Product Design & Lifecycle blog

How do you ensure that requirements sales agrees with the customer are actually met?

A deal always consists of a number of promises and commitments. Your sales person knows which ones, but does everyone know them, all the way from sales to production, engineering and after-sales...

Knowledge will add value only when it is shared

Machines today can predict the maintenance time and suggest resources needed. Preventive maintenance has become more reality to many organisations. In my recent visits to some of the leading...

Does your development department manage changes in a structured way?

Many of the companies I meet have a need to manage change orders and change requests, so-called engineering change management, in a structured way.

The main reason that effective change management is

What if your Machines could talk?

What an inspiring question. Digitalisation has enabled machines to collect data, process, analyse and share it with people. When machines are sharing information, they are connected and we use the...

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...