PLM market is tough when it comes to small and medium manufacturing companies. In my memory I have multiple attempts CAD and PLM vendors have tried to approach this market. The topic is interesting and complex. For many years, PLM vendors are stuck to provide solutions for SME that are capable…
There are not so many independent PLM events in the world. Actually, there very few. One of them is PLM roadmap organized by CIMdata. Here is a link to the European event, which took place last week – PLM Roadmap Europe 2018 – Digitalizing Reality—PLM’s role in enabling the digital revolution….
Data was always in the center of any PDM and PLM applications. The ability of PLM system to manage complex structures and information assets was one of the most important step of PLM system development and evaluation. In a nutshell, any PLM system reminds you some sort of object oriented…
Earlier today, Arena PLM shared the news about acquisition of Omnify Software. Omnify Software mentioned on thier twitter account – we are happy to join forces with Arena PLM. Both companies have long history of PLM development and innovation in cloud, hosted and SaaS PLM. Here is a passage from press…
The article about how different is Aras TCO compared to other “big-boxes PLM” triggered many questions online and offline. If you want to catch up, you can do it via blog article and also on LinkedIn. The discussion on LinkedIn is more active, so check this link as well. I want to…
I’m getting ready for PLMx in Chicago just in few weeks. Haven’t heard about PLMx? There is still time to meet me in Chicago. I took part of my session topic as a title and a question for today’s blog. So, how to extract more value from PLM? For starters, let’s…
Agreement is a hard when it comes to PLM. Ask 3 people about what is PLM and you most probably will end up with 4 or sometimes even 5 definitions. However, there is something that most of people in PLM community is agreed about – midsize business are afraid of…
One of the popular discussions in PLM implementations is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The debates about PLM TCO intensified for the last several years with introduction of new business models – open source, subscriptions and SaaS. Aras is company that first introduced unique enterprise open source model in PLM….
My attention was caught by Facebook video where Stan Przybylinski, VP at CIMdata, was interviewed by Graeme Noseworthy at #AgileEngineering Summit. Video was shared by IBM Watson IoT (btw kudos Stan for such a great video). Watch the video below: Stan speaks about PLM historical perspective and new trend…
One of the trending topic in PLM these days is model driven enterprise discussion. Here are few articles to start with – PLM’s Tough Journey: From Managing Documents to the Model-Based Enterprise – TV Report by Engineering.com, Digital PLM requires a model based enterprise , PLM software future – Model driven…
