Manufacturers are managing the development of innovative products and services that are required to succeed in an increasingly competitive and distributed global marketplace. Ten critical factors determine the ability of today’s busine...
Big data is a popular buzzword, or catch-phrase, used to describe a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large it is difficult to process using traditional database and software. Data is dead. Long live big...
Hyperconnectivity defines connectivity at a new level, multi-devices, multi-locations, multi-media, multi-purpose—bridging across platforms, silos, and bringing people together with ‘everywhere data‘ and social interactions through the...
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...
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. ...
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...
