How to Migrate Process Manufacturing to Software-Defined Automation
How can process manufacturers benefit from software-defined automation. A couple of weeks ago at #HannoverMesse2024 , Rebecca Vangenechten presented on SI...
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How can process manufacturers benefit from software-defined automation. A couple of weeks ago at #HannoverMesse2024 , Rebecca Vangenechten presented on SI...
Why should process manufacturers adopt digital twins. At the #ProcessAutomationAnalystDays2024 with Siemens in Karlsruhe, Germany, I explored the possibil...
CEO Aneesa Muthana spoke at one of a few 3dexperienceworld2024 presentations on how and why diversity, equity, and inclusion foster innovation, enhance ali...
Recently, at the Dassault Systèmes #3dexperienceworld2024 , I spoke with multiple professionals about the inner workings and capabilities of DELMIAWorks....
Amid an evolving and increasingly complex production landscape, organizations are constantly seeking opportunities to save time and money. A recent Lifecy...
Across every industry, there is rising complexity as product development and manufacturing organizations work to design and create new products. Teams are...
Why should manufacturers measure sustainability as an essential KPI. Scott Reese recently spoke at Digital Factory 2023.
What does the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) of the future look like. In today’s landscape, PLM acts as a powerful enabler that provides an all-inclus...
How can Hardware companies use Agile Product Development practices to deliver quality products faster. At PTC's LiveWorx’23, I had the opportunity to enga...
Additive Manufacturing capabilities from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence - Is it a game changer for the jigs and fixtures industry. Currently, jigs and...
Regarding quality, how can you go from one critical, 13 major, and 35 minor findings to zero critical, two major, and 14 minor findings. Paul Smith, Group...
How can we combine the power of smart connected services and organizational capability to improve general maintenance in manufacturing plants. At Hexagon...
Manufacturing production processes are becoming increasingly complex, resulting in numerous challenges for organizations. Improving and streamlining manuf...
In a recent Lifecycle Insights research poll, only 7% of the 275 manufacturers surveyed were comfortable with their company’s current manufacturing process...
Our Senior Industry Analyst Arvind Krishnan recently attended Dassault Systemes Analyst Days. Here’s his key insights from the event.
CAD solutions are among manufacturers’ most vital product development tools. They allow designers to generate detailed models, simulate and analyze produc...
As technology evolves and global competition heats up, companies are showing more interest than ever in engineering transformation (EX). A subset of digit...
Sustainability is an ever-growing concern for manufacturers in every industry, and for good reason. Improving their sustainability practices can help thes...
The COVID-19 pandemic changed manufacturing in irrevocable ways. Not only did it make clear to companies the power of technology and the value of automati...
Siemens recently presented their solution to manufacturing pitfalls: Industrial Operations X. Here Siemens presented a thorough manufacturing solution tha...
Today’s industrial companies are incorporating automation and modular robotics into their operations at growing rates in hopes of improving efficiency, pro...
Today’s manufacturing landscape is filled with competitive challenges. Executives are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs, hit development miles...
Spare parts management is not a new concept for manufacturing. Yet, due to global supply chain disruptions that started during the COVID-19 pandemic and h...
For decades, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have produced the industrial robots their customers use to manufacture their own products, from automo...
Simulation has truly revolutionized the way we approach solving complex problems and building powerful products. Engineers & designers can simulate va...
Today’s engineering organizations face near-constant pressure to improve product quality, bring products to market more quickly, cut costs, and drive new u...
Lifecycle Insights conducted a targeted research study that helped Anark hone in on its customers’ most critical needs while developing the platform. This...
In the post-pandemic era, companies must compensate for incurred losses and scope for new opportunities. Yet, they are reluctant to evolve from the tradit...
Undoubtedly, the transportation and mobility industry is experiencing impressive innovation and dramatic change today. Sustainability and safety spur the...
Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) recent acquisition of Concept Engineering, a leading provider of automati...
PCB design for manufacturing (DFM) is moving to the cloud. But why? Who is it for? And how is the cloud changing the way DFM is done? Read more on the Siem...
Engineers are increasingly adopting simulation early in the design process. And it’s easy to see why this shift-left strategy is gaining popularity. Simula...
