M-Files and Master Data Management Why are they relevant to product development? Let’s start with master data management, and then discuss M-Files. Master data management is a set of solutions meant to address the burgeoning problem of different functional departments using various enterprise systems. For example, there is service life cycle management, product life cycle management, manufacturing execution systems, and …

July 7, 2019
How is Engineering Documentation Managed Today?
How are companies managing engineering documentation? We break it down in one of our recent studies.

April 24, 2015
Close Up on MSC Software’s MaterialCenter
We all likely can agree that design specifications are vital and should be appropriately tracked and managed. And by now most everyone knows that design simulation and analysis—with its virtual prototyping capabilities–cuts product development costs considerably. So what about material specifications? Though they’re just as needed as their design counterparts, materials lifecycle management hasn’t been as highly regarded. That’s starting …