In one of my last blogs last year, I talked about the evolution of PLM system architecture. I’ve got many questions offline and online asking me about specific aspects of architecture, vendors, and approaches. While cloud seems to be inevitable, the question about cloud adoption, cloud architecture, and how it…
In the last few weeks, I published articles to share with you the retrospective of PLM architecture – system, data, and selection process with the current systems available in the market. As we move forward in 2021, I want to come with a series of articles to share what I…
Aras is one of the companies I’m continuously following for quite a while. Alongside interesting architecture, Aras is also innovative in introducing a variety of innovative business and application models. One of them is open source, which was a pivot Aras made in 2007. Aras Corporation is an American developer…
Each time any major PLM vendor makes a big step onto the acquisition path, the questions about how the technologies and products will be merged and how it will impact the customers. It happened many times in the past, substantial PLM businesses were acquired – Agile PLM. MatrixOne, Solidworks Enterprise…
Connected is such a powerful word. We are connected in so many ways these days. Think about transformations that happened in many services surrounding us for the last decade. Our devices are continuously connected to the internet to give us access to the vital information we need all the time-…
Manufacturing has been used PLM for a long time to track and manage product data design and changes in the company databases. But PLM paradigm is shifting and cloud / SaaS seems to be a trending word in the industry and PLM vendor’s lexicon these days. Back in 2018, I…
The year 2021 is finally here. I’ve been taking some time off, to think about what we learned in 2020 and to write a series of articles to reflect on PLM system architecture, PLM data architecture, and how to approach the PLM selection process in 2021. As we move into…
This is the last blog this year and I’d like to finish it by discussing what the PLM selection process will look like in 2021. It is the 3rd and final article in my end of the year series of articles I used to explain the evolution of PLM system…
This time of the year is a great opportunity to reflect on multiple topics. My article last week – PLM System Architecture Evolution for Dummies generated a great number of comments and discussions online and offline. Thank you very much- you helped me to shape my next blog to talk…
Technology always played a significant role in engineering and manufacturing software. Earlier CAD systems were very much dependent on specific graphic workstations and computing power. Earlier PDM was based on proprietary databases and later standardized on SQL databases. During the last decade of web and cloud development, we’ve seen a…