Building on their extensive Capital product capabilities for the design, manufacture, and service of electrical/electronic (E/E) systems Siemens‘ acquisiti...
Autodesk University 2022 kicked off on September 27th in New Orleans. Our Senior Analyst, Arvind Krishnan attended the event.
CAD software providers release new features constantly. These features improve the productivity of engineers and designers.
Engineers rely on their mechanical CAD solutions to create innovative product designs. And solution providers are constantly updating their offerings with...
More and more, manufacturing organizations around the globe are adopting digital transformation (DX) initiatives to help mitigate the many challenges they...
Digital transformation (DX) initiatives are gaining momentum among today’s leading manufacturers. Lifecycle Insights’ 2021 Return on Investment (ROI) of D...
How does Jama Software’s approach to managing the vast array of complex engineering requirements provide organizations a competitive advantage. Their appr...
Traditional simulation and modeling workflows for products and systems design often use a manual steady-state analysis approach and require extensive time...
The design tools and applications necessary to develop electronic products are among the most critical, expensive investments design companies make. For e...
Historically, developing library footprints, symbols, and 3D models that accurately reflect component manufacturer data sheets and take PCB manufacturing a...
For the past few years, Siemens has released a new version of NX every six months. On Tuesday, June 22nd, 2022, they announced the capabilities of the 202...
HxGN LIVE Global 2022 kicked off on June 20th in Las Vegas, NV. Our Senior Analyst, Arvind Krishnan attended the event.
Arvind Krishnan, our senior analyst, met with Oleg Shilovitsky and Steve Hess from OpenBOM. The discussion centered around the cr...
Today’s smart, connected products are becoming increasingly complex, and designing and manufacturing them requires many digital solutions. Simulation is o...
Learn about how to turn testing into a competitive advantage. Research-backed insights for engineering transformation.
Over the past two years, the world has experienced an unexpected disruption from the COVID pandemic. We encountered shifts in the way we work and live tha...
All electronic product designs, from small handheld devices to complex space and military applications, start with components. Each one must be mounted se...
Learn about the state of executable digital twin support by siemens. Research-backed insights for engineering transformation.
Mechanical product development complexity continues to rise. In order to manage the complexity of today’s smart, connected products, mechanical engineers...
Safety-critical products keep commodities, vehicles, and people safe. As such, they must conform to well-defined design and testing standards to ensure th...
The demand for semiconductor chips is at an all-time high. Many industries, from automotive to industrial machinery, require large numbers of semiconducto...
For many electronics companies, their new products are actually variations of existing products. Products often have design circuits that can be leveraged...
Executives are focused on boosting the productivity of mechanical design engineers, and rightfully so. Engineers persevere through a challenging workload...
Manufacturers are under more pressure than ever to design innovative products. These products incorporate more electronic and software components.
Is the traditional PCB librarian’s role becoming obsolete. Printed circuit board (PCB) engineers and specialists like signal integrity (SI) and electromag...
Onshape, a computer-aided design (CAD) is built on a SAAS (software as a service) model. It allows granular changes to be tracked and merged into projects.
Onshape has added new capabilities to allow engineers to model and share designs using global variables and mesh geometry....
Creating accurate complex turbomachinery design simulations is easier than ever with the latest release of Simcenter 3D....
In engineering, it is very typical to go from digital to physical. Engineers create digital mockups of their ideas in a 3D CAD solution, then use those mo...
PTC has announced that their core solutions are going to be migrated over to Atlas, the cloud-based platform that Onshape runs on. What are the implicatio...
Ordering and testing a prototype is a key milestone in the development of printed circuit boards (PCB). That prototype is necessary to validate the design...
Product-centric and platform-modularity approaches are common methods used to develop products. For companies with only one product, the product-centric a...
Over the past few years, PTC has gradually transitioned its offerings to an annual subscription format. As a result, the overwhelming majority of its cust...
Shapr3D is a powerful 3D design modeling tool that allows industrial designers to turn their ideas into 3D models. Previously, Shapr3D was only available...
In a recent post, we discussed the challenges associated with a traditional approach to simulation where engineers and analysts work in silos using uninteg...
Amid a landscape of shortened timelines and more complex products, companies are increasingly using simulation to digitally verify that a product meets req...
