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Mechatronics Management (Part 3): Software Aspects
Posted on June 10, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis series of four posts looks at the management of items, data and bills of material for mechatronic products. It is split into mechanical aspects, electrical aspect, software aspects and... -
Three New eBooks in The CAD Revolution Series
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsRemember back in February when I blogged about a new series of eBooks focused on the CAD Revolution? The first one was relatively broad-based, talking about the changes in the... -
Your Portfolio Management Strategy is Broken
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsYes. I know. I know. Kind of an audacious statement. But I’m actually not crying wolf. I truly am concerned that there’s a fundamental problem with portfolio management in many... -
CIC Management Forum Panel: How to Get the Most Out of Your Engineering Organization
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsOne more week and the 3D Collaborative and Interoperability Congress is here. A little while ago, I announced some details about the new Management Forum at the CIC. Then just... -
New Publication: The Key to Recovery through NPD Productivity
Posted on May 11, 2011 | 2 CommentsLast week, I published a post titled A Peek Inside Your CEO’s Head that looked at some findings from the PriceWaterhouseCooper’s CEO study. The biggest takeaway, at least in my... -
Mechatronics Management (Part 2): Electrical Aspects
Posted on April 27, 2011 | 1 CommentThis series of four posts looks at the management of items, data and bills of material for mechatronic products. It is split into mechanical aspects, electrical aspects, software aspects and... -
Mechatronics Management (Part 1): Mechanical Aspects
Posted on April 21, 2011 | 4 CommentsFor the past three years, I've headed out to Phoenix AZ for the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software to talk with numerous providers and users of engineering software. The discussions are always pretty forward-looking, almost bleeding edge instead of leading edge. In the analyst briefing on System Modeling and Analysis, which was led by Allan Behren (who goes by the twitter handle @AllanBehrens), one of the engineering IT leader for For, Richard Riff, made a statement that made my ears perk up (the following is a paraphrase). -
CIC Management Forum Panel: Empowering Engineering Decision Making
Posted on April 7, 2011 | 3 CommentsAs we inch closer to the kickoff of the 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Conference on May 23rd, I wanted to give all of you more insight into a few of the presentations and panels that will be part of the Management Forum track. The first one I'll talk about here is all about empowering engineering decision making. -
New Report and Webinar on the Release-to-CAD Milestone
Posted on February 25, 2011 | 2 CommentsWalking into their offices, I was preparing myself to get into the nitty gritty detailed improvements to Spaceclaim. But when I finally sat down with Blake, I have to admit, I was a little surprised when he said "we've had a lot of people love our technology, but more often than not now, we actually find ourselves in the middle of process change in engineering. Who would have thought that?" -
New eBook Series: The CAD Revolution… and What It Means to You
Posted on February 21, 2011 | 5 CommentsAs most of you know, something I write about fairly frequently on this blog is CAD software. I've written about different modeling technologies. I've written about new releases and changes in strategies from different software providers. But most importantly, I've tried to translate what all of it means to different roles in the engineering organization. After all, that's the most important thing, right?