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March 2012
Regulation Brings New Challenge and Opportunity to Consumer-Products Industry
Consumer protection laws, country and state regulations, industry regulations, restricted substance lists (RSL) – it’s enough to make your head spin. It’s also enough to cost your company millions of dollars and even brand reputation if you aren’t prepared. Consumers are becoming ever savvier about the kinds of products they interact with. Companies that can track and show how their …
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PLM Syncs Up With Service
For the better part of the last decade, and despite a bigger-picture vision at its onset, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has traditionally been stuck in the engineering-specific part of the development cycle. Its focus has been all about how to leverage PLM technology and process change to improve how engineers collaborate on 3D designs. While everyone, from automotive giants to …
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is not a Tool – it’s a way of Life
In my opinion, ALM is not a fancy shiny tool as some people may suggest – it’s a way of life in the software development world. The challenges facing software development today include: managing software development assets and the relationships between them; full lifecycle process automation and enforcement; reusability of development assets; having a… Continue reading
FIRST Robotics Teams Battle for Place in Finals
The FIRST Robotics Competition is heating up, with teams from all over the United States thrashing it out for a place in the St. Louis April finals. This weekend past, Washington teens competed at Seattle-based CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks. Dozens of teams packed the floor, making final tweaks to their bots, the outcome of many weeks hard …
Holistic Systems Engineering Best Approach for Automotive
In the March edition of Automotive Engineering International, Bruce Morey addresses how advancing CAD, CAM and PLM technologies are changing the way engineers develop, simulate, and analyse car designs. And it’s not only product development tools that are becoming evermore sophisticated and widely used. Cars themselves are more advanced, incorporating a vast array of software and computers. Today, Morey argues, …
Build-Your-Own Car: New Trends in Auto Design Crowdsourcing
A growing list of car companies are mobilizing an army of inspired amateur car designers from around the world to create, share, modify and build new vehicle designs. Commonly acknowledged as the first crowdsourced vehicle, the design of the Fiat Mio concept car was outsourced to a large group. After soliciting design input, Fiat posted entries on its project website …
Engineered to Last – Fenway Park Turns One-Hundred
Outside the red-brick left-field wall of Boston’s Fenway Park is a little-noticed latticework of steel trusses that rises to the peak of the famous 37-foot Green Monster. The ingeniously engineered support, invisible from inside the stadium, allowed 274 highly prized (and pricey) seats to be added at the top of the wall. It’s the most obvious evidence of 10 winters …
Lifestyle Products Company Finds Success with PLM
Why is Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) essential for optimizing product development and business growth? This is the question Dave Winter, Vice President of Research and Development at Lifetime Products Inc. discussed with representatives from over 130 companies during a recent visit to PTC. 8 Ways Lifetime Benefits from PLM Easier to manage projects and categories for scalability Robust standardized change …
Maillardet’s Automaton Continues to Fascinate
Today, we’re surrounded by some pretty awesome gadgets designed to make our human lives easier. And robots are at the cutting edge of this gadgetry. From war zones, disasters, operating rooms and outer space, to inside our own homes, robots are fast becoming indispensable. But where does our fascination for robots come from and when were the first robots invented? …
Brand Supremo: Reflections on the Sharpie Pen
Call me territorial, but whenever I want to declare something as mine, I scribe my name on it in big bold letters to make it abundantly clear to others that this object has an owner. My preferred instrument of choice? A black permanent marker. But not just any marker, it has to be a Sharpie. Sharpie has become synonymous with …
