Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: PTC’s rebranding emphasizes the yin and yang of “physical” and “digital,” encapsulating their strategy to support customers developing smart, connected products Many of PTC’s recent acquisitions brought open solutions, more easily integrated into current offerings, and huge ecosystems of partners and influencers that will be essential to…

 PDF Key takeaways: Recipe management is a multifaceted business challenge for companies that develop food or formula based products Infor enhances Optiva for the user experience, and leverages Ming.le to put the power of social at users’ fingertips Infor brings added capabilities to project management and compliance Infor provides consistency…

 PDF Key takeaways: Capgemini offers a custom solution to access product information across disparate data managed repositories Metadata search capabilities leverage Dassault Systèmes’ EXALEAD solution In order to fight increasing competition, industrial product companies allocate extensive time and budget to increase the productivity of their product development design process by…

 PDF Key takeaways: “Monetizing innovation”—capitalizing on disruption is key to forward movement in the current technological environment Siemens PLM Software is moving to “Totally Integrated Automation” Companies must “own the edge” by using disruptive technology to create new products, solutions, and business models Solid Edge ST9 release announced expanded licensing…

 PDF Key takeaways: HTE companies are ill-equipped today to deal with the next wave of product complexity driven by IOT and connected products High tech product knowledge is distributed across the supply chain so collaboration with security is needed Today’s High Tech business challenges should not be solved through islands…

 PDF  PDF (Simplified Chinese)  PDF (Japanese) Key takeaways: Product-related information and other enterprise information is created and generally used effectively inside engineering, but its use is often limited to engineering, even though others could make better decisions faster with access to up-to-date product related information The restricted use of data…

 PDF Key takeaways: Software increasingly has become the technology differentiator in today’s complex products—without integrating software into the product development process, product launches can become market failures Integrated Product Development Lifecycle should be tool agnostic and able to use existing installed toolsets that are already in production, rather than requiring…

 PDF Key takeaways: Kubotek Creation Engineering launches a new 3D geometry kernel, the KCM Modeler Each object in the KCM modeler carries its own precision for better computational speed and accuracy Kubotek USA’s Key Creator will be released using the KCM kernel Kubotek Creation Engineering, a Division of Kubotek Corporation…

 PDF Key takeaways: Oracle PLM manages the creation, maintenance, and governance of the Common Product Model which includes the complete definition of a product or item end to end from ideation to commercialization and extends that definition to include all the operational attributes and constructs needed for to support ERP,…

 PDF Key takeaways: Even simple products have embedded electronics and software, complex products can have a lot of more including live connections to the cloud Electronics and software cannot be effectively added as an afterthought, products that delight their customers have hardware, electronics, software, and services integrated seamlessly The shift…