Archive for September, 2018

[VIDEO] PLMx discussions from Hamburg and plans for PLMx Chicago

[VIDEO] PLMx discussions from Hamburg and plans for PLMx Chicago

It is a bit unusual blog for me. Last year, I published few articles that triggered discussions in PLM blogs. The topics is these discussions went from PLM ranking, future of PLM consulting, technologies and PLM implementations. Here are few articles: Why traditional PLM ranking is dead and PLM ranking…

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Dreamforcing about digital transformation in manufacturing 

Dreamforcing about digital transformation in manufacturing 

I had a plan to go to Dreamforce 2018. But I didn’t. It was too much for my agenda and workload. But, thanks for real time streaming and social networking, you can make it “almost live”. Of course, you won’t shake hands of people live and won’t attend Metallica Dreamforce…

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Snapchat Amazon Visual Search and manufacturing digital base 

Snapchat Amazon Visual Search and manufacturing digital base 

I’m sure you’ve heard the new already earlier today – Snapchat is introducing visual search that will connect users directly to Amazon. In other words, you see something in front of your eyes, snap picture or barcode and BAM… things is connecting you directly to the object you can buy…

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Will Aras lose its mojo or develop a new way to acquire companies?

Will Aras lose its mojo or develop a new way to acquire companies?

The news just came – Aras is acquiring Comet Solutions. Check Aras press release for more details. Here is a passage from the article: Aras, the leader in open product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the enterprise, today announced that it has acquired Comet Solutions, Inc., a provider of best-in-class software…

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Can we unify PLM and ALM models? 

Can we unify PLM and ALM models? 

The importance of software in modern manufacturing product is hard to underestimate. For the last decade we’ve seen how complex mechanical products are transforming into sophisticated electro-mechanical products and later growing up to a platform to run software code. Think about automobile and the number of mechanical units replaced by…

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Digital Thread – A new catchy phrase to replace PLM? 

Digital Thread – A new catchy phrase to replace PLM? 

Digital Thread was one of the top topics discussed earlier this week at ConX18 – a symposium organized by Institute of Business Process Excellence. You probably had a chance to following my social media posts. If you want to get a good summary, check the following twitter hashtag search here….

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PLM for the Great Multitude of Manufacturers

PLM for the Great Multitude of Manufacturers

I’ve been busy earlier this week attending ConX18- an annual symposium hosted by Institute of Process Excellence. Check more about the event here and its agenda here. I found the event to be an amazing experience and great atmosphere of discussion about innovation, change management, digital thread and technology. My keynote…

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Who will benefit from multi-tenant PLM backbone?

Who will benefit from multi-tenant PLM backbone?

Earlier this week, I shared my perspective on cloud adoption in 2018, challenges of single tenant PLM architectures and differences between single-tenant and multi-tenant models. It is becomes clear that businesses are changing and IT must innovate to allow to companies to be competitive. Can multi-tenant architecture of PLM backbones provide…

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Multi-tenant architecture and next PLM backbone

Multi-tenant architecture and next PLM backbone

Multi-tenancy is an application architecture in which a single instance of the application is used by multiple customers. Think about it as an old fashion client server architecture in which application run on a server and it accessed by customer via different browsers. Multi-tenant architecture is a foundation of all…

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