Can You “Go With Your Gut” in Product Development?
I recently read a blog on BNET entitled “Facts, Schmacts. How to Know When to Go With Your Gut.” If there’s one way to catch my attention, it’s underplaying analytics. I’m a skeptic at heart when it...
View ArticleGlimpses Into the Future of Product Development
If you’ve ever wondered who Germany’s top product development experts are then the International Congress Center in Stuttgart was the place to go in November. On November 15 and 16 the Stuttgart...
View Article5 Ways 2011 Changed the Way You Engineer
It’s been a year of change in the world of engineering – how we think about products, and how and where we build them. As we welcome in 2012, here are five interesting developments to leave you with:...
View ArticleWhat Not to Do in Product Development: The Case of a Swedish Warship
When I hear the words “product development,” I think about the latest consumer gadgets, manufacturing, time-to-market, global supply chains. Product development is not a modern concept, but rather, old...
View ArticleInvent It, Make It, Sell It – Quirky Empowers Consumers to Innovate
Have you ever had a great idea for a design? An innovation that could save time and countless frustrations? If only you had an outlet for your brilliant invention – a way to get it created and on the...
View ArticleIs Open Source Product Development the Next Big Thing?
Open source – it’s a phrase for some that conjures images of the software equivalent to hippie communes in Vermont sharing in the fruits and labor of their co-op-grown organic kale. But if that’s...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Assets Available to Get to Know Mathcad Prime 2.0
Now that Mathcad Prime 2.0 has been launched, it is time to learn about the product and see what it has to offer you and the engineering world. In this blog post, I will take you through a number of...
View ArticleIndustry Solutions
In today’s fast-paced world of engineering product development, companies in diverse industry sectors face many business drivers and structural constraints. For instance, in today’s fast paced world of...
View ArticleSoftware Happens – A Challenge for the 21st Century
“My toaster says it’s “downloading a firmware update. Please wait...” What is a firmware update and why does a toaster need one? And, why is my toaster talking to me in the first place? All I want is a...
View ArticleMathcad Lessons from/for FIRST Robotics
Over the last year I have represented PTC on behalf of Mathcad at many FIRST Robotics events. The 2012 season culminated during the last week of April at the World Championships in St. Louis. It was...
View ArticleThe Power of Engineering Analysis Standardization
The strategic value of standardization and process control in product development processes has long been recognized. Its initial value was documented in the production phase of product development,...
View ArticleBonjour! Guten Tag! Hello! We’re Having a PTC Mathcad Virtual Event for Europe!
The PTC Mathcad team is very excited to share that on May 13, 2013 we will be hosting an online virtual event, PTC Mathcad Engage 2013 specifically scheduled and arranged for our PTC Mathcad users in...
View ArticleExciting Step Forward for Multi-CAD Design
BOSTON—David Slader works for a company that makes weapons systems, among other things. So he can be forgiven if he uses military analogies to describe the wars that engineers are fighting on today’s...
View ArticleHow IoT Data Can Work for Product Development
The Internet of Things is fast becoming an essential tool for product development. That’s according to a recent Forbes article, by Dan Woods. Using examples, from a CITO Research white paper, Woods...
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