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Re: Canvas Envision Connects Frontline Workers to Product Info at Enterprise Scale

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:47:29 -0000

Canvas Envision is revolutionizing the way frontline workers access and engage with product information across enterprises. By providing a connected knowledge platform, Envision empowers these workers with interactive digital work instructions, ensuring they have the right information at their fingertips when they need it. This approach not only enhances communication and collaboration but also drives operational efficiency and reduces errors in complex manufacturing environments.

Re: CoLab Continues to Deliver on Design Engagement System Promise

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:45:43 -0000

CoLab continues to impress with its commitment to enhancing the Design Engagement System (DES) for engineering teams. Their recent updates not only streamline collaboration but also improve the efficiency of design reviews, allowing teams to engage in meaningful discussions directly within their CAD files. By securely sharing designs and facilitating contextualized feedback, CoLab helps teams make informed decisions faster, ultimately reducing time to market. It's exciting to see how they're tackling the challenges of complex product development while keeping teams aligned and productive. For those interested in learning more, check out their insights on the evolving role of DES in engineering collaboration.

Re: Thruline Reimagines Manufacturing and Lab Software for Small Growing Companies

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:44:33 -0000

Thruline is making waves in the manufacturing and lab software space by providing tailored solutions for small and growing companies. Their focus on cloud-based, low-cost, and flexible software is exactly what smaller manufacturers need to optimize operations without the burden of traditional, cumbersome systems. By enhancing user experience and facilitating seamless integration, Thruline is empowering businesses to streamline workflows and focus on growth.

Re: Six Ways to Expand PLM Value

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:42:52 -0000

Expanding PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) value is essential for manufacturers looking to optimize their processes and drive innovation. Key strategies include broadening perspectives on product development, engaging diverse teams for better collaboration, and maturing existing processes to handle complexity. Additionally, ensuring full lifecycle coverage, digitalizing data management, and integrating data with business processes can significantly enhance decision-making and agility.

Re: Arch Systems Expands Intelligent Actions for Manufacturing

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:41:03 -0000

Arch Systems is making significant strides in the manufacturing sector with its expansion of intelligent actions aimed at optimizing operations. Their latest innovations, particularly the ArchFX platform and the GLO™ solution, empower manufacturers to transform vast amounts of data into actionable insights. This development not only enhances operational efficiency but also supports better decision-making at all levels of the organization, from the shop floor to executive management.

Re: POMSnet Aquila MES Still Making Life Sciences Easier

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:39:17 -0000

POMSnet Aquila MES continues to enhance operations in the life sciences sector, offering solutions that simplify complex manufacturing processes. Its user-friendly interface and robust integration capabilities with other systems, like ERP and LIMS, streamline workflows and improve data accuracy. With a strong focus on compliance and automation, Aquila MES helps companies reduce risks while ensuring quality. The positive feedback from users highlights its effectiveness in driving efficiency and cost savings, making it a valuable tool for organizations looking to optimize their production environments.

Re: Mastering Digital Thread Integration

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:37:51 -0000

Mastering digital thread integration is crucial for modern manufacturing, as it enables a continuous flow of data throughout the product lifecycle—from design to operation. This unified approach breaks down silos, enhances communication, and drives innovation, allowing organizations to respond swiftly to market demands and improve product performance.

Integrating digital threads can lead to significant business benefits, such as accelerated innovation and increased responsiveness to customer needs. However, companies face challenges, including diverse supply chain partners and the need for standard protocols. Phased implementation can help tackle these issues effectively

Re: What Does it Take to Gain and Sustain Value from AI in Manufacturing? Experiments and Lessons Learned

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:36:46 -0000

Great insights on leveraging AI in manufacturing! Establishing a strong data foundation and fostering a culture of experimentation are indeed crucial for maximizing AI’s value. I particularly appreciate the emphasis on employee training and creating structured initiatives to align AI projects with business objectives. These strategies will undoubtedly help organizations navigate the complexities of AI implementation. Looking forward to seeing how these lessons shape the future of manufacturing!

Re: Digitalizing the Factory Lifecycle

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:35:13 -0000

Digitalizing the factory lifecycle is crucial for modern manufacturing, enabling greater efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability. By implementing a phased approach—planning, designing, validating, building, and operating—companies can optimize workflows and improve productivity. Digital factories leverage advanced technologies like simulation, digital twins, and automation, allowing for real-time data insights that enhance decision-making and reduce downtime
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Re: The Role, Value, and Fit of PLM for the Process Industries

Raghu m — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:33:35 -0000

Great insights on the role of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in the process industries! PLM is essential for streamlining operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering collaboration across teams. The ability to integrate real-time data and create digital twins significantly enhances innovation and efficiency. As companies adapt to Industry 4.0, the importance of robust PLM systems cannot be overstated—they are pivotal in driving productivity and maintaining a competitive edge. Looking forward to seeing how PLM continues to evolve in this dynamic landscape!

