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

Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU…

Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU…
Oleg
Oleg
29 November, 2011 | 1 min for reading

As you know, I’m in Las Vegas these days attending AU 2011. Autodesk is preparing some big messages these years, and I hope to share my opinion about that with you very soon. Yesterday, I was attending media and press meeting with Autodesk execs, including Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, Manufacturing division VP Robert (Buzz) Kross and Autodesk Labs Director Brian Mathews. Below few pictures that can give you in impression of what I’ve seen in connection to manufacturing and PLM.

CAD is done. Cloud is coming.

There is only one company in the world, I know that use word “cloud” more extensively than  Autodesk these days. This company is Salesforce.com. Autodesk is aggressively coming with large amount of solutions that use cloud. PLM will be one of them.

Manufacturing: Global and Faster

It seems to me Autodesk is understanding the challenges of manufacturing these days. Global, Complex, Fast. You can see it from the slide presented by Robert (Buzz) Kross.

Q&A with Carl Bass

Carl Bass made his long Q&A with press and media. His appearance was very friendly. You can see a picture of Carl I made during the Q&A. I processed photo with “hipster” filter on my Camera+ app In my view, it reflect Carl’s mood during this Q&A. Carl answered on multiple questions about design, modern technological and industrial trends, software, cloud, etc.

What is my conclusion? I’m trying to make my conclusion about what I’ve heard in the connection with PLM. Autodesk is definitely recognizing PLM as a future opportunity. After what was done in PLM by Dassault, Siemens PLM and PTC, to democratize PLM will be probably a biggest challenge for Autodesk. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
11 February, 2011

Today everything can be virtualized. If you think about your dedicated IT environment, proprietary or public cloud, the ability to...

10 August, 2009

Time ago, I had chance to discuss second mover innovation. For me, second movers are perfect example to learn from...

15 December, 2021

Change is the only constant thing in product development. Therefore, one of the most popular questions everyone wants to answer...

27 June, 2012

Communities are booming these days. Social networks and Web 2.0 unlocked the potential of interaction online and the idea of...

20 July, 2024

The discussion about PLM as a business and PLM as a software are not new. When someone asks me about...

21 February, 2011

Sometime data management Q&A looks funny. World Online Review published the following solution on the request about how to migrate...

22 August, 2025

In my last article, I walked through 30 years of PDM history—thanks to everyone who chimed in with comments and...

11 July, 2017

Hybrid cloud is one of these words that makes IT to feel that they can “have cake and eat it...

13 April, 2015

Platform is such a lovely word. Software vendors like platforms because it gives them an additional capability to partner with...

Blogroll

To the top