The Interviews

The outsider’s insider
Freeman Thomas has a track record of innovative car designs – the VW New Beetle, the Audi TT, the Chrysler 300 – that have helped bring their respective brands back from the brink. Now he’s the Director of the Advanced Engineering Design Studio at Ford. Can his designs save the troubled auto giant? Senior Editor Ben Thompson catches up with a design legend to find out...
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Roundtables

Executive roundtable: Smarter thinking
Better utilization of data across the organization continues to be a top priority for companies across industries
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Executive roundtable: The strategic supply chain
Technology – especially information technology – can be a major contributor to creating and sustaining Lean processes.
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Ask the Experts

Ask the expert: Realizing the rapid manufacturing dream
Rapid prototyping is revolutionizing the product design process. So how can advances in rapid prototyping help realize the dream of rapid manufacturing? Adina Shorr, CEO of Objet Geometries, explains…
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3D Systems Offers Packed Agenda for World Conference
3D Systems
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Case Study: Profiting from margin analysis
Kalido
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Ask the expert: Realizing the rapid manufacturing dream
Objet
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The next industrial revolution
Redeye RPM
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The case for fast charging in new generation manufacturing facilities
Powerdesigners
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Industry Analysts

Going digital
Although slow to take off amongst some manufacturing sectors, digital manufacturing’s potential is finally being realized on a much greater scale. The result is that manufacturing processes can be greatly speeded up, costs saved and lengthy installation of unnecessary equipment avoided. Dick Slansky, Senior Analyst for PLM and Discrete Manufacturing at ARC Advisory Group, highlights some of the benefits.
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Picture perfect
Since the 1960s product design technologies have excelled ensuring that the design process is a more exact, quicker and sophisticated process.
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Enabling innovation through PLM
By Peter Bilello
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Model perfect
Since the late 1980s, rapid prototyping techniques have developed into an integral component of the design process.
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Why IP is the currency of tomorrow
Over half of all companies surveyed in a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers don’t extract the full value from their intellectual property (IP).
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Integrating PLM Processes
Aberdeen Group Perspective
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Demand-Driven Manufacturing
AMR Research
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