A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Can we build PLM bottom up?

Can we build PLM bottom up?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
1 April, 2009 | 1 min for reading

This week, I have been getting more intense feelings about  “trying to find a new solution for an old problem”. So, giving into this feeling, I was thinking about PLM user adoption. Looking at many blog posts and strategic presentations, enterprise software caught my eye. And so the next question was, what about user adoption?

I think that the most important things to speak at this point is how to get users to use your product. So, with this perception, I feel that global enterprise deployment is probably important, but we need to present it in a way that will be different from the typical top-down enterprise architecture approach.

 plm-bottom-up

 So, there are a few practical ideas I’d like to introduce in order to build your PLM from the bottom-up.

 1.    Set of problem-oriented tools

These tools will be oriented on how to work on a specific area- design, bills of material, projects etc. Tools need to be easily available for all people in the organization. You need to invest only a small amount of time to learn it (as you do with Excel)

 2.    Adaptable data and process models.

Today’s enterprise data modeling is very complex, in my opinion. Lots of time is spent on designing and changing data models/schemas. We need to come up with small data blocks (maybe a new PLM data format? – see my previous blog article).

 3.    Portal Tools and Enterprise Search

These technologies are becoming more and more mature- SharePoint from Microsoft, Content Management Tools from OSR vendors, IBM and others. You can choose your IT stack and follow it.

 Well, this is sort of a dream, but I’m sure you will be glad to discuss it with me and perhaps bring examples of your implementations. 

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
31 December, 2022

I’m continuing the discussion about Digital Thread Evolution. In the first article, I introduced you to the purpose of digital...

19 October, 2010

Few days ago, I run into Gartner Magic Quadrant about IT Project and Portfolio Management. You can get it by...

26 October, 2014

One of the most prominent marketing slogans in PLM and enterprise software is related to “replacement of Excel”. I have...

5 April, 2010

I’m following PLM for mid-market trends Jos Voskuil’s virtualdutchman blog. This weekend, I had chance to read his PLM for...

31 March, 2014

The usage of cloud is growing every day. Started as an option to simplify collaboration and data exchange, it is...

16 December, 2015

Bill of Materials (BoM) is a vital part of every product definition. In engineering and product development everything starts and...

6 October, 2009

What I want to discuss today is PLM Best Practices. Frankly saying, my thoughts about the topic were accelerated by...

1 February, 2016

Part numbers are hard. What started as a simple number and references to a part company usually purchase from a supplier,...

2 October, 2017

I’ve been reading Jim Brown’s article about Innovation Platforms over the weekend. Navigate the future! Check the following link to...

Blogroll

To the top