Manufacturing is changing. I can hear it from hardware startups, large manufacturing companies and software vendors. Future of manufacturing, next industrial revolution, 3D printing, connected products and internet of things.. TechCrunch journalist John Biggs (@johnbiggs) discussed future of manufacturing, improvements in design and 3D printing with Autodesk SVP of products…
Engineering.com webinar with fascinating name – Not your father’s PLM by Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insight reminded me the textbook example of how some companies are coming ahead of itself. I’m talking about Oldsmobile. The story goes back into 1980s. Management at Oldsmobile were serving a specific market with a specific…
Workflow is one of the most fundamental elements of PLM systems today. Implementations of workflow technology might be different from vendor to vendor, but the basics are the same. Workflow is processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion. This is how workflow works in…
I had a chance to attend the first Siemens PLM components event in Boston. Navigate to this link to learn more about the event, agenda and participants. It was the first international conference for Parasolid, D-Cubed, Kineo and JT Toolkit. According to the website, the idea of the event was … to exchange…
PLM software is going through a phase of transformation. Cloud opportunity is here and everyone in the market is going to embrace it. However, for many manufacturing companies “cloud” is just a technological buzzword. While almost every PLM company in the world today is offering some sort of “cloud” strategy,…
PLM software updates topic drive lot of debates in engineering world. PLM implementation is still a project that can take time, resources and lot of planning from a manufacturing company. So, once implemented, companies keep it running for many years. In my recent article – How to replace old PLM…
Earlier this week, I attended Onshape webinar – “Ask me anything” with Jon Hirschtick. Below is the list of things that caught my special attention. This is not a full script of the Q&A. I’ve made my choices. These things might be of interest for users and software vendors looking how to be…
Cloud technologies and applications are trending. Just few years ago the most of cloud PLM debates were about “cloud vs. no-cloud”. You can still meet people thinking “cloud PLM” will not happen in their lifetime. But the trajectory towards cloud applications is very visible. Every single PLM vendor has some…
Centralization was a big deal in manufacturing 100 years ago. Famous River Rouge Factory was a giant plant that literally took an iron ore at one end and sent automobiles out the other. In 1917, doing everything in a single integrated factory seemed to Ford the only possible way to get…
To maintain consistent Bill of Materials is one of the most complex data management processes between design and manufacturing. Siemens PLM blog Defining Part Bill of Materials gives you a very good perspective on how the data synchronization process is done in today’s PLM systems. The fundamental element of this process is…
