Archive for August, 2009

PLM Prompt: Google Image Recognition and Technical Documentation in PLM

Interesting prompt today came out of Google’s US7,580,568 “Methods and Systems for Identifying an Image as a Representative Image for an Article”. Thanks, Steven Arnold for his blog post and Overflight service. Google’s patent gave me context to think about existing product IP in the organizations and this is related…

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PLM Prompt: Cloud – Is it the last file storage for CAD?

I’ve been reading blog post by Deelip related CATIA and SolidWorks and thought what can be the final solution for CAD files, problem we are discussing for the last 20-25 years. With everything around moving to cloud, if we can allow to access your data at any time from any…

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How PLM can be more consumer oriented?

I want to talk today about PLM and consumers. One of the very important sides of Product Lifecycle Management is the potential ability to connect dots between manufacturing and their customers. So, manufacturers-consumers link, this is what I want to talk about. I know professor in the university, who is…

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PLM Prompt: Blind Vote for… PLM?

Short note this Sunday. Take a look on a very interesting blind test site comparing different search engines – Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo. Ah… why customers cannot do the same test for PLM systems before they buy it? So, I test comparison with “PLM Blog” search results. You are…

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PLM Prompt: PLM and the rise of Business Process Management

I was reading Gartner research showing that BPM (Business Process Management) is rising despite the turbulent time and bad financial situation. “Gartner Survey Shows More Than Half ofRespondents Plan to Increase Spending on BPM by More Than 5 Percent inNext 12 Months. Most business process management (BPM) practitioners expect their…

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PLM Prompt: Why Excel is not Enterprise System yet?

I was reading the following article “Why Excel is not Enterprise BI Solution Yet. What I liked is the way author presented the anti-Excel case in BI. I thought, this is very co-sounded with my Excel-PLM discussions. Everybody like Excel, but Excel have hidden cost and complexity you won’t be…

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The Sink Hole of PLM Implementations?

Thinking more about PLM implementation during last few days, I’d like to come and discuss few aspects of PLM implementation cost. Everything looks nice in the beginning of the PLM journey. Single point of truth, collaborative environment, business processes, support of the multiple integrated design environment. The sharp pencil of…

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Who owns PLM implementation project?

I’m coming with new discussion related to how we can successfully implement Product Lifecycle Management. I think, this issue is as important as to have good PLM technologies and ready to use functions in a product. However, I see PLM-related implementation project uniqueness in the following factors: 1. Cross Functional….

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Top annoying things about PLM software.

PLM as a combination of technologies, software, and methodology came long way from initial CAD systems, followed by CAE, Product Data Management and Collaboration Software. Some of the PLM-software components are very mature, but some of them are still in the early beginning. While we’ve innovated in many PLM products…

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