What PLM Ownership Really Means

When everything is shared without clearly embedded accountabilities and responsibilities in the ways of working, the risk is that nothing is truly owned. In the context of PLM—a critical enabler of product lifecycle value realizationâ€...

Digital Mockup: from CAD Modelling and Verification to Augmented Design Review

Parameterisation 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...

Putting Innovation on Every Executive’s Agenda

Digitalization and new technologies contribute to better products and better services, but also better product and service development. This is driven by the fact that today both products and services rely on technology, and that technol...

The Gamification of Manufacturing

Gamification is about amplifying the effect of an existing, core experience by applying the motivational techniques that make games so engaging. It taps into the basic desires and needs of the users impulses which revolve around the idea...

‘PLM-as-a-Platform’ and Platform-to-Platform Integration to Enable Competitive Advantage

Rapid changes in technologies and IT solutions provide opportunities for increased adaptability and flexibility in terms of enabling or sustaining competitive advantage. Manufacturers, OEMs and Tier 1-2 suppliers spend millions of dollar...

Effective Supply Chain Collaboration: Why it Matters

Collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers has become a strategic imperative for companies in the networked world of business; there are company-centric and customer-centric views of collaboration. This also applies to the manu...