Digital Twin is at the peak of inflated expectation according to ResearchGate publication and it keeps bringing topics for discussion. What does the Digital Twin catchy phrase mean? Is it a catchy name, technology, innovation, marketing? Will Digital Twin brings something new or it is another variant of what we…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A single source of truth is the paradigm that sells PLM and many other systems. PDM and PLM providers used and continue to use this model as a fundamental thing when selling PLM vision, strategy, software, and technology. It is still a dominant model behind most PLM implementations in the…
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…
SaaS industry is booming. SaaS solutions are increasing in popularity among companies. If you didn’t check SaaS business growth recently, here are few numbers that you should keep in mind: The global SaaS industry is expected to be worth $60.36 billion by 2023, an increase of 9% in the next…
The model is such a beautiful word. It can be anything. The word model can be a noun, verb, or adjective. The history of the word comes from the Latin word modulus, which means measure or standard. There are so many definitions of the word model. It can be a…
