Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ensure product and software related processes are properly managed. These systems are utilized throughout the software development and product manufacturing lifecycles. When integrated, they...
PDM/PLM-Product Data and Lifecycle Management
PLM and ERP: Their respective roles in modern manufacturing
Integrating engineering with manufacturing doesn't have to be difficult. This downloadable white paper from PTC and SPK discusses how to successfully integrate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to benefit your business. You will...
How to Enable Digital Thread in Your Organization eBook
Digital technology is causing rapid changes to our physical reality. With this, the necessity for a digital thread to run across the enterprise and product development process is increasing. So, are you ready to explore how it can positively impact your organization?...
Maximizing the Impact of PLM with Windchill+
Get ready to dive into a guide that will change your PLM horizons this year. In this free eBook brought to you by PTC and SPK and Associates, we are sharing how to maximize the impact of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Windchill+. In this eBook, you’ll learn...
Ensuring Product Excellence: How Windchill PLM Streamlines Quality, Risk, and Compliance Management
When working in product development, balancing innovation with quality, risk management, and compliance is critical. Companies must meet stringent regulatory requirements, address increasing product complexity, and ensure their processes accelerate innovation. PTC’s...
Outsourcing of Vital IT Tasks to Grow in 2013
In 2013, roughly one third of businesses will increase their IT outsourcing budgets. Chief Information Officers and CEOs, from small businesses to large enterprises, are planning to up their spending on the outsourcing of web/e-commerce platforms, application...
Keep Your Developers Developing!
Software companies often choose to rollout new products by having their developers work directly with beta test customers. But is this really a good idea? Not really, but let's understand why not, and then consider a couple of best practices if you just have to do it...
How to Ramp Up Your New Product Development While Servicing Your Existing Customers
To succeed in any market, a company needs to innovate, pioneer and push out the borders. The recent one-year anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs reminds of one of the tech industries greatest comeback stories. Apple's key to success, other than the charisma of Jobs...
Understanding Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development methodology that uses small and frequent incremental changes to the code base, which are incorporated into a rapid build and test environment. Each change integrated into the source repository is verified by the...
Upgrading from ClearCase/ClearQuest 7.0 to 7.1
As an IT engineering expert for SPK and associates, a California based IT services company, I write blog posts on topics such as Software Configuration Management and other Engineering Applications. This week I’d like to blog about my experiences in upgrading...
Defining PDM and PLM Software: Why You Want Both
Choosing and evaluating products for managing data is a daunting task. With the ease of access to broad, general information – which is often conflicting – getting your decision-makers and Very Important People using the same vocabulary is the first step to developing...
Achieving Double Digit Efficiency Increases in Change Management with Windchill PLM
In industries where innovation and time-to-market define competitive success, effective change management is critical. Utilizing the proper tools to manage these changes is vital. Two industry leaders—Vaillant Group and Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (KOEL)—have...