Archive for October, 2020

PLM Practitioners And SaaS/Cloud Knowledge Gap

PLM Practitioners And SaaS/Cloud Knowledge Gap

Cloud is not a new thing in the technology and software world. Cloud and Saas technology allowed to build remarkable world brands, yet cloud tech still keeps raising questions about adoption and acceptance in engineering and manufacturing software. The past decade demonstrated how dominant CAD and PLM vendors moved from…

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PLM and Business Process – How To Find The Best Match?

PLM and Business Process – How To Find The Best Match?

When a company starts thinking about PLM there is nothing more important than to wrap your head around the idea of PLM, why is it important, and how to make your steps into this process. The greatest PLM failures are coming from people that are unable to understand the idea…

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On-premise PLM As Storing Documents In Files

On-premise PLM As Storing Documents In Files

Earlier this week, I was talking to one of my teenage sons about his homework. At one moment of time, I told him that he can save his research work in the file. He gave me such a look like you can expect usually from teenagers – you know, that…

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WEBINAR: The Digital Future of PLM

WEBINAR: The Digital Future of PLM

PLM companies turned digital overnight. Visit every website of PLM vendors, consulting, resellers and you will find that they are all gone “digital” now.  Digital is a magic word nowadays. Everyone wants to go digital. The first step is truly understanding what that means. For many companies, it is about…

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How SaaS redefines PLM customizations

How SaaS redefines PLM customizations

There is a bad word in PLM jargon and it is “customizations”. For years, customization was considered as a bad thing. Started decades ago, when PDM and PLM systems were merely toolkits and you needed practically manually to adjust database tables and change system software code to adjust PDM or…

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How to organize and consolidate siloed BOM?

How to organize and consolidate siloed BOM?

Is siloed BOM a thing from the past? My old article PLM, Bill of Materials, and Silo Syndrome raised a healthy number of great comments and discussions on LinkedIn, so I decided to come back to this topic and discuss BOMs, organizational silos, and data management again. A dread silo…

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