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

Beyond PLM Blog

29 June, 2026

On Monday, a group of us will sit down for Part 2 of the Future of PLM BOM debate. Michael...

17 June, 2026

Fourth and final article in my PTC Next 2026 series. The first asked whether “intelligent” PLM is a rename or...

17 June, 2026

Part 3 of my PTC Next 2026 series. In Part 1, I asked whether “intelligent” PLM is new architecture or...

15 June, 2026

Part 2 of my PTC Next 2026 series. In Part 1 I asked whether “intelligent” PLM is a new architecture...

14 June, 2026

Last week, I attended the first PTC Next 2026 event in Chicago. The event is part of a new  PTC...

13 June, 2026

A government order took Fable 5 offline overnight. The CAD and database eras already taught engineering software the answer: build...

7 June, 2026

Why AI won’t fix the HOW problem of PLM implementation without a missing truth layer. Three recent conversations pushed me...

4 June, 2026

A presentation making rounds in the PLM community right now opens with a question that every analyst, vendor, and enterprise...

24 May, 2026

I just came from Jerez (Spain) where I attended Share PLM Summit 2026. In my article today, I wan to...

18 May, 2026

Earlier last week, my attention was caught by multiple articles discussing a trend in which employees are maxing out their...

17 May, 2026

For the last two decades, the PLM industry has pursued the vision of the Digital Thread. The idea is both...

14 May, 2026

Earlier this year, I published an article about why the PLM Single Source of Truth (SSOT) was never the final...

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