Digital Transformation
3 Elements to Succeed in a Digital Transformation Project
Successful Industry 4.0 projects depend on the importance a company places on the project. Elements that showcase importance are having a dedicated team, building a communication strategy in organizational change, and gaining executive sponsorship.
Industry 4.0
Lunch & Learn Series: What Can You Do With Vertex?
To show you the power behind the Vertex platform, we are beginning a biweekly webcast series over the next several weeks, starting with smart manufacturing, enterprise digital twin, and field service.
Digital Transformation
Implementing Digital Twin Standards | Responding to AIAA’s Position Paper
With so much proven potential behind digital twins, yet so much confusion in the market, it's critical that companies start finding ways to ensure clarity and context. The best way to do that: standardization.
Press Release
Vertex Software Awarded New US Patent for 3D Object Visualization & Manipulation Across Multiple Devices
Vertex Software announced a new patent titled, “Methods and apparatus to facilitate 3D object visualization and manipulation across multiple devices.” This is a comprehensive foundational patent that covers the core of the Vertex platform.
Press Release
Eric Sterling Joins Vertex Software as Executive Advisor for Manufacturing Solutions
Vertex welcomes Eric Sterling, previous Senior VP of Teamcenter at Siemens PLM Software, as an executive company advisor for product roadmap development.
Press Release
Shreekanth Moorthy Joins Vertex Software as Senior VP of Digital Transformation Strategy
Vertex welcomes Shreekanth Moorthy, previous CIO & Global VP of PLM at Tata Technologies, to the company. Shree brings over 27 years of valued expertise in the manufacturing industry.
Digital Transformation
The Problem With Files in Manufacturing (And How to Solve It)
Sharing files from engineering to downstream teams opens the door for miscommunication, loss of feedback, orphaned data, and IP risk. Stop depending on files to share information.
Industry 4.0
Attract The Next Gen in Manufacturing
Your top competitive advantage is your people. Here’s how to attract the next generation of talent in manufacturing using Industry 4.0.
Digital Transformation
Put People First: A Primer to Success in Smart Factory
Deloitte’s CIO, CTO, and Smart Factory Leader gave a VIP presentation on the value behind a smart factory. Read our recap blog from VP Mike Sellberg.
Press Release
Vertex Named Top 10 Collaboration Solution Provider from CIOReview
CIOReview recognizes Vertex Software as one of the most promising collaboration solution providers for their ability to provide 3D visualization for the digital twin.
Industry 4.0
[Webinar Recap] Transforming From a Legacy to a Leading Manufacturer
Communication is the key to aligning company initiatives, and the cloud is the catalyst. Vertex uses rich 3D visuals to align everyone in your organization.
Press Release
Vertex Software Joins Deloitte at CES 2021
Deloitte recognizes Vertex as a leading technology provider in the smart factory space by inviting them to speak at CES.
Digital Transformation
What I Learned About Digital Transformation in November
Read our biggest takeaways from the CIMdata, Purdue University, and PI DX digital transformation events.
Digital Transformation
[Webinar Recap] 4 Use Cases For The Digital Twin
Read our blog recap of our webcast series to learn how valuable and easy it is to implement a digital twin in smart factory, IoT, sales, and service workflows.
Press Release
Vertex Software Announced as a Digital Twin IoT Collaborator with AWS
Vertex is now available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT Solution Repository, a way to find ready-built solutions for industrial, consumer, and commercial use cases.
Digital Transformation
Digital Twins for Factory Floor and Sales Teams
Vertex helps you realize the promise of the digital twin—for any team using any device. Register for our upcoming digital twin webinars on smart factory and connecting with customers.
Industry 4.0
Your First 2 Steps Into the Future of Manufacturing
Manufacturers should take smaller, practical, and data-driven steps toward digital transformation: embrace the cloud and democratize your data.
Digital Transformation
Digital Twins for Service Teams and IoT Analytics in 30 Minutes
Connect teams and deliver access to 3D product data in your smart factory and IoT analytics. Register for our webcast series to see how.
Supplier Collaboration
How Sales Teams Use Vertex To Connect With Customers—No Travel Required
Companies like Terex are using Vertex to connect with customers. As travel slows, Vertex centralizes communication to keep work moving forward.
Industry 4.0
The Future of Manufacturing: True Alignment Between Silos
Digital transformation gives manufacturers a chance to align different silos as they consume and interact with a digital twin.
Digital Transformation
[Webinar Recap] It’s Time to Focus on Digital Acceptance
Didn’t catch our webinar with IpX? Check out our recap blog to learn how to modernize legacy processes and accept digital transformation in the new normal.
Remote Collaboration
Hosting Remote Design Reviews
Working from home? Here’s a few tips on how to get the most out of a remote design review.
Digital Transformation
3 Steps To Succeed in Digital Transformation
Following a clear strategy to select and implement a solution ensures engineering managers succeed in digital transformation initiatives.
