Archive for December, 2008

PLM innovation – is it about risk?

PLM innovation – is it about risk? In today’s world everybody speak about innovation. I’d like to ask you about what is needed to step into innovation world. My conclusion about what is silver bullet for innovation – is all about your ability to take risk. No risk – no…

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Virtual CCB idea: Can we use Wiki for PLM?

I think everybody knows about Wiki. (Wikipedia definitions of wiki software). Today Wiki engines became very popular and affordable. There are a great number of available wiki platforms starting from big vendors and ending with open source and online offerings. You can take a look on Comparison of Wiki Software….

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Do we have reasonable alternatives for PLM?

Jos Voskuil is blogging about ERP alternative for PLM. This is quite interesting question that can be split into two directions: 1/can we replace PLM from methodological and product standpoint; 2/can we make “non-PLM or general purpose technologies” make PLM job.   On methodology and product side, I think adoption…

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CAD Data Management, Globalization, Cloud Services and Amazon S3?

I’d like to figure out several trends – CAD Data Management, Globalization and Cloud Storage Services.   Trend: CAD vendors are investing into development of data management satellites. Most of this data management packages are focusing on managing metadata around CAD documents as well their revisions. I can see definitely…

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Simple PLM Technologies?

 I spent most of my long Thanksgiving weekend break out of PLM-ish world. Also it was Black-Friday, so world around me was overflowed with ads and sales promotion. Interesting observation- world is short and flat. List and link is most successful abstraction to present data around me. So, why we…

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