Archive for April, 2014

How to forget ODBC and Rethink PLM Data Openness?

How to forget ODBC and Rethink PLM Data Openness?

One of the most popular topics in engineering (but not only) software ecosystem. Open vs. Close. I’ve been discussing it many times – Open vs. Closed PLM Debates, PLM and New Openness, Closed Thoughts About PLM openness and few more. There is clear trend towards openness these days and, in my…

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Will PLM Vendors Jump into Microsoft Cloud Window in Europe?

Will PLM Vendors Jump into Microsoft Cloud Window in Europe?

Cloud is raising lots of controversy in Europe. While manufacturing companies in U.S. are generally more open towards new tech, European rivals are much more conservative. Many of my industry colleagues in Germany, France, Switzerland and other EU countries probably can confirm that. Europe is coming to cloud systems, but…

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How PLM can join semantic enterprise graph?

How PLM can join semantic enterprise graph?

Connectivity is a key these days and graphs are playing key role in the development of our connectivity. It doesn’t matter what to connect – people, information, devices. Graphs are fascinating things. Actually, I came to conclusion we live in the era of fast graph development. More and more things…

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Why so hard to break PLM into components?

Why so hard to break PLM into components?

Product Lifecycle Management is not a software. It is business strategy and approach. One of my blog readers mentioned that in the discussion few days ago. Nevertheless, manufacturing companies are usually talking about PLM systems and platforms as something solid and unbreakable. The same picture you can see when looking…

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How cloud PLM can reuse on-premise enterprise data?

How cloud PLM can reuse on-premise enterprise data?

Cloud becomes more and more an obsolete additional word to call every technology we develop I hardly can image anything these days that we develop without “cloud in mind”. This is absolutely true about PLM. Nowadays, it is all about how to make cloud technologies to work for you and…

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PLM Best Practices and Henry Ford Mass Production System

PLM Best Practices and Henry Ford Mass Production System

If you are in PLM business, I’m sure you are familiar with term called “best practices”. The term is widely used to explain how PLM system can be deployed, how to manage data and how to organize and optimize product development processes. So, where are roots of PLM best practices…

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Why PLM stuck in PDM?

Why PLM stuck in PDM?

I’ve been following CIMdata PLM market industry forum earlier this week on twitter. If you’re are on twitter, navigate here or search for #PLM4UM hash tag on twitter. The agenda of PLM forum is here. The following session discussed one of my favorite topics- PDM v PLM. PLM: Well Beyond…

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How to make PLM UI less terrible?

How to make PLM UI less terrible?

I’m coming again to this topic – User Interface. These days you can hear about it as user experience (UX). UX is more complicated thing and includes lots of factors and aspects. So, I’d like to speak first about how UI looks. Back in time when I was developing  and…

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Bill of Materials (BOM) Management: Data, Lifecycle, Process

Bill of Materials (BOM) Management: Data, Lifecycle, Process

In my recent post about bill of materials – Bill of Materials (BOM): process or technology challenge? I touched the variety of topics related to BOM organization – multiple BOMs and need to manage BOM located in different systems. My main question at the post was around how to make the…

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Breaking news: ENOVIA announced Beyond PLM partnership

Breaking news: ENOVIA announced Beyond PLM partnership

04/01/2014. Newton, MA via @afjplmnews. ENOVIA – the collaborative innovation application brand of Dassault Systemès enables your innovators to benefit from the true rewards of collaboration. Powered by 3DEXPERIENCE, ENOVIA goes Beyond PLM by providing leading enterprise collaborative applications for all industries, to promote innovation and operational excellence. The set of…

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