According to Forbes article here, the world of work is undergoing a massive shift. Entire occupations and industries are expanding and contracting at an alarming pace, and the skills needed to keep up in almost any job are churning at a faster rate. Average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months, and IBM predicts that... Continue Reading →
Product Development companies have complex environments with cross-product dependencies amongst the various Enterprise Products. Owing to this complexity, resolving an issue often requires researching from the issue from different angles using multiple business & social systems Punditas User Advisor liberates Product data that's locked away in silos and scattered across many many business and social... Continue Reading →
What would you rather do this upcoming weekend? Preview a movie or Dimensions in Creo Parametric 4.0? I know what you are thinking.... I don't blame you... Just in case you are stuck with Creo, have fun previewing dimensions.....:-) Starting with Creo Parametric 4.0, when you create a dimension or a GTOL you can immediately see... Continue Reading →
Today's Enterprise Users are overworked and have a shorter attention span. This makes it unrealistic to assume that Users can go through weeks long training courses. Besides the training lessons may or may not help because the information may be outdated by the time the training is put to use in the real world. Product... Continue Reading →
Personalize the dashboard for Product stories that matter to YOU! The available information about an Enterprise Product is valuable only if it can be found at the right time and within your context. “Product Stories dashboard” feature in Punditas User Advisor discovers and connects the User with relevant Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, Help articles, etc. based... Continue Reading →
This article by Emily Miller, Senior Research Associate@Forrester discusses how more than half (54%) of global information workers are interrupted from their work a few times or more per month to spend time looking for or trying to get access to information, insights, and answers. According to Emily, the problem is Old keyword-based enterprise search... Continue Reading →
SolidWorks in this excellent whitepaper “IMPROVE QUALITY, REDUCE COSTS, AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY WITH MODEL-BASED DEFINITION” discuss the shortfalls of the current processes that are based on 2D Drawing The disadvantages of using paper 2D engineering drawings for manufacturing range from additional time, resource, and cost requirements to inconsistent quality, elevated levels of scrap/rework, and noncompliance... Continue Reading →
According to O’Fallon Casting, OFC Customers have varying degrees of MBD implementation. Some provide a solid model with a fully dimensioned drawings others with partially dimensioned and sometimes with drawings that contain no dimensions whatsoever. O’Fallon Casting has found that limited dimension drawings, especially for larger sizes of castings, are an effective way for an... Continue Reading →
If you’re an engineer or designer, you’ve probably already heard about model-based definition (MBD), the practice of adding non-geometric engineering information to a 3D model. (Traditionally, that data is added to a 2D drawing.) Intuitively, it makes sense to keep everything in one place. But are the benefits worth the effort of changing the way... Continue Reading →
