One of the hottest buzzwords in the lexicon of IT and PLM vendors today is digital transformation. It is everywhere and it smells good. It smells like a new gadget and it can make you think the old and crappiest problems of enterprise software implementation such is PLM can go…
To cloud or not to cloud? Few years ago, it was a question many engineering and manufacturing software companies were asking about. Not anymore. Now, the right question is “how to cloud”. Looking at CAD companies these days you can see all variety of cloud options and solutions. Full cloud,…
In the old manufacturing days, engineering activity was very much disconnected from manufacturing. Long development cycle provided enough luxury and time to have so called “over the wall engineering” strategy. But, things are going to change. I shared my thoughts about this transformation process in my article published earlier today…
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Very often we have the tendency to complicate things. We believe that sophistication means results and intelligence but it doesn’t. More information, options, productions, acronyms is not better. In fact, more information and complexity can make people disengage. PLM has the tendency to over complication….
There is a new kid in the block of cloud-based CAD tools. My attention was caught by LEDAS press release – LEDAS to Offer a Software Platform for Building Cloud CAD Apps. LEDAS is a software outfit from Russia with long time record of custom CAD development. In the past…
Siemens PLM changed the format of Solid Edge University. From a single a big event usually organized in Midwest U.S., it transformed into series of events across geographies. Check the following link – there is a chance one of the events will take place near you in the future. Solid Edge University…
PLM business has a clear potential to grow. The last two weeks demonstrated that some investors have strong believe in PLM business and it has a momentum. Arena Solutions and Aras Corp. made announcements about investments from growth equity funds. If you missed press releases, check few links below. Arena…
AI and Machine learning buzz is going through the roof. The number of new companies in the this categoryhas grown exponentially over the past few years. Few weeks ago, I shared my thoughts about AI-zation of CAD and PLM . Check out here. I found the topic confusing with too…
First perceptions are even harder to overcome than most people had realized. Our first impression of a person, place or idea becomes our brain’s default perception. We can learn more things later, but our brain usually categorize it as an exception from the rule. Let say your first impression about…
Manufacturing is end-to-end process. You design a machine, plan to build it, buying parts, ship to assembly line to get them on-time for product delivery, make an assembly, ship the production to a customer. Simple and straightforward. If I think about engineering software, the story is less simple and not…
