A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
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Beyond PLM Blog

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

The Context Layer That Makes AI Agents Useful in Engineering Every new AI agent session starts from zero. LLMs are...

10 May, 2026

Before software entered the engineering room, something else was already there — a system made of paper, people, and presence....

9 May, 2026

A recent analysis about enterprise UX from Technology Evaluation Centers made a striking observation: AI agents are fundamentally reshaping enterprise...

6 May, 2026

There is a famous image from the early years of industrialization – workers gathered around a loom, some with hammers...

3 May, 2026

How to evaluate your current PDM/PLM setup against the structural requirements of agentic AI A few weeks ago I wrote...

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