Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: Global customers increasingly want products made just for them. Configure-to-Order (CTO) and Engineer-to-Order (ETO) strategies can help industrial companies deliver on this requirement. Many CTO and ETO companies struggle to ensure that quoted bids are actually profitable. Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solutions emerged to address this important problem. VariSales…

 PDF Key takeaways: Most transformation programs fail to deliver to promise due to limited understanding of what really needs to change. Without taking a holistic view, true and sustainable transformation is impossible. Sustainable transformation requires investment in process change, system deployment, and organizational adjustment. Sustainable transformation results in repeatable product…

 PDF It’s a case of Déjà vu. On October 23, 2019, PTC announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onshape, authors of the cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) computer aided design (CAD) product for approximately $470 million, net of cash acquired. Onshape was founded in 2012…

 PDF Key takeaways: Global value chains are growing more complex and expansive with every passing day. The dynamism in value chain participants, and the pace and complexity of their interactions, demands a highly secure and easy to use solution. Eurostep, a company known for their expertise in product data exchange…

 PDF Key takeaways: Wipro has leveraged its expertise in PLM, IoT, analytics, AR, and systems integration to enable digital twins as a promising application of digital thread. Wipro enables digital twins for products, processes, and factories at different levels of detail as desired by its customers. Wipro has broad expertise…

 PDF Key takeaways: Oracle OpenWorld 2019 brought together 60,000 attendees from customers and partners to their sprawling event in downtown San Francisco. The company is greatly expanding the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning across their expansive portfolio. Oracle PLM Cloud continues to evolve and grow their customer base…

 PDF Key takeaways: Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are having global impacts and Accenture is riding this wave with their Industry X.0 practice. To Accenture, Industry X.0 is the digital reinvention of industry, where businesses use advanced digital technologies to transform their core operations. Their global Industry X.0 practice has…

 PDF Key takeaways: Siemens PLM Software, now Siemens Digital Industries Software, a name that represents the growth of the company and the scope of its solutions, introduced Xcelerator, the new name of their integrated portfolio of software, services, and application development. Mendix, both an application development platform and an integration…

 PDF Key takeaways: Knowledge must be easy to record, review, comprehend, and apply. Knowledge is applied throughout product lifecycles and is often viewed in a comparative way (peer reviews, similar products, field failures, etc.). PLM/PDM/ALM systems manage resulting design throughout a product lifecycle, but institutional knowledge lasts longer than any…

 PDF Waymo announced, on July 10, 2019, at the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2019[1] conference that it has driven autonomous vehicles (AVs) over 10 billion miles in simulation and over 10 million miles in the real world. In Waymo’s experience, the relationship between the number of miles driven in simulation and…