Your engineering team’s product launch date just slipped a week. Should you spend $20,000 on an outside engineering service to get the release back on schedule? In these situations, making the right decision quickly requires reliable information and analysis. As more...
For more than two decades, it has been SPK and Associates' privilege to support our clients’ varied engineering and systems integration needs. We're grateful for the opportunity to be useful to them all, in their various markets. We support a gamut of needs: From...
SPK wants to wish our growing subscriber community a Happy New Year! We’re honored to be welcomed onto your desktops and smartphones to share stories on how to make your engineering team and company work more efficiently. Perhaps more importantly, we hope any...
The way you test software (or don’t) is heavily influenced by your theoretical perspective of its purpose. I've learned that, contrary to my initial belief, unit testing is not about finding bugs. It turns out that manual testing is much more cost effective for...
Security in the 21st century is a complicated game. The good guys are always playing catch up with the bad guys. Security is particularly important for medtech companies due to their specific compliance needs. Banking and fintech likewise have a high bar for security...
Requirements management isn’t optional in many fields. Medical technology and finance are just two fields where regulatory compliance necessitates requirements management. You and other stakeholders simply must be in total agreement about the requirements of a given...
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In the second episode of our podcast series "Can IoT Jump These Five Hurdles?", we transition from a broad introduction of these five hurdles to a deeper dive into each challenge facing the Internet of Things. Let's begin with the smart device itself and it's digital...
In the third episode of our podcast series "Can IoT Jump These Five Hurdles?”, SPK & Associates' Chief Strategy Officer, Rajiv Mistry, explains the challenges of IOT device serviceability and environmental impacts. To see all published episodes, scroll down this...
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When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT) and connectivity, embedded software security is a top concern for a growing number of manufacturing companies and their software engineers. The worldwide market for embedded security software is forecasted to rise to $2.95...
In a previous blog article I discussed, at a high level, the Integrity to Windchill integration for PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager. Now that we have seen some of the context of how the Integration is supposed to work, I thought it would be a good idea to actually...
