Archive for January, 2019

PLM, Digital Twin and Time Series Databases

PLM, Digital Twin and Time Series Databases

Digital Twin buzzword is trending and everyone in manufacturing is building some kind of Digital Twin. PLM folks might have their own definition of digital twine while you can already hear about multiple twins. The following Siemens PLM article interview with Jim Rask can give you bunch of technological buzzwords…

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Musings about Bill of Materials: weekly update (CAD to BOM synchronization)

Musings about Bill of Materials: weekly update (CAD to BOM synchronization)

Welcome to another weekly update about my video blog – Musings about Bill of Materials.. I spent last discussing various aspects of synchronization of BOM and CAD data structures. It is one of these topics that usually complex. Different viewpoints – design, engineering, manufacturing, procurement around data are creating many…

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What PLM tech is missing to get to markets of one?

What PLM tech is missing to get to markets of one?

Remember discussions about mass production and mass customization? I’ve been following this topic for quite some time from very early – The role of PLM in mass customization and morel recent articles Cloud CAD/PLM and mass customization future. Including few very specific topic speaking about role of Bill of Materials integration and…

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PLM stretch towards ERP?

PLM stretch towards ERP?

It is not a secret that PLM has strong roots in engineering. PLM was born as an extension of CAD and engineering business. Expanding from CAD, PDM and engineering was a very logical approach, but it created high level dependencies between PLM and engineering disciplines. Some of you might disagree,…

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Will PLM digital transformations fail because of enterprise data ownership?

Will PLM digital transformations fail because of enterprise data ownership?

Digital transformation is a new darling of technological marketing PLM. It is promising to transform processes and organize data and work in a much better way than companies did before. Imaging all changes in our consumer live in driving, communicating, shopping now applying to business transformation. I’m very much excited…

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Hosted PLM and the problem of cloud integration

Hosted PLM and the problem of cloud integration

Once upon a time, PLM and cloud things were not friends. PLM companies were telling that cloud is not secured and manufacturing companies will never trust their IP to cloud services. But things have changed. Autodesk was the first vendor who open cloud PLM pandora box back in 2011. And since…

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Musings about Bill of Materials: weekly video update

Musings about Bill of Materials: weekly video update

I’m just getting up to speed with my video blog creation. There are so many topics I want to cover, but it takes time. So, step by step. My blogging buddy Jos Voskuil just published his BOM reprise and mentioned one of my videos (thank you Jos! I owe you…

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PLM and Future Global Master Product Data

PLM and Future Global Master Product Data

My recent article Can we liberate product data from PLM vendors and dissolve it with digital thread raised a good number of questions, comments and discussions online and offline. I learned something – each time you touch the nerve of data ownership and value creation process, it will raise questions. And…

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