Lifecycle Insights conducted the 2022 Engineering Strategies for Small and Mid-Sized Companies Study, a survey-based worldwide research project. The study’s findings reveal organizations’ biggest challenges and their plans for the future.
This eBook shares the study findings along with recommendations about how to formulate successful strategies to improve engineering and shift towards a profitable future.
Manufacturers are adopting solutions to support the digital transformation (DX) initiatives that improve their processes and make them more competitive. This trend is particularly evident in product development, where many companies are turning to product lifecycle management (PLM). PLM enables companies to manage processes and information across the product lifecycle.
This eBook demystifies cloud-based SaaS PLM, showcases its advantages, and answers questions managers often have.
Startups typically employ ad-hoc approaches to developing products, but they can benefit from a greater level of structure and discipline. The right tools—strong, secure, scalable digital solutions—can help tremendously on that front, providing that valuable structure and increasing productivity.
This eBook details some of the most prominent product and organizational complexity challenges that manufacturing startups face. It also discusses best practices that startup leaders can put in place to help drive long-term success.
This eBook highlights the role of simulation and test in streamlining product development and manufacturing processes. Each section will explore the ROI of these efforts by comparing the most progressive and least progressive companies against critical business parameters.
The roles of simulation and testing in product development and achieving ROI of digital transformation
Manufacturers rely on design documentation to successfully drive the entire development process. Design documentation acts as the definition that guides all activities, including manufacturing, procurement, quality, and service, so it is no surprise that companies continue to invest in improving their documentation practices.
One innovation that is gaining momentum in the field is the use of an MBD. This eBook is a primer for the changes needed to pave the way for an MBD initiative, detailing the creation and consumption of an MBD as well as highlighting the benefits manufacturers can realize from it.
To better balance time and complexity across the product development process, many manufacturers are looking to MBD initiatives, or the practice of using 3D models with embedded PMI instead of traditional 2D drawings.
This eBook outlines how manufacturers can quickly and effectively get value out of an MBD initiative. It details how the engineering organization and other functional departments should create and consume the MBD to achieve consistency and success.
The BOM is a critical piece of product development. Once engineering develops this deliverable, downstream departments use it to guide development, from design to manufacturing to maintenance.
This eBook will focus on the challenges of BOM management and how a cloud-based SaaS approach can help organizations overcome those challenges.
Manufacturing executives want to see product development progress from design to manufacturing, with few changes.
No matter what a business’s needs may be, companies benefit from strong change management processes. This eBook will discuss change management in general and highlight how a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach can help organizations better tackle it.
Many organizations are looking to improve product development through digital transformation initiatives, including 3D computer-aided design, hybrid simulation/testing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and smart manufacturing.
This eBook will focus on the challenges of collaborating and working with an ever-growing number of stakeholders—and how SaaS PLM can help overcome associated challenges.