Re: CoLab Continues to Deliver on Design Engagement System Promise

Raghu m — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:10:11 -0000

CoLab remains true to its promise with its design engagement system, consistently enhancing collaboration and efficiency in design processes. By offering intuitive tools and features, CoLab facilitates seamless communication among teams, streamlines workflows, and drives innovation. This commitment ensures that users can effectively manage design projects and achieve their goals with greater ease and productivity.

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Re: Six Ways to Expand PLM Value

Raghu m — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:05:28 -0000

Expanding PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) value involves focusing on key strategies such as integrating PLM with other enterprise systems, leveraging advanced analytics for insights, enhancing user adoption through training, optimizing workflows, customizing features to fit specific needs, and fostering collaboration across teams. By implementing these approaches, organizations can maximize the benefits of PLM, improve product quality, and drive overall efficiency throughout the product lifecycle.

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Re: Arch Systems Expands Intelligent Actions for Manufacturing

Raghu m — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:03:06 -0000

Arch Systems is enhancing manufacturing operations with its expanded suite of intelligent actions. By leveraging advanced data analytics and machine learning, these innovations offer real-time insights and automated decision-making. This expansion helps manufacturers optimize processes, improve efficiency, and proactively address issues, ultimately driving greater productivity and operational excellence.

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Re: Mastering Digital Thread Integration

Raghu m — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:59:00 -0000

Mastering digital thread integration involves seamlessly connecting data across all stages of the product lifecycle to enhance visibility and collaboration. Focus on implementing interoperable systems, maintaining data accuracy, and ensuring real-time updates to drive efficiency and informed decision-making throughout the process.

Re: Digitalizing the Factory Lifecycle

Raghu m — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:55:13 -0000

Digitalizing the factory lifecycle transforms manufacturing by integrating advanced technologies into every stage, from design to production and maintenance. This approach enhances efficiency through real-time data analysis, automates processes, and improves decision-making. By embracing digital tools and IoT, factories can optimize operations, reduce downtime, and respond more quickly to market demands, driving greater productivity and competitiveness in the industry.

Re: The Role, Value, and Fit of PLM for the Process Industries

Raghu m — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:53:03 -0000

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) plays a critical role in the process industries by enhancing product quality, streamlining operations, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Its value lies in providing a centralized platform for managing the entire product lifecycle, from development to production and maintenance. PLM systems fit well within process industries by optimizing workflows, facilitating collaboration, and improving data accuracy, ultimately driving efficiency and innovation in complex manufacturing environments.

Re: Getting the Most from CAD

Stacey Boudreaux — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:26:49 -0000

There's an area regarding CAD and "how to get the most from it" and it's called AI. But the point I wish to make regarding AI, if you will, is that like with any new technology that possibly takes absolute control out of our hands, users have to "trust" it. I drafted for 10 years on the board and with manual drafting comes a requirement for a solid grasp of trigonometry. I can remember when transitioning into the CAD environment and any angles were done by CAD, I would come back around and do it mathematically by hand. I learned to trust CAD more when I learned that the program would round to 16 decimal places. ha ha I feel when engaging new technology there will always be that window of uncertainty. Similar to using the cloud for storage or using cloud-based software. But seemingly, it always ends up helping projects by compiling steps and procedures and tools that we would use to complete our task but organizes them and doesn't forget the steps and improves on the steps. a side note about AI. I recently ask AI to write me a LISP routine to be used in AutoCAD that would purge the drawing, audit the drawing and save the drawing and then draw me a circle at 0,0,0 off 6"dia. this waws the reponse.
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Certainly! Here is a Lisp routine that will purge, audit and save the drawing:

(defun c:purge-audit-save ()
(command "_.-purge" "all" "*" "no")
(command "_.audit" "y" "")
(command "_.qsave")
)

To draw a 6" diameter circle at 0,0,0, you can use the following code:

(defun c:draw-circle ()
(command "circle" "0,0,0" "3")
)

Please note that the diameter of the circle is specified in units of drawing. If your drawing is in inches, then the above code will draw a 6" diameter circle. If your drawing is in millimeters, then you should change the second argument to "75" instead of "3".

Re: Dassault Systèmes Shares Growth and Strategy at Analyst Day 2023 (Insight)

jim_techclarity — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:32:18 -0000

Thanks for participating in our surveys, Scott!

I'm personally running into fewer companies with that hard stance against design files on the cloud. Overall, we've seen more openness to the use / view of cloud PLM. From 2018 to 2022 the percentage of companies that do not consider or allow cloud systems dropped from 26% to 4%. For PLM specifically, the number was 6%. That's just one datapoint, of course, and as you suggest it wasn't targeted directly at design files in the cloud. We're starting to think about some new research now and I'll make sure to include that question specifically, that's a great idea! I know we asked "which data are you storing in the cloud" at some point, but the data is older and I don't have it at my fingertips. Now you have me curious about the results!

Thanks for your comments,
Jim

Re: Dassault Systèmes Shares Growth and Strategy at Analyst Day 2023 (Insight)

Scott Baugh — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:15:13 -0000

I already have signed up and Iam active on your surveys.

