It is no surprise and nowadays perhaps even a cliché to reiterate that: Manufacturing organisations strive to create MORE innovative products and increase their portfolio, combined with FASTER time-to-market and increased productiv...
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Simply put, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) is the process of solving complex engineering problems through the use of sophisticated, interactive graphical software, coupled with mathematical models and optimisation systems. The true val...
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Effectively product configuration is essential to achieve mass-customisation and equally to satisfy ever more demanding customer requirements. Mass-customisation aims at satisfying the specific needs of individual customers with mass-pro...
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“Design for X” (DFX) is not new (it was introduced over 30 year ago). DFX stands for detailed design techniques aimed at improving the product lifecycle efficiency, productivity, quality, flexibility, resource optimisation, etc. It bring...
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Cloud is a hot topic these days. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and PDM/CAD solutions are no exceptions to that – many are now available on Cloud infrastructure and pay-as-you-go (PLM/PDM/CAD software-as-a-service). However, one shou...
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Virtual Reality (VR) vs Augmented Reality (AR) Connected devices and wearable products are now everywhere in the consumer electronics industry. They are not new – they’ve been around in various forms for almost forty years. VR and A...
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Part numbers and bills of material Bills of Material (BoMs) are the lifeblood of product creation – from a wider perspective, BoMs mature as the product evolves: from concept to development, prototyping, start of production, launch, serv...
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Developing and launching a new product require creativity, collaboration and accuracy, but also discipline and rigor. New Product Introduction (NPI) frameworks cover business case for a new product concept or idea to a market reality, ty...
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Typically, requirements are defined as follows: A function that the product or process must have, or a process must do (e.g. a functional attribute like the ability to sign-off the approval of an Engineering Change Notice or ECN followin...
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By definition (according to the Oxford dictionary), an engineer is: A person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures. A person qualified in a domain or industry of engineering, especially as a professional: eg ...
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Everything that needs to be manufactured requires a ‘precise‘ Bill of Materials (BoM) which described exactly what specific items, components or parts composed the products that has been specified / ordered (which are typically pre-defin...
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Siemens PLM’s Teamcenter uses a concept of precise/imprecise Bills of Materials (BoMs) structures. There are fundamental differences between the two approaches and one should understand their purpose and how to utilize them effectively. ...
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Conventional planning implies that organizations are largely predictable enterprises and that they are typically resistant to change. These are characteristics of linear systems; therefore, conventional planning ignores non-linear charac...
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A Bill of Materials (BoM) is often compared to a recipe – both identify and list the components of a finished product. While the recipe identifies the required ingredients, preparation steps and presentation recommendations, in manufactu...
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In short, Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) is the glue between Product Engineering & Project Execution [design, development, manufacturing] Operations and Engineering-IT, enabling the entire Product Realization, by aligning people and...
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Robust information and (meta-)data management is one of the core requirements for Engineering and Manufacturing functions to deliver new product developments and innovations with a solid data foundation. Managing effectively (or not) Bil...
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Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) defines how people create and manage products, following a New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) process, with the digital information that supports digital product development and digital manu...
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Problem statement Many business analysts and industry experts have raised looming local shortages of Engineering talent (specifically in the UK and Europe, North and South America), raising the possibility of a diminished capacity for in...
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Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) can be defined as an operating modelenabling Product Realization [create, make, sell, service, re-iterate, re-use or re-cycle]. Short: PLM is the glue between Product Engineering & Project Execution ...
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Centrally managing materials information in a holistic manner across the enterprise is critical for manufacturing organizations ultimately seeking to enhance products, processes and profitability. Selecting and applying the right materia...
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