PTC president and CEO Jim Heppelmann has identified what he calls the “seven forces” at work in manufacturing businesses today, any one of which would be significant – but the combination of all seven is, he says, “transformational”.
The Heppelmann Seven are:
Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC
Digitisation. It’s been 25 years since computer-aided design started the process of digitising product geometry, but the degree and scale of digital product information now available is much wider: it is, says Heppelmann, “the DNA of manufacturing”, with applications in analysis…
