I am back at The Venetian for Autodesk University 2026. After Nashville and San Diego, AU returns to Las Vegas,...
The comments on my article about the history of PDM and PLM took the discussion further than I expected, and...
Did PLM ever become more than PDM with a bigger marketing budget? Before we can answer that question honestly, we...
Engineering organizations have become extraordinarily good at keeping data. CAD files are stored. BOMs are managed. Revisions are controlled. Changes...
Something unusual is happening in the conversation about the future of PLM. We seem to be moving toward less database...
Over the past several months I have been writing about a question that increasingly matters to engineering and manufacturing companies:...
I came across two articles this week (thank you my industry collegues that shared). In my view, read both articles...
Why AI needs the product situation, not only the product definition Imagine an engineer asking an AI assistant a simple...
[HERO IMAGE] I have been writing about Product Memory for some time now, developing the idea that companies need more...
The conversation about Product Memory reached an important milestone last week. The concept started traveling without me. Brion Carroll (II)...
As I’m moving forward in the exploration of Product Memory development and working on my book, From CAD Files to...
Doug Macdonald published a report in July 2026 called “The Future of Product Lifecycle Management: After 40 Years, Where Are...