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

Beyond PLM Blog

28 March, 2026

I have been writing about Single Source of Truth for a long time. If you have been following Beyond PLM,...

22 March, 2026

Why the future of PLM depends on making product data accessible, understandable, and usable for AI agents A few weeks...

22 March, 2026

Something has shifted in my conversations with prospects and customers. It used to come up occasionally. Now it’s hard to...

18 March, 2026

Understanding the gap between PLM, Digital Thread, and the need to preserve product reasoning. The Reaction Was the Real Story...

8 March, 2026

AI harness is an interesting topic. Over the past year, most discussions about AI have focused on models. Which model...

7 March, 2026

Every once in a while a technology story reveals something deeper than the headlines suggest. Recently I followed the public...

1 March, 2026

Every time the industry says “this is the big shift,” I become cautious. I have lived through the last 30...

28 February, 2026

There was a time when making a phone call required strategy. You knew when you were calling long distance. You...

15 February, 2026

Here is a small signal that exposed a larger problem. If you’ve been living under the rock for the last...

7 February, 2026

Reflections on platforms, ecosystems, and how engineering workflows may evolve beyond files. Earlier this week I attended 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026...

1 February, 2026

It is Sunday morning and I’m taking a flight to Houston to attend the 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026. The event will...

30 January, 2026

I’m heading to 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026 with a very specific intention: to observe, not to collect announcements. This does not...

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