A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
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Beyond PLM Blog

14 September, 2025

The question was raised by Michael Finocchiaro during his last analyst webinar, and to me it was provoking and unexpected....

10 September, 2025

Earlier today, I was honored to be invited by Michael Finocchiaro to participate in a webinar on the Future of...

7 September, 2025

For decades, engineering and manufacturing work has worked around documents. CAD files, specs, BOM spreadsheets, ECO PDFs, slide decks for...

31 August, 2025

Earlier this week, I came across news about Taylor Swift’s deepfake images and Sydney Sweeney’s jeans campaign that used AI-generated...

30 August, 2025

It’s a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., so let’s have some fun. Thanks to Brion Carrol (II) for...

24 August, 2025

In two recent articles, I reflected on the lifecycle of engineering software. The first explored 30 years of PDM evolution,...

22 August, 2025

In my last article, I walked through 30 years of PDM history—thanks to everyone who chimed in with comments and...

15 August, 2025

PDM businesses were built on the back of file-based CAD systems. Managing those files was a challenge, but after the...

10 August, 2025

Continuing the topic I started last week – How to make AI work for PLM, today I want to talk...

3 August, 2025

It doesn’t matter what you do these days, your social media and news stream is overwhelmed with AI. Artificial Intelligence...

2 August, 2025

Earlier this week, my attention was caught by Forrester Wave report and debates around this. Thanks for Michael Finocchiaro and...

1 August, 2025

BOM is the data foundation of engineering and manufacturing. Even its name can spark some controversy among professionals in these...

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