A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

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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...

28 July, 2025

Let’s talk about something that’s on a lot of people’s minds these days. I was reading a WSJ article CEOs...

20 July, 2025

The recent speculation around a potential Autodesk-PTC deal created a moment of reflection for the PLM industry. While the talks...

19 July, 2025

AI agents are in the air. You see them writing code, answering emails, processing support tickets, creating marketing campaigns, writing...

13 July, 2025

Unless you’ve been off the grid, you probably saw the headline making waves in the engineering and construction software world:...

6 July, 2025

The long July 4th weekend in the US is the perfect time to catch up on some strategic reading. AI...

5 July, 2025

Here is a drama playing out in the PLM industry now. For decades, PLM companies have been selling software to...

4 July, 2025

In my recent blog about the CIMdata Industry and Market Forum in Ann Arbor, I highlighted a recurring theme that...

29 June, 2025

The last few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time planning growing AI development of OpenBOM and thinking about...

21 June, 2025

Earlier this week, I read a post by Andreas Lindenthal. He speaks about problems PLM can solve and he goes...

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