Last week, I was recording a video podcast with Adam Keating, CEO of CoLab. We discussed modern tech trends, and PLM development and in general compared our notes about PLM, the development of CoLab and OpenBOM services, Systems of Engagement and Systems of Intelligence, and many other topics. I look…
Manufacturing companies are always looking for ways to improve their operations and increase efficiency. One way to do this is by implementing a PLM system. For many years, PLM systems very promoted and sold the idea and value of a “Single Source of Truth” (SSOT), which established a single place…
Differentiation is a big deal in business and every company wants to stand outside compared to their business counterparts by providing a set of unique features and strategies. When it comes to PLM engineering and software, the differentiators are hard. Manufacturing companies are looking to solve a set of typical…
Nothing is more painful in PLM business as PLM upgrades. Historically, PLM implementations took a long time and include many customizations. The result of this practice was a PLM implementation based on a specific version of PLM software, which is customizable to the level that made a system upgrade very…
To decide what PLM to chose is a hard job these days. Everyone in the PLM business is focusing on helping manufacturing companies to design better, faster, cheaper products. Everyone is IoT, cloud, connected, intelligent and focused on user experience. Everyone is capable to produce a nice video and when…
There is no lack of PLM definitions in this world. From a very simple like the version provided by Al Dean almost 10 years ago to very complex such as CIMdata’s one – A strategic business approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions that support the collaborative creation,…
I’m coming to the Digital Factory Boston conference tomorrow. The conference is organized by Formlabs (formlabs.com). The program will be hosted by Jeff Immelt that explores the latest digital manufacturing technologies, and the ways they transform the business of creating, making, and selling products. Jeff Immelt is former CEO of…
I’m getting ready for PLMx in Chicago just in few weeks. Haven’t heard about PLMx? There is still time to meet me in Chicago. I took part of my session topic as a title and a question for today’s blog. So, how to extract more value from PLM? For starters, let’s…
Everyone likes technologies. It is cool and it is inspiring. We are all trying to following technological trends to stay up to the speed of changes. Sean Moffitt, Managing Director of Wikibrands (McGraw-Hill) created an ultimate top 30 emerging technologies list. Check this article – The Top 30 Emerging Technologies…
Multi-tenancy is an application architecture in which a single instance of the application is used by multiple customers. Think about it as an old fashion client server architecture in which application run on a server and it accessed by customer via different browsers. Multi-tenant architecture is a foundation of all…
