White Papers

• Profitable Product Development Benchmark Report from Aberdeen Group
  Download a copy of the Aberdeen Group report: Profitable Product Development for Small to Mid-size Enterprises. Learn how best-in-class small & medium-size manufacturers meet product development goals that drive profitability up to 14 times more frequently than some companies. This report highlights those approaches and differences; serving as a roadmap to improve product development and increase profits. Learn how the best in class manufacturers get products to market 90 days earlier.
• Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modelling Benchmark Report from Aberdeen Group and PTC (PTC)
  This Benchmark Report from Aberdeen is available to you at no cost. Learn how the best in class manufacturers get products to market 90 days earlier and save an average of €40,000 with 3D modelling.
• Get Answers to Tough Environmental Compliance Questions
  Learn what the latest analyst research shows about today’s best practices, and discover the six "fundamentals" of successful compliance strategies in this new research report by AberdeenGroup.
• Aberdeen Group Benchmark Report: PLM for Small to Mid-size Manufacturers
  Download a free copy of the Aberdeen Group: PLM for Small to Mid-size Manufacturers Benchmark Report. Learn how small & medium-size manufacturers are using PLM to drive profitable growth through product development.
• Industrial Benchmark Study Request (PTC)
  Please provide us with your contact information to download the Industrial Benchmark Study.
• Moving Beyond the Limits of Spreadsheets (PTC)
  How the Simultaneous Design and Documentation of Calculations Promote Engineering Excellence
• Overcoming the Top Five Challenges in Electro-Mechanical Product Development (PTC)
  The pressures of globalisation and consolidation are complicating the business of product development in almost every industry. But nowhere is the impact being felt more profoundly than the development of sophisticated electronic products, where companies must synchronise increasingly complex, multidiscipline development environments.
• Why Software Architecture Is Critical for Product Lifecycle Management Sucess (PTC)
  Rapidly changing market conditions in today's global economy have forced manufacturers to focus on designing products that can be adapted to changing customer needs. Product development teams and operations managers must be able to adapt designs and production plans in response to new customer demand, competitive offerings,and potential cost or delivery issues in the global supply chain.
• Optimising the Design of Large Assemblies in Mechanical Design (PTC)
  Taking Advantage of 64-bit Technology with PTC® Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire
• Achieving "Seamless" Release to Manufacturing (RTM) (PTC)
  Optimising the RTM process is critical to successful product development. The days of casually ‘throwing the product design over the wall’ to manufacturing are over. By seamlessly connecting engineering with downstream MRP/ERP systems, companies can reduce late-stage design changes and their detrimental costs. This brief whitepaper describes the proper steps for optimising your release to manufacturing process in order to improve your competitive edge.
• Ensuring a Successful PLM Implementation (PTC)
  If you’ve ever been involved in an enterprise software implementation, you already know how challenging it can be to bring projects in on time and under budget.
• Radically Accelerating Change Management (PTC)
  Change has always been a reality of product development. Yet, with the pace of competition today, manufacturers can no longer afford the delays and costs related to ‘traditional’ change management practices. The fact is, companies that react to change quickly are winning, companies that can’t are fading fast. This brief white paper explains the proper steps for optimising your change process to improve your competitive edge.
• Benchmark Test Reveals Best CAD Tool for Assembly Performance (PTC)
  Speed is everything in product development, especially when it comes to creating and managing large assemblies. And while some 3D CAD vendors claim that model retrieval time is the only critical function, the truth is, there are many other equally critical capabilities required for exceptional large assembly performance.
• Dramatic Productivity Improvements Gained with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire (PTC)
  Engineers across the globe are raving about the impressive productivity advances they’re seeing with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, the latest release of the industry’s top-rated CAD tool. With productivity and time-to-market critical in today’s intensely competitive marketplace, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is delivering the advantage companies need to compete—and win. The independent test results below confirm why Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is being hailed as ‘the essential CAD tool’ for any successful 21st century product development system.
• Forrester Research Brief - PTC Maps Case for PLM - Consultants Take Note (PTC)
  To educate customers on the value of product life-cycle management (PLM), PTC recently introduced the Product First Roadmap. This communication tool helps link PLM activities to business benefit, offering practice areas for strategy consultants.
• Improving the Quality of Technical Publications Increases Employee Productivity and Customer Satisfaction
  Tech Pubs Whitepaper October 10th, 2006