The manufacturing industry is transforming and digitalizing. Managing data is becoming extremely important in the modern digital world. In the old fashion pre-digital environment CAD systems were fully relying on files and managing data was totally dependent either on how to manage CAD files/ Excels or to deployment of PDM…
The role and importance of data are growing in modern manufacturing companies. Organizations are using data for insight and decision making. It is not a new thing and organizations did for many years. So, called data warehousing mechanism defined as enterprise-level ETL – platform to extract, transform, and load data…
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…
Communication is one of the most challenging aspects of our work. My favorite quote and mantra about communication – you cannot over-communicate. When it comes to manufacturing organization, the communication between engineers, teams, departments, customers is crucial. You need to communicate the purpose of the design, engineering change, the purpose…
I had a chance to share my thoughts about complexity of product lifecycle in supply chain at COFES 2015 Design and Sustainability symposium. Manufacturing companies and software vendors are facing new enterprise reality these days – distributed environment, connected work and cloud software. On the other side we have skyrocketing complexity…
The power of search giants like Google is enormous these days. Think about the amount of information Google, Twitter and Facebook are processing and you will be knocked down by the numbers. Consumerization is a significant trend these days and everybody are thinking how we can apply well proven web…
There is one project in data management everybody tries to avoid: legacy data import. It’s one of the most complicated, time consuming, and painful aspects of any PDM and PLM deployment. Importing data usually lead to lots of problems – how to clean data, how to important data, how to…
Data is a trending topic these days. Big Data is even fascinating. It made me think about the meaning of power. In the past, oil was a meaning for power. These days it applies to data. Social data, corporate data, any data. To have the ability to dig into the…
Disclosure: As a co-founder of Inforbix, I understand that my opinion about PLM Data and Search can be unintentionally biased. Nevertheless, I believe the topic itself is very important, so I decided to share my thoughts anyway. PLM Data. A lot of data. You are probably familiar with that. The…
Social is trending. It was specially true this weekend. The social hype taking individuals, organizations and social vendors. Personally, I want to write off, I’m not a very social person. I urge other people to be social by writing blog and distributing the content on multiple social networks. However, when…
