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Learn why PTC's tolerance analysis software is now being adopted by organizations of all sizes, and how it can benefit multiple areas of your organization, from concept modeling, to functional assembly modeling, to detailed part modeling and beyond.

As a result of intense global competition, Medical Device manufacturers are finding they must boost innovation while facing some new and highly complex business challenges, including global product development, outsourcing of design and manufacturing, and the need to update product development technology.

Product development has never been easy, but in today’s global market, the pressures facing industrial manufacturers are greater than ever.

In a recent survey of executives at worldwide manufacturing companies, over 44% of respondents stated that globalizing key business functions was one of their top three corporate initiatives–up from just 28% the year before.

If you want to understand the competitive pressures that manufacturers face today, study the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) industry.

Medical Device manufacturers are facing some of the most difficult challenges ever encountered by the industry. As competition intensifies, they must innovate and capitalize on new opportunities and expedite time to market.

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This report is for manufacturers seeking to achieve Best-in-Class performance in a global design environment.

Photorealistic rendering solutions are more feature-filled and easier to use than ever. By following four best practices, engineers can use these applications to create more realistic images more quickly.

When it comes to evaluating any software product, there is nothing more valuable than first-hand information from your peers. We asked representatives from SMB companies in various countries why they chose Pro/ENGINEER and why they are happy with their decision. Share their experience and get valuable advice for successful state-of-the-art engineering!

The intersection of product development software and social computing disciplines, or “Social Product Development,” offers an important opportunity to improve efficiency and effectiveness of new product development (NPD) teams.

In this article, authors Steven D. Eppinger and Anil R. Chitkara examine state-of-the-art and emerging best practices in global product development.

This article addresses the challenge that many managers face during this economic downturn - finding the balance between pursuing profitable investment opportunities and passing up unprofitable ones.

To better understand how some companies are able to achieve compliance at a significantly lower cost than others, Tech-Clarity surveyed product environmental compliance leaders from over 300 companies and interviewed several leading manufacturers.

How to coordinate embedded software with the overall product development process.

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Take Advantage of New SharePoint-Based Collaboration

Methods of working collaboratively have existed as long as humans have joined together to accomplish tasks that could be done better by a team than an individual.

Methods of working collaboratively have existed as long as humans have joined together to accomplish tasks that could be done better by a team than an individual.

PTC and Mentor Graphics have developed their own sets of ECAD-MCAD collaboration solutions that can also work together. These are the first two companies to develop solutions that adopt the new ECAD-MCAD data exchange format introduced by ProSTEP.

The relationship between Automotive OEMs and Tier One suppliers is going through profound changes today. As OEMs continue expanding their focus on systems integration and responding faster to new market opportunities, Tier One suppliers are taking on a much larger role in value creation and innovation.

In the world of Aerospace & Defense programs, Sustainment & Supportability have become a major cost consideration within complex systems.

Today’s life science companies are struggling in their attempt to efficiently design complex products, sometimes adding multiple options in order to meet the requirements of various market segments.

The power to quickly deliver the highest quality, most accurate digital models is what Pro/ENGINEER is all about. But how do organizations unleash the full power of Pro/ENGINEER to help them optimize product development and global design processes?

Shipbuilders across the globe are facing a number of strategic pressures, including a mandate to deliver ships within shorter timescales, increasing complexity and modularity in ship design, and more restrictive environmental laws, not to mention the on-going demand to lower initial build and operating costs.

With A&D products containing hundreds of thousands of parts, and potentially millions of lines of software code–produced by hundreds of companies dispersed across the globe, Aerospace, Defense and Shipbuilding organizations understand the fundamental value and dire need for robust Change & Configuration Management (CM) processes.

In today’s challenging economic environment, retailers and brands are struggling for their very survival, with little cause for optimism on future sales growth.

Today’s life science companies are struggling in their attempt to efficiently design complex products, sometimes adding multiple options in order to meet the requirements of various market segments.

Whether you’re dealing with the stock market, the weather – or that elusive condition known as customer behavior, having an ability to accurately predict the future can lead to success in nearly any endeavor.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have exposed critical gaps in U.S. military readiness and now provide vivid examples of the ever-present need to stay ahead of an adaptive enemy.

In today’s challenging economic environment, retailers and brands are struggling for their very survival, with little cause for optimism on future sales growth.

Today’s A&D programs must deliver better product and program performance than ever before.

Airlines face a difficult business environment, made more challenging by mounting regulatory pressures. Technical Document Management (TDM), an often-neglected area, promises relief, notably in flight operations.

Each year, companies invest thousands of dollars in systems and processes to improve their aftermarket operations—ultimately, to better serve their customers. And while most of this investment is spent on specialized systems, such as call centers, fi eld service, and spare parts management, some organizations are implementing larger enterprise deployments of CRM, ERP, and PLM.

Now, more than ever, organizations need to effectively communicate global product information if they are to operate successfully on the world stage.

Short for “Darwin Information Typing Architecture,” DITA may be the most compelling innovation in technical publishing since the invention of XML.

DITA is one of the most important innovations in XML publishing in recent memory. And if you’re using or plan to use XML for publishing technical documentation, you will encounter DITA sooner or later.

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Ninety-percent of published information is stale; customers are overloaded with information, but usually cannot find what they need; the field force is dispatched to service calls with incorrect instructions; help desks desperately shuffle through a myriad of papers to find obsolete answers; manufacturers frequently publish incomplete or outdated information.

For a manufacturing company, product development is a mission-critical process. It can also be a very expensive process. In fact, in many manufacturing sectors, companies are reinvesting between 3% and 8% of their total revenues back into product development each year.

S1000D is an international specification for creating, managing and maintaining technical publications within the civilian and military Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry.

A U.S. Air Force Technical Order (TO) contains all policies and procedures related to maintenance and/or operation of specific Air Force weapon systems.

Ninety-percent of published information is stale; customers are overloaded with information, but usually cannot find what they need ; the field force is dispatched to service calls with incorrect instructions; help desks desperately shuffle through a myriad of papers to find obsolete answers; manufacturers frequently publish incomplete or outdated information.

A prevalent risk in the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is the sharing of technical information and intellectual property (IP) across extended enterprises.

This white paper investigates how Mathcad is being adopted by A&D engineering organizations to replace spreadsheets and traditional programming languages, and how Mathcad’s unique capabilities are solving key issues for organizations and helping technical teams improve efficiency.

Medical device manufacturers face the same intense competition that other manufacturers face, but with the added burden of having to plan, develop, test and produce in an environment rigidly controlled by regulatory requirements.

Every company must move quickly today to gain an edge, but electronics and high tech companies must operate at light speed while simultaneously managing product quality, project and product data, as well as globally dispersed engineering and manufacturing teams.

PLM–Product Lifecycle Management – is being touted throughout nearly every industry today as the cure-all for ineffi cient product development. And yet, achieving measurable benefits, well beyond the marketing hype, is anything but automatic.

With the promise of transforming the way products are developed, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is one of the fastest growing areas of technology investment for retailers and brands alike. But you may ask, WHY SHOULD MY COMPANY CONSIDER PLM: Because my competition is? Because industry analysts mandate it? Because my legacy system has seen better days?

For most electronics and high tech companies, the bill-of-materials (BOM) is the central hub of product definition activities. It conveys the information needed by various departments, such as Engineering, Procurement and Manufacturing, to get the product built. However, current BOM development processes are not well-suited to today’s realities.