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Improve your build/test/deployment with CloudBees CD (formerly Electric Cloud Flow)
Repeatability is an intuitive aspect of daily life. If you throw a ball up, it comes down. If you throw it up twenty times, the same thing will happen, up and then down twenty times. When repeatability doesn’t occur and it’s supposed to, we get anxious. ...
Risk Management in Windchill RV&S (formerly PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager)
An important part of creating any product intended for use in any regulated industry vertical is that the manufacturer should have identified all of the risks involved in using the device. Then, they must have done their best to mitigate those risks before their...
Navigating Compliance and Cyber Security Concerns in Smart Medical Devices
A COMPLETE OVERVIEW OF SMART MEDICAL DEVICES, THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS. While the Internet of Things offers great opportunities both for businesses and consumers, compliance and security must be thought through carefully from the very...
Blog: How AWS Cloud Solutions Can Help Your Manufacturing Enterprise Maintain Its Competitive Edge
In manufacturing, cloud solutions provide breathtaking results. like reducing line stoppages by 98 percent, an 86 percent reduction in on-site inventory and a 10 percent increase in overall productivity. Read our white paper, This paper discusses how hybrid cloud...
SPK Earns Place on MSP 501 List of Top Managed Services Providers in the World
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SPK and Associates, LLC (SPK) is excited to announce our recent award as one of 2019's 501 most elite Information Technology managed service providers in the United States. The Channel Futures /...
Engineering Inefficiency is the Enemy of Innovation
I was intrigued by the information and conclusions presented in OnShape’s recent report, “The State of Product Development and Hardware Design 2019.” However, I was not as surprised as they were to hear that the biggest problem in R&D is still complex processes,...
Migrating Safely And Securely To A Much Less Costly Cloud Center
One large client, given its size and varied business lines and information technology demands, relies on a variety of computing resources. For 12 years, it leveraged an SPK-managed private-cloud data center, based in San Jose. Over time, as happens with all data...
Solving CAD File Data Corruption By Looking Beyond the Obvious
One SPK client’s design engineering team was required to email CAD files to a technician to perform 3D printing. However, the CAD files were too large for regular email transmission. The designers manually converted each CAD file into a ZIP format for sending in one...
Helping a Company Achieve Financial Regulatory Compliance Out Of The Box
One SPK financial industry client found it needed to overcome complex cybersecurity compliance demands imposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities Exchange Commission. To comply involved automatically collecting data about any...
Completing A Registry Fix For SolidWorks PDM In Hours — Not Weeks
An engineer for one of SPK’s clients needed to regularly use features in the SolidWorks PDM application, which enables the design of complex products. The engineer found his method to log-in to access special file folders had started to fail, and he couldn’t get the...
Latest White Papers
Maximizing the Impact of PLM with Windchill+
Get ready to dive into a guide that will change your PLM horizons this year. In this free eBook brought to you by PTC and SPK and Associates, we are sharing how to maximize the impact of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Windchill+. In this eBook, you’ll learn...