This case study defines how SPK and Associates assisted a client within the medical device industry to create a lean and automated approach for essential report production by developing a custom adapter. Identifying the opportunities ripe for automation. Our...
PTC RV&S
Windchill PTC Data Migration In Under 3 Months
Data migration doesn’t always go to plan. Yet growing out of one system architecture and migrating to another is critical for a business to survive, thrive and grow as technology evolves. When considering a Windchill PTC RV&S migration in a company with over...
Smarter Engineering For Medical Devices
Medical devices are subject to some of the strictest design control regulations in the world. And for good reason. U.S. medical devices are governed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In order to meet the high standards, teams must communicate - effectively....
Risk Management in Windchill RV&S (formerly PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager)
An important part of creating any product intended for use in any regulated industry vertical is that the manufacturer should have identified all of the risks involved in using the device. Then, they must have done their best to mitigate those risks before their...
Clients + SPK Expertise And Skills = R&D Business Results (Q2 2018 Newsletter)
It's been SPK and Associates' privilege to support all our clients’ varied engineering and systems integration needs for over two decades. This quarterly newsletter is our way of signaling that we're fully aligned with their mission to rapidly innovate and improve...
SPK (Capabilities + Character) = Client Trust (Q1 2018 Newsletter)
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...
Sample PTC Integrity Reporting
Download the Requirements Traceability Report This report starts with a Market Requirements document, and traces down to the Tests and Test Results. Sheet 1 covers compact categorization, where the artifacts are basically defined by the Document types. Sheet 2...
PTC Trace Report Video
The video below demos a productivity add-on for PTC’s popular Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product, PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager. As with many such products, customers have asked for more powerful and flexible reporting capabilities. SPK now offers a new...
Our Top Technology Stories in 2017 and 2018 Industry Predictions
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...
Setting up Seated Licenses in PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager
When it comes to licensing your PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager server, you have the option of either purchasing seated licenses, floating licenses, or some combination thereof to service your user community. In this blog, I am going to discuss how to implement seat...
Allowing Custom API Applications in your PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager Environment
Recently, I was working on a custom API program for a customer, when I came across something that could be a sticky little problem for someone trying to add custom API programs to their PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager Environment. The problem was first manifested...
Using Audit Log To Track Promoted Change Requests with PTC Integrity
Recently, a customer came to me because they wanted to record when changes were promoted from their development environment to their test environment, and later from their test environment to their production environment. They wanted a way to simply tell when changes...