To unlock the full promise of smart manufacturing equipment, medical device manufacturers need to connect their machines and integrate the data they generate. Read the full article HERE

This article describes how MES that combines cycle counts and process monitoring data, instead of just relying on hours-based maintenance scheduling results in predictive maintenance, not just preventative maintenance. Read the full story HERE

Plastic News published a great article on how plastics processors can become providers of choice. Our customers Say Plastics and Intertech are featured. Below is a ChatGPT summary of that article. Summary of Plastics News Article Date: September 26, 2025 Title: How Plastics Processors Can Become the Provider of Choice Overview The article explores how plastics manufacturers can move beyond being seen as commodity suppliers to becoming strategic partners for their customers. It highlights two

Read how metal formers and fabricators increasingly rely on manufacturing execution systems to act as a bridge between individual smart machines and to provide comprehensive operational oversight, and to help ensure a cohesive approach to data-driven decision making. Read the full article HERE

Left on their own, smart machines can become data silos. To get a complete picture of their plant floor manufacturers must integrate smart machines with older equipment and auxiliary equipment. This article discusses an approach to using MES to bring control and visibility to the entire factory floor. Read the full article HERE.

This article discusses the path to becoming a successful contract manufacturer requires a twofold strategy. First, manufacturers must have the right foundation — equipment, engineering and operating teams capable of delivering on the core manufacturing promise. Second, they must enforce strong business practices and rigorous controls to ensure certified products are delivered accurately and on time. Read the full article HERE.

Automation.Com article - A look at six critical business processes and controls where manufacturers can use their ERP systems to drive the superior quality and visibility that are the hallmarks of preferred providers. You can read the full article here.

This article in Plastic Technology magazine, based upon a Dassault survey of manufacturers, discusses several case examples and, in particular, 7 specific ways manufacturers can use data to make better operating decisions. Read the full article here

DELMIAWorks Extends Connectivity Options for Process Monitoring Reliable machine connectivity is at the heart of all manufacturing execution system (MES) production and process monitoring. The DELMIAWorks 2025 Release adds Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) to its portfolio of machine connectivity standards. The MQTT lightweight message-subscribe protocol is particularly well suited for low-bandwidth, high latency or unreliable networks since its managed send-receive verification

This Plastic Machinery and Manufacturing article discusses how Bobby May and his team at Say Plastics steer the right data to the right people to solve real business issues like on time delivery, improving OEEE and preparing for ISO audits. Read the full article here.

Quality control, customer service, operator performance, planning, forecasting, and order management. All require operating strategies that can be guided and reinforced by data and data driven decision making. This article discusses the fundamental approach to using ERP information to manage these critical business processes. Read the full article here.

Industry Week magazine gave DELMIAWorks and data-driven manufacturing some well deserved air time this past week. Read the full article here.

This Metal Forming Magazine article covers topics such as connected workers, enabling fewer people to perform multiple tasks by providing semi-autonomous automation aids in work center job instructions, inline quality inspections, and systems for workflow tracking and exception reporting. Read the full story here.

Plastic Business magazine talks to three different software companies about the importance of ERP and MES in supporting data-driven decision making the plastic industry. Read the full article here.

MD&DI magazine picked up our piece on ERP and technology trends impacting medical device manufacturing in 2025. You can read the full article here.

As labor challenges grow, two technologies have reached a tipping point of cost, ease of use and versatility to justify automating secondary as well as primary operations. Metal Forming Magazine discusses how cobots and smart vision systems are enabling secondary operations to become part of the growing chain of automation in mid-market manufacturing. Read the full article here.

This article in Medical Product Outsourcing reflects on the power of data-driven decision making versus traditional seat-of-the-pants decision making and provides key examples of how this plays out at two mid-market manufacturing operations. Read the full article here.

My thoughts on how automation and technology can attract and retain a new generation of workers. A generation of employees that want access to the latest tools and technologies to maximize their productivity and achieve their full potential. Click here to read the full article.

This article in Plastics Technology discusses moving past “is the job running” and “will it finish on time,” and applying MES to inform workflows ranging from accounting, inventory control, planning, material logistics, quality assurance, engineering and shipping. the full article is found here.

Metal Forming Magazine published a very interesting article by Lynn Loughmiller and Neil Gow of DEMIAWorks on how to upgrade your legacy equipment with IoT technology. See the full article here. Lynn and Neil have been experts on IoT since before IoT was industry topic. A good read.

