Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies in process-oriented industries have many unique challenges to overcome to get products to market and sustain them successfully. Rather than the product, the process complexity makes the difference for these companies. Tight integration between systems across the product lifecycle is essential to manage the product lifecycle…

 PDF Paving new paths with the Autodesk Platform Key takeaways: For the first time since 2019, Autodesk University 2022 was held as an in-person event, and the 9,000+ in attendance were as excited to be there in person as Autodesk itself. As planned, its Forge initiative yielded a platform, now…

 PDF Key takeaways: Issues caused by the pandemic, trade relationships, regulatory pressures, Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG), and economic circumstances have transformed the topic of supply chain from a manufacturing strategy element to a hot C-level business strategy issue. Digital transformation leaders need to balance strategic goals of cost, quality,…

 PDF Leveraging AI/ML, data analytics, and optmization across the enterprise Key takeaways: Dealing with the design complexity of cyber-physical products and smart, interconnected systems of systems is driving the need for increased use of advanced digital modeling, simulation, and multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) augmented with AI/Machine Learning technologies. Engineers…

 PDF On September 14, 2022, Aras announced a strategic OEM licensing partnership with AVEVA (OTC: AVEVF) that includes AVEVA licensing Aras’ SaaS product innovation platform. The press release states “AVEVA will license the Aras Innovator® platform to deliver a series of scalable, Asset Lifecycle Management solutions, which will integrate Aras’…

 PDF Continuing PTC’s SaaS journey On 13 September 2022, PTC announced the availability of the Onshape-Arena Connection, new functionality that connects its cloud-native Onshape® product development and Arena® product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. PTC states the Connection is designed to help companies better manage their product development process and simplify…

 PDF Key takeaways: The Kubotek Kosmos platform provides the 3D modeling foundation needed for developing specialized applications in the engineering, simulation, and manufacturing domains. The Kubotek Kosmos proprietary geometry kernel supports their Validation and Interoperability solutions instrumental in synchronizing supply chain interaction. Turning the idea of a new, special-purpose application…

 PDF Key takeaways: PTC has developed an innovative product strategy built atop a product’s 3D model-based definition (MBD) core that facilitates the Digital Thread. The MBD Core enables a model-based enterprise beyond product design, to include the wider scope of supply chain, production, and service. The semantic content of the…

 PDF Siemens solutions foster continuous verification and validation Key takeaways: Continuous virtual verification and validation through all phases of the product lifecycle—throughout design, manufacturing, and operations—is critical so that an automaker can assure intended functions from their inception. Only a fully integrated solution, that includes virtual integration and simulation capabilities,…

 PDF Key takeaways: The concept of the digital thread has become important to many industries, expanding well beyond its roots in discrete manufacturing. The Bill of Material (BOM) is at the core of the digital thread, and the nexus for information that industrial companies want to associate with the BOM…