Product Design & Lifecycle blog

How to reduce the time you spend supporting others in product information management?

At many manufacturing and product development companies designers spend hours every week maintaining and supporting other departments with product information. It may be, for example, supplying...

Five challenges facing manufacturing companies – do you recognise them?

Many of the manufacturing and product development companies I visit, big and small, struggle with similar challenges. Here are the five most common ones I have encountered: #1: The employees in the...

How times have changed - From Product discussions to Business value partnerships

Not so many years ago the conversations most of our clients wanted to have with us was about our products; what would Autodesk Vault give them, What is Inventor's iLogic functionality and how do we...

The Lesser Spotted Update Training

In most industries these days, we use some sort of computer software, whether we sit at a desk all day, or actually get our hands dirty or access things via a mobile device, one thing in common is...

[Video blog] Five years´ experience of PLM at Scandinova

Can you really get a good return on a PLM project? Per Benkowski, PMO and Engineering manager at Scandinova, talks in the below video about the company's challenges to have full control of both their...

5 Myths around Simulation

With simulation software, engineers can analyse stresses on product designs without having to do any physical testing. That’s a real time-saver. Simulation sounds also like it could save you...