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In today’s fast-paced world of engineering product development, companies in diverse industry sectors face many business drivers and structural constraints. For instance, in today’s fast paced world of continually accelerated product development cycles and increasing amounts of data, engineering analysis not only needs to be accurate but also timely. Engineers today no longer do product development analysis in “silos” but …
ABET Accreditation: Capturing Evidence of Skill Development
Engineering programs at US colleges and universities keep the ABET accreditation criteria in mind when developing new course content, but the critical piece is the current curriculum. A challenging aspect of the ABET accreditation process is capturing evidence that students are not just passing tests, but developing engineering skill through their course work. What constitutes evidence of assimilation and application …
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Tagged ABET, Accreditation, college, math education, STEM, University
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New Study Reveals Risks to Apparel Supply Chain
Retail companies are well aware of the risks and variables associated with the apparel supply chain. And the last couple of years have been tougher than usual, with rising cotton costs ($1 per lb in late 2010) and shipping costs, along with labor wage increases in Bangladesh, China and India. A new report out this month, “Risk analysis of the …
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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Tagged consumer products, global manufacturing, regulatory compliance, retail, supply chain
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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 …
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, …
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 …
Beat Out Your Retail Market Competitors with PLM
How clothes are designed and sold – an interesting topic that concerns everyone. But what do we really know about the challenges facing the retail market today and what makes a brand successful? We know that trends change rapidly and new brands appear every day. Innovations can be copied extremely quickly across the globe. And, in the retail industry, the most …
Are You Sacrificing Brand Reputation for Faster Time to Market?
Do you remember the first time you bought a new car? How proud you were? The envious stares of your neighbors? But what happens to that feeling when your car doesn’t start in the morning and those same neighbors are laughing? It’s the era of the product recall. Consumers are constantly looking at the make, model and serial number of …
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Software Engineers – Let’s Get Them in the Game!
Does anyone remember the day when software engineers were off in the corner working on their projects, isolated from other engineering groups? It doesn’t seem that long ago that the silos of engineering software vs hardware (mechanical and electrical) were as separate and isolated as Red Sox and Yankees fans! Let’s face it, the time is now to invite software …
