Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: Global trends like social computing, cloud computing, mobile devices, analytics/artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have dramatically changed our personal and business lives over the last 15 years. Smart, connected products are being introduced at an increasing pace across a wide range of industries, retrofit…

 PDF Key takeaways Autonomous vehicle development is a complex system-of-systems problem to solve but will have large societal impacts on many of our day-to-day activities. Competitive pressures and autonomous technology complexity are driving manufacturers to transform their development strategy, processes, and toolsets. Technology will play a key role in defining…

 PDF Key takeaways: Interacting with simulations to improve understanding is moving beyond simulation & analysis specialists to include other engineers, and even product development leadership. Pervasive product-use sensing is improving models, which are now being used after mass production to identify quality issues much earlier. Scale of possible verification &…

 PDF Key takeaways: Beginning May 2021 students can obtain 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for $60/year including SOLIDWORKS Premium and SOLIDWORKS 3D Creator. Students will also be provided membership in a cloud job listing community sponsored by Dassault Systèmes. Similarly beginning in the second half of 2021, Makers can purchase 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for…

 PDF Key takeaways: Actify’s Automotive Program Management (APM) suite offers top-tier automotive suppliers a strategic advantage in their pre- and post-RFQ award program operations. APM delivers a secure, end-to-end suite of applications that manages the entire OEM program lifecycle for suppliers, and consolidates processes and information buried in different enterprise…

 PDF Key takeaways: While digital transformation and Industry 4.0 dominate the business headlines, improving global sustainability is also a major global imperative. Companies need to evolve their value chain strategy from focusing on logistics and costs to "responsible value chains." Accenture believes that to become responsible and transform the business…

 PDF Key takeaways: Experts collaborate better when contextually connected. Design changes are completed faster when assembly and requirements traceability is easy to access and examine. Reuse of everything, from requirements, to features, to designs, to services, will delight customers with robust products and services. Managing product line variations consistently for…

 PDF Key takeaways: Executives often don't understand PLM and often pay lip service to digital transformation. Digital transformation initiatives often proceed without employing PLM as the source of authoritative product information. Product information must be at the core of any successful digital transformation and is usually much more complex than…

 PDF Key takeaways: The U.S. Department of Defense announced a new Digital Engineering Strategy in June 2018 that dictates 5 key pillars in transitioning the U.S. defense industry from document centric engineering processes to digital, model driven processes for the design, development, manufacturing and on-going use and sustainment of complex…

 PDF Key takeaways: Product Definition in the automotive industry is continuous, expanding to include vehicle use. Integrated Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) provides engineers the ability to see the effects in context of a vehicle’s multiple architectures, including off board support services. Automotive development processes and modelling methodologies are evolving including…