At Barbosa Consulting, we help companies transform how engineering and manufacturing work together. Our three-part Insight framework—InsightMaster, InsightCatalyst, and InsightSynergy—moves you from discovery to action to sustained alignment. Whether you're just starting your PLM journey or retooling an existing system, we meet you where you are and help you move forward—with clarity, confidence, and measurable impact.

PLM services

InsightMaster

Unleash powerful data-driven insights to transform your strategies and propel your business into the future. InsightMaster focuses on the critical intersection of engineering and manufacturing—where teams, systems, and workflows converge to shape high-performance outcomes.

Through our proprietary methodology—encompassing Discovery, cutting-edge Analyses, and thought-provoking Insights—we look deep inside organizational silos to understand how work flows across Data, Tools, Systems, and the Organization itself. We then deliver actionable, insight-led recommendations that optimize bi-directional workflows and unlock new opportunities for innovation and efficiency.

The result? A transformation plan that’s not only grounded in real-world operations, but fully aligned with your business goals. One that leverages the full potential of your people, processes, and technology—and earns buy-in from all key stakeholders.

InsightMaster lays the foundation to elevate your engineering and manufacturing performance—and turn your digital PLM vision into a reality.

PLM software

InsightCatalyst

A blueprint tailored for visionary technology leaders, InsightCatalyst transforms the learnings from InsightMaster into actionable Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities and deployment plans.

With deep expertise across the PLM landscape—and true vendor independence—we help you make confident, unbiased technology decisions. Our recommendations are guided solely by what’s right for your business, free from any platform allegiance.

We look beyond tools alone. By considering critical organizational factors like span of control, decision making, escalation paths, change management, collaboration, and Master Data Management (MDM), we ensure your PLM strategy supports how your business actually operates.

Leveraging our knowledge across CAD, CAE, PDM, PLM, ERP, MES, CPQ, and CRM, InsightCatalyst delivers tailored guidance designed to align with your specific engineering and manufacturing challenges—so you can move forward with clarity and confidence.

InsightSynergy

The key word is Synergy. InsightMaster and InsightCatalyst lay the foundation for strong decision-making. To elevate your organization, we address friction—data anomalies, span of control, gaps, manual work, rework loops—that hinders smooth digital workflows. Whether aiming for engineering, manufacturing, or business synergy, reducing friction boosts efficiency across operations.

Aspirational goals often include:

  • System/tool consolidation

  • Multi-site harmonization for a unified virtual experience

  • Organizational overhaul: Hybrid Functional/Logical

Barbosa builds a plan based on team input and learnings, starting with quick wins—low-hanging fruit—before tackling larger goals. Progress is tracked and shared via dashboards. Early wins build momentum and help tackle future challenges. The same team stays with you from start to finish—enabling true biological synergy.

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