3 Ways to Compliance Management with Supplier Material Disclosure

We’ve recently discussed the compliance management imperatives that call on manufacturers to improve the business value associated with product sustainability using PLM, and key ways to improve …

Configurator and Service Organizations

Managing product variability for a service organization poses several unique challenges and opportunities. Over the last couple months, my colleagues have explored many aspects of variability managem…

Link Conflict Minerals and Design for Environment to Organizational Profitability

As an industry leader in manufacturing, you can’t go very far these days without hearing about conflict minerals and the regulations governing them. While complying with conflict minerals requirement…

What’s New in Teamcenter Service Pack 10.1.5

When it comes to mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) data management, Active Workspace can do more with each release! Now you can use Active Workspace to search for MCAD data and launch applications right from Teamcenter

The Challenge of Getting High Quality Reports out of PLM

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data is complex due to the variability of the data, the dependency of intelligent relationships between data elements, and the timeframe of the information

Configurator for Enabling Customer Choice

When we started this discussion in Beyond Product Configurator Software: Total Variability Management, we began to talk about defining and managing variability across a product suite. In these seri…

Configurator for Engineering and Manufacturing

To make sure every user is able to most effectively interact with that data, you need specialized variability that’s relevant for different roles

Configurator for Product Management and Planning

To make sure every user is able to most effectively interact with that data, you need specialized variability that’s relevant for different roles

Beyond Product Configurator Software: Total Variability Management

Broadly speaking, there are 3 sets of activities that come into play when we talk about defining and managing variability across a suite of products