Archive for June, 2011

Electric Design and PLM Roadmap

Electric Design and PLM Roadmap

In the early beginning, solutions for manufacturing were focusing primarily on machinery and mechanical design. The historical reason here is simple – mechanical design was a key element of manufacturing for many years. However, the era of ‘mechanical design only’ ends. We can hear more and more about various aspects…

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PLM Excels and Microsoft Cloud Office 365

PLM Excels and Microsoft Cloud Office 365

Do you know what is the most widely adopted PLM system in the world? You probably can guess based on the title of this blog post – Microsoft Excel. I’ve been writing about Microsoft Excel and PLM many times. PLM Excel Spreadsheets: From Odes to Woes Why Do I Like My…

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Autodesk, SolidWorks and Collaboration Renaissance

Autodesk, SolidWorks and Collaboration Renaissance

Brian Roepke of Autodesk brought my attention to Autodesk Nitrous Lab Project earlier this week. The context of this comment was about some Autodesk viewing technologies that don’t require any flash or plug-in. So, I decided to put my hands on Autodesk Project Nitrous this morning. When I’m still trying…

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PLM, Engineering Software and Business Trends in 2011

PLM, Engineering Software and Business Trends in 2011

It is a middle of the year, and it is a perfect time to evaluate and talking about business trends. Lot’s of people are ready to relax before long awaited vacation season and summer holidays. What are the topics that we need to keep on our desks and get back…

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PDF, CAD rendering and HTML5

PDF, CAD rendering and HTML5

I’m spending this weekend in Israel these days. My visit is mostly personal because of Bar Mitzvah of my older son, Jonathan. At the same time, I had a chance to have a lunch and interesting conversation with David Levin, founder of LEDAS, the person behind PLM portal isicad.ru and the author…

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PTC Social Link and SharePoint: What the Future Holds?

PTC Social Link and SharePoint: What the Future Holds?

One of the products I had a chance to review more closely earlier this week was PTC Social Link. I had a chance to post about social technologies before. Navigate your browser to the following links to read my earlier blog articles. Social PLM, Collaboration and Structured Discussion; PLM and Social Technologies…

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Future Promises and Concerns about PTC after Planet PTC Live

Future Promises and Concerns about PTC after Planet PTC Live

As you probably know, I spent the beginning of the week in Las-Vegas attending Planet PTC Live 2011. Those of my readers who follow me on Twitter already paid attention on the overflow of tweets and absence of posts. Yesterday night catching my red-eye flight to Boston, I started to…

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Thinking About PLM on the Planet PTC Live -Day 1

Thinking About PLM on the Planet PTC Live -Day 1

I’m attending PTC Live 2011 event these days in HOT Las Vegas. Actually, you have no chance to feel Las Vegas weather when you are on the conference. Hotels and huge casinos environment are hiding windows, sunshine and the feeling of time. I’ve been doing live tweeting during the day,…

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Design To Manufacturing Process: Bumpy Road?

Design To Manufacturing Process: Bumpy Road?

Integration between design and manufacturing is one of the topics that normally hits a lot of discussion in the product development and PLM space. To support this process becomes more and more important in a modern enterprise manufacturing organization. You can ask me why? Let me put is simple –…

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RSS, PLM Collaboration and Activity Streams

RSS, PLM Collaboration and Activity Streams

Do you know what is RSS? I’m pretty sure a large amount of casual internet users are not aware about what is RSS and what is RSS readers (Aggregators). I even believe there are people that using Google Reader without actually knowing they are using RSS. On the other side,…

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