White Papers

Industrial manufacturers are facing unprecedented demand to deliver multiple product variations–which is driving up both costs and complexity in product development. The fact is, in every industry today, customers want more products that are specific to their unique requirements—and they want them quickly at an attractive price.

Industrial manufacturers are facing unprecedented demand to deliver multiple product variations–which is driving up both costs and complexity in product development. The fact is, in every industry today, customers want more products that are specific to their unique requirements—and they want them quickly at an attractive price.

The key role of Product Development in meeting the challenges of the automotive industry in the 21st century

Result of in-depth interviews conducted with automotive OEMs (both volume and premium) and their Tier-One suppliers that resulted in indentifying successful practises in managing the increasing complexity in automotive engineering.

This white paper discusses how engineering organizations can consistently achieve engineering excellence by standardizing on the the right tool for the engineer -- moving beyond the spreadsheet to a solution expressly designed to better create and document calculations.

Translation - A white paper

The white paper shows you how high-speed machining can cut mold and die-making time in half, but only if it's executed with an eye to the special needs of the tools and the process.

Whitepaper created by Chad Hawkinson that focuses on the benefits of having your Software engineers collaborate with Mechanical and Electrical during the design process

This article by Dr. Abe Riazi, senior staff electronic design scientist with Broadcom Corp. in Irvine, CA, demonstrates how you can use Mathcad to solve a wide range of SI problems.

This webinar will introduce registrants to best practices in modular design. Also explained is the concept of modular product architecture — what it is, how it applies to different industrial products, and how it reduces re-engineering, shortens testing time, and speeds time-to-market.

The reuse of engineering data for technical documentation offers a tremendous productivity boost to manufacturers. Learn what companies need to consider if they want to restructure their processes and bring 3D CAD-based illustrations directly into their customer documentation.

This paper is designed to provide an overview of the S1000D specification and a review of key considerations to achieve compliance as part of an enterprise's product development environment.

This document focuses on PTC’s FlexPLM product line addressing the retail, footwear, and apparel (RFA) industry.

White paper created by Manufacturing Business Technologies that outlines the results of their 2007 survey of high-tech companies and our PLM solution

This paper presents a better process for creating and delivering service information and outlines the key capabilities required for successfully implementing a dynamic service information delivery solution.

The world leader in implantable hearing solutions replaces paper-based processes with state-of-the-art PLM solution.

This white paper provides direction on processes and technology platforms that Medical Device manufacturers should consider in order to meet this new paradigm.

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In this complimentary white paper, you will learn how implementing a Product Development System (PDS) can help you achieve integral CSM processes.

This free guide from Aberdeen shows you how world-class manufacturing organizations have transformed engineering change management from an inefficient, time-consuming, unstructured process into an automated system that delivers a clear competitive advantage. Based primarily on survey results from Industrial manufacturers, this free guide is avaible as an instant download.

Getting the Most Out of Product Lifecycle Management in Retail, Footwear and Apparel.

The pressure is intensifying. To be competitive, electronics manufacturers, first and foremost, must get to market first – without sacrificing product reliability and performance. They are taking action to decrease lead times, but obstructing these attempts is an industry-wide skills shortage. This compounds other challenges, including finding design issues early, combating growing verification times, and meeting cost constraints. Yet some companies are experiencing success, significantly outdistancing their peers.

In-depth overview of key business considerations affecting a product lifecycle management solution for the retail, footwear and apparel industries.

With the release of Pro/INTRALINK 9.0 and Windchill PDMLink 9.0, PTC continues to deliver a single, scalable data management solution that enables customers to leverage today’s powerful Windchill architecture. Today, Pro/INTRALINK 3.x customers have an opportunity to take advantage of many powerful new capabilities that each of these applications has to offer. In this paper, PTC discusses the process of moving from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x to either Pro/INTRALINK 9.0 or Windchill PDMLink 9.0. You’ll learn about the methodologies, tools and services available to facilitate the process, and the factors one should consider when making plans to migrate.

With the release of Pro/INTRALINK 9.0 and Windchill PDMLink 9.0, PTC continues to deliver a single, scalable data management solution that enables customers to leverage today’s powerful Windchill architecture. Today, Pro/INTRALINK 3.x customers have an opportunity to take advantage of many powerful new capabilities that each of these applications has to offer. In this paper, PTC discusses the process of moving from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x to either Pro/INTRALINK 9.0 or Windchill PDMLink 9.0. You’ll learn about the methodologies, tools and services available to facilitate the process, and the factors one should consider when making plans to migrate.

The following paper will discuss how you can improve the quality of your publications and why a dynamic publishing system is optimal to solving your information quality problems.

