The Production Facility of the Future: The Manufacturing Office

whitePaper | November 11, 2019

Creo is a 3D CAD solution that helps you build better products faster by accelerating product innovation, reusing the best of your design and replacing assumptions with facts. Go from the earliest phases of product design to a smart, connected product with Creo. And with cloud-based augmented reality in each seat of Creo, you can collaborate with anyone, instantly at any step in the product development process. In the fast-changing world of the Industrial IoT, no other company can get you to substantial value as quickly and effectively as PTC.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

The 21st century is the era of the fourth industrial revolution: but what does it mean to adopt Industry 4.0 solutions for Italian small and medium-sized enterprises? From the invention of the steam engine to that of the first IoT device (a smart toaster), a lot of progress has been made in innovative fields. Before going into detail, let’s try to give a general overview of the previous industrial revolutions, so we have all the appropriate tools to understand how these revolutionary epochs have changed today’s society

whitePaper | February 16, 2022

An enterprise tech ecosystem, consisting of robust and powerful software solutions built for a specific purpose, is the front line of all business operations. It’s also one of your company’s biggest investments and greatest assets. Certainly, the vast majority of manufacturers both large and small have at least begun their digital transformation journeys, adopting digital systems to streamline important areas of the business. Most organizations have focused their initial investments on digitizing core enterprise and operations systems like enterprise resource planning (ERP), materials requirement planning (MRP) and supply chain management (SCM) as well as their industrial equipment and automation systems

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

Manufacturing industries have been a source of social and economic growth for both developed and emerging economies. Today they stand at a critical juncture. The increase in global disruptions, from geopolitical and macroeconomic events to the accelerating pace of technological innovation, is having a profound impact on the state of global production systems and is forcing unprecedented transformation across value chains.

whitePaper | January 11, 2022

While the technological maturity of AM has been demonstrated in specific industries, individual firms still struggle with its adoption and implementation at industrial scale. Companies underestimate the extent to which the adoption of AM is first and foremost a learning process that involves the entire value chain and requires specific AM expertise that needs to be acquired. Throughout this learning process, a wide range of challenges may hinder the progress and success of implementation.

whitePaper | February 10, 2022

The Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) comprises a suite of frameworks and tools to help manufacturers – regardless of size or industry – start, scale and sustain their digital transformation journeys. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the reshaping of production value chains globally are spurring the manufacturing community to embrace digitalization with greater focus and urgency, motivated not only by potential gains in efficiency, but also by operational resilience. This renewed drive is further powered by the ongoing data revolution, where decision-makers increasingly expect key business commitments, plans and interventions to be supported through big data