What kind of flexibility and agility do you need in your digital transformations? Our CEO and Chief Analyst Chad Jackson talks through the need for both in...
Using a digital twin in the design process has enabled engineers to refine product designs through models and simulations. Most digital twin systems are c...
Mechanical design is a complex and demanding field. But a range of new capabilities in the latest release of Solid Edge can help ease the pressure on desi...
ANSYS Discovery’s latest release introduces a new set of capabilities augmenting the experience for design engineers and analysts. Now both parties can sea...
An optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is now a necessary tool in industrial manufacturing and forms the backbone of modern metrology. And as autom...
Manufacturing organizations are increasingly looking to digital twins to save time and money in the product development lifecycle. In this Siemens' blog po...
Taking a digital engineering approach to manufacturing—one composed of architecture-driven and model-based engineering—offers significant advantages (not t...
While the concepts of the digital twin and the digital thread are relatively new to the industry, they have quickly gained traction. In this Siemens' post...
Architecture-driven engineering, a relatively new engineering approach where an optimized and validated architecture is developed before detailed design, s...
There is no one-size-fits all approach to integrating an MBD into the product design process. In this PTC blog, Chad Jackson offers tips on creating MBDs a...
In this Zuken blog post, Chad Jackson highlights the people, process, and technology considerations organizations should take before transitioning to an MB...
Lifecycle Insights CEO and Chief Analyst Chad Jackson and Industry Analyst Arvind Krishnan discussed the latest computer aided engineering trends. https:/...
Here's the ugly little secret about product development. People need access to a lot of information and in a lot of different systems, but often don't get...
Do we really need another set of manufacturing planning and virtual commissioning tools. Let's talk about CENIT.
In the past 18 months, the manufacturing industry has experienced a number of powerful disruptors. Between uncertainty in product demand, disruption in th...
What does Oracle's move to the cloud have to do with PLM. Why is it important.
Over the past few years, the digital twin (DT) has gained popularity. Yet, DT has different meanings for different vendors and, as a result, manufacturers...
Why is Cadonix interesting from an electrical design perspective. Let's talk about that next.
There has been a proliferation of high-speed, high-frequency electronics placed in today’s smart connected products over the past few years. This increase...
Where do you start and where do you go with your digital transformation? We recently surveyed companies to discover the level of their digital transformati...
Across the automotive, aerospace, and heavy machinery industries, complex products often need to be lightweight while also meeting stringent lifecycle dura...
Digital twin and virtual twin, or physics-based simulation model, are both valuable in the world of engineering. They help us identify novel design soluti...
As part of technology-led initiatives, many engineering organizations have adopted both simulation and product lifecycle management (PLM) to help drive and...
What's the little secret found in the latest releases of Siemens NX. It has to do with automation.
How do you get a digital twin running in the cloud with ThingWorx. How do you set up an IoT-connected digital twin.
High-performance computing (HPC). Artificial intelligence (AI).
Do we need another collaboration tool for mechanical design. Let's talk about CCE's EnSuite-Cloud ReVue.
What is Siemens PCBflow offering and why does it matter. Recently, Siemens, specifically the Valor group within Siemens, has come out with a new solution...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has unleashed a new wave of interconnected products. Almost every company is now switching from traditional, mechanical offer...
Manufacturers are using systems engineering approaches to mitigate the complexity of developing increasingly sophisticated products. Systems simulation is...
Let's talk about systems development's full potential, which only results from a comprehensive approach. What are the aspects of a digital engineering appr...
As products get smarter and more interconnected, engineering co-design is more critical than ever. How can you improve your organization's capacity for co-...
We know that for mechanical design tolerance stack-up analysis is really important for quality in manufacturing. It also has an impact on performance. This...
Technical documentation is a space where you're creating instructions, such as assembly instructions, service instructions, or web experiences, which is an...
Do we need a specific solution for automotive program management? In this post, we discuss the three phases of automotive program management and Actify's s...
Do we really need another PLM solution? Let's talk about CassiniPLM. First, it's a cloud solution. There’s a lot of advantages that come along with that. C...
The digital thread is not just a popular industry buzzword. It's a unique communication framework that gives a holistic, integrated view of your product's...
