For the last decade, consumer technologies created many new surprises and challenges for enterprise software. Consumer technology is creating disruptive advantages enterprises are simply required to face more quickly to stay relevant in the market. But the move towards new technologies isn’t simple. ZDNet article – The enterprise technologies to…
Back in the old days, CAD system was a tool to design product. PDM was a tool too to manage CAD files and sometimes Bill of Materials (BOM). There is no simple agreement about what is Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) – technology, tools, products, business strategy. We’ve got familiar with…
To select PLM system can be a complicated project. But let’s imagine the moment you’ve made a choice and decided about PLM strategy, vendor and products. So, you might think, the tough part of the job is over. Here is the thing… You have one significant problem to overcome. Legacy data. The…
Cloud is one of the top trending topics in PLM space. After initial resistance, all PLM vendors are currently supporting some sort of “cloud PLM”. The devil is in details and sometimes it is hard to understand what type of cloud software provided by a specific vendor. I published my comparison…
Disclosure: As a co-founder of openBoM, I understand that my opinion and thoughts about future challenges can be unintentionally biased. Nevertheless, I believe the topic itself is very important, so I decided to share the information and my opinion anyway. Manufacturing is changing these days. While you can hear lot…
Medium article from Propel PLM – What the Salesforce Cloud Does for PLM brings few interesting data points about latest cloud PLM vendor (Propel PLM) building new product on top of Salesforce.com. Propel PLM recently closed $4.2M financial round led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. I’ve been discussing the opportunity to…
Innovation platforms is a new trend in engineering and manufacturing software. Read my earlier article Sweet Dreams about Product Innovation Platforms to catch up. My attention was caught by the news coming from Autodesk last week. Autodesk PLM360 is rebranded as Fusion Lifecycle and added to Fusion Innovation Platform. My earlier…
When was the last time in the morning you woke up and said – I need to buy some PLM software today? Let me guess… never! Here is a story… I spent most of my last year consulting companies about selection of PLM products and technologies. Lots of talks. Most…
The amount of digital data is growing at an exponential rate. We are doubling data every two year. The rate at which we’re generating data is rapidly outpacing our ability to process and handle it. Manufacturing companies are capturing data from so many places these days – design and engineering…
It has been only four years since Autodesk formally joined “PLM club” by introducing Autodesk PLM360. You can get my old articles about it – Autodesk enters PLM, My first take on PLM360 system and tech. Last year I shared my thoughts about what happened with PLM360 for the last…
