a practical approach to achieve the value of PPM by utilizing readily available best practice processes and metrics, leveraging the right software technology, and starting small to provide rapid value without a large, academic exercise. (See
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| Insight:
Systems and Software Driven Innovation: Complexity and Opportunity in the Mechatronic Era -
Describes the fundamental shift to increased software and electronics in traditionally mechanical products, sometimes known as "mechatronics." Explains the need to manage the resulting design complexity and how to take advantage of the opportunities offered by systems and software based products. (See
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Tech-Clarity
Perspective: Understanding
Product Development Trade-offs:
Designing Products for Compliance,
Cost, and Sustainability
- Presents results from a survey on
how companies design their products
to meet environmental regulatory
compliance, product sustainability,
and product cost targets. Shares
survey data and perspectives from
two leading manufacturers .
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| Issue in Focus: Optimizing Product Portfolios with Advanced PPM: Applying Value Optimization to Portfolio Decision Making -
Explains how companies can gain greater levels of product portfolio profitability by using value optimization techniques to make portfolio decisions. Describes how the basic best practices of PPM can be extended by Advanced PPM concepts. . (See
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Issue in
Focus: PLM Goes Mobile - Reducing
Barriers to Engineering
Decision-Making and Innovation
- Explains how mobile devices like
the iPad have set the stage to
extend the opportunity for engineers
and others in the product lifecycle
to contribute, decide, act, and
innovate with PLM.
(See
Overview) |
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Product and Program Management Goes
Mobile - Compressing Project Cycle
Time and Time to Market with Mobile PLM
- Describes how mobile workers can
decide, approve, and contribute to
their projects and programs in
real-time using PLM in a mobile
scenario.
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Overview) |
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Enabling Mobile PLM - IT
Considerations for Leveraging
Mobility to Extend PLM Value
- Points out some very practical
considerations that IT leaders must
take into account when taking PLM
mobile.
(See
Overview) |
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Insight:
The Business
Value of Product Data Management -
Achieving Rapid and Extendable
Benefits
- Explains how manufacturers use PDM
to control their product data,
improve their ability to find
information, and better share
knowledge with other departments.
Shares the experiences of three
manufacturers that took a more "out
of the box" approach to reach these
benefits quickly.
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Insight:
The Business of 3D Technical
Communications: Evolving Strategies
to Document Products
- Explains how companies are
changing their views on technical
documentation to a more strategic
approach, including the use of 3D to
go beyond flat, static documents to
incorporate richer, interactive,
more realistic representation of
products.
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Overview) |
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Insight:
Integrating PLM and MES - Realizing
the Digital Factory
- Expands the discussion on the
roles that ERP and PLM play in
manufacturing to include the role of
Manufacturing Execution Systems
(MES).
(See
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Insight:
The Business Value of Simulation -
Saving Time and Money, and Getting
Products Right the First Time
- Reviews how manufacturers can
leverage simulation processes and
technology to save time, reduce
cost, drive efficiency, improve
quality, and increase innovation.
Discusses the economic value
available from early design analysis
and validation.
(See
Overview) |
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Insight:
Managing Engineering Data - The Role
of PDM in Improving Engineering
Efficiency
- Shares the benefits of controlling
engineering data and collaborating
with Product Data Management.
Discusses extending PDM with
product-related processes and
expanding implementations beyond
engineering data.
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Insight: The
Five Dimensions of Product
Complexity
- Highlights the trend toward
increased product complexity and how
it has made developing profitable
products more difficult. Details the
five dimensions and discusses how
PLM software helps manage the
complexity on an enterprise scale,
helping manufacturers achieve
greater efficiency and better
products.
(See
Overview) |
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Issue in
Focus: CAD Standardization
Strategies - Considerations for
Multi-CAD versus Standardization
- Helps companies develop a “CAD
Standardization Strategy” based on a
thorough understanding of the
business drivers, constraints, and
tradeoffs impacting their decision
to operate in a multi-CAD
environment or standardize on a
single solution.
(See
Overview) |
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Insight:
Product Portfolio Management in a
PLM Strategy - Closing the Loop on
Product Planning
- Explores how engineering-centric
businesses can take a more
closed-loop approach between Product
Portfolio Management (PPM) and
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
to extend the value of PPM.
