Archive for April, 2014

How PLM can stop living in the future?

How PLM can stop living in the future?

One of my favorite keynotes last week at COFES 2014 took me to the definition of time paradox and how different time orientation can reflect personal happiness. People are usually in one of the three time phases orientation – past, present or future. It appears that such presence phases have influence…

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Pinterest will teach CAD companies to search

Pinterest will teach CAD companies to search

Search is a difficult problem. Especially when it comes to enterprise and organization. According to researches, more than 2/3 of people searches are not returning satisfactory results. Enterprise is messy, complicated and contains lot of unstructured data these days. CAD and other 3D files are part of this messiness. For…

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3 things PLM can do with IoT tomorrow.

3 things PLM can do with IoT tomorrow.

I’m coming back from COFES 2014. As always, COFES, is an excellent place to get in touch with industry big thinkers and have an opportunity to discuss trending topics. One of the hot topics this year was IoT (Internet of Things). It made me think and re-think about IoT and…

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COFES 2014: Will PLM survive until 2020?

COFES 2014: Will PLM survive until 2020?

I’m attending COFES (The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) which starts today in Scottsdale, AZ. COFES is not a traditional “Power Point Decks” event. It is a unique type of interaction between people interested in what will drive engineering software beyond five years horizon. The topic of COFES…

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Six dimensions to customize PLM

Six dimensions to customize PLM

Ask two engineers about how to make stuff and you get at least three opinions about possible ways to do so. To find consensus in engineering, product development and manufacturing is hard. From my experience engineers and software developers is the group with largest diversity of opinions and custom requirements….

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Why Excel and Multi-BOM are killing collaboration?

Why Excel and Multi-BOM are killing collaboration?

Excel and Bill of Materials. What can be better to start a discussion? One of my favorites blogging buddies and author of eng-eng blog Ed Lopategui hit the button of BOM & Excel discussion in his GrabCAD blog – It’s time to drop Excel BOM. I liked the following passage. It…

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Why PLM stuck to provide solutions for SME?

Why PLM stuck to provide solutions for SME?

PLM is in the focus on many companies these days. Questions how to improve processes, optimize cost and improve quality are important and PLM vendors are laser focus on that. But… with one small clarification . It works for large manufacturing companies. To transform business processes is the way PLM…

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Why do I want vacation resort to adopt PLM and other tech?

Why do I want vacation resort to adopt PLM and other tech?

I took few days of rest with the family on Paradise Island. Huge hotel and attractions facilities of Atlantis are impressing by size, location and weather (compared to snowing Boston). So, if you are all for pools, dolphins, coral reefs, multi-color fishes, this is a place to be. However, when…

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How CAD collaboration can avoid competition with OneDrive?

How CAD collaboration can avoid competition with OneDrive?

Collaboration is the name of the game today for many vendors. CAD and PLM vendors are included. Cloud technology is opening many new capabilities to collaborate and it is captured by existing players and newcomers. Sometimes, it happens so fast that it even create an internal competition. Image and Data…

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PLM Technology vs Vertical Industries: Wrong balance?

PLM Technology vs Vertical Industries: Wrong balance?

Let’s talk about PLM technologies. Err.. PLM is not a technology. Even more, PLM is even not a product. So, what is that? Business strategy? Product development politics? For the sake of this conversation let’s leave these debates out. I want to speak about PLM technologies that allow you to manage…

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