The Importance of Planning Now Budgeting to make sure your MBE efforts are on the corporate radar is an important step in the planning process. Today, Michelle Nordwald, COO at Action Engineering, explains key points of this process and how companies can both streamline and strategize their proposals as well as their contracting process. Do people come […]
Getting You Successfully Started
Without a map or even a single starting point, navigating your way on the Model-Based Enterprise road can be downright frustrating. However, with the right navigation tools, you can absolutely reach your destination successfully. After many years of coaching clients through their model-based journeys, we have strategically developed four packages that can be woven together […]
What is a Digital Twin? How Ambiguity is Killing MBE, and Why Words Matter
The term “Digital Twin” is applied so frequently these days that there’s a lot of ambiguity around what it truly means. Commonly, the definition of a digital twin is a virtual representation of anything physical, and it can be literally anything – for instance, software is a digital twin of itself. The recently-formed Digital Twin […]
MBE Maturity Index FAQs
Curtis W. Brown recently discussed The MBE Maturity Index: How it Establishes Top-Down Buy-In and Funding at 3D CIC: Home Edition. There were some great audience questions that delved deeper into how the Maturity Index can support organizations at any level or size. In our very large organization, we are at various levels of maturity […]
Why Do Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) Go Together?
MBD + GD&T go together like peanut butter + jelly, mac + cheese, or any other delicious duo of your choice. Dan Feighery, expert trainer, discusses why they’re the perfect pairing. It’s design interpretation on steriods.” Harmony between MBD and GD&T is a primary focus of your MBD Using Modern GD&T course. What does this […]
MBD Efficiencies for Small Manufacturers
NIST recently published Sometimes It’s Not Easy Being a Small Manufacturer, outlining a few of the unique challenges small manufacturers have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We desperately need the MEP National Network… to ensure that there’s a focus in the next year on efficiency.” That focus on efficiency, [the panelist] said, should include the […]
Getting Started with MBD Kickoff
We advocate starting your MBE journey with an MBD Kickoff. Ryan Gelotte explains the purpose of this workshop and the whys behind the success stories. What do teams learn in our MBD Kickoff workshops? It started with making sure people understand it’s not just about getting rid of the drawing, it’s actually more about reusing […]
WATCH: What is the Digital Thread? What can we do today?
The philosophy of Model-Based Definition is not just to use MBD in engineering alone, but to reuse 3D CAD data throughout enterprise functions and into the supply chain. The goal of the Digital Thread is to digitally connect trusted data with other organizational information to create a consistent, data-rich thread that provides value for the […]