Ola Rollen, CEO of Hexagon started his HxGN LIVE keynote from a heartbreaking video. Greenland’s barnacle goslings undergo one of the most harrowing rites of passage of any creature on the planet. In order to reach the nourishing grassy plains below, the goslings must make a leap of faith and…
My long time blogging colleague and PLM coach Jos Voskuil hit me by an interesting term – classic PLM in his last comment to my article – Why PDM still far from the retirement. Oleg, I believe there are some other factors to consider why existing PLM and CAD will…
Cadalyst article about Onshape Enterprise by Cyrena Respini-Irwin caught my attention yesterday by the following passage: Onshape argues that product data management (PDM) solutions are obsolete, and rebuts competitors’ criticisms of its own efficacy in addressing CAD users’ needs. Later in the article, author brings a passage made by Dave Corcoran,…
PLM adoption is one of the most intriguing things in engineering and manufacturing software. The ideas of PLM systems are very rational and explains very well why and how company can benefit from introducing of Product Lifecycle Management concepts and software into engineering and product development process. But… even PLM…
One of PLM projects I’ve been following for long time is Siemens PLM Active Workspace. It was first introduced 6 years ago as part of TC 9 and it was presented as a search driven tool to reduce complexity of PLM data and user experience. The idea of search technologies…
In my article last week – How to avoid “focus on business” cliche in PLM sales , I introduced typical PLM business use cases. One of my readers commented by saying that in general you cannot escape the cost of running processes. Main cost factors are 1/ process development and 2/…
I’ve been reading almost traditional Kleiner Perkins’ annual internet trends report delivered by Mary Meeker at Code 2018. Almost 300 slides presentation covers everything you can imaging related to internet, mobile platforms, consumer applications, enterprise, etc. I highly recommend you to spend time and at least skim through the information…
Yesterday, I shared my thoughts about PLM “Always be competitive” that was triggered by blog article of Sami Grönstrand of Outotec. We exchange few messages and then I stumbled on another Sam’s writeup – PLM. Cloud first? Model Based first? API first? I say: Business first. A term “business” is recently…
Each product has its lifecycle going from phases of introduction, growth, maturity and decline. It applies to both sides of the table in PLM – manufacturing companies and PLM vendors. Today, I wan to talk more about PLM vendors. SharePLM blog article ABC of Product Management by Sami Grönstrand made me…
