To implement PLM isn’t an easy project. Especially when it comes to large PLM implementations going beyond document management control and CAD files lifecycle. These PLM implementations are usually multi-year endeavors involving IT personnel, business and PLM consulting, PLM vendors and service companies. What is the right architecture and strategy…
Almost 10 years ago, Gartner defined IT obsolescence management as major emerging issue. Here is a passage from old the old article about that: By year-end 2010, more than one-third of all application projects will be driven by the need to deal with technology or skills obsolescence. “Our research with thousands of…
Digital transformation is a new trend and manufacturing companies are exploring how to become leaders in a new digital society and what does it mean for their organizations. Here is a definition of digital transformation I captured on TechTarget website, which I like very much. The term transformation refers to…
PLM companies are in full swing adopting IoT technologies and marketing language. And one of the most of important element of IoT technologies is data. Yes, the data produced by connected products, absorbed, collected, classified and capable to produce a desired insight everyone is looking for in manufacturing industry. It…
I posted about my view on the process of digital transformation and how digitalization can come to manufacturing and more specifically to Product Lifecycle Management. My main points were about digital control and gradual transformation of information landscape from monolithic information model into granular islands of connected information. The first is…
Digital transformation is a fundamental trend we experience every day in our life. Remember the time when most of information around us was on paper – maps, phone dictionaries, newspapers, music, photography, etc. This is only a short list of things that went completely digital. Like most of consumer oriented…
Last week Amazon outage was a splashing event for everything related to cloud computing. Amazon S3 in east cost went down and knocked out many cloud services around the world. In CAD / PLM ecosystem it was almost a silent event. Autodesk cloud infrastructure partially went down. Also GrabCAD informed customers…
Propel PLM article – Can you trust your on-prem PLM vendor to evolve raises a question about how efficiently and quickly existing major PLM platforms can move from perpetual licenses and on prem- installations to the cloud. Trust me, it is a very painful process to transition a product offering from…
Collaboration is one of the most prominent values offered by PLM vendors. Product development and manufacturing is a team effort and therefore “collaboration” is very important. The last decade of technological and web development open new horizons in what collaboration can do. Many PLM vendors got excited by the ability…
