Category: Development & Engineering

The Engineering Digital Data Thread challenge: No Product Data, no thread, no traceability

Most high-tech and semiconductor companies are running product development on a foundation that was never designed to hold it. The high tech products large engineering companies build today: lithography systems, microscopes, industrial robots, advanced packaging equipment, radar and defense systems, medical imaging equipment, high-precision systems, are among the most complex engineered objects ever existed. An unimaginable complexity, number of parts, and supply chains crossing multiple continents are part of these engineering marvels. But underneath these machines sit a digital data layer that was assembled incrementally. Bit by bit, system by system, over several decades. Never designed as a whole.

June 15, 2026 Development & Engineering, Digital Thread, Digital Twin, Engineering, Engineering AI, Hardware Engineering, High Tech Industry, High-Tech / Semicon, Innovation, Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Research & Development (R&D), Semiconductor Industry, Semiconductor Industry, Simulation, Technologie
The engineering function is – still – broken. Here is how to fix it.

Engineers spend roughly half their day on documentation, reporting and information search. The fix is not more AI tools. It is reinventing the engineering function as a system, built on a digital core and a single source of truth, the digital data thread.

June 11, 2026 Development & Engineering, Digital Thread, Digital Thread, Digital Twin, Engineering, Engineering AI, Hardware Engineering, High Tech Industry, Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Research & Development (R&D), Semiconductor Industry, Semiconductor Industry, Simulation
Engineering re-invention in High Tech and Semicon where do we come from?

Where do we come from, where do we go? | The practice of engineering is evolving by the ongoing introduction of new technologies. Let us dive into the origin and evolution of the engineering practice in relation to the Dutch Semiconductor industry. Just by applying the two central questions of Dan Brown his novel ‘Origin’ we would like to dive into “Where do we come from” and “Where do we go?”

December 2, 2025 Development & Engineering, Digital Thread, Digital Twin, Engineering, Engineering AI, Hardware Engineering, High Tech Industry, Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Research & Development (R&D), Semiconductor Industry, Semiconductor Industry, Simulation
The European Chips Act will help the European (regional) competitiveness in semiconductor technology and applications, says Rick Bouter

A regional reflection: The Dutch High Tech and Semiconductor region in the Brainport Eindhoven is responsible for approximately 40 percent of all patents in the Netherlands. Patents, one of the innovation parameters, show us that the Dutch are an innovation powerhouse in hardware innovation. Two (of the many) reasons are the presence of strong campuses like the High-Tech campus, the Eindhoven University of Technology, Brainport industry campus, Helmond Automotive campus amongst others.

June 17, 2022 Development & Engineering, High Tech Industry, High-Tech / Semicon, Semiconductor Industry, Semiconductor Industry
Industry 4.0: “From Factory to Smactory, where disruption meets the manufacturing industry”

It is August the 18th of 2014 when a German government official press ‘post’ on an update called: "Zukunftsprojekt Industrie 4.0”, not knowing that this Industry number will complete transform the way we traditionally did business.[1] Where business transformation in prior times mostly affected individual entities of businesses, this transformation affects the whole business eco-system. The announcement, posted on the “Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung[2]” or, in English, the:”Federal ministry of education and Research” quoted the following key message: “The future project Industry 4.0 aims to enable the German industry in a position to be ready for the future of production. Industrial production will be characterized by strong personalization of products under the conditions of high flexibilised (high-volume) production, the extensive integration of customers and business partners in business and value creation processes and the coupling of production and quality services.”

December 16, 2016 Development & Engineering, Digital Thread, digital transformation, Digital Twin, Engineering, Hardware Engineering, High Tech Industry, Industry4.0, IndustryX.O, Internet of Things, Semiconductor Industry

Category: Development & Engineering

The Engineering Digital Data Thread challenge: No Product Data, no thread, no traceability

The engineering function is – still – broken. Here is how to fix it.

Engineering re-invention in High Tech and Semicon where do we come from?

The European Chips Act will help the European (regional) competitiveness in semiconductor technology and applications, says Rick Bouter

Industry 4.0: “From Factory to Smactory, where disruption meets the manufacturing industry”