Digital Transformation
3 Tips to Be Successful With Digital Twin
Learn from PLM expert Don Haupt how to address the 3 major challenges of digital twin: the amount of data, silos, and setting expectations.
Digital Transformation
5 Ways the Digital Twin Connects Teams
Digital twins could be the key to connecting the departmental silos. Learn how in our blog from PLM expert Craig Brown.
Digital Transformation
3 Ways to Recruit New Talent in Manufacturing
Manufacturers are fighting a talent war. Digital transformation may be the key to attracting—and retaining—top talent.
Digital Transformation
3 Takeaways from PI PLMx 2019
We’re back from PI PLMx, and the name of the game continues to be digital transformation. John Heller reviews his takeaways.
Product Lifecycle Management
What Does the “P” in PLM Stand For?
Between product, process, procurement, and people - what does the P in PLM stand for?
Digital Transformation
Pt 4: Digital Production in Smart Factories
Don’t confuse a smart factory with new technology. Digital manufacturing expert Thomas Spilker reveals what it means to be a connected and transparent manufacturing shop floor.
Product Lifecycle Management, Digital Transformation
“Eating The Elephant” in Industry 4.0
Does your digital transformation ever feel like eating an elephant? In our PLM Center Meeting recap, Alison Sickelka uncovers strategies and techniques to help.
Digital Transformation
Are You Ready for the Next Gen Engineer? [Webinar]
What can manufacturers do to attract the next gen engineer? 1 in five US companies say finding the right talent is their biggest obstacle in digital transformation.
Digital Transformation
Going Digital Leads To An Agile Supply Chain
When manufacturers and suppliers work in silos, the enterprise loses months of development time and billions of dollars in supply chain disruption. Digital tools can break down enterprise-wide silos.
Design Collaboration
How to Get the Most out of Your Design Review: Pt 3
What happens when all teams across the extended enterprise have the information they need instantly to make decisions quickly and confidently? Product development timelines shorten, innovations increase, and teams make better decisions.
Digital Transformation
4 Innovations for Digital Product Design
Is your product design data trapped in engineering? It may be pushing out your deadlines, increasing your cost, and limiting your innovation. Digital capabilities are changing that.
Digital Transformation, Product Lifecycle Management
5 PLM Themes You Need to Know [Webinar]
We are partnering up with two PLM veterans to bring you the industry’s best tips and tricks for boosting collaboration during product development.
Design Collaboration
Overcoming Your Biggest Collaboration Challenges [Webinar]
You’re invited to a joint webinar with Ken Versprille of CIMdata to break through your biggest team collaboration challenges.
Design Collaboration
How to Get the Most out of Your Design Review: Pt 2
Today’s team collaboration is a mess, which means that people can’t get the information they need when they need it to make decisions.
Digital Manufacturing
Recapping IpX ConX19
The true theme of ConX19 was about the attitude and approach a company must take when undergoing digital transformation.
Digital Transformation, Supplier Collaboration
What is Digital Manufacturing?
Digital technology isn’t how organizations will transform into a digital enterprise. Companies must take an enterprise-wide approach to their digital manufacturing transformation.
Cloud
5 Steps to Protect Product Design Data
If you’re in the final stages of negotiating a contract with a SaaS provider, keep these 5 things in mind to keep data secure in the cloud.
Design Collaboration, Supplier Collaboration
How to Get the Most out of Your Design Review: Pt 1
Our 3-part blog series uncovers what happens with easy and scalable collaboration accessible by anyone.
Cloud
How to Evaluate SaaS Security
Looking for a new SaaS provider? Learn how to first evaluate yourself and our 8 items to consider when evaluating a potential vendor.
Design Collaboration
How to Choose the Best 3D Collaboration Tool
Ask yourself these 3 questions to determine if your 3D collaboration tool is really working for you—or if it’s limiting your collaboration experiences.
Cloud
How To Look At Cloud Security Risks
Put cloud security risks in their proper perspectives to have rational and business-focused discussions on the use of cloud technologies in your organization.
Design Collaboration
Agile Response to Customer Needs
When it’s time to make changes to a product, an OEM may hesitate to change. Gain the agility to respond quickly to shifting customer needs.
Cloud
Cloud 101: Getting The Max ROI in Manufacturing
Think the cloud for manufacturing isn't secure? Learn the truth in our Cloud 101 webinar!
Design Collaboration
Stop Traveling to Lock Down Designs
Vertex brings collaborators into a common, scalable platform. Teams can easily review product data from any size model in real-time Stories with their collaborators.
Cloud
Is the Cloud Secure? Yes.
Cloud solutions are more secure than traditional, on-premise solutions—if used correctly.
Design Collaboration
How to Connect Workplace Silos with Vertex
Vertex gives teams a place to collaborate early in the design process so companies can spot opportunities to add critical components, shorten timelines, and improve the design.
Design Collaboration, Model-Based Enterprise
Solving Design Collaboration in Aerospace & Defense
90% of A&D companies expect to exchange more data with partners in the coming years. Learn how to get ahead of collaboration challenges.
