Archive for December, 2018

Beyond PLM 2018 – Recap and Happy New Year!

Beyond PLM 2018 – Recap and Happy New Year!

December 31st is a great day to write recaps. 2018 was a very crazy intense with lot of stress and activities pushing me to the limit of what is possible to do. Beyond PLM was celebrating 10 years in 2018. One of the ways to look on a blog is…

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Top Beyond PLM discussions from 2018

Top Beyond PLM discussions from 2018

Holidays week is here and it means the traditional time to write ‘best of.. ‘, ‘top…’ and similar type of blog posts. I’ve been traditionally publishing my top Beyond PLM blog posts usually ranked by number of views. But this year, I decided to make it a bit differently. I’m…

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CAD: Cloudy With Chances for Forrest Gump Moments

CAD: Cloudy With Chances for Forrest Gump Moments

I attended The State of PLM economy webinar organized by CIMdata – leading source of information and analytics about PLM market. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata Vice President shared latest PLM market data, trends and company news. You can register to webinar and get information here. The quick summary in 2 slides….

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Reverse mentoring, digital re-skilling and old PLM habits

Reverse mentoring, digital re-skilling and old PLM habits

We live surrounded by changes and transformations of digital revolution. Which means everything we knew until now can change  – tools, processes, environment and business norms. Think about your everyday procedures 5-10 years ago and now. You will find amazing difference. The amount of digital workflow in our everyday life…

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Why it takes 18 years to build enterprise PLM startup?

Why it takes 18 years to build enterprise PLM startup?

Fundamentally new technologies don’t become productive until a generation after their introduction. The time it takes people to learn how to use new tools and how to introduce these tools to businesses is very long. We have seen examples of adoption in personal computing, productivity tools, mobile devices and some…

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Will PLM companies start buying ERP vendors?

Will PLM companies start buying ERP vendors?

For many years PLM and ERP were like water and oil. One is positioned for innovation and another is positioned for business execution. You cannot mix them and they belongs to two different categories of products. Until now the mix of ERP and PLM only happened from ERP side, when…

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Onshape trajectory – what if PDM is Onshape key differentiator?

Onshape trajectory – what if PDM is Onshape key differentiator?

Everyone needs data, but nobody wants to be responsible for data management. I learned it during many years of working with engineers and manufacturing companies. Engineers prefer to keep files on Dropbox and not get involved into PDM (product data management) development. PDM was always perceived as a tool that…

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