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Key takeaways:

• Smooth product launches require early identification and resolution of manufacturing, assembly, serviceability, quality, and cost issues, well before production
• Design for eXcellence^[1] is a strategy successfully used to ensure that products meet customer requirements such as manufacturing cost, quality, reliability, and serviceability
• Companies are using Geometric’s DFMPro solution to assess CAD models to identify DFX issues in the early design stage before any physical parts are produced, minimizing engineering change orders (ECOs) and rework, shortening the design to production cycle, and improving product quality

Macro Trends in Manufacturing

The pressures on manufacturers are...

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Recap of Position Paper Part 1 of 3: The combination of scarce resources and globalization are driving an upheaval in innovation and end-to-end lifecycle management. These changes are coalescing into business strategies that include the platformization of PLM. The Iron Triangle of better / faster / cheaper, along with clever fixes, are being superseded. Skeptics overlook many enterprise-level lifecycle benefits and overestimate the remaining challenges.

Key takeaways:

• Ideation, or idea generation, the essence of creativity, is the fundamental rationale of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and end-to-end lifecycle management...

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Key takeaways:

• As industry moves toward “up front” systems engineering, the use of optimization and probabilistic technologies will become increasingly important for choosing the “best” design to meet multi-domain system level performance requirements
• Altair’s physics-based simulation solvers all have a multi-physics capability with embedded optimization capabilities, they may also be run together in a co-simulation if that is required to better capture detailed physics
• Access to increased computational resources via both desktop and mobile devices connected to scalable cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions will make it practical for more engineers to leverage performance modeling and...

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Key takeaways:

• New digital technologies and processes are revolutionizing the way products and services are developed, and are also impacting workplaces, workforces, business channels, business models, and customers.
• Social product development is beginning to show significant success in ideation, problem solving, and knowledge management, enabling companies to collaborate with suppliers, consumers, customers, and other interested parties to capture input for new products as well as for enhancements to existing products
• Using advanced analytics, Big Data technology and processes can transform data into actionable insights, which can help improve products and business processes, yielding improved...

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Key takeaways:

• In the automotive industry, PLM is a critical, extended-enterprise business solution
• Siemens PLM Software has extensive automotive domain expertise and embeds much of that within their solutions tailored for both OEMs and suppliers
• Siemens PLM Software is the enterprise PLM backbone for many major OEMs, providing comprehensive, scalable, and mission-critical solutions that help automotive manufacturers realize innovation

PLM in the Automotive Industry

The effective use of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has become a key success factor for manufacturers in all industries. CIMdata defines PLM as a strategic business strategy enabled by information technology. It spans activities...