Earlier this week, my attention was caught by a CNBC article Firms are bringing production back home because of the Ukraine war, China’s slowdown. While it was not a complete surprise to me to learn about reshoring, I found some of the data points coming in the article very interesting….
The level of integration in the manufacturing industry is growing. The last decade of advanced manufacturing development demonstrated that setting enterprise systems such as PLM, ERP, MES, and related data and process management for a single company is important but not sufficient to create robust manufacturing processes. Supply chain management…
It’s no secret that the manufacturing industry is in a state of flux. Manufacturers are under pressure to keep up with changing technology and consumer demands, all while contending with a shortage of skilled workers and continuously growing challenges with their supply chains. Learning from innovative companies and outliers is…
Supply chain problems are big and painful. Recently, supply chain problems became more visible than ever before with chip shortage and other examples of global economic disruption triggered by COVID 19. But these problems are not especially new and manufacturing companies live with these problems for years. So, how to…
The year 2021 is finally here. I’ve been taking some time off, to think about what we learned in 2020 and to write a series of articles to reflect on PLM system architecture, PLM data architecture, and how to approach the PLM selection process in 2021. As we move into…
If only I could see… The global supply chain was historically the place to be blamed for inefficiency and vulnerable to disruption. It is usually a place with the biggest amount of legacy systems or inefficient homegrown Excel spreadsheets. The supply chain information is prone to be fragmented and disconnected…
Digital transformation introduces new technology to solve problems in many industries. Manufacturing is not foreign to this trend. Digital transformation is easily explained as a move from paper to paperless. While it is easy to grasp, you can think that most design, engineering and production planning is already digital as…
A long time ago, I was working for Autodesk business selling AutoCAD licenses and developing applications. Back in those days, we had hardware dongles we installed on a printer port of the computer to provide a license of the software. It was possible to install a local dongle, but also…
Process improvement was the goal of PLM projects for many years. Streamline processes in product delivery, end to end lifecycle support, expanding beyond engineering and many other themes came in the scope of what PLM vendors advertised as a big value behind PLM. The modern manufacturing process is a complex…
There are different definitions and descriptions of what is Digital Transformation. From a very simple such as the process of using digital technologies to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences. To a very sophisticated you can find in this wiki page article, which…
