Industry Summary Articles

 PDF Key takeaways: Complex electronics and software are now a critical component of many consumer and business durable goods. Traditional manufacturing companies must now have high-tech product development competency, which requires managing complex engineering tradeoffs. A borderless development-information environment is a critical capability for durable goods manufacturing. End-to-end coverage of…

 PDF Key takeaways: The transportation trend most visible to consumers is the requirement to reduce the environmental footprint of new vehicles Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform promises to deliver on the industry solutions needed to enable a dramatic evolution in eco–friendly vehicle design Dassault Systèmes continues to roll out new Industry…

 PDF Key takeaways: Topology optimization generates efficient lightweight structures that meet performance requirements for weight, stiffness, and strength Altair, the parent company of solidThinking, pioneered the commercial availability of topology optimization with OptiStruct solidThinking Inspire is a purpose-built topology optimization tool that can be used by design engineers up front…

 PDF Key takeaways: Technology, globalization, and innovation are remaking manufacturing and driving a new Industrial Revolution with smarter products and design-anywhere, build anywhere, service-anywhere initiatives Services innovation in conjunction with product innovation or on its own can be a compelling strategy for achieving superior competitive and financial performance PTC announces…

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes has made significant progress in refining and implementing their Industry strategy Many of their new 3DExperiences key off influencers, standards groups, and existing players in some industry segments, potentially helping these solutions better fit into these industries Dassault Systèmes needs to do a better job…

 PDF Key takeaways: PTC Global Support has been re-engineered to align with customers’ needs based on extensive customer feedback PTC’s support offerings can be personalized for individual users via a new web portal, and include pro-active, social components Support is embedded within PTC software to provide quick access to traditional…

 PDF Key takeaways: Consolidating your data allows process streamlining and system reduction, improving company performance and reducing IT costs Using the right process, people and tools makes data migration and consolidation a straightforward, predictable project I-Cubed has a proven data migration methodology that reduces the time, cost, and risk associated…

 PDF Key takeaways: Infor continues to expand its ability to deliver a complete enterprise solution suite based on its ION middleware platform. Ming.le is a new user interface, which provides a rich user experience for all Infor solutions by combing modern social paradigms and effective integration within business processes. Infor’s…

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies are striving to apply simulation early in the product development cycle, where systems engineering is often used to allocate requirements and to define and evaluate multi-discipline tradeoffs. The majority of product lifecycle cost is determined by decisions made early in the development process. The decisions upon…

 PDF Key takeaways: Making better-informed decisions produces better business results. Presenting product- and business-related information three-dimensionally makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users. This is a visual world. Using 3D graphical images of products in development or of facilities being managed makes digital content more accessible and understandable…