Plastics Technology magazine published our article on how automation is not just a shop floor concept. There are big gains to be made in using ERP to automate the front office too. Read the full article here.

Quality Magazine has published an excellent article on how ERP can drive front office continuous improvement programs. Read the full article here.

Technology developments are enabling mid-tier manufacturers to strike a cost-effective middle ground: semi-autonomous automation. Nice piece from Automation.com about how semi-autonomous automation is creating new opportunities for mid-market manufacturers to automate their operations to alleviate labor shortages and increase quality and predictability. See the full article here

Reneta Sergejew was honored today as a leader in the Plastics Industry. Reneta received one of Plastics News' Women Breaking the Mold Adwards. Renata is the president of DELMIAWorks customer Onyz Hose and Tube. Renata was a co-founder of Oynx. The theme of her leadership can be called 'bootstrapping', not only did she bootstrap her own career, starting some 35 years ago, but she also lead the ground up building of what is today a leading and hose tube manufacturer. Read the full story

Plastic News keeps a close eye on M&A activity in the mid-market plastics manufacturing industry. This article discusses how M&A and investment activity has evolved over the past 12 months and what the outlook is for the coming months. DELMIAWorks understands that manufacturing ERP is critical for investors to maintain control and visibility of their industry portfolios. Read the full article here.

Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD&DI) magazine published an article by DELMIAWorks on automating the front office. The theme of the article is that people often think of the shop floor first when they think about automation, but the front office also has huge potential for automation. This article explores some of the potential points of cost-saving front office automation in the medical device industry. Read the full article here.

A plant manager giving me a tour of the factory floor once said, “I’ve got more people working on carpet than concrete.” What he meant was that not only did he have a crew to manage in the production area but he also had a similar crew to manage in the front office. Click here to read this article about how automating the front office can yield real long term cost savings.

AI, automation, supply chain, sustainability, and mergers and acquisitions will all play a role in the evolution of medical device manufacturing in 2024. Read this article in MPO magazine to learn more.

Great article on the AI tools y ou already own in MPO magazine. With all the discussion about ChatGPT and generative AI, it pays for manufacturers to take stock of the AI tools manufacturers already have available. Tools like advanced forecasting, statistical process control, predictive maintenance, and automated scheduling. Read the article here.

Our carbon footprint tracking using ERP has been a popular topic in the trade press. This piece in Manufacturing Engineering Magazine gives additional exposure to the topic. Click here to read the article.

This article in Smart Manufacturing magazine by SME discusses how manufacturers are focusing on operational efficiency to maintain profitability after several years of produce at all-cost strategies driven by COVID-related demand spikes. Demand patterns are returning to more normal levels and manufacturers are looking to automation and data-driven operations to boost profitability despite lower overall production levels. Read the article here.

Nice Plastic Business article on key steps to increasing efficiency and reducing waste in the manufacturing environment. Read the article here

Thanks to MAPP and Stihl USA for the great plant tour at Stihl's Virginia Beach operations. Stihl is a world-class manufacturer and previous Plastic News' Processor of the Year Award winner. The August 25th tour was sold out and included 37 DELMIAWorks customers, prospects and employees.

More discussion of the embedded AI found In DELMIAWorks ERP. The AI you already own are powerful tools delivered as practical technology in your ERP system. Read the article here.

This article in Automation World discusses the increasing use of workflow automation software in manufacturing. It is informed by many industry experts, including Joshua Covault of DELMIAWorks. See the full article here.

For the first time since 2018 the National Plastics Exhibition will be held May 6 - 10 in Orlando, Florida. The event happens only every 3 years and the 2021 event was canceled due to the pandemic, so interest in this year's show is at an all-time high. DELMIAWorks will be there in booth S22171. Much more to come on this topic. Mark your calendars.

The National Plastics Exhibition starts May 6th in Orlando, Florida. DELMIAWorks will be in booth S22171. Our booth is in the advanced manufacturing area in the south building. We are looking forward to a great show. This is the first NPE since 2018 and our conversations with the industry indicate attendance will be fantastic, it has been too many years since the entire industry has been able to gather in one spot. Please visit our booth to see the latest DELMIAWorks ERP and MES

I just got back from the Plastic News Executive Forum in Florida. It was a great plastics industry event and our thanks goes out to Plastic News for hosting it. Several DELMIAWorks customers won awards. They are: Best Places to Work 2024 Engineered Profiles LLC - a custom profile extruder, of Columbus, Ohio. KI Industries Inc. - a supplier of decorative products, of Berkeley, Ill. MTD Micro Molding – a precision micro-molder, of Charlton, Mass. CFO of the Year 2024 Mergon Group - Shane

This is a very well researched article by Frank Esposito in Plastic News. Detailed analysis of M&A activity forecast for 2024 in the plastics industry. DELMIAWorks gets a mention! Read the article here.

