2017 was a year of chatbots. I posted about chatbots a year ago in my article Will chatbots simplify user experience? My assumption was that PLM complexity can justify development of PLM chatbots. I even know the company in PLM space that did it. But I was wrong… PLM workflow experience…
For the last few years, Aras made a story in PLM world. Aras was founded in 2000 and had a turbulent story until coming with the business model of enterprise open source- a mix of free license combined with community building and subscription model. Last week I learned that Aras…
Jos Voskuil took Part Number topic to another spin and share his thought about – Intelligent Part or Product Numbers? Jos is thoughtful as usual, giving us a perspective on the difference between Parts and Products as well as ideas how to threat identification of both. And I’m in agreement…
My attention was caught by the following tweet coming from PTC CEO Jim Hepplemann: When I co-founded Windchill nearly 20 yrs ago, it was 1st to market as an internet-based PLM solution. The vision to see #IoT = #PLM is why @PTC ranks the highest in the new @forrester Wave…
Earlier today my attention was caught by Forrester PLM research for discrete manufacturing industry. Almost simultaneously, two PLM vendors – PTC and Aras made an announcement about their inclusion as leaders into Forrester research. You can read about it here from Aras website and here from PTC website. Here is Aras…
Nobody is buying PLM. PLM projects are usually “sold” to customers. And this is not an easy job. Many of PLM sales individuals I know are not having formal sales training and coming with manufacturing and engineering background. I wanted to share some of my experience in interviewing manufacturing companies…
How to find a good idea? Many people have different answers on this question. My favorite James Altucher – the bestselling author, blogger, and podcaster says you need to come with 1000s bad ideas and train your idea muscle before the good idea will come to you. The common trend among…
Digital era brings new terminology – digital transformation. Very tasteful and nice term. I love it as much as I appreciate the power of new digital technologies developed for the last few years. However, be aware how old organization change management and business transformation is sold under the new name…
Siemens PLM made some waves in PLM and IoT world last week by announcing availability of Siemens MindSphere platform for Amazon Web Services. Navigate you browser to the following link – Siemens’ MindSphere with industry-driven solutions now on Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Siemens USA Newsroom. The following passage by…
Engineering and manufacturing is all about data – CAD files, Excels, databases, etc. Data is everywhere. For the last 15-20 years, several generations of PDM and PLM systems were brought to manage data created and changed by companies. Data stuck everywhere. For less organized companies data is on USB drives…