How are engineering teams addressing the challenges of complex E/E systems? In this post, we discuss how engineering teams can address the challenges of th...
It’s no surprise that the E/E systems are becoming more complex. Manufacturers are adapting their development approaches to meet the new demands. In this p...
The pandemic has caused mass disruption for manufacturers. Organizations had to quickly adopt digital work approaches, pivot their business models and adap...
Siemens has expanded its solution to cover embedded software. In this point, we discuss virtual verification and Siemens' Capital VSTAR solution....
Smart manufacturing benefits engineers and manufacturing workers who have strong data analytics, automation, and digital transformation skills. It gives th...
What is Modelon Impact and how is it different. If you've been working on system simulations for any amount of time, you're probably familiar with Modelon.
All companies are managing a digital thread today. In our series on managing the digital thread for smart, connected products, we are discussing the digit...
What is the latest with the OpenBOM and how does it help procurement work with engineering information? If you're not familiar with OpenBOM, it's a cloud...
Digital twins are popular across multiple industries. Today, use cases for the digital twin are found throughout a whole range of activities from planning...
When the simulation-driven design movement first started, there was only one way to enable it: putting hybrid CAD-CAE solutions in the hands of engineers....
Digital twin and digital thread are terms that are used a lot in the industry today. Why are the digital twin and digital thread so important for collabora...
Products are becoming more feature-rich and more complex. Many organizations increasingly rely on systems engineering. In this post, I’ll dive into some co...
Products are increasing in complexity at an astonishing rate. Smartphones are just one example: today’s devices combine the functionality of yesterday’s ph...
During difficult times, startups can still prevail. This podcast feature's Sabrina Paseman, founder of Fix the Mask. Fix the Mask is focused on supplying b...
Systems engineering practices help organizations mitigate and manage product complexity. When applied to electronics and electrical systems, systems engine...
The value-added benefits are clear. But many organizations don’t know where to start when it comes to virtual commissioning. The implementation process is...
Customer demands and marketplace competition are placing engineers under mounting time pressures. An organization’s development schedules must shorten to k...
As the capabilities of computers and networks increase, new and better ways to work keep appearing. Change is no longer an occasional disruptive event; it...
Let's talk about Esteco and their products. There are two main products, modeFRONTIER and VOLTA. They serve different purposes, but basically they're both...
Today’s products integrate a wide range of mechanical and electronic components to deliver the ever-increasing number of features that customers demand. To...
Teamcenter is moving to the cloud in a new version of itself called Teamcenter X. What's going on here? Basically, you'll be able to access Teamcenter func...
Ansys came out with a new version of their offering called Discovery, which is meant to support an engineer's exploration of new designs while looking at p...
What are the biggest things to look out for in Creo 7.0? What are the implications there? Creo 7.0 has a lot of enhancements. However, three stood out as b...
Today’s engineers are in a tight spot. From smartphones to conveyor belts and coffee pots, today’s products are increasingly complex. They often meld mecha...
We're on the verge of a state change in mechanical design. There are emerging technologies that are going to make a huge impact and open up a lot of new po...
Four strategies that your company can take to realize the value out of simulation-driven design. In this post, we cover the advantages and disadvantages of...
Autodesk acquired an ECAD solution that they've been integrating into their Fusion Platform. In this post, Chad Jackson discusses the implications and adva...
Learn about altair simsolid: what is it, what does it do and why is it different?. Research-backed insights for engineering transformation.
Let's talk about 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS and what it means, how it's organized, what people are going to be using, and get a little clarity on that. So first o...
The lines are blurring between virtual commissioning and digital twins. In this article, we’ll discuss each of these simulation techniques, when and how th...
The engineers who design production systems are not strangers to complexity. This raises the question: Can systems engineering be applied to the developmen...
Digitization is complicated. In this VirtualCommissioning.com post, we’ll explain and examine the emerging Digital Thread concept, investigate where the Di...
While the set of practices called systems engineering are a boon to cross-disciplinary collaboration, technology has been slow to catch up. Without a new w...
Good design is difficult. And with demands for more complex products, shorter schedules, and lower costs, it is only going to get harder. These demands l...
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