Attendance and e xcitement is building for the 2024 DELMIAWorks User Conference at 3DEXPERIENCE World February 11-14, 2024 in Dallas, Texas. Registration is already up 35% over last year’s event! So hurry to register. See the Event Website for details and registration forms and the Session Catalog for a detailed listing of the training sessions. The event features: - 35 DELMIAWorks Training Sessions - Ask-the-Expert One-on-One Help Sessions - DELMIAWorks General

Industry Week takes a look at DELMIAWorks' suggestions for using ERP to manage your carbon footprint. Not only some basics on carbon footprint scope definitions but also how to measure and improve your emissions. Read the article here.

The 2024 DELMIAWorks User Conference will be held as part of Dassault Systemes' 2024 3DEXPERIENCE World, February 10 - 14th in Dallas, Texas. The DELMIAWorks User Conference will include all the activities at World, plus a full complement of DELMIAWorks specific training and network opportunities. Click here to learn more.

Pittsfield Plastics has had incredible success over the past several years. Kindly, they attribute part of that success to DELMIAWorks ERP. Read the full story here in Plastics Machinery Magazine.

The 2023 MPO Summit in San Diego featured discussions on the latest medical device manufacturing trends. Chief among them were supply chain delays for electronic components and the growing interest in AI for both medical device functionality and manufacturing. It was great to see 40 DELMIAWorks customers in attendance.

Thanks to MAPP and the 200 DELMIAWorks Customers who attended the MAPP Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference. The conference's educational presentations on leadership and operational excellence are always the best in the industry. Great to see so many customers and thanks to MAPP for a great event.

Read this article, and more to come, to learn how mid-market manufacturers can track, report and reduce their carbon footprint. https://lnkd.in/gzTzjYjx

Thanks to all of our customers who attended the Southern California user meeting. The key topic was quality management and ERP. Great event led by our regional customer success manager Cathy Vermillion and made special by our industry-leading customers!

Louis Columbus discusses using data automation to facilitate reshoring and near-shoring in this article in Plastic Technology magazine. Click here to read the story.

Big shout out to PTA Plastics and the MAPP organization. Great plant tour last week in Colorado. PTA is a world-class manufacturing organization and DELMIAWork's was proud to be a sponsor and participant in the event. Nice work PTA and MAPP!

This article discusses how alerts and workflows in a contemporary ERP system can enable manufacturers to implement a management-by-exception (MBE) supervisory strategy. MBE allows manufacturers to focus their skilled supervisory personnel on genuinely unique and forward-looking projects and count on their ERP systems to supervise routine daily tasks. You can read the article here.

Using continuous improvement practices to increase quality management software adoption rates is one of the topics in this article by Quality Magazine and DELMIAWorks on software's role in driving quality assurance. Access the article here .

Louis Columbus contributed this great article to Smart Manufacturing Magazine. Titled 5 Ways to Cut Reshoring Costs via Automation, the article discusses the current drivers of re-shoring and how ERP and MES solutions can help create the capacity and cost savings necessary to realize the full benefits of reshoring projects. The article can be found here.

Thanks to the 350 DELMIAWorks customers who attended the online customer support tools webinar last week. Great job by Michael Gonzales from our customer support leadership team in presenting the new 3DEXPERIENCE based online support tools and resources!

MD+DI ( Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry) magazine takes a look at how management by exception using workflows and real-time alerts can help alleviate the shortage of skilled supervisory employees. Read MDDI Article

Smart Manufacturing Magazine does a nice job of highlighting the basics of Management by Exception and using DELMIAWorks ERP and MES to increase your supervisory capabilities without adding headcount. Link to article

Thanks to the DELMIAWorks team and all our customers and prospects who attended the east coast version of this industry-leading MedTech tradeshow. MedTech is a key industry for DELMIAWorks and nobody does a better job of presenting the industry than the Informa event team.

Click here for the podcast Software's role in quality and manufacturing trends, how quality professionals can best use software to improve manufacturing processes, and how to tackle your to-do list. A discussion with Michelle Bangert, the managing editor of Quality Magazine.

