The perceived value of product lifecycle management (PLM) is to help companies to boost innovation and improve product development, operation and service processes. It is indeed very important, hence there are so many discussions in PLM industry about how to improve processes in general. However, most of these discussions are…
Manufacturing companies are learning about the value of data assets. For the last few years, we have seen a tremendous interest in data capture projects with the goal to make it valuable for manufacturing companies, consumers and engineering software vendors. It sounds like manufacturers are literally sitting on big data dynamite…
Things are changing in the manufacturing world. A decade ago, the biggest concern for manufacturing companies was how to manufacture and ship products. These days manufacturing companies are going beyond production. Business models are changing and it is one of the leading factors in manufacturing transformation. Companies are not only…
I’m planning to come to California next month to speak at Product Innovation conference which will take place at Orange County, CA. Navigate to the following link to get more details about conference and the program. The conference is user focus. So, I’m expecting to learn from customer sessions and interactions…
I’m heading to SolidEdge University 2016 today. Although my attendance there will be focused on openBoM, I will spend some time learning about new data management capabilities available at SolidEdge ST9. Navigate to the following link to see Solid Edge University agenda. I captured some information about Solid Edge ST9 data…
Customization is a bad word in jargon of PLM implementations. The modern lingo brings us a new politically correct word – configuration. PLM vendors are splitting hairs trying to describe the difference between customization and configuration. You might remember my last year article – PLM: Customization vs Configurations – let’s…
Manufacturing companies want the data to be well organized and easy to find. However, the reality is just opposite. Data is messy. Files are located in multiple computers and engineers send them to contractor and suppliers using emails. The problem is getting even worst in a distributed environment. Departments, contractors,…
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. You probably heard the phrase usually attributed to Peter Druker. Did Peter Druker really said this? Let’s leave this discussion for somebody else. The problem is that culture also eats technology for lunch and everything else in your company for dinner. You can think, it is…
These days is really hard to read news and not to see a word “cloud” at least few times during the day. My attention was caught by the news about Solidworks 2017 and 3DDrive – new cloud service from Solidworks. PDM is one of the engineering software domains that actively catching…
For many years, databases is the most critical element of PLM infrastructure. After all, PLM systems are data management systems capable to hold information about products, engineering models and related stuff. In fact, all PLM systems available on the market today are using relational database (RDBMS) to store and manage…
