Tag Archives: Product lifecycle management

Desktop Engineering: Vendors Try to ‘Rightsize’ PLM for Smaller Businesses

By Admin | Published: May 8, 2013

For more than a decade, larger manufacturers have come to rely on product lifecycle management (PLM) to help deal with increasing design and manufacturing complexity, but the software tools have traditionally been expensive and difficult to deploy, keeping smaller companies at bay. PLM vendors have struggled to break into the SMB market, but their approaches–mostly […]

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MCADCafe: Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation Completes First Phase of PTC PLM System Deployment

By Admin | Published: Jan 12, 2012

“PTC’s Windchill is being deployed within HMC/KMC’s core research and development groups to establish a system of record for the complete vehicle, which will include design data from a range of different systems including CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER® (now Creo®). In addition, Windchill will also help handle the complexity caused by the increasing number of vehicle change […]

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Unraveling the Complexity of Today’s Products

By barb schmitz | Published: Nov 16, 2011

Nearly every product today, from cars and phones to washing machines, contains some sort of embedded computing technology. Customers are increasingly yearning for technology-enabled products. Smart phones, computing tablets, electronic navigation systems, Wi-Fi-enabled TVs, and a slew of other tech-enabled products offer consumers convenience, portability, and personalization at very reasonable prices, thanks to increased competition […]

Posted in Reinventing Design | Also tagged Embedded system, Information technology, New product development, PLM, Product Development | Leave a comment

Prime Magazine: Simulation: Race to the Top

By Admin | Published: Oct 13, 2011

Prime, Microsoft’s magazine for discrete manufacturers, interviews John Buchowski, VP of Creo Product Management at PTC on the topic of Simultion and PLM. ‘A 3D model with relevant simulation software can considerably cut phyiscal testing, sometimes eliminating it completel’ says John, find out what else he had to say about PLM, simulation, and benefits to discrete […]

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Safeguarding Design Concepts and IP

By barb schmitz | Published: Aug 25, 2011

Intellectual property is the most important asset of a manufacturer and, if leaked to a competitor, can lead to lost market exclusivity and competitive advantage. Today, IP contained in product concept designs is increasingly at risk, along with the revenue and corporate know-how it represents. The threat to product IP has increased as a result […]

Posted in Reinventing Design | Also tagged Concept design, design, Intellectual Property, IP, Manufacturing, New product development, Product Design, PTC Survey | Leave a comment

Design Software for Tomorrow’s Engineers

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Aug 24, 2011

If you keep up with the business press, you know that many are predicting a broad disruption to manufacturing soon. Not a political disruption as world leaders seek to lure factories with incentives. But rather, a technological disruption, as ideas like affordable 3D printing and community manufacturing centers take hold. Everyone brings a different view […]

Posted in Creo Customers | Also tagged Academic Program, Creo, Education, FIRST, FormulaSAE, John Stuart, Mathcad, PTC, Real World Design Challenge, STARBASE, STEM | Leave a comment

Creo 1.0: Just the apps ma’am: Creo Illustrate Demonstration

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 8, 2011

Creo Illustrate is our app for anyone who wants to communicate complex service information graphically. Use it to create clear, interactive 3D illustrations and animations from almost any 3D design data, not just from the Creo apps. Tim Harrison, Director of Product Management at PTC, shows you how it works. In the video below he […]

Posted in What's in Creo 1.0, What's in Creo 2.0 | Also tagged 3D animations, Creo, Creo Illustrate, design, Illustration, interactive 3D illustrations, service procedures, technical documentation, Tim Harrison | Leave a comment

Jeff Rowe, Creo Questions, and MCADcafe.com

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jun 28, 2011

Jeffrey Rowe, Contributing Editor for MCAD Weekly Review (from MCADCafe.com) recently posted a review of Creo 1.0. In it, Jeff asks a number of questions about Creo 1.0. Here’s his original questions with our answers, and where possible, we’ve also included further links offering a more in-depth explanation. ‘What about the level of Creo integration with industrial design and CAM? Especially CAM, because it […]

Posted in Creo reactions, FAQs | Also tagged 3D, Arbortext, CAD and CAM, Computer-aided design, Creo, creo 1.0, Creo Elements/Direct, design software, Jeff Rowe, MCAD Weekly Review, MCADCafe.com, Parametric Technology Corporation, Windchill | Leave a comment

Automobilwoche: PTC Engineering Software Brings Apps for Creo

By Admin | Published: Jun 27, 2011

“The first role-based Creo apps were developed to optimize the engineering, manufacturing and service processes and increase the productivity of the individual participants. Benefit not only the design engineers and service personnel, technical illustrators and industrial designers who have promoted traditional processes of product development, in which they have used 3D direct or 3D parametric modeling, […]

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TEC Review: Summarizing PTC’s Decades of Fervent In-House Innovation – Part 2

By Admin | Published: May 11, 2011

“PTC’s PLM solutions suite addresses common challenges that product companies, in particular discrete manufacturing companies, face in their product development processes, including PDM (often involving multiple CAD file formats), communication and collaboration with the extended enterprise, product/project/program and portfolio management (PPM), engineering change management (ECM), requirements management, regulatory compliance, technical and marketing documentation, product quality and […]