Thanks to all who made the June town hall meeting a success. Great update on the business, products and industry. Plus a special shout out to our employees who celebrated 10 and 15 year anniversaries at the company.

Shopworks, our new shop floor user interface that lets production managers tailor the operator interface specifically for the job at hand received a nice mention in the latest edition of Plastic Business Magazine. https://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=18060&i=792517&p=42&ver=html5

Last week we conducted a webinar explaining the features and advantages of Cloud Hosted ERP (also known as Hosted Managed Services HMS). Over 100 people attended and asked more than 65 questions. A very hot topic! The presentation is found below:

CHINAPLAS 2023 was a tremendous success for DELMIAWorks. CHINAPLAS is the largest plastics processing show in Asia with nearly 250,000 attendees. Thanks to the DELMIAWorks team in China and our partner, ICT, for their excellent execution of the event!

Manufacturers report that staffing remains a top challenge in 2023. Read this Automation article from our DELMIAWorks colleague on 5 ways manufacturers can use technology to retain workers. https://www.automation.com/en-us/articles/march-2023/five-ways-manufacturers-technology-retain-workers?linkId=208880283

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Here's a great article featuring DPS Skis, a longtime DELMIAWorks customer, and the ways they've been forced to adapt to supply chain woes. Great article about a great customer! https://www.yahoo.com/news/made-usa-supply-chain-reboot-202002440.html

As customers, it can be inspiring to see how fellow DELMIA|Works users are finding success by using a common system. After all, it's what's so great about networking at events such as 3DEXPERIENCE World, and our older IQMS Pinnacle User Conference. Today we bring you a success story that features Trademark Plastics from Riverside, CA. Trademark is a medical supply manufacturer in Riverside, CA, and they have a great story to tell. They use live production data from DELMIA|Works to keep their

Here is another recent customer video for DELMIA|Works, featuring Onyx Hose & Tube. Onyx is based in Ontario, Canada, and they manufacture all matter of hose and tubing for just about every industry that can utilize it, including those requiring food grade materials be used. Onyx Hose & Tube has found success with DELMIA|Works in so many different ways that I couldn't possibly include them all in this video. However, for this project, we focused on the ways in which they're able to see a direct

Need to train new employees on areas of the system? Would it be helpful to brush up on your own system knowledge? DELMIA|Works eLearning is self-directed, focused learning that allows users to learn at their convenience on over 140 different courses covering 750+ lessons. Check it out today!

When was the last time you checked out the DELMIA|Works Blog? Head over there today to check out the latest in manufacturing news, as well as pieces of thought-leadership content we think you'll enjoy!

Have you checked out the DELMIA|Works Knowledge Base resource yet? Knowledge Base is a one-stop-shop for all support issues, stored and sorted in a way to get you answers FAST. Before you call the technical support line, find answers to the most common software-related questions using the DELMIA|Works Knowledge Base!

With COVID-19 restrictions loosening comes the return of tradeshows and industry events, and we'd love to see you! Below are the events that we will be attending, and we'd love if you stopped by! MAPP - REGISTER HERE! MD&M - REGISTER HERE! MPO SUMMIT - REGISTER HERE! FABTECH - REGISTER HERE! INTERPLAS - REGISTER HERE! PLAST-EX - REGISTER HERE!

Running now through July 7, enjoy 20% off all DELMIA|Works software! Contact DELMIAWORKS.Sales@3ds.com for more details!

You already know all about the benefits of DELMIA|Works and our powerful products and services, but do you know about the other elements that make-up 3DEXPERIENCE Works? Check out this video to see how different roles within an organization can utilize the various other products within this expansive portfolio!

Here's a great blog post by our very own Steve Bieszczat about the ways in which manufacturers have leveraged ERP to thrive during the pandemic: https://erpblog.iqms.com/erp-sustains-manufacturing-during-covid-19/

We put this video together as a way of honoring our customers and all that they did in 2020, despite (and in many cases IN RESPONSE TO the pandemic). Enjoy, and thank you!

The following is a great article from PlasticsNews that features a few medical device customers (Intertech Plastics, Augustine Plastics and Crescent Industries) and the way they responded to - and will continue to thrive after - the COVID19 pandemic. Because the actual article link requires a login, I have copy/pasted the article below: Injection Molders' Medical Growth Expected to Stay High Post-Pandemic Injection molders overwhelmingly saw accelerating growth in their medical