A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

PI PLMx 2018 – Integration and Collaboration

PI PLMx 2018 – Integration and Collaboration
Oleg
Oleg
27 February, 2018 | 2 min for reading

The last article inspired by presentations and discussions at PI PLMx last week is about integration and collaboration. That was a topic you can practically find in any presentation by vendors and customers at PI PLMx. Historically, integration is one of the most painful aspects of PLM deployment and implementations. It is not a simple thing to connect all systems and processes. Technologies to integration aren’t very much sophisticated. But people are hard. And as it was reminded during the presentation by Prof. Eigner, people are trained and thinking in silos.

Below few pictures I captured during different presentation.

Here is one from Airbus Space speaking about vision of CONNECT – a system integrating digital references, DMU, support knowledge, end-to end processes including the ability to easy find and re-use data.

SAAB presentation introduced us to the concept of transfer, reuse, refine, restructure and approve processes for 30-50 years lifecycle of products.

Presentation by AGCO was put a lot of focus on CM2 workflow across multiple PLM systems integration role of PLM in change management:

Philips integration highlighted the need for full transparency of information to keep track of change and impact

Finally, the slide provided by Prof Eigner was focusing on multi-disciplinary design and role of PLM to improve and streamline processes in organization.

What is my conclusion? Integration is an absolute paramount for most of manufacturing and industrial companies, I’ve been talking at PI PLMx. It is hard, complex and expensive. It requires unique approaches and expensive integration services. This is a real pain for PLM providers and tool developers to move forward and organize integration as a simple and efficient PLM integration process delivery. Just my thoughts..

Best, Oleg

Want to learn more about PLM? Check out my new PLM Book website.

Disclaimer: I’m co-founder and CEO of OpenBOM developing cloud based bill of materials and inventory management tool for manufacturing companies, hardware startups and supply chain. My opinion can be unintentionally biased.

 

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
3 September, 2019

In the past few weeks, I found the topic of “PLM standards” came across multiple times. I brought the discussion...

17 September, 2014

I’m attending Accelerate 2014 PLM360 event these days in Boston. This is the first ever live gathering of Autodesk PLM360...

30 May, 2025

Earlier this week, I had the chance to present at the Share PLM Summit 2025 in Jerez de la Frontera....

28 February, 2011

Few days ago, I attended webinar One the Edge with Cadalyst – MCAD Smackdown: Direct vs .Parametric CAD. Navigate to...

4 January, 2010

It’s over. 2009… The loooooong weekend was a perfect time to think about last year, summarize, statistics, reviews, read an...

11 February, 2014

Open source is a topic that raised many controversy in the last decade. Especially if you speak about enterprise software....

18 May, 2013

Process management is an important elements of PLM implementations. PLM systems usually offer a variety of solutions for process management...

31 October, 2013

The amount of data we produce is skyrocketing these days. Social web, mobile devices, internet of things – these are...

7 January, 2015

There are lot of changes in manufacturing eco-system these days. You probably heard about many of them. Changes are coming...

Blogroll

To the top