Not Another Warning About Disruption

Disruption? Not another warning …
So, you’ve heard the stories about disruption. Companies go out of business because somebody out-innovates them, heard all the examples, and even use “Uber…

Shape Search for Parts so you Can Re-Use Rather than Re-Invent

“Shape search?” What does it mean? Do you know you can search for parts by SHAPE, and not just by WORDS? Have you ever thought about how many words there are to describe any single part? What I call …

The Need for Rights Management in PLM Today

A Growing Problem
The theft of Intellectual Property (IP) is estimated to inflict a cost that exceeds $225 billion in counterfeit goods pirated software and the theft of trade secrets, and coul…

Best Practices for Implementing Workflow with PLM

Over the last several months, we’ve been exploring PLM project management, including some great tips for effective project scheduling. I’d like to shift our focus to another way you can man…

Supplier Sourcing: Meet Your Cost Objectives

Want to reduce the costs of supplier sourcing?

Improved communication with your suppliers throughout the sourcing and product development process is critical to cost reduction….

Parts Catalog Authoring Quick and Easy!

Parts Catalog in Teamcenter using RapidAuthor for Teamcenter
Many decisions are made when launching a product development. For many products with a longer lifecycle reliability, accessibility, an…

New Teamcenter Product Cost Management Capabilities

Teamcenter product cost management 8.1 includes optimized features to significantly increase speed of cost estimation, accuracy and consistency. It supports the manufacturer in dev…

Component Based Design with 4GD

In my previous blog, PLM BOM and the Next Generation Design Paradigm for the World’s Most Massive and Complex Products , I explained the challenges of managing design data for a massive and complex…

Integrated Requirements–Where’s The Starting Line…

Usain Bolt broke the world 100m record again in 2009 with a blistering 9.58 seconds. In an interview after the race, he said, “I win the race at the beginning, long before I cross the …