The following paper will discuss how you can improve the quality of your publications and why a product development system that incorporates publishing in your product development processes is essential to solving your information quality problems.

If you’re thinking about implementing DITA, download this white paper to understand our top ten best practices for ensuring success.

Learn more about DITA and why it is one of the most important innovations in XML publishing in recent memory. And if you’re using or plan to use XML for publishing technical documentation, you will encounter DITA sooner or later.

In this easy reference series, we dig deep into FIVE CRITICAL PROCESS AREAS FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. Drawing from a diverse range of customers, product categories and distribution channels, we examine in detail the DEFINITION OF THE PROCESS, typical initiatives driving the need for PLM, specific role impact, a best practice process example, and benefits achieved from enabling the process in PLM.

Download the Aberdeen Mechatronics Benchmark Report and learn how “Best in Class” companies are simplifying complex system design so that they can get to market on time at lower costs.

The pressures of globalization and consolidation are complicating the business of product development in almost every industry. But nowhere is the impact being felt more profoundly than the development of sophisticated electronic products, where companies must synchronize increasingly complex, multidiscipline development environments.

Learn what the latest analyst research shows about today’s best practices, and discover the six “fundamentals” of successful compliance strategies in this new research report by AberdeenGroup.

Producing top quality at competitive costs and at the same time offering convincing technical and innovative solutions are the challenges facing companies in the automotive indus-try today. The study "Managing Complexity in Automotive Engi-neering” shows that these chal-lenges to control complexity at op-timum costs are continuing to in-crease for companies in the auto-motive industry.

This white paper describes how you can ‘hardwire’ compliance into your product development processes with a validated system that automatically captures required records for regulatory purposes.

Download this whitepaper and learn how to address the mechanical, electrical and software engineering processes work in isolation challenges facing automobile manufacturers today. See a solution that integrates these groups to keep up with the demand for innovative electrical and electronic components in today’s automobiles.

A Process-Based Approach to Effective Technical Orders. The following paper will discuss how you can imporve the quality of your publications, and why a product development system that incorporates publishing in your product development process is essential to solving your information quality problems.

Small/Midsize manufacturing today is a cost battle, customers are looking for lower costs, management needs cost reductions. This free guide shows you how to achieve higher performance and create complex products faster and on budget. This free white paper is instantly downloadable now.

21st Century Mold & Die Shop, a Free Benchmark report from Aberdeen Group and PTC

In this white paper, you’ll gain a better understanding of: 1. The challenges facing each of these disciplines, and 2. The need for a simple solution that provides both a single source of logical and physical data that’s available to the entire design team, and a workflow that automates most manual processes.

Pro/INTRALINK 9.0 is the next generation Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management solution built on the Windchill technology architecture. Pro/INTRALINK is a subset of Windchill PDMLink with equivalent capabilities for Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management.

With its Web-based architecture built on Windchill® technology, plus major capability and performance enhancements, Pro/INTRALINK 9.0 improves the productivity of Pro/ENGINEER users and workgroups.

This white paper investigates how Mathcad is being adopted by A&D engineering organizations to replace spreadsheets and traditional programming languages, and how Mathcad’s unique capabilities are solving key issues for organizations and helping technical teams improve efficiency.

This white paper will help you identify waste in product development, and show you what you can do to make your product development processes leaner.

This whitepaper offers clear, yet simple techincal advice for 2D CAD users who are considering making the transition to 3D CAD.

Download a free copy of the Aberdeen Group report: Profitable Product Development for Small to Midsize Enterprises. Learn how best-in-class small & medium-size manufacturers meet product development goals that drive profitability up to 14 times more frequently than some companies. This report highlights those approaches and differences; serving as a roadmap to improve product development and increase profits.

The Aberdeen Group Midsize Manufacturers Configuration Management Insight Report identifies the approaches that best-in-class midsize manufacturers are taking to manage their bills of materials (BOMs) and product configurations; improving their configuration management performance and ability to deliver profitable products to market.

In a recent survey of executives at worldwide manufacturing companies, over 44% of respondents stated that globalizing key business functions was one of their top three corporate initiatives. And the one function that’s being targeted most? Global Design Collaboration. But many industrial manufacturers are unable to gain the ROI from design outsourcing that they anticipate. These industry-proven methods–reinforced in this paper through a real-world case study–can improve your global collaborative design processes, and help deliver the benefits you’re expecting in faster time to market, increased productivity and lower costs.

Aerospace & Defense - Secure Capabilities for Extended Collaboration The benefits of distributed product development also present challenges to securely manage and protect intellectual property. This in-depth White Paper examines the risks associated with inadequate processes and technologies to support secure collaboration. Approaches on how to remedy these gaps with an automated process infrastructure which covers ITAR and sensitive data are presented.

