PLM space is hot these days and the money is coming to PLM space. Earlier this year, Autodesk made an acquisition of another cloud PLM vendor Upchain. At this time, we can say that Autodesk is buying PDM/PLM software companies on average every 10 years, Upchain acquisition generated few interesting…
The manufacturing industry is one of the last groups of businesses that are going to adopt SaaS and cloud technologies. Although cloud adoption started already a decade ago, unlike CRM, Marketing and Sales/Advertising, engineers and IT were very careful to bring cloud / SaaS to business. In my view, it…
I’ve been following Autodesk’s last move in the PLM business – Upchain acquisition. The first preliminary assessment was based on the initial presentations and briefings done by Autodesk and left many open questions about what Autodesk plans to do with the recently released Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage and future plans…
During the last few days, I’ve been getting many questions about Autodesk and Upchain. Thanks to all my online and offline readers – I appreciate your comments and questions. In this article, I want to share some questions I’ve been asked and also my assessment of how Autodesk will be…
I had a conversion earlier this week about the BOM revision process. I used the abbreviation “FFF” in my response and got a question – what is FFF? This magic abbreviation is used quite often in manufacturing – FFF and it stands for “Form, Fit, Function). If you never heard…
Standards are super important. They provide us a basis for mutual understanding and used in products and technologies to support communication, transparency, commerce, production, and manufacturing. We have standards in so many places because they make sense. They fundamentally improve business. This is a place where we have so many…
I had a chance to dig into The State of Product Development 2020 report done by Onshape. You can get it here for free in exchange for a simple questionnaire, which I did. The report contains many interesting data points about what is important for manufacturing companies these days and…
The roots of PLM are in CAD file data management. It was so obvious for CAD vendors to store data in files, that nobody even considered that the root cause of PDM problems – CAD files, should have been eliminated much earlier. It didn’t happen and this is how the…
PDM is one of the topics I’m following for many years. CAD files created tons of challenges and to develop technology and solutions to manage them, share them with the team, provide correct access, and manage revisions was a high priority. The need to provide a standard PDM solution became…
My attention was caught by Jim Brown’s article – Product Data Management Buyer’s Guide (buyer’s guide). The article speaks about the selection of the PDM system. I tried to download the white paper but wasn’t able to do it, so I was only able to read a summary. It is…
