I had chance to analyze what will be the role of Augment reality before on my PLM think tank. I’d like to share with you a very cool commercial video clip from MyChic. It is nice to see how initial ideas introduced in the product like 3DVIA Mobile were captured in other places. What…
I bumped into Razorleaf’s blog – 12 Steps EPDM Upgrade Checklist. I find it as a very organizing and quality materials that can help people to handle PDM installation. Actually, I believe, this is also good for any other PDM systems (not only EPDM from SolidWorks). It made me think…
I was reading ‘Why does Facebook fail for Product Development? (and how to fix it)” article by Jim Brown. Jim made me think more about multiple associations between core Facebook principles and way PDM/PLM systems are organized and implemented today. Jim is saying, Facebook’s concepts are compelling, so let’s apply…
Two PLM software providers were mentioned in Business Review USA in the list of top 5 American Enterprise Software Companies. These two are Siemens PLM and Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). Other three on the list are Oracle, Microsoft and Infor. In addition, BR mentioned the following: PLM has proven most…
I read an interesting note from Autodesk Labs. Inventor 2011 now available for trials via the cloud. It made me think, the cloud becomes a testing platform for future applications. Take a look more details from Autodesk Lab blog post. For me, it makes a lot of sense. Internet will continue…
I had chance to read a very interesting blog by Fracois Guillaumin related to SOA and PLM. He writes about roots of SOA and differentiation between Web Services, SaaS and SOA. This is worth reading and you can get it via this link. What is my take? In my view, PLM smashed some of…
I had chance to read a WordCAD Access post by Ralf Grabowski – So, how much will CAD on cloud cost? Ralf is discussing how CAD vendors will charge customers when their solutions will be available on cloud. I think, one point is missing in this discussion. Cloud and Internet are…
What will be the future of collaboration? I’d expect it to be very different. I can recommend you a very good set of reviews of companies that definitely planning to disrupt the space of collaborative software in this post by Scobleizer. Yes, all these companies are about how to disrupt SharePoint and still…
An interesting story about Design to Manufacturing strategies from Desktop Engineering by Tom Kevan. This topic is very important, in my view. Design and Manufacturing are two separated places in the organization that very often fails to integrate their activities. This connection can allow to optimize product development and think towards…
Collaboration is the world that massively used by CAD/PDM/PLM and other non-TLA oriented companies in product development, engineering and manufacturing community. For the last 10-15 years, we had chance to see many successful and un-successful examples. Do you think everything is going well in this space? Should we put “collaboration”…
