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Address Labor Shortages to Ensure Productive, Cost-Effective Product Lifecycle Management

Manufacturing insights platforms integrate with PLM to automate costing and DFM, easing labor shortages and boosting productivity.

How Product Costing Software Turns Novices Into Cost Experts

Modern product costing software uses digital factories to deliver real-time, accurate cost insights, empowering teams and building cost-first culture.

Reduce Redesigns with Early Cost and Manufacturability Feedback

Cut costly ECOs with early manufacturability and should-cost feedback, enabling faster launches, stronger supplier negotiations, and higher-margin designs.

Why Sourcing Should Steal the Car Dealer Digitalization Playbook

Learn from digital car dealers: digitize procurement, use should-cost models, enable self-quoting, and boost transparency with supplier collaboration.

Mitigate Production & Cost Risks with Manufacturing Simulation

Fight inflation without shrinkflation: use manufacturing simulation to spot cost outliers, redesign fast, and source globally profitably.

How to Get Ahead of Rising Supplier Costs: An Inflationary Tale

Use digital manufacturing simulation to uncover inflation losses, prioritize parts, and justify transparent customer price increases.

Top-8 Manufacturing Challenges for 2022

Eight manufacturing challenges—from reshoring to skills gaps—and practical digital-factory strategies to boost resilience, sustainability, and speed.

How to Address Supply Chain Disruptions in Ukraine and Beyond

Use manufacturing intelligence to counter Ukraine-driven disruptions: swap materials, benchmark costs, find alternative manufacturers, and stress-test supply chains.

How to Address Automotive Chip Shortages and Supply Chain Vulnerability

Improve automotive chip-supply resilience amid Ukraine disruptions: assess neon and palladium risks, rationalize products, diversify sites, strengthen suppliers.

Understanding How to Utilize the Digital Factory

Digital factories simulate production from CAD, delivering DFM/DTC insights, should-cost models, and real-time collaboration across product development.

2022 and Beyond Manufacturing Industry Outlook: Priorities for Navigating the Road Ahead

Four 2022 manufacturing priorities: sharpen digital transformation strategy, diversify supply chains, automate amid skills gaps, and speed time-to-market.

Driving Business Value through Digital Automation and Manufacturing Intelligence

How manufacturers use digital transformation, automation, supplier collaboration, and manufacturing intelligence to move faster in an uncertain economy.