CIMdata had the pleasure of speaking with Mr. Todd Earls, Vice President of Information Technology at Eaton, a global power management company doing business in over 175 countries. Mr. Earls leads an enterprise-wide digital design and manufacturing team that supports thousands of global users, including over 18,000 users of their core engineering data and process management systems and over 25,000 users of various mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), simulation, application lifecycle management (ALM), virtual reality (VR), and the Internet of Things (IoT) tools, to name just a few categories of managed solutions. His team also supports over 300 manufacturing plants and various tools used by them.
Among the topics on the table for discussion were:
- What are some of the key product development/innovation issues faced by your company?
- Do you have any programs/initiatives in place to address these issues? E.g., digitalization.
- What challenges do you face in selling digitalization and PLM internally?
- How do you see the impact of simulation and optimization on your digitization efforts?
- Can you comment on simulation process and data management, simulation driven data science applications as key enablers for democratization of simulation?
- What challenges/issues do you face? Concerns like security, bandwidth, data lock in, managing hybrid environments; possibly migration
- What benefits/positive aspects of your digitalization or digital transformation do you expect?
- What is your general timeline for deployment?
Learn the answers to these questions and more in the full blog post available at:
https://www.cimdata.com/en/resources/cimdata-blog/item/13366-digitalization-plm-interview-with-eaton