How do people make decisions? What data, facts, knowledge, insight does everyone use to make informed decisions? How do organizations ensure that the right decision is made at the right time? What digital tools can be implemented to help...
From Napoleon’s Battlefield to Digital Transformation Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1971) is a literature masterpiece which brings to light many interesting, contradicting and sometimes confusing aspects of human behaviors: observing the wo...
FMEA: A Systems Engineering Framework for Cross-Functional Validation
2020-01-06Automotive, CAx, Data, PLM, PPM, Systems EngineeringFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a pro-active iterative approach used throughout the lifecycle of a product or process to prevent problems, identify mitigation or resolution measures. Simply put, FMEA follows a systematic proc...
Digital Ladders and Snakes: Enterprise Capability Accelerators and Inhibitors
2019-06-23Data, Digital, Platform, Maturity, transformationEnterprise capabilities: maturity models and deployment roadmaps Business competencies regroup multiple capabilities which are not uniform across the organizations despite implementation of various digital technologies. Over the past dec...
Digital Mockup: from CAD Modelling and Verification to Augmented Design Review
2019-05-17CAx, Data, BOM, Collaboration, DMU, VRParameterisation of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models provides assistance to designers and engineers in making manufacturing related decisions, in combining creation feature and geometric parameters. Historically, the Digital Mock-Up (D...
The need for BOM-CAD alignment and associated challenges Bill of Materials (BOMs) typically contain parts / items which are grouped into component and sub-component assemblies based on fit-form-function factors and other usage & market s...