Colin McMahon is a senior market research analyst working with PTC’s Corporate Marketing team, helping to provide actionable insights, challenging perspectives, and thought leadership on trends, technologies, and markets. Colin has been working professionally as a research analyst for many years, and he enjoys examining and evaluating just how large the overall impact of digital transformation technologies will be. He has a passion for augmented reality and virtual reality initiatives and believes that understanding the connected ecosystem of people and technology is key to a company fully realizing its potential in the 21st century.
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Looking at recent data, PTC examines the link between digital thread adoption success and Agile product development. Our research found leading companies are in better position to digitize their workflows, break down siloes, and collaborate in a way that benefits the Agile product development and digital thread adoption.
Agile and automation are crucial aspects of digital transformation. While Agile is a methodology and automation relates to technology, the two concepts help each other by improving transparency, reducing risk, and increasing the potential for collaboration.
A digital twin is a virtual representations of a physical product, process, person, or location that mirrors and measures its physical counterpart in real-time. Learn how the industrial internet of things (IIoT) is leveraging digital twins and what competitive advantages they bring over organizations still waiting to embrace digital transformation.
We predict Agile product development will continue to infiltrate physical product development, AI usage will increase, and sustainability will be even more important.
Agile product development offers many advantages for today’s hardware manufacturers, yet many still dismiss its benefits. This blog provides actionable advice on how to get your company started with Agile product development.
Artificial intelligence (AI) already is and will continue to power the next phase of digital transformation initiatives and software, creating opportunities and improvements not possible previously. Learn how.
The primary difference between spatial and digital twins lies in the context of what information is being measured and how it can be used to optimize efficiency within the workspace.
PTC debuted its industrial metaverse concept at LiveWorx 2023. Learn how this advanced use of digital transformation technologies can create new environments for spatial collaboration, data analytics, and augmented workflows.
Smart factories have been highlighted as a huge advantage of fully realized digital transformation. Learn tips and tricks, fresh from LiveWorx, on how to optimize your smart factory initiatives from pilot to full-scale production.