As a Solidworks user or not, i am not seeing it. I talk to allot people and like i said i have not seen a company or a person that uses the cloud for customer files. In fact the company i presently work for uses Google cloud services for nearly everything, but none of our design files are on the cloud and never will be. I can share a file through email if i have to, but we don't share the native data unless it is the actual customer and they definitely don't want that data on the cloud.

You might change the survey and specially ask to talk about design cad files on the cloud versus basic data. Because i believe most people do use google, dropbox, or pcloud to store some of there data but not cad files or files that are partucularly sensitive. Maybe your survey was to broad and your up tick your seeing is due to the fact people are simply using it for basic data saving. I do to back my phone up, but Iam not going to pay for extra space, it's another ploy to nickel and some us to death.

Re: Dassault Systèmes Shares Growth and Strategy at Analyst Day 2023 (Insight)

jim_techclarity — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:00:46 -0000

Hi Scott, thank you for your perspective. I see you are very involved with Solidworks, maybe that's the difference in our viewpoints? Our survey data and our experience shows a significant trend toward the cloud. That trend is across all solutions and company sizes. I believe the traditional Solidworks community may be less eager to move to the cloud, although if you include Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. as cloud I would bet you find a lot of companies already have their design files in the cloud. It's an interesting trend to watch, for sure.

One of the most interesting things I've seen was a study from our Michelle Boucher that showed a real disconnect from what companies want (the ability to easily share a design with a supplier, for example) versus their stated desire to be on the cloud. The study showed that they want what cloud offers, but not necessarily the cloud. My personal opinion is that we'll see increased adoption.

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Re: Dassault Systèmes Shares Growth and Strategy at Analyst Day 2023 (Insight)

Scott Baugh — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:46:12 -0000

The comment "almost one-third of new customers are cloud-based and now more new customers are on the cloud than on-premise. They also shared that many large customers are moving to the cloud." I have not met one customer who wants to move to the cloud, trusts the cloud, or wants someone else to have their data or their customer's files on a cloud server. The Cloud is going to be a huge downfall for future companies. The cloud is going to nickel and dime not only everyday users but also companies that make the switch to the cloud. Just so they can obtain more space and maintain access to software and file access. Its legal theft in my opinion.

Re: Onshape Live 23 Reveals Significant Progress

jim_techclarity — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:54:26 -0000

I appreciated the updates in the Onshape Live event. I think the presentations further demonstrate PTC’s commitment to invest in Onshape as a CAD system, but moreover, a product development platform. We’re excited to see the new capabilities for traditional Onshape engineering users, including simulation and rendering, but also to see them extending to new users and processes like PCB design and agile product development methodologies. Looking back at my post after the PTC acquisition, PTC Gets more than “Cloud CAD” with Onshape (https://tech-clarity.com/ca..., I have to say that they are doing more to develop the value of Onshape as a platform than I anticipated. And that was before the addition of Arena Solutions and the announcement of the Atlas strategy. PTC is clearly continuing to focus heavily on the value of product innovation and the cloud.

Re: Improving Multi-Disciplinary Project Performance with MBSE (Survey Results)

Michelle Boucher — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:05:58 -0000

I agree that file-based and document-centric are similar terms.

In the survey, we asked what their top engineering challenges are, then the business impacts of those challenges, and then which strategies they are implementing to address those challenges at the system level over the next 12 months. This question was more about understanding their future plans than getting a detailed understanding of their current environment so we did not define document-based because for this particular question, it didn't really matter what they are starting with, more that the strategy is from moving from what they have to become model-based.

Thanks so much for the opportunity to engage on this research! I'm pretty excited about it!

Take care,
Michelle

Re: Improving Multi-Disciplinary Project Performance with MBSE (Survey Results)

Michelle Boucher — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:48:14 -0000

I completely agree. It helps to overcome silos through the automation you mention, but it will not completely eliminate them. That involves more than just technology, but technology can help a lot.

The finding was that Top Performers viewed the ability for seamless integration across all required tools as one of the most important qualities of an MBSE solution. The write-up was to explain why Top Performers value this, why it matters, and how it helps. We did not dig further into it to know how close it gets them to a single source of truth. It is a huge and complex topic that will depend on the tools they use, environment, how far along they are on executing the vision, etc. It is another great topic to explore further in future research.

Re: Improving Multi-Disciplinary Project Performance with MBSE (Survey Results)

Michelle Boucher — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:47:58 -0000

Hi Philip,

Thanks so much for your kind words and I'm thrilled to hear you enjoyed the eBook. MBSE is a great topic and one that I see as becoming increasingly important to product development.

Unfortunately, scope is always a challenge with any research project as you can only dig into so many topics in a survey. Plus, the eBook can only be so long to keep it digestable for readers. You raise a lot of very interesting questions that will make for excellent topics to explore in future research. I covered a lot of information with this one, but I know I've barely scratched the surface.

Implementation can definitely be challenging. That was part of what I was trying to get at with the statement on page 11, "As powerful as MBSE is, it is not a silver bullet." We explored a few things that can help with how you use MBSE, how to prepare staff, and what to look for in a solution and I think those are important components to consider when planning an implementation. Those results were published, but we did not dig deeper into more specifics about the implementation and modeling risks.