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Top-5 Manufacturing Executive Blogs of 2022

Roundup of 2022 manufacturing executive insights on sustainability, profitability, and digital transformation to prepare for a stronger 2023.

Top-5 Design Engineering Blogs of 2022

Revisit 2022’s top design engineering posts: sustainable design metrics, early cost feedback, risk reduction, and DFM guidance for 2023.

Reducing Delays through Design for Manufacturing Guidance

Design for Manufacturing guidance helps engineers cut redesigns, break silos, and overcome supply-chain disruptions to speed time-to-market.

What Inflationary Pressures Teach Us About Cost Analysis

Learn how digital manufacturing insights modernize cost analysis, manage inflationary pressures, and uncover savings through real-world simulations and automation.

Top-3 Manufacturing KPIs Every Cost Engineer Should Know

Three essential cost-engineering KPIs: cut ECOs, reduce CO2 footprint, and capture should-cost savings with digital collaboration.

Top-5 Cost Reduction Engineer Challenges of Today

Cost-reduction engineers drive design-to-cost, but face five pitfalls—slow methods, silos, TCO gaps, infrequent analysis, culture resistance.

How Designers Can Quantify Additive Manufacturing Benefits

Discover additive manufacturing’s ROI: how design engineers quantify 3D printing investments through cost, performance, supply-chain and growth benefits.

Kearney Insights: How to Build a Modern Costing Department

Webinar highlights building modern costing departments for disruption: transparency, scenario simulation, automation, and inflation-ready should-cost negotiation.

Accelerate Your Product Cost Analysis With Bulk Costing

Bulk costing automates multi-part cost analysis, flagging outliers and simulating scenarios to guide smarter design and sourcing.

Optimize Design Engineering with Workflow Integration of CAD

Learn how CAD and PLM integration with manufacturing simulation creates smart workflows, delivering instant DFM, cost, and sustainability feedback.

How Target Costing Can Be Accelerated by Design Engineers

Learn how design engineers use manufacturing simulation to hit target costs, cut risk, and boost profitability early.

4 Steps to Reducing Manufacturing Risk for Design Engineers

Learn how design engineers use manufacturing simulation to cut supply chain, inflation, and labor risks—fast.