Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: Rockwell Automation, a global leader in industrial automation, has ramped up their investments in software and services to better support industrial adopters of their solutions While not focused on product lifecycle management (PLM), their recent investments and acquisitions make them a player in the global PLM market…

 PDF Key takeaways: Product complexity is increasingly a system-of-systems problem requiring effective, efficient systems engineering management solutions from product inception through operations. Requirements must be written well, with no ambiguity. They must be shared as they are refined. Duplication of requirements leads to confusion, wasted time, and in extreme cases…

 PDF Key takeaways: Oracle CloudWorld convened in Las Vegas, NV on 17-20 October, their first large in-person event in three years. Oracle acknowledged that the future will be multi-cloud and their Microsoft partnership is just the first in what its customers hope will be a series of announcements to support…

 PDF TCS’ PREMAP Integrates Knowledge, Data, and Simulation Key takeaways: Product development is increasingly a complex system-of-systems problem requiring effective, efficient decision making to solve. Knowledge comes from experience, scientific insights, best practices derived from simulation, data, and observations. It is often acquired in an enterprise in various forms besides…

 PDF Key takeaways: Configuration management is a fundamental capability requirement for any product produced in series and any complex machine. Poor configuration management guarantees business failure in the long-term and often in the short-term. Teamcenter supports lifecycle configuration management at scale from requirements through as-maintained serialized configurations. The Advanced Machine…

 PDF On 17 November 2022, PTC announced Its intent to acquire field service provider ServiceMax, a cloud-native, product-centric field service management (FSM) solution provider. ServiceMax provides a suite of cloud-native FSM capabilities built on the Salesforce platform. These capabilities include managing all relevant information about serviced products—product description, serial number,…

 PDF Key takeaways: The creation of today’s highly complex cyber-physical products, combined with intense global competition and time to market pressures, requires significantly greater use of computer-aided engineering (CAE) to assess, validate, and optimize the functional performance of components and sub-systems, as well as complete systems. The expanded use of…

 PDF Key takeaways: IFS Unleashed 2022 brought together IFS and its customers in person for the first time since 2019. The company has transformed from a regional, mid-market ERP player to a global enterprise software dynamo that is winning larger and larger customers. Their customers cite their technology AND their…

 PDF Key takeaways: Buildings, infrastructure, and other similar physical assets are designed and constructed by AEC/EPC firms and typically owned and operated (O/O) by other organizations. This leads to a typical data dilemma: too much data that is often not the correct data nor semantically accurate to be usable. Data…

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies in process-oriented industries have many unique challenges to overcome to get products to market and sustain them successfully. Rather than the product, the process complexity makes the difference for these companies. Tight integration between systems across the product lifecycle is essential to manage the product lifecycle…