Manufacturing is an industry that has been around for centuries. It is an industry that has seen a lot of change, and it is an industry that will continue to see a lot of change in the years to come. Many experts believe that the biggest change that manufacturing will…
Industry – Industrial – Automation – Manufacturing In recent years, we’ve been accustomed to searching everything on Google. It is easy to find the answer to your question in the first result. However, if you want to build a product, to find the right manufacturer or supplier online, you find…
A few years ago, “platformization:” was a hot term. CIMdata was sharing their study about the role of platforms in future PLM development. Check this out here – Product Innovation Platforms: Definition, Their Role in the Enterprise, and Their Long-Term Viability. Platforms CIMdata defines strategically the value of a platform…
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…
Conference business is tricky. In the world where information is available with a single click on your computer or mobile device, you need to have a good reason to push yourself to a flight (sometimes to a different country) and attend the conference. The amount of conferences I’m going these…
The demand for real-time collaboration is getting stronger. The idea to “get your team on the same page” was translated into reality in Google Docs a decade ago and since that time became quite popular. Microsoft introduced very much similar functionality in Office 365. Apple was the last to catch…
Our environment is getting more distributed then ever. The borders between work, home and mobile environments are blurring. What is the right answer to such a change? Software vendors are developing and acquiring new technologies and products to help them to manage data and communication in such environment. My attention was…
Online experience was never as important for manufacturing companies as today. With growing amount of e-commerce, the ability of online retailer to leverage structured data and online identification is absolutely critical. GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) also known in US as UPC are taking guessing game out of comparing two…
Few days ago I published PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public. Following this post, I had few interesting conversations about what are possible platforms can be used to develop online cloud applications for enterprises. Few options were mentioned – Microsoft, Force.com, Google and some others. It made me think again about…
The world of computing is very unpredictable these days. However, I’d like to bet and put some of my thinking towards something called “online” or “connected” technologies in 2010. As usual, I’d be watching these technologies in the prism of PLM with some flavor of going beyond PLM acronyms trying…
