Manufacturing is in the midst of a digital transformation. And it means that the industry is changing. For more than two decades in the industry, I’ve seen a number of PDM and PLM systems, and, although there are many successful PLM systems and implementations, the number of problems in PLM…
Engineering and manufacturing systems are moving to the cloud. Born in the cloud, “cloud-native” systems are more efficient, scalable, and reliable than traditional systems. A big part of this shift is data-centric architecture. Data-centric architectures move away from monolithic data management systems towards granular and flexible data model that allows…
In one of my last blogs last year, I talked about the evolution of PLM system architecture. I’ve got many questions offline and online asking me about specific aspects of architecture, vendors, and approaches. While cloud seems to be inevitable, the question about cloud adoption, cloud architecture, and how it…
Technology always played a significant role in engineering and manufacturing software. Earlier CAD systems were very much dependent on specific graphic workstations and computing power. Earlier PDM was based on proprietary databases and later standardized on SQL databases. During the last decade of web and cloud development, we’ve seen a…
Cloud and SaaS are getting high attention these days of PLM vendors and customers. The interest is driven by many benefits cloud technologies and SaaS applications can bring to both manufacturing companies and vendors. Multi-tenancy is a key element of SaaS applications, but unfortunately, the terminology is often misleading and…
I grew up in a country where supermarkets and grocery shops shelves were empty. Your best luck was to the time when do you need to come to the store to buy something after standing in the queue. Even the fundamental reasons for empty shelves in the U.S. and other…
As world is buzzing about Aras PLM, I thought it is a great time to come and check what is in latest Aras Innovator architecture and technical stuff. My starting point was my blog from 2011 showing a slide from ACE 2011 and Aras technical and platform vision and roadmap….
I tried to visualize single tenant PLM model and global manufacturing. Here is the result and it looks ugly… The days when manufacturing companies was associated with a single build workshop building are gone. Manufacturing companies today are global enterprises with the manufacturing facilities located in multiple places, contractors, suppliers…
My article earlier this week about complexity and challenges of MBSE and PLM models raised a good number of comments and online conversations. One of my favorites was a discussion with Pawel Chadzynski, Senior Director, Product Management at Aras Corporation. He was also an author of the MBSE presentation. You…
Have you heard about serverless computing? Not yet… This is a time you should start paying attention. Serverless computing is gaining some traction. While serverless isn’t exaclty new thing it is reaching some interesting point in the development where it is already mature to observe some trajectory of future development….
