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…
Digital Twin is a new cool name coming on the horizon of PLM and together with DIgital Thread, it has a chance to rebrand what PLM does. For the last few years, the interest in the development of Digital Twin and Digital Thread has grown and you can see how…
Lionel Grealou posted open for debate article – The Place of PLM in the Digital Future (open to debate). I recommend you check it out. My first reaction after reading that the PLM industry believes that PLM digital future is more than guaranteed. I’d be very carefully believing in such…
My recent articles about the digital thread and multi-tenant architecture raised a number of questions and generated a healthy amount of debates about what technologies enterprise companies and PLM vendors have at their disposal and how these technologies can be used. If you missed my article, please check it here…
Over the course of the last few years, digital transformation was a topic of many discussions. While there is a conclusion that the status quo is probably the biggest factor that slows digital transformation in the industry, the opinions about what can provide a big push to manufacturing companies to…
PLM is often called a journey. Once started, the PLM solution is evolving and changing. The paradigm of a journey is a good one. Think about the software you use as a journey equipment. The problem with the PLM journey is that often this journey is much longer than a…
It was never a better time to be in the PLM business than today. I said it in my last article covering what happened with PLM in the 2010s. There are three fundamental things that convinced me to think so. 1- Maturity of the technology that can be applied to…
Imagine you made a choice for what PLM system to use in your company? The process was long, you run tons of meetings, benchmark, evaluations, comparisons and you’re finally done. You think, the most painful part is over, but it is actually not. The next step can be even more…
I’m coming to PI PLMx conference in San Diego which will take place next month in beautiful San Diego. Organized by MarketKey, this traditional gathering of PLM customers is unique because it is one of very few non-vendor PLM events. In the past, you might remember my presentations from PI…
Another day and one more conference to follow online. Thanks to social media, twitter and a large group of analysts attending 2019 Siemens Media & Analyst Conference in New York. Few interesting news and data points that I caught during the screening of tweets I wanted to share with you….
