Engineering.com Verdi Ogewell’s recent article came with the question – Who is the PLM industry’s leading visionary? Here are a few passages that caught my eye: Many would argue that Bernard Charles, Dassault Systémes’ CEO and President, should be considered the leading visionary PLM ideologue among the commercial system developers…
I’m heading to San-Diego this weekend to present at ConX19 organized by the Institute of Process Excellence. According to IpX, Check the agenda here. ConX19 will focus on enterprise transformation: ConX19 will include discussions and workshops that provide methods for enabling end to end enterprise transformation. Attendees will learn best…
The understanding market potential can make all the difference for the company between sitting courtside in the middle of the most active and watching the game from home. If you working on market and strategy, you have to get a pulse of the market. Then make an assessment of impact,…
When it comes to engineering and manufacturing companies, Excel is usually quoted as one of the most widely used tools. I said it many times. If I will go back to my articles written a decade ago, I can find these – Why do I like my PLM Excel Spreadsheet?…
Image credit Aras.com Earlier this week, I published my Only Aras? article. Check this out. No doubt, Aras made a very impressive journey for the last decade with its enterprise open source business model. Combined with Aras technology, it allowed to Aras to move into the position to challenge top…
Picture credit – World Economic Forum [CC BY-SA 2.0] It has been a little bit over a decade since I started to write my PLM blog. Started with a different name (Daily PLM Think Tank), it was transformed into Beyond PLM after I realize how diverse the range of topics…
Standards are important. They play an important role in our life. There are a different type of standards. There are government, industry, city and professional standards. There are standards for environmental impact (filtering of exhaust fumes), food (labeling), transportation (rail track), information (ISBN), accounting standards (GAAP). There are many professional…
A few days ago I wrote an article discussing why the strategy of building PLM on top of PDM can be a wrong solution – 3 Reasons for not growing existing PDM into full PLM system. I also enjoyed discussion and comments on LinkedIn. Check it out here. This discussion…
There is something in the air these days about PLM. The awareness about PLM is growing and more companies are thinking that PLM might be a solution to solve the problem. These are good news for PLM vendors, consulting and service organizations. However, the PLM sales scene is very complex….
One of the most commonly used PLM sales scenarios is to sell it as an expansion of existing PDM system. It was used by CAD / PLM companies for years and it is still very popular. There are many examples of why PLM is the next step after PDM. Here…
