White Papers

How Leaders Are Surviving–and Thriving–in Today’s Volatile Global Economy In today’s challenging economic environment, retailers and brands are struggling for their very survival, with little cause for optimism on future sales growth. While some companies are in a month-to-month triage mode, many forward-thinking companies are considering the implementation of technology solutions that not only will help weather the current economic storm, but also deliver performance benefits in the long term. In this white paper, we analyze four key industry trends that are relevant to the economic situation, and examine how leading retailers and brands are embracing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to enhance bottom-line efficiency in a tough economic climate.

The Next Generation of IDE for Aerospace & Defense

Learn How Your Product Information Impacts Product Performance and Profitability

Airlines face a difficult business environment, made more challenging by mounting regulatory pressures. Technical Document Management (TDM), an often-neglected area, promises relief, notably in flight operations. This document describes a new breed of solutions that straddles a middle ground between two common approaches to airline TDM. These new solutions promise dramatic improvements in information quality, revision, reusability, reporting, and other factors – for flight ops and across the airline enterprise.

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.

Global Design Collaboration White Paper Download with PTC and IBM

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 this whitepaper to learn about a new approach to global BOM development that can help electronics and high tech companies overcome the challenges inherent in designing and configuring products with multiple options to meet the requirements of various market segments.

Change and Configuration Management for Today's Dynamic A&D Organizations

Through PTC’s Partner Advantage Program, Software Developers such as carat robotic Can License PTC’s GRANITE to Add Robust Interoperability to their Software Applications

This Sector Insight covers essential considerations, including - Strategic actions supporting the use of 3D CAD - Preparing employees for 3D - What functionalities are important for SMB users? - And many more.

Automotive Whitepaper

Free Whitepaper sponsored by IBM and PTC about Automotive System Design and Mechatronics.

Help existing Pro/INTRALINK 3.x customers understand PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER® data management strategy and future product plans.

An In-depth Look at the Processes, Tools and Services for a Smooth Migration

Small and medium size companies face the same product development challenges as larger enterprises, yet they have starkly fewer resources to address them. SMBs with PLM report strong return on investment, including an 18.5% improvement in product profit margins.

For those companies who are used to a 2D CAD process and actually are looking to upgrade to a 3D CAD product- What are the top10 reasons why they should pick Explicit Modeling. Asset is written for Users/ Designers and describes their point of view in this decision process.

Read this extensive ECAD-MCAD Collaboration feature article entitled, "Reengineer Your ECAD-MCAD Design Process."

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

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

The Electronics and High Tech (E&HT) industry is facing many challenges associated with a product’s design as it moves through the various stages of the product development lifecycle. One particular problem that poses signifi cant risk to companies, if not properly addressed, involves the effective capture and management of engineering calculations that are at the core of a product’s design.

Traditionally, CAD software providers have directed their customers to choose a high-performance CAD system to meet their design needs. And while choosing the right CAD solution is certainly a critical decision, leaders in the CAD software industry now recognize that companies actually have a far more basic question to answer first. The fact is, there are two mainstream, accepted approaches to 3D design within the manufacturing industry: parametric and explicit. Each approach is different and each offers its own benefits and applications. The trick is determining which approach is right for your company.

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White paper positioning explict modeling as a valid alternative to those that may be struggling with other CAD technologies today.

PLM Ecosystem Best Practices Study by Aberdeen Group

This paper discusses explicit modeling, an alternative approach to 3D design that offers a more palatable solution for those still working in 2D. For companies where one-off or highly customized product designs are common, explicit modeling provides less disruption to existing processes as well as a profi table, lasting addition to the business.

This paper discusses explicit modeling, an alternative approach to 3D design that offers a more palatable solution for those still working in 2D. For companies where one-off or highly customized product designs are common, explicit modeling provides less disruption to existing processes as well as a profi table, lasting addition to the business.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

AberdeenGroup research shows that, like larger manufacturers, small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are focusing their product strategy on revenue growth in combination with cost reduction – to achieve profitable growth.

This complimentary white paper from the Aberdeen Group and PTC shows you how the best small and medium size manufacturers hit their revenue and product development targets over and over again.

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.

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.

In the fourth of five PLM topics, PTC’s Kathleen Mitford examines the benefits of automating a specification development process in a PLM solution.

Concluding a series on five key PLM topics, PTC’s Kathleen Mitford examines the benefits of automating a Vendor Collaboration process in a PLM solution.

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.

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