that’s very important. I think sometimes you hear from com- panies ‘Everything’s going to be connected!’ Samsung gave some numbers that by 2018 or 2020, every Samsung device would be on the Internet. ME: So your PLE software can
greatly help manufacturers with variation control on their product developments? Krueger: Certainly, it’s key for development. One of the challenges in manufacturing is that we have too many parts, and our factories have to deal with too many variations. His- torically that’s all been managed from what’s called Complexity Manage- ment—reducing the number of parts, reducing the number of part variations. Our PLE approach elevates the discus- sion to focus on features. What are the interesting and economically useful features and options to put in your product? This is one of the big benefits of PLE—allowing manufacturers to build, manage, and evolve their product line based on features. So rather than using a Bill of Materials to determine features, they can use a Bill of Features to determine materials—where materi- als can include mechanical assets, electrical, wiring, software, calibrations, requirements, designs, test cases, documentation, etc. It’s a new way of looking at the engineering and manu- facturing process.
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PTC Making a Splash in IIoT
t its live-streamed “ThingEvent” conference Jan. 28 in Boston, CAD/ CAM and PLM software supplier PTC (Needham, MA) signaled its intentions to go big in the race to develop enterprise- wide software for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). PTC acquired the IIoT developer ThingWorx in late 2013 and then later added Vuforia in November
2015. As a PTC subsidiary, Vuforia announced at the event new features for its augmented reality (AR) platform with sup- port for Windows 10 and also the company’s new VuMark solution for adding AR experiences to any object.
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