In the dynamic landscape of modern manufacturing industry, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has carved out a significant niche. For years working in PLM and product data management business, I found the opinion about product lifecycle PLM can be quite different starting from a full rejections and blames of failure to…
2021 is almost over and I want to use the moment to reflect on what we’ve seen happening in the PLM industry and related manufacturing and engineering software technologies. COVID 19 changed forever the way we work and communicate. There is no way back to the place where we’ve been…
Autodesk’s article Why Data Interoperability Is Game-Changing for Collaboration written by Amy Banzel caught my attention over the weekend. It speaks about the future of interoperability but comes with a shift. The industry is moving from “files” to “data” and this is a very remarkable event. For more than two…
As the year goes towards the end, it is a great time to make some conclusions and observations about what I learned about the PLM industry this year. It was a very unusual year – COVID and pandemic situations across the globe changed the life and habits of people. It…
Manufacturing companies need to have a better way to compare PLM infrastructure and made a decision about PLM and other technological vendors to work with. How to come with a new set of criteria helping IT and engineering software managers to make a right purchasing decision. This is not a…
Earlier this week Stan Przybylinski of CIMdata presented 2018 PLM market analysis results at CIMdata 2018 industry and market forum in Ann Arbor. CIMdata forum is a great opportunity to get early visibility on trends and market. The event is organized specially for PLM vendors and services providers. PLM market…
The topic of PLM ranking is getting some traction recently in the conversation with my readers and industry peers. Check my article – Why traditional PLM ranking is dead. PLM ranking 2.0. I also shared some ideas about how to democratize PLM knowledge to help manufacturing customers to make an…
PLM news of the day – Arena Solutions Receives Strategic Growth Investment from JMI Equity. Founded back in 2000, Arena Solutions was pioneering the idea of “on demand” software today known as “cloud”. Here is an interesting data point from press release about number of customers Arena has. Founded in…
I’m attending PTC LiveWorx event this week in Boston. The event is huge and it is just at the beginning. Yesterday, I attended PTC Global Partnership Conference (disclosure – openBoM, the company I co-founded is PTC partner). I captured few interesting slides I wanted to share with you. They came…
Aras is buzzing PLM industry. Aras PLM gradually took a position to challenge big 3 PLM vendors – Dassault Enovia, Siemens’ Teamcenter and PTC Windchill. Six years ago I posted an article Aras PLM lines up against Windchill, Enovia and Teamcenter. Back in 2011 it wasn’t clear if Aras will take a…
