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

COFES 2012: Quick Summary

COFES 2012: Quick Summary
Oleg
Oleg
16 April, 2012 | 1 min for reading

I was very busy since last Thursday. As you probably know, I was attended COFES 2012. It took all my time from early Thursday until Sunday. COFES is a unique event. You have a chance to speak with many people of the industry, share opinion and check your ideas. From that standpoint, the value of COFES is absolute. Below, I wanted to put few pictures from presentations I’ve seen during COFES 2012. They made me think about some of the future ideas I’m going to share with you on the blog.

This year weather (it was cloudy and cold) provoked many jokes about cloud related discussions. Cloud topic was clearly one of the most important to me. The following picture of Scottsdale Plaza is unusual for April. Few interesting points from the conversation about the cloud.

Another interesting discussion happened during the keynote by Richard Riff. The keynote was about decision and risk. Here are two interesting slides from his presentation. About data and skills ownership:

About the reasons we are taking wrong decisions. Main reason – ego.

Last, but not least. I was impressed by presentation of Ponoko – cool DIY factory. The idea of personal manufacturing is interesting and inspiring a lot of people these days. Ponoko personal factory is an interesting attempt to do so.

So, what is my conclusion? COFES 2012 was the biggest COFES since it was first introduced 13 years ago. I’ve seen many first-time attendees. The strength of the COFES is that you can make it very personal. Your choice – meetings, offline, discussion groups, briefing, keynote presentations and big discussions. I’m always learning something new there. Just my opinion, of course.

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
6 January, 2016

  It has been almost 5 years since PLM industry started to turn its trajectory towards adoption cloud technologies and...

23 February, 2017

In a modern business, consumers have a lot of power. Business competition is changing and switching from competition on price...

30 December, 2024

In this fourth installment of the “Rethinking Change Management” series, we dive into the technical architecture and workflow underpinning a...

10 September, 2021

While cloud and the internet are a way to live and breathe for many of us, the adoption of SaaS...

2 February, 2016

Differentiation and positioning might sounds like a very boring marketing term. But it is actually something that can become very...

12 August, 2018

You probably heard it many times for the last few years – cloud PLM is not for everyone. And when...

3 November, 2014

Collaboration is fascinating place. So many things were done to improve collaboration for the last decade, but it still remains...

10 March, 2010

One of the very important aspects of PLM as enterprise software is the ability to be implemented in the fast...

7 January, 2010

For the long period of time CAD/CAE/PDM/PLM were recognized as tools for product development and manufacturing. However, modern trends, moving...

Blogroll

To the top