One of the best things about living in Massachusetts is that almost every CAD vendor office is not more than 30 min of drive from you. I attended evening event organized by Onshape and Desktop Metal at Onshape office – Modern Design & Metal 3D Printing. Why Onshape and Desktop…
Collaboration is one of these words that always created lot of confusion. For the last few years, we’ve seen CAD companies are actively focusing on enabling collaboration in 3D context – a long list of companies can be placed here, startups and established 3D CAD vendors were working to provide…
Back two decades ago, CAD and PLM vendors were competing with ERP for attention of corner suite owners – CIOs and CEOs. It was always some kind of apologetic tone coming from PLM sales people complaining about how hard to “compete” with ERP importance at CIO office. Tons of articles…
Have you heard about serverless computing? Not yet… This is a time you should start paying attention. Serverless computing is gaining some traction. While serverless isn’t exaclty new thing it is reaching some interesting point in the development where it is already mature to observe some trajectory of future development….
Growing complexity and longevity of manufacturing products are raising questions about future CAD and PLM platforms. Platform is such a sweet word in a lexicon of software development and not only. Recently, the voices about creation of new product development, PLM, innovation and IoT platforms are getting more and more…
New business model is a big deal in engineering and manufacturing software. For years, customers were buying CAD licenses. For the last 5-7 years we can see CAD vendors movement into subscriptions. Even CAD vendors are reporting lot of success, he jury is still out to watch results. Professional CAD…
Efficiency is one of those things helped manufacturing for centuries to find a better solutions and manufacture better products. It can be a complex process, but by learning how to improve existing processes manufacturing company can discover step by step how to achieve their goals. Some of historical examples of…
Look at portfolios of all PLM vendors and you will see “cloud” tag everywhere. I’d say, for the moment, all PLM vendors are “cloud” buzzword compliant. The definition can vary from cloud-ready to true cloud and everything in between. At the same time, analyst companies such as CIMdata mentioned in their…
