Smart Products
Today's market demands smart and connected products, which is why manufacturing companies must integrate quality electronic components, electrical systems, and software into their products.
These demands impact every stage of the design and development process and pose enormous challenges, especially for product development companies.
What are the methods and technologies that enable companies to be ready for the transition to increasingly smart and connected products?
- Progressive approach: all engineering teams can access the evolving design of other engineering and supplier teams, so prototyping and testing will not be necessary, thus speeding up the manufacturing process
- Effective collaboration with the digital twin: managing the digital twin in a single system allows companies to manage each team's work in a single reliable source of information, and everyone can be kept up to date on the development process
- Digital thread tracking and management: so any changes made in one area of the project must also be propagated into the derived deliverables. PLM solutions such as Teamcenter enable companies to track and manage the digital thread in their engineering teams and functional departments
- Efficiency and productivity with PLM SAAS (Software as a Service) solutions: ability to configure and customize PLM to fit a company's practices and standards, generating user familiarity and improving productivity
- Quick access with PLM SAAS (Software as a Service) solutions: Use of ready-to-use, cost-effective solutions that provide requirements management and multidisciplinary BOM management, as well as proper project and program management.
In this eBook we will examine the key methods and technologies that enable companies to remain competitive as they move toward increasingly intelligent and connected products.