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Integrity to Windchill Integration: A Product Demo
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...
Podcast: Peter Thorne Discusses Hot Trends in Product Lifecycle Engineering Tools
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale speaks with Peter Thorne, director at Cambashi, a Cambridge, England-based independent industry analyst firm. With his over 30 years of experience as a software engineer user, vendor, and now analyst, Peter's in a great...
Risk Management in the PTC Integrity Medical Device Solution
An important part of creating any product intended for use in the medical field is that the manufacturer should have identified all of the risks involved in using the device, and have done their best to mitigate those risks before their product ever sees a patient....
Leveraging PTC Integrity as a Medical Device Solution
When you first purchase PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager, what you are getting is pretty much a blank canvas. To assist you in getting your operation off the ground, PTC also provides a number of different pre-built solutions. These solutions have been designed to...
Podcast: Oleg Shilovitsky Discusses the Difficulty BOM’s Across the Product Life Cycle
Last month, SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky on the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines. In part two of the discussion, they focus in on the difficulty of BOMs across the product life cycle. This is...
How to Count Days in State Within a PTC Integrity Report
In the second of a group of supplemental articles on Metrics, Metrics, Metrics I am going to examine how you can report on days in state within your PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager application. Of course your very first questions are likely going to be is “What the...
Integrating your PTC Integrity Environment with Windchill
PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager and PTC Windchill are two enterprise level applications that many large companies have invested in as part of their product development environment. Often time’s companies will use PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager to handle the software...
Why Software Builds Fail and Areas for Improvement
In a recently published paper, researchers at Google examined the issue of failed software builds within their organization. Specifically, they wanted to address the separate questions of "How often do builds fail?", "Why do builds fail", and "How long does it take to...
Enhancing Electric Commander Build Processes by Creating Dynamic Job Steps
In a simple, straight-forward implementation of a continuous integration pipeline you would typically create a chain of procedures that perform the same set of operations on the supplied input. This provides a build process that is well-defined, repeatable,...
Improving CI Build/Test Execution Times Through Improved Build Specifications
It may come as no surprise that Google has a very large code base. With over 15,000 developers sending new code changes to their continuous Integration (CI) system every second, Google is constantly seeking methods to optimize both the size of their code base and the...
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How Hybrid Cloud Can Turbo Charge Your Manufacturing Enterprise
Executive Summary That’s the year public and private cloud-based solutions are set to surpass traditional data centers in terms of overall spending. In 2017, nearly two thirds of spending went toward private cloud solutions. Cloud usage exploded in 2017, to the tune...
