COFES 2012: Design Risk and Information Availability

April 19, 2012

One of the sessions I especially liked during COFES 2012 was a keynote by Richard Riff – The Intersection of Design and Risk. The name of the keynote was the same as a theme of COFES 2012. Here is a snippet from COFES 2012 agenda describing this session: …we’ll explore the role of risk in [...]

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COFES 2012: Social Software and Gen-Z

April 17, 2012

One of the roundtables I attended during last week COFES 2012 was about social software and cloud. The session was moderated by Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity. “Social topic” was much less in focus of COFES 2012 compared to 2010 and 2011. I’ve been intrigued by the combination of social and cloud under the same hood. [...]

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COFES 2012 and Cloud Discussion: Why? Why Not? How?

April 16, 2012

One of the topics of second COFES 2012 Congress was about the cloud. I want to refer to one of the most interesting quotes related cloud / internet from Alan Kay keynote at COFES 2012: Since its inception (1969) the internet was never shut down/rebooted! Which other system can boast such performance? Alan Kay at [...]

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COFES 2012: CAD Society 2012 Leadership Award

April 16, 2012

COFES 2012 became special to me. It is almost four years since I started my daily blogging on Daily PLM Think Tank and lately, on Beyond PLM blog. I want to thank CAD Society and Rick Stavanja for the honor. However, blogging is not “one-way-road”. My blogging would not be possible without you – reading and [...]

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COFES 2012: Quick Summary

April 16, 2012

I was very busy since last Thursday. As you probably know, I was attended COFES 2012. It took all my time from early Thursday until Sunday. COFES is a unique event. You have a chance to speak with many people of the industry, share opinion and check your ideas. From that standpoint, the value of COFES [...]

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Will CFO like “cloud PLM”?

April 12, 2012

Cost is one of the aspects all cloud PLM providers bring to the table these days. The demand and the expection is that that PLM (or any other software) on the cloud will become cheaper than on-premises’ alternative. Earlier this week, I’ve been reading an article from CIO magazine – Why CFO and Cloud Computing [...]

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Will COFES 2012 make Arizona cloudy this week?

April 11, 2012

I’m coming to COFES 2012 this week. COFES (The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) is a think-tank event and one of my favorites. For the next 3 days, I’m going to put myself under the sun in Scottsdale, AZ. COFES publish the list of key participants – you can see it by navigating [...]

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PLM and freedom in business

April 10, 2012

If you think about PDM and PLM, you will discover a lot of “controlling” functions. Examples are easy. You need to control documents, revisions, bill of materials, changes. Later, you need to manage and control processes. We’ve been living this type of environments for many years. Today I want to talk about something that I [...]

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Why PLM technology can be addictive?

April 9, 2012

You may think everything is going faster these days. Instagram acquisition earlier today proved how disruptive and fast can be an influence of the internet on service providing. On the picture below, you can see a comparison of the technology adoption pace. At the same time, the speed of change in manufacturing companies is different [...]

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PLM: Ugly vs. Cool

April 8, 2012

Do you think PLM software must be cool? More than two years ago, I posted FREE and COOL trends in CAD/PLM. I’m observing an increased amount of discussions about “PLM coolness” in the past few weeks. The release of PLM 360 by Autodesk just amplified the interest to the “cool” side of PLM. In my [...]

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