Aerospace programs operate under serious pressure and requirements. Aerospace and defense manufacturers must manage complex products with strict regulatory requirements, while ensuring quality and balancing demanding cost targets. Additionally, aircraft and...
PDM/PLM-Product Data and Lifecycle Management
How Industrial Manufacturers Are Accelerating Time-to-Market by 15% With PTC’s Digital Thread
Hello everybody, and welcome back to another SPK and Associates vlog. My name is Michael Roberts. I'm the Vice President of Sales and Marketing here at SPK. Today we're talking about how industrial manufacturers are accelerating their time to market up to 15% by using...
Engineering AI Adoption Assessment
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The Digital Thread for Aerospace: How to Accelerate Development, Increase Production, and Reduce Cost of Quality landing page
The aerospace industry is facing a slowdown in development timelines and higher quality costs. A digital thread resolves these issues by creating a unified, intelligent product lifecycle that connects design, manufacturing, and service.What You Will Learn In this...
How to Manage Product Variants Without Breaking Your Engineering Team
Modern product companies are under pressure to offer more configurations, features, and customer-specific options without increasing costs or slowing development. This is especially true in industries such as medical devices, automotive, and industrial manufacturing...
Why Integrated PLM and ALM Platforms Are Critical for Electronics Innovation
Innovations in the electronics industry are being rapidly introduced, which has led product lifecycles to shrink and software to become central to nearly every device. Companies are under constant pressure to launch smarter, more connected products ahead of the...
Optimizing Solidworks PDM Implementation
When multiple employees of a Fortune 100 medical equipment manufacturing company reached out to us for support with workflow functions and permissions, we knew there was a better way. Rather than fixing the issues that would inevitably keep occurring with their...
Accelerating Product Design with Creo
Register NowYou’ll be taken to a secure registration page to complete your sign-up.By submitting this form, I acknowledge receipt of SPK and Associates' Privacy Policy.Engineering teams today are being asked to move faster, deliver better products, and do more with...
Proven Strategies for Resolving the ALM-PLM Gap in Automotive Engineering
As automotive manufacturers accelerate toward software-defined vehicles, the lines between mechanical, electrical, and software engineering are rapidly blurring. To compete in an era defined by electrification, autonomous systems, connectivity, and regulatory...
5 Key Takeaways from the PTC NEXT for Engineering Teams
PTC NEXT Spring 2026 showcased a clear vision for the future of engineering software: connected product data, AI-powered workflows, modern cloud platforms, and an increasingly integrated digital thread spanning CAD, PLM, ALM, manufacturing, and service operations....
vCAD + Windchill: The Cloud-Native Digital Thread for Distributed Product Teams
Register NowYou’ll be taken to a secure registration page to complete your sign-up.By submitting this form, I acknowledge receipt of SPK and Associates' Privacy Policy.Modern product development teams are increasingly distributed across locations, suppliers, and...
Windchill PLM 12.1.2 is EOL in December 2026. Here is what you need to know.
Every version of PTC Windchill eventually reaches an end-of-life milestone, and for organizations still running Windchill 12.1.2, that timeline is approaching quickly. As PTC continues to invest in Windchill 13 and newer releases, organizations using older...












