As explored in one of our previous articles, tracking metrics is a crucial component of a successful development system. But how can you leverage those metrics further? The solution is quite simple: with the trace reporting function available in Windchill...
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How to Increase Uptime of Your Engineering Systems
Picture this: all your engineering applications run slow, or worse, continue to shut down. Yet, the IT team reports no alerts within the remote monitoring and management systems despite the problem. What is the root cause and how do you fix it? Remote...
How to Trace Metrics in Windchill RV&S (PTC Integrity)
Tracking metrics is a vital component of any successful requirements management or development system. A thorough understanding of your progress or position in the delivery cycle is crucial! Within this article, we will discuss how to create and trace metrics to...
Blog: How AWS Cloud Solutions Can Help Your Manufacturing Enterprise Maintain Its Competitive Edge
In manufacturing, cloud solutions provide breathtaking results. like reducing line stoppages by 98 percent, an 86 percent reduction in on-site inventory and a 10 percent increase in overall productivity. Read our white paper, This paper discusses how hybrid cloud...
How Cyber Security Requirements Can Throw your Medical Device Off Track
In our last article we talked about the four steps your organization must go through when designing secure connected medical devices. With the increasing attention paid to product security in this era of connected medical devices, many companies are scrambling to keep...
Multi-Cloud Is the Future of Infrastructure… For Now
Does this sound familiar? Your organization has settled into its cloud migration. You’re enjoying the increased security and resiliency. You feel like you’ve just climbed a mountain and you want to spend some time gazing out from the summit. Then you read about...
Four Steps to Securing Your Company’s Medical Devices
Connected medical devices offer enormous opportunity for manufacturers and consumers alike. They also carry the burden of increased risk due to cybersecurity flaws. Think about the dangers of having your email or bank account hacked. Now consider the damage hacking a...
What About Google Cloud?
Of course, the missing piece of our cloud discussion is Google Cloud. In some ways, Google is a minor player in the cloud world, despite popular cloud-based apps like Google Docs and Google Drive. It’s not even in third place -- it’s in fourth, behind IBM. The...
Multi-Cloud Solutions Present Significant Architecture Challenges
Last time we discussed how a multi-cloud solution including both AWS and Azure might be just the solution your organization needs. Now let’s talk a bit more about the challenges attendant to leveraging both platforms at the same time. Architecting both to play nice...
Combining AWS and Azure for Optimal Cloud Performance
We’ve hinted at it throughout this series, but now we’re going to say it explicitly: To get the most out of the cloud you should be combining solutions. At the very least, you should be thinking more flexibly than “AWS is for engineering, Azure is for IT.” Does Your...
How Azure Became the Second-Largest Cloud Platform
Azure first became associated with IT for one simple reason: It’s a Microsoft product. Since the majority of organizations are running some kind of Microsoft application (be it Windows or Office), it was an easy sell because of ease of integration. However, this alone...
How AWS Became the Favorite of Engineering
AWS, with its commanding market share in the world of cloud, relies heavily on engineering organizations for its success. We’ve explored the reasons for this in previous articles. What it boils down to is that Amazon’s cloud platform is more geared toward the way...