Early this week, I attended TechSoft 3D Boston Summit. If you’re not familiar with TechSoft 3D, check them out. It is one of the most invisible technological companies in the CAD world providing infrastructure for 3D development, viewers and translations tools for many industrial companies and CAD vendors. Agenda and…
Earlier last week, the founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg introduced to the world a new vision of Meta. If you missed that moment, you can catch up with a huge amount of news, videos, and articles already posting videos and explanations about what Facebook did and is the…
How to provide the mechanical design community access to a growing library of products available and connect engineers working on different products together? Various developers for the last few decades asked this question and developed multiple solutions. Yet, the industry brought anything that connects an entire population of mechanical designers…
VR and new user experience are fascinating these days. Companies are looking for new ways to interact. Mobile devices made a big difference in the last decade by bringing a completely new way of interaction. Just few days ago, I was writing about experiments to develop applications for VR sets….
I spent today at Develop3D Live Boston. The event is focusing on engineering and design space and organized by Develop3D crew located in UK. If you never heard about Develop3D, you probably should – this is one of the very few PRINTED magazines I still keep on my bookshelves. The…
Cloud technologies are trending. But engineers are still on the fence to decide about how to move to the “cloud future”. Last week at Solid Edge University in Boston, I was learning about Siemens PLM approach in cloud and how Solid Edge is developing complementary cloud features to their desktop…
People are hard. We know that. There are so many articles written about complexity of changes, people management and PLM implementations. However, here is that thing – I think technology matters. Especially when it comes to cost and scale. I was attending HOOPs summit in Boston yesterday organized by TechSoft3D….
Message on twitter from Jos Voskuil caught me by surprise earlier today. Jos commented on my OpenBOM blog about Onshape, OpenBOM and drawing BOM (full transparency – I co-founder and CEO of OpenBOM developing cloud-based Bill of Materials management service). I found Jos’ comment fascinating. It made me think about innovation…
Bad terminology is an enemy of good thinking. A running joke in PLM industry says that if you ask what is PLM in a meeting room, the number of answers is usually greater than number of people. PLM industry has a big terminology problem. It is hard to agree and…
Digital transformation of the past decade introduced us to a new concept – online communities. The idea of having community of engineers isn’t new and we’ve seen several attempts to create one done by CAD vendors and independent vendors. One of the most successful one was a story of GrabCAD…
