December 31st is a great day to write recaps. 2018 was a very crazy intense with lot of stress and activities pushing me to the limit of what is possible to do. Beyond PLM was celebrating 10 years in 2018. One of the ways to look on a blog is…
End of the year is a time to look into a crystal ball and say what is going to happen. While prediction is usually a risky business, there are some of them around that are very famous and very precise. I was catching up on reading during the past few…
Holidays week is here and it means the traditional time to write ‘best of.. ‘, ‘top…’ and similar type of blog posts. I’ve been traditionally publishing my top Beyond PLM blog posts usually ranked by number of views. But this year, I decided to make it a bit differently. I’m…
I attended The State of PLM economy webinar organized by CIMdata – leading source of information and analytics about PLM market. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata Vice President shared latest PLM market data, trends and company news. You can register to webinar and get information here. The quick summary in 2 slides….
As world is buzzing about Aras PLM, I thought it is a great time to come and check what is in latest Aras Innovator architecture and technical stuff. My starting point was my blog from 2011 showing a slide from ACE 2011 and Aras technical and platform vision and roadmap….
We live surrounded by changes and transformations of digital revolution. Which means everything we knew until now can change – tools, processes, environment and business norms. Think about your everyday procedures 5-10 years ago and now. You will find amazing difference. The amount of digital workflow in our everyday life…
Fundamentally new technologies don’t become productive until a generation after their introduction. The time it takes people to learn how to use new tools and how to introduce these tools to businesses is very long. We have seen examples of adoption in personal computing, productivity tools, mobile devices and some…
For many years PLM and ERP were like water and oil. One is positioned for innovation and another is positioned for business execution. You cannot mix them and they belongs to two different categories of products. Until now the mix of ERP and PLM only happened from ERP side, when…
Talk to many people about PLM and they tell you that process management is one of the key elements in PLM implementations. I have a mixed opinion about this statement. It is hard to argue about importance of processes. But here is the thing… what is the process? For some…
Everyone needs data, but nobody wants to be responsible for data management. I learned it during many years of working with engineers and manufacturing companies. Engineers prefer to keep files on Dropbox and not get involved into PDM (product data management) development. PDM was always perceived as a tool that…
