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Today’s blog is the second in a series on the circular economy. This post picks up where our first blog ends. You can read the first blog here: The Circular Economy as a Model for the Future . What is “sustainable product design?” This blog will discuss…

The Metaverse is personal, will it become all business? IDC defines the Metaverse as an evolution of today's internet that leverages mobile devices, augmented and virtual reality headsets, and next-generation networks to create a persistent and continuous…

Context (and traceability) is king During my time as an engineer working at a medical device manufacturing company, we were forced to waste a lot of time. It sounds dramatic, I know. But because we did not have access to a capable system, it was necessary…

The need for speed The products we design, make, and operate continue to grow in terms of complexity and connectivity with many operating in a platform-as-a-service model; but this only part of the equation. Today, over half of a company’s revenue…

For years the “stampede” of companies moving PLM systems to the cloud sounded more like crickets hopping across the midwestern plains than the herd of wildebeests many industry experts expected. While companies were looking for any opportunity to move…

By now, everyone is aware that the cloud has become the dominant approach to deploying applications across almost every enterprise domain. Companies have progressed from viewing the cloud as an opportunity, to establishing it as their de-facto deployment…

New demands to adapt product development processes to support supplier collaboration, information sharing between engineering disciplines, flexible sourcing strategies, and digital transformation projects are uncovering the ugly truth and inadequacy of…

The FDA has published a guide to help medical device companies quickly become “recall ready,” including how voluntary product recalls can be done faster and more efficiently by having a digital thread (PLM) in place. The US Food and Drug Administration…