Implementation of enterprise information systems is a long and painful process. It requires a lot of efforts, investments and planning. ERP and other enterprise backbone technologies (eg Oracle) are good examples. In my view, PLM comes to the same list as Oracle. Yesterday, I had a chance to read CW…
Technology is one of my favorite topics. Imagine you want to develop a completely new PLM system. Not a new version of existing PLM product from vendors like Dassault, Siemens PLM, PTC and even Autodesk. Imagine you don’t need to be limited to any restrictions – existing software, historical choices,…
I’m sure you are familiar with the term DIY (do it yourself). While the term is not PLM specific, I’m often using it when explaining the way many manufacturing companies are approaching PLM implementations. Because of high cost and complexity of large integrated PLM suites, companies are deciding to make…
I’d like to provoke the discussion about PLM implementations today. I assume most of your had a chance to hear the term “business transformation”. That was the way majority of PLM vendors, consulting and service companies approached PLM implementation for the last decade. In a nutshell, it means to transform…
After 20+ years of CAD and PDM development, the issue of versioning is not solved. How about that? I hope, I’ve got your attention :). Versions, revisions, changes, CAD models, drawings, parts… My experience is that as soon as it comes to engineers, revisions are getting messy. I touched it…
I want to touch a topic called “metadata” today. You probably heard “metadata” term many times. However, if your roots are with CAD and PDM, most of the time you touched “metada” it was related to managing of metadata as “data about CAD models”. I want to take wider definition…
The issue of PLM adoption remains critical, in my view. Even if we can see more examples of PLM implementations, companies usually consider “PLM project” as something that needs to be taken with care, significant amount of planning and justification. So, I wanted to ask “why it happens”? The traditional…
It is almost 2 years since Dassault Systems completed the transaction to acquire and integrate IBM PLM operations into DS. The historical IBM/DS press release is here. At the same time, IBM is continue to focus on product innovation. Navigate here and may learn about IBM product development innovation, system…
What is the right PLM size? This question is continuously debated and discussed by PLM vendors. This topic remains active for the last 10-15 years. The history is going back to the origins of PLM and work that CAD/PLM companies did with very large aero, automotive and defense companies. That…
