Product Data Management (PDM) is not a new buzz. Lots of things where written and spoken about how to manage CAD files, revisions and related data. Decades were spent on how to create a better way for engineers to “collaborate” or work together. Nevertheless, I can see few companies are…
Our information life is getting more complicated these days. The time when our digital channel was limited to our desktop computer gone forever. Streams of information are coming to us from every place – desktop computer (as much as we are coming to the desk), laptops, mobile devices and fast…
Open source is a topic that raised many controversy in the last decade. Especially if you speak about enterprise software. The trajectory of open source software moved from absolute prohibition to high level of popularization. In my view, the situation is interesting in the context of PLM software. The specific…
One thing doesn’t fit all in engineering and manufacturing. Every manufacturing company is trying to innovate and differentiate the way they design and build their products. It comes in variety of ways and PLM system can play different roles depends on the type of manufacturing. PLM vendors are trying to…
Few years ago, I got a problem with automatic transmission of our Honda Odyssey. The funny part of the story was that problem appeared after regular maintenance. Short trip to nearest dealership and after some time our Ody was out with updated software that fixed the way car controled parameters…
To implement PLM is a process and change. Speak to anyone in engineering and manufacturing community and they will bring you lots of stories about complexity of PLM implementations and associated cost. Also, you can hear lots of stories about complexity of moving from one PLM implementation to another or…
Do you know what means “hollow corporation”? My readers from UK and Europe should be familiar with the term. This is a model for a company that outsource majority of their production activity. A compatible U.S. buzzword is “virtual business”. There are few references defining what is “hollow corporation”. Business glossary…
Collaboration was always in the focus of engineering software. Started earlier with CAD and product data management, software vendors tried to create an environment where engineers can easy collaborate and share information about design. The boundary of collaboration never been limited to engineering department. You might remember “extended enterprise collaboration”…
My attention was caught this weekend by thedailybeast article with funny title – Why Big Data Doesn’t Live up to the Hype. I read the article and on my long travel during the weekend skimmed over the book Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden and…
Dear Friends, This month marks the beginning of my 6 year of blogging about PLM and engineering software. Even my early posts marked by Dec/2008, I consider beginning of 2009 as a formal start of my daily blogging commitment. Over the past 5 years, I’ve been blogged over 1,400 blog posts,…
