Archive for May, 2014

Design Collaboration and Google+ Lessons

Design Collaboration and Google+ Lessons

Recent management changes in Google+ attracted lots of conversations about social products experience as well as speculations about Google+ social future. It is also made a reflection on how “social theme” will be developed in enterprise companies. In the past few years we’ve seen few examples of social products for enterprise…

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PLM users won’t move to the cloud because of cost

PLM users won’t move to the cloud because of cost

ERP is a long time PLM rival for dominance in manufacturing enterprise organizations. I’m sure you are familiar with the the following discussion topics – what are roles of ERP and PLM in product development process, BOM ownership,  enterprise data management, visibility to CIO, etc.  However, here is a new one…

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Why BOM Management Is Complex?

Why BOM Management Is Complex?

My last post about Manufacturing BOM raised few interesting comments online and offline. One of them by Jos Voskuil  was pretty straightforward – “What is a big deal about MBM”? Jos pointed me on his earlier post – Where is MBOM? This post as well as few other articles I posted earlier…

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Manufacturing BOM is the next cool thing in PLM

Manufacturing BOM is the next cool thing in PLM

I’ve been doing data management system for the last 20 years. The one thing you learn very fast – 3D and visualization are cool. Data is boring. So, if you want to impress somebody (journalist, analyst, your boss… whoever else)  you need to create realistic representation of your future product….

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PLM Cloud Customization and Online Code Editors

One size doesn’t fit all. It very true especially when it comes down to PLM implementations. Once released as a toolkit, PDM / PLM systems did a long way from a system that requires special software compilation to be done for every customers to the current system with flexible data…

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Social PLM and Mobile Dribbling

Social PLM and Mobile Dribbling

Once “social” was a hot topic for PLM developer and analysts. In my view, the hype went down. Ask PLM people about social applications and be prepared for very neutral response. I asked myself – why so? Social applications can improve the way people communicate and should bring value. Nevertheless,…

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PLM Downstream Usage and Future Information Rivers

PLM Downstream Usage and Future Information Rivers

PLM downstream usage is a popular and well-known topic. Speak to anybody in PLM community about how to implement PLM beyond engineering department. You can easy discover the value of information located in PLM system for many users in enterprise and beyond. The perceived value of data is very high….

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Dropbox Harmony will knockdown PLM collaboration

Dropbox Harmony will knockdown PLM collaboration

File sync and sharing became the most requested feature to enable collaboration. The days when everybody were co-located in the same office and working from desktop computer are gone. According to Forrester review file sync and sharing can bring real business value. One the picture below you can see what are…

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