The last three years were one of the most turbulent in the history of PLM. COVID, supply chain challenges and now growing cost of energy sources amid the Ukraine war are creating one of the most challenging environments for manufacturing companies. Altogether, it brings many questions to people that are…
Manufacturing is a process that has been around for centuries and is still relied on today to produce products. Despite the many advances in technology, the manufacturing process has remained largely unchanged. In order to keep up with the latest trends and technologies, some companies have turned to digitally transforming…
In order to remain competitive in the manufacturing industry, it is important to continually explore ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs. One way to achieve this is through the implementation of data and process management strategies to streamline data handover and information flow between two major business functions –…
Back in the old days of enterprise software, the discussion about best of breed vs single vendor was very popular. I remember companies were asking endlessly if they need to go with a single vendor provider or choose the best combination of software for everything. I can see this dilemma…
I used an extended pause during the U.S. Memorial Day weekend to catch up on some PLM reading. The article PTC’s Cloud CAD Dilemma written by Verdy Ogewell caught my special attention. In his typical devil controversy style, Verdi brought up the opportunity for PTC to lead the future CAD…
Do you know what’s Conway’s Law? I didn’t… Until last week. I was learning how organizational structure can impact the outcome of engineering activity and found a few interesting references to Conway’s law. Any complex activity outcome can be presented as a system these days. A car is a system,…
One of the most commonly used PLM sales scenarios is to sell it as an expansion of existing PDM system. It was used by CAD / PLM companies for years and it is still very popular. There are many examples of why PLM is the next step after PDM. Here…
Timing is everything in this life. And you cannot change it. Good skills and wrong timing still means no results. Timing is sales is absolutely critical. No matter what piece of sales puzzle you’re working on, timing is an important factor and element of any sales process. And when you…
One of the readers of my blog, raised the topic of PLM for SMB. Long time ago I was working at SmarTeam developing PDM and PLM solutions for mid-sized manufacturing companies. The following passage reminded me discussion about PLM for SMB that happened in the industry for almost 2 decades….
Thinking about SaaS application race? You’re not alone. Some companies cannot agree with new landscape of applications. As such, Oracle cannot agree with the dominance of Salesforce.com. I learn about new Oracle plans to overtake Salesforce.com in SaaS. Read the following article to learn more – Oracle Places Huge Bets…
