A critical business challenge for medical device manufacturers as they scale is getting products to market quickly while supporting existing products and meeting FDA Quality System Regulation (21-CFR-820) requirements. To achieve this effectively, Product Development...
PDM/PLM-Product Data and Lifecycle Management
Understanding Part Management in Windchill
Managing parts is a vital component of product manufacturing. Properly tracking each piece of a final product can result in reduced costs, accelerated time to market, increased efficiency, and improved sustainability. Let’s explore how Windchill streamlines part...
Analytics and AI That Matter In Product Development
The integration of data, AI, and analytics is transforming the workflows of product development companies. With AI-driven insights, businesses can streamline their design, development, and launch processes while mitigating risks. In this blog, our team wanted to...
Best Practices for Product Engineering Teams to Reduce Quality Costs
Cutting down quality-related costs without compromising product performance can be a difficult balancing act. Improving efficiency, eliminating waste, and ensuring compliance can all exist in tandem when engineering teams implement best practices. Utilizing defect...
How to Achieve Faster, Cost-Effective Prototyping in Product Development
Accelerating product development is crucial for designers and manufacturers aiming to reduce time-to-market and cut costs. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through prototyping. Creating digital and physical prototypes helps companies iterate...
Engineering Excellence: Real Results, Not Just Resources
Engineering Excellence Hello and welcome to Engineering Excellence: Real Results, Not Just Resources. My name is Michael Roberts, Vice President of SPK and Associates, and I'm here with Edwin Chung. Ed, feel free to introduce yourself. Hey, please call me Ed. I'm VP...
Welcome to SPK’s New Website and Blog!
Welcome to SPK’s new website and blog! We’ll be posting a lot of great tech info here in the coming week and months, so be sure to subscribe or check back often. You’ll hear from everyone on our team at some point or another – which is good since more minds = more...
The Key to Reducing Costs and Improving Product Quality
Introduction Michael Roberts: Hello and welcome to this SPK Vlog entitled The Key to Reducing Costs and Improving Your Quality. My name is Michael Roberts, Vice President of Sales and Marketing here at SPK and Associates. I'm here today with Daniela. Feel free to...
The Convergence of ALM and PLM in the Technology Industry
As more and more technology is embedded into products, and software continues its role as the primary driver for product innovation, the domains of application lifecycle management (ALM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) are being placed on an inevitable...
Adapting Application Lifecycle Management to DevOps
Does the new trend towards DevOps threaten the integrity of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)? The very nature of DevOps, which bridges the gap between development and operations through increased communication and continuous development cycles, would at first...
How to Deal with Single Points of Failure: People
There are things in every system that if they fail will cause the entire system to be crippled. These single points of failure can be hardware based, software based or even people based. If a problem occurs in these sensitive areas then an entire business can grind to...
eBook: Solving the Top PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager Struggles
Executive Summary Over the past few years at SPK, we published many articles on PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager topics. Our intention was to provide real, hands-on help for PTC Integrity users and managers. We asked ourselves the question: “What are some of the most...