Archive for December, 2008

How do I access my PLM data on a cloud?

Before we put something on a cloud, let’s think how we can take it off… and I really think this is good idea. Like with backups of early days – you can backup, but can you restore? With all the excitement around cloud computing, all these applications will produce massive…

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How to make PLM social – problem in content?

It has become obvious – social software has made revolutionary changes in our mind. Flickr, Twittter, MySpace, Facebook and many other social services have changed our way of communicating and collaborating. This leads me to ask a few other questions– what about enterprises? And more specifically – what about PLM?…

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PLM Dream Technologies for 2009

 As the New Year is very close, I see this ias a good time to dream about the future. Therefore, I decided to raise “Dream Technologies” for the PLM topic on Think Tank. What are Dream Technologies? Simply, things that I don’t believe can be achieved more than 50%. As…

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Merge of Social Software and Business Process for Product Development

 One of the biggest organizational challenges is to get an agreement about business and organizational processes in the context of Enterprise Software. Since PLM is the heart of all organizational processes related to product development, PLM implementation becomes heavily involved in the discussion about how specific organizational and development processes…

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Do you have PLM iPhone? – “I’LL TXT U”

“I’LL TXT U”… You are probably familiar with this modern slang. If not – this is time to ask your kids, if you can disconnect them from their iPhones, iPods, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. They will explain to you that this is “the most productive way to communicate”. That being…

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PLM and BIM – common roots or common future?

I was looking at the evolution of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) and found interesting parallels and associations. Fundamentally, for a long period of time, I associated PLM with Manufacturing and BIM with Architecture, Engineering and Construction. After doing some research in this field, I observed…

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Putting your Design on a Cloud

In my previous posts I already touched on “cloud services” aspects of product delivery and operation. There are multiple examples of cloud services available today, starting from probably the most established Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, followed by Google, and, as well, the latterly announced Microsoft Azure Service Platform. These…

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Micro-blogs and Micro-content for PLM

 I was looking at the evolution of content-based communication and found the association between micro-blogging and micro-content interesting. The idea I’d like to raise is the possible evolution of micro-blogs and micro-content services as communication between people during the product lifecycle process. The most popular way that people communicate today…

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PLM Structured World in Web 2.0 Language

I’d like to get back to my ideas related to structured data. I touched it in my previous posts related to Tagging and Structured vs. Unstructured. There are two Web 2.0 related technologies I’d like to touch today – Folksonomies and Tag Clouds. Folksonomies is method to create classification of…

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