A Process-Based Approach to Effective Technical Orders. The following paper will discuss how you can improve the quality of your publications, and why a product development system that incorporates publishing in your product development process is essential to solving your information quality problems.

Engineering Change Management 2.0: Better Business Decisions from Intelligent Change Management

Whitepaper that focuses on the incorporation of software into the product development process

Learn how to leverage digital and physical prototyping to shorten your product development schedule and reduce costs associated with product testing and analysis. Download this free Aberdeen Report on new strategies to augment traditional testing processes.

White paper describing the benefits of Nimble Product Design: CAD/CAM/CAE for the Small/Medium Enterprise

This article by Dr. Abe Riazi, senior staff electronic design scientist with Broadcom Corp. in Irvine, CA, demonstrates how you can use Mathcad to solve a wide range of SI problems.

Distributed Computing with Pro/ENGINEER. Distributed Pro/BATCH White Paper. Leverage your hardware and software resources to perform batch jobs over the network

Why the Value of Intellectual Property Skyrockets When It’s Embedded – Electronically – into the Product Model’s Digital File

This paper presents a better process for creating and delivering service information and outlines the key capabilities required for successfully implementing a dynamic service information delivery solution. This solution leverages customer, product, and service data contained within various systems throughout your company and delivers the knowledge you need to maximize the performance of your technicians and customer support professionals.

In this complimentary white paper, you will learn how implementing a Product Development System (PDS) can help you transcend traditional CSM processes

Protect Your Critical Design Intellectual Property (IP) Persistently and Dynamically

Now, more than ever, organizations need to effectively communicate global product information if they are to operate successfully on the world stage. Traditionally, though, organizations have faced a fragmented landscape of technology solutions that are bolted together, but don’t work together. Organizations have had to integrate these technologies themselves and cope with the resulting overhead.

This is a quick overview of the best of Aberdeen's research in CAD embedded simulation in the product development process.

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) may be the most compelling innovation in technical publishing since the invention of XML. It promises to help companies deliver technical documentation that significantly improves their ability to meet their customers’ needs for information that is accurate, up-to-date, relevant and easy to use, while also reducing the cost of creating and delivering that information.

Some manufacturers are not only staying afloat, but making a killing with mechatronic products. They get to market on time at lower costs and sell like mad. What’s the secret? Frighteningly enough, it’s actually quite simple.

This white paper provides direction on processes and technology platforms that Medical Device manufacturers should consider in order to meet this new paradigm.

Formalising and Extending CM to drive quality - white paper from the Aberdeen group.

An in-depth look at the benefits and process of moving from Windchill Foundation and PDM 6.2.6 or earlier to Windchill PDMLink 9.0

Comparing Windchill Foundation & PDM 6.2.6 and Windchill PDMLink 9.0

The field of technical illustration is vast, and now comprises a multitude of techniques and principles. Describing all of these techniques in detail would be a never-ending project. Yet, for today’s illustrators searching for insightful information on topics such as illustrations versus drawings, the current situation is paradoxical: technical illustration is a huge topic, yet there are few books and publications available, as many of the ‘classics’ have gone out of print.

This white paper describes how you can ‘hardwire’ compliance into your product development processes with a validated system that automatically captures required records for regulatory purposes. In addition, you’ll learn how such a system improves performance of several critical business processes including regulatory compliance, quality systems management, detailed design, change management and requirements management. Lastly, you’ll get an overview of PTC’s Product Development System, which helps leading medical device manufacturers to automate compliance and gain a competitive advantage.

Aberdeen Group research report on product development for small and medium-size manufacturers

To be competitive, electronics manufacturers, first and foremost, must get to market first – without sacrificing product reliability and performance.

In today’s global economy, companies need to build great products even faster, more reliability, and less expensively than ever before in order to keep up with or ahead of the competition. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a primary means for engaging suppliers, partners, and customers in multiple geographic locations to improve product development processes in order to achieve these goals. Leading PLM and collaboration solutions such as PTC Windchill help companies streamline processes, fuel innovation, and ultimately, to deliver superior products.

While the emergence of 3D modeling tools occurred two decades ago, some vendors estimate that roughly 85% of the current CAD user base still primarily employs 2D drafting.

Learn how the new capabilities of IDEs improve Aerospace and Defense program performance.

This paper is designed to help CEOs, CFOs, and senior Engineering executives understand how and where to leverage the growing phenomenon known as Global Product Development as a means to gain a dramatic increase in productivity within their product development operation.