Staying ahead of the other companies in a digital transformation is important. Engineering and manufacturing companies are looking how to optimize their processes, drive innovation and remain competitive. A long New Year weekend was a great time to think about topics that will be trending in 2024 among PLM specialists,…
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems represent the foundation of the product development and business processes. They support multiple aspects of product development processes – computer aided design, engineering, manufacturing, production, supply chain management and many others. The connection of these two systems is one of…
It’s time to ask yourself: is Excel holding your organization back? Over the last few years, I’ve been talking to many organizations of different sizes – small and large about data management, enterprise systems such as PLM and ERP and about what can become the next step of enterprise PLM…
I’ve been following Autodesk Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) development for the last decade. Starting from early PLM360 product announcement at AU2011, through the acquisitions and adding Upchain and Prodsmart recently and finally at the last week PLM Summit at AU2023. In my blog today, I want to share what I…
Let’s talk about the importance of digital transformation and the challenges that manufacturing companies are facing in product lifecycle management, supply chain management, product data management and organization of product development process. To manage a product lifecycle of modern products is a complex tasks that goes much beyond the idea…
In the world of manufacturing, product development, product data management, supply chain management, project management and engineering software, one topic usually drives lot of attention and discussion- how to manage Part Revisions or, in other words, is Part Revision at all? The topic comes into discussion in different variations and…
Every business is looking for three things: how to make more money, save costs, and reduce risk. Manufacturing companies are no exception to this rule. They are constantly searching for ways to build products faster, at optimal costs, and to mitigate the many risks that exist in modern manufacturing processes,…
It is almost 40 years after PLM was introduced by American Motors Corporation (AMC). Digital Engineering article PLM Stays Relevant in Manufacturing by Randal Newton, principal analyst at Consilia Vektor reminded me about this historical fact in his Digital Engineering article and interview of two my favorite PLM software experts…
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…
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…
