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…

Next Generation PLM: Modeling Complex Products in a Complex World

Next Generation PLM
Product complexity is a reality facing most companies today. We’ve explored a variety of bill of materials topics to help address managing product complexity. We’ve been th…

A New Year and a New Teamcenter Release!

It’s a new year, and with it a new release of Teamcenter! Plan for the year ahead by taking a look at Teamcenter 10.1.7 and 11.2.3, along with Active Workspace 3.2 and our new Deployment Center!
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Asset Information Handover

Evaluating Product Complexity

Industry trends demand tradeoffs to achieve a competitive advantage while maintaining an optimal level of product complexity.

Managing Product Complexity

Complexity is a byproduct of increased product variability. Over several decades product variability has grown exponentially due to market demands, technical complexity, corporate strategy, product/p…

On Target for 2016: What’s New in Teamcenter

Editor’s note: Since publication of this blog post, there have been more releases of Teamcenter. Please read the article on 10.1.7, 11.2.3 and Active Workspace 3.2 for an overview and release…

A Visual Product Experience: Not Just for Designers Anymore!

“A picture paints a thousand words” – whether it is the 70’s love song by Bread or an acknowledgement of people’s innate ability to process a tremendous amount of information at a glance – there is f…

ETO w/o W-H-Y is not G-O-O-D

Engineer-to-Order (ETO) automation, if you’ve never seen it in action, is actually quite impressive.Capturing all of the process elements needed to bring a unique product variant to a customer…

Defining the Part Bill of Materials

We’ve been exploring bill of materials management from the perspective of configurator on PLM as well as specific discussions about guided production configuration and product variant management…