Industry 4.0: the Factory of the Future

The question is: “what will manufacturing processes of the future look like, and what will be their defining features?“ There is an increasing demand for products that match customer expectations precisely and more closely, in a timely a...

Enabling Outsourcing and Open Innovation with PLM

The principle of ‘Open Innovation’ as introduced by Chesbrough (2003) has become widely used in a range of industries. It is widely accepted that open innovation is concerned with combining internal and external ideas as well as inte...