Cloud
How to Implement Cloud Technologies
I recommend following three steps to most successfully implement cloud technologies.
Design Collaboration
Make Teamwork a Cinch
Today’s collaboration tools limit early-stage design, but early collaboration improves innovation. Vertex simplifies collaboration on 3D product data.
Product Lifecycle Management
PLM’s Growth in 2018
Vertex Solutions Architect Jim Zwica recaps the CIMdata PLM Market and Industry Forum event, noting how manufacturers are taking advantage of advancements in PLM technology.
Cloud
4 Misconceptions About The Cloud
Cloud-based solutions provide more value, security, and benefits than on-premises software.
Design Collaboration
The Pain of Product Development—And How to Fix It
Today’s design collaboration process is broken. Learn the 5 pain points of collaboration in product development—and how to solve them
Model-Based Enterprise
Tips to transform into a Model-Based Enterprise
Couldn't make it to the webinar on model-based transformation? Our recap blog summarizes today’s barriers and tips to MBE.
Cloud
The Difference Between Cloud and On-Premise
To truly get maximum ROI, a company must closely analyze 4 differences between on-premises licensing and cloud-based SaaS solutions.
Model-Based Enterprise
Tips to transform into a Model-Based Enterprise [Webinar]
Learn 5 steps to transform into a model-based enterprise in our upcoming webinar.
Cloud
A Primer on the Cloud
The cloud seems intimidating, but it becomes less scary and more manageable once we explore the components and terminology.
Product Lifecycle Management
The Evolution of Collaboration
Watch a panel discussion that explores how new technology is affecting collaboration.
Supplier Collaboration
6 Methods for Effective Supplier Collaboration
There are six good places to start in order to simplify and streamline collaboration.
Industry 4.0
How Has Collaboration in Product Development Evolved?
You're invited to a a panel discussion with Jim Zwica and Nathan Hartman.
Product Lifecycle Management
PLM 101 [Webinar Recap]
The right PLM approach can impact the entire value chain, but the industry hasn’t adopted a single understanding or approach to PLM, and some companies don’t even understand the importance at all.
Supplier Collaboration
The Secret to Successful Supplier Collaboration
The first step to improving external supplier collaboration: look internally. The relationship between engineering and procurement impacts the ability to work with suppliers.
Product Lifecycle Management
Join our PLM 101 Course with Don Haupt
The value of PLM is not only about the fundamentals of understanding what it is, but knowing how to best implement PLM throughout the whole company - not just in one area.
Supplier Collaboration
Make Supplier Collaboration a Two-Way Street
When OEMs bring suppliers into the fold, suppliers can provide innovative ideas for improvement and support enterprise initiatives.
Supplier Collaboration
How Supplier Collaboration Impacts Innovation
The most forward-thinking manufacturers constantly seek new ways to innovate. Yet, many overlook one of the most advantageous and effective methods to innovate in product design: the supply chain.
Model-Based Enterprise
The Future State of Model-Based Enterprise
Why do manufacturers transition to model-based enterprise? One common theme unites organizations and will drive the future of MBE.
Model-Based Enterprise, Product Lifecycle Management
Changing Mindsets and Behaviors
Kurt, John, and I all come from different backgrounds and levels of comfort with PLM. Despite our differences, we all had the same primary takeaway from the PLM Center meeting.
Model-Based Enterprise
Today’s Benefits and Challenges of MBE
Despite the benefits, multiple compounding factors limit a company’s ability to implement Model-Based Enterprise.
Model-Based Enterprise
Transforming into a Model-Based Enterprise
The MBD standard has been around for several years, yet many organizations continue to use both 3D models and 2D drawings.
Product Lifecycle Management
Expand Your PLM Toolbox
PLM software is vital to the success of product development. But, I encourage my colleagues to think of PLM software as just one piece in a large puzzle.
Industry 4.0, Product Lifecycle Management
3 Digital Themes in PLM
To ensure optimal collaboration and a strong product model, forward-thinking organizations rely on three digital approaches to improve 3D product workflows.
Industry 4.0
The First Step to Smart Manufacturing
One of the biggest trends in today’s manufacturing climate is how rapidly organizations are accumulating data. The question becomes, once companies have all this data - what now?
Model-Based Enterprise
Digital Engineering in the DoD
The DoD predicts enormous cost-, time-, and resource-savings benefits by switching to a digital engineering strategy.
Industry 4.0, Product Lifecycle Management
The Limitations of PLM Software
Before organizations can fully take advantage of the PLM approach’s benefits, they must realize the limitations of today’s PLM software solutions.
Product Lifecycle Management
Stop Thinking of PLM as Software
The inherent gaps in today’s PLM software solutions prevent companies from making significant progress towards Industry 4.0.
Industry 4.0, Product Lifecycle Management
How Industry 4.0 Revolutionizes Manufacturing
A key component in experiencing Industry 4.0 benefits is leveraging the product lifecycle management (PLM) approach.
Product Lifecycle Management