There are two things in business that you can find very hard to compete with. These are simplicity and free. Think about it for a few minutes you will find many examples in your personal and business life when you have been completely sold on these two things. PLM industry…
I missed CIMdata Industry Forum this year in Ann Arbor. So, I’m catching up these days on the topic of Augmented Intelligence CIMdata discussed there. I guess, unless you lived under the rock for the last few years, you’ve heard about Generative Design. Here is a new concept is coming…
Data is a new oil. Nobody is surprised when you say it these days. My previous company Inforbix was collecting data from CAD files, PLM and ERP systems and building a semantic network out of this data for search and data analytics. It was a tip of the iceberg of…
I attended the Digital Factory 2019 event yesterday in Boston organized by Formlabs. The event took place in Boston Cruise Terminal. The venue is casual enough to serve as a good place for manufacturing discussions. I’m still digesting the information from the event. Nevertheless, the most important point I captured…
I’m coming to the Digital Factory Boston conference tomorrow. The conference is organized by Formlabs (formlabs.com). The program will be hosted by Jeff Immelt that explores the latest digital manufacturing technologies, and the ways they transform the business of creating, making, and selling products. Jeff Immelt is former CEO of…
My attention was caught by CIO article – The digital transformation debate: It’s about people AND technology. In many voices about digital transformation, this article sounded very balanced providing a perspective on how both process and technology innovation will make digital transformation real. Read the article and draw your opinion….
Think about information creators and consumers in manufacturing organizations. Old PLM sales assumption was projecting 10 information consumers on one information producers in an organization. Once information is created (eg. CAD system) and placed under control, the value of the PLM system was always to distribute accurate information downstream. But…
Engineering and manufacturing systems are enormously complex. One of the biggest reason is information complexity. An average PLM application is managing multiple structures of data – documents, bill of materials, requirements, activities, and tasks. Everything is connected and depended. Then you connect the novel concept of digital transformation, Internet of…
One of the most complicated questions when selling PLM is to prove ROI. The topic was debated so much in the past, I decided to stop blogging about it. Check my old blogs about PLM ROI here (https://beyondplm.com/tag/roi/). Old day of PDM/ PLM, vendors were trying to sell ROI. I…
Every CAD system is using so-called geometric modeling kernel – 3D modeling component. If you want to know what 3D kernel is used by specific CAD software, check this Wikipedia link. The world is dominated by two major kernels – ACIS and Parasolid. The market of 3D modeling components was…
