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

PLM and Excel-lence

PLM and Excel-lence
Oleg
Oleg
12 January, 2011 | 1 min for reading

What is the most popular PLM system in the world? Yes, Microsoft Excel. In my view, every time PLM system fails Excel is making this job. Not easier. Complicated. Costly. Painful. However, when often move to Excel when we need to “get job done”.  In every manufacturing company, you can find a person who is responsible of a bunch of very important Excels. Microsoft is celebrating 25 years of Excel. Take a look on the following video and think about your PLM Excels.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAbxBsxhC8]

By the way,  Microsoft is running contest on Facebook. Navigate to the following page. I think, by submitting your PLM excels you have a good chance to win Microsoft Office and Kinect package.

What is my conclusion? I decided not to make a conclusion. I have few questions instead. What will be the next 25 years of Excel? When we’ll see a system that can replace PLM Excel in a company? 

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
7 July, 2017

Engineers are usually get frustrated with discussions about PDM / PLM strategies and solutions. For most of them, it sounds...

23 December, 2010

People making software sometimes get excited about appliance. There is something magical in the way appliance can solve a problem....

28 February, 2013

In the modern world, M&A is something that happens all the time. Manufacturing companies are not an exclusion from that....

27 September, 2012

Usually I talk about technology and software related to engineering software and PLM. Today, I want to break the rule...

29 December, 2008

It has become obvious – social software has made revolutionary changes in our mind. Flickr, Twittter, MySpace, Facebook and many...

19 August, 2013

The technology trends are interesting these days. You think what can be more disruptive than cloud. Indeed, cloud, social and...

30 October, 2011

I was reading Oracle journal early today. Navigate your browser to read a short article – Which Cloud Service Provider...

12 March, 2010

I was reading SolidSmack’s post about how to manage versions of the assemblies. Creating versions of drawing and models is...

16 April, 2015

I’m on my way to COFES 2015 – annual gathering of people discussing a future of engineering software in Scottsdale, Arizona....

Blogroll

To the top