Recessions offer major opportunities for everyone who likes to innovate. Engineering or sales, strategy, and tactic – there are usually plenty of opportunities to make it happen during the downturn. It can be a good time to introduce game-changing offerings or simple and affordable solutions to break the current status…
PLM adoption is hard. The history of PLM projects start as engineering projects and, unfortunately, struggles with many aspects related to PLM adoption. It was the story of PLM years. The adoption of PLM systems and technologies leads to many confusing moments. PLM technology leaders traditionally came with a high…
Security is important. Period. However, the topic of data security and data governance was bringing a lot of controversy in the PLM world for the last 10-15 years. How to keep data “close to your chest” and not let it go anywhere sounded to many organizations like a nice strategy….
If you’re like most manufacturers, you’re probably looking for ways to digitally transform your business. After all, the industrial sector is one of the last bastions of manual labor in an increasingly automated world. But where do you start? And more importantly, how can you be sure that any new…
People don’t want something really new. They want to have something they are familiar with but work differently. In today’s business world, data is king. And when it comes to manufacturing, the more data you can share between different platforms and departments, the better. In order for design and engineering…
There are many discussions these days around the need for better communication and collaboration between different departments within a company and other companies. Manufacturing has grown to become a complex network with many relationships between companies. It includes design contractors, contract manufacturers, and suppliers. As products are getting complex, it…
As the world moves towards more and more cloud-based solutions, manufacturers are looking for ways to take advantage of this technology in order to improve their operations. However, there is a lot of confusion about what exactly “the cloud” is and how it can be used in manufacturing. In this…
I was catching up on some PLM social media writing earlier today. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend PDT Europe this year, but one of my favorite PLM blogging colleagues Jos Voskuil did an excellent job by creating a summary of the conference in his two blog posts –…
Part numbers are hard. Period. There is no topic in engineering and manufacturing organizations that triggers more debates and potentially bigger disagreement than the discussion about what and how to organize part numbers. I wrote many articles where I shared my thoughts about Part Numbers and their use. Here are…
In today’s digital world, everything is connected. We can order a pizza, track our fitness, and manage our finances with just a few clicks on our smartphones. So why isn’t business-to-business (B2B) collaboration as easy as it seems? Integration was a big question from the early beginning of engineering software…