(See
Overview) |
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Insight: Consolidating
CAD - Benefits of a Unified CAD
Strategy
- Examines the strategic and
tactical value of standardizing on a
single CAD package. Provides a
framework for determining the cost
savings available from consolidating
tools.
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Insight: Quality Risk
Management in Life Sciences:
Preventing Failures, Protecting
Patient Health
- Reviews manufacturers' experiences
in using Quality Risk Management
(QRM) to proactively reduce risk in
the Life Sciences industries.
Explains how QRM software can be
used to efficiently manage risk by
sharing quality knowledge across the
enterprise and closing the loop on
product quality.
(See
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| Issue in
Focus:
Product Compliance – The Hidden Tax
on Innovation -
Discusses the
need for early product compliance
checking for formula- and
recipe-based products. Explains how
manual processes for compliance
checking and documentation limit
product innovation, and how PLM with
compliance checking built in can
help relieve this burden.
(See
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| Business in
Focus:
Burner Systems International -
Improving Collaboration with Product
Data Management (PDM) -
Highlights a
conversation with a global component
and assembly manufacturer supplying
the gas appliance industry.
Discusses their adoption of Product
Data Management (PDM) to improve
engineering and new product
development performance.
(See
Overview) |
| Issue in
Focus:
Product Collaboration 2.0 -
Explores the use of social computing
and "Web 2.0" techniques to improve
product collaboration. Explains how
social computing in PLM allows
manufacturers to discover new
intellectual property and capture
existing know-how for the future -
increasing corporate product
knowledge.
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| Perspective:
Product Environmental Compliance -
Discusses the key elements of a
sustainable approach to developing
and maintaining products that comply
with environmental regulations such
as RoHS and REACH while reducing
compliance risk and cost. Draws
conclusions from over 300 responses
to a web-based survey and several
in-depth interviews with leading
manufacturers.
(See
Overview) |
| Issue in
Focus: Business Intelligence
Extending PLM Value -
Points out the significant value
that has
accumulated in PLM systems as
implementations and usage have
matured, and how manufacturers can
tap into that value with business
intelligence (BI) solutions.
(See
Overview) |
| Issue in
Focus: Digital Prototyping in the
Plant -
Discusses how digital prototyping
solutions help manufacturers
achieve greater agility by
leveraging a digital factory
approach.
(See
Overview) |
| Insight:
Leveraging the Digital Factory:
Enhancing Productivity from Operator
to Enterprise - Provides
visibility to the way manufacturers
utilize Manufacturing Process
Management (MPM) processes and
solutions to help reduce cost, speed
time to market, and improve product
quality. MPM, also known as Digital
Manufacturing, is an important
element of any PLM strategy.
(See
Overview) |
| Insight:
Going Social with Product
Development -
Explores how
manufacturers are taking advantage
of social computing and "Web 2.0"
technologies to raise the bar on
product development performance.
(See
Overview) |
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Insight:
Engineering Reference Information in
a PLM Strategy
- Highlights the importance of
efficiently providing engineering
reference information to engineers
in order to increase productivity.
Describes how engineering
information offers another tool in
the PLM toolkit to improve design
efficiency so engineers can spend
more time on product innovation.
(See
Overview)
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| The PLM
Program - An Incremental Approach to
the Strategic Value of PLM
- Introduces a pragmatic approach to
implementing Product Lifecycle
Management in a way that drives
towards a strategic vision by taking
incremental steps with tangible
returns on investment.
(View PDF)
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| Issue in
Focus: The ROI of Product Portfolio
Management
- Companies are frequently
challenged when they are required to
develop a credible, supportable
financial model to determine the
benefits of PPM initiatives. This
“Issue in Focus” is intended to help
guide companies in developing a
realistic ROI based on a
conservative financial model.
(View PDF) |
| Mass Customization
of Highly Configurable Products
- Discusses the challenges that mass
customization places on
manufacturing companies. Describes
how customization makes seemingly
"simple" products complex to design,
sell and produce (View PDF).
See related article in Mechanical
Engineering Magazine.
(View PDF) |
| Insight:
Innovating Through an Economic
Downturn
- Guides small to midsize
manufacturers to develop an action
plan that both recognizes the
difficult financial reality that
most manufacturers face today and
allows them to leverage PLM to innovate
for the future.
(See
Overview) |
| Insight:
Engineering's Role in Surviving a
Down Economy
- Discusses strategies that
Engineering can adopt to help their
companies navigate difficult
financial times.
(See
Overview) |