Industry Summary Articles

 PDF Key takeaways: Increasingly, heavy equipment manufacturers must produce custom configurations, often in small quantities, while simultaneously managing increasing product complexity. Effective collaboration between product engineering, manufacturing planning, production, and service operations, leveraging closed-loop manufacturing, is required to compete and win in today’s complex heavy equipment industry. A comprehensive collaborative…

 PDF Key takeaways: In the last 5 to 10 years companies have experienced a dramatic technology and business transformation with the advent of connected products, digital factories, products as services, and Industry 4.0, forcing them to move from static supply chains to dynamic global value networks. Accurate and timely product…

 PDF Key takeaways: Generative design is the initial step toward a vision of automatic creation of model geometry that fully meets design requirements. The uncomplicated setup and execution of MSC Apex Generative Design does not require highly skilled simulation experts. MSC Apex Generative Design exports proper geometry after each iteration…

 PDF Two industry leaders join forces to provide end-to-end lifecycle capabilities. Today, July 14, 2020, Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) and SAP, two long-time leaders in the product lifecycle management (PLM) market, announced a strategic relationship designed to drive industrial transformation and digitalization in support of Industry 4.0. These two…

 PDF Key takeaways: PLM is a complex problem that often has been addressed with complex solutions that can be hard to use and difficult to implement. Over the years, a number of solution providers have attempted to offer easier to use solutions by taking away needed functionality. Upchain started with…

 PDF Key takeaways: Human centered innovation, the idea that people need to be able to leverage technology to solve problems, was a common thread throughout Siemens Digital Industries Software Media & Analyst Conference. The cloud is becoming pervasive within the Siemens portfolio with the announcement of Teamcenter X and Teamcenter…

 PDF Key takeaways: PTCs first virtual LiveWorx drew an estimated 20,000 participants on the live stream. PTC’s on-going transition to SaaS and cloud-delivered solutions (e.g., Onshape) should provide their industrial customers multiple options to update their development, production, and service environment to better work in the “next normal” resulting from…

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes’ strengths in their traditional industries has enabled them to build a new strength in life sciences. Medidata is well positioned to benefit from an increased demand for field trials of new drugs, treatments, and equipment to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The Power’By strategy is helping…

 PDF Helping manufacturers simulate and manage employee exposure risks while enabling productivity Recently, Siemens Digital Industries (Siemens) announced a new solution that enables companies to quickly and efficiently model how employees interact in proximity to one another, and how it may impact the production line and plant design. The new…

 PDF Key takeaways: Ensuring that the use of enterprise data, especially product data, is optimized to maximize innovation and profit, while at the same time delighting customers, is a never-ending challenge. Platform strategies are the best practice approach for products and for the enterprise solutions used to bring those products…