For the last few months, I’ve been having many discussions and debates about the current state of PLM, manufacturing trends, problems, IT solutions and possible ways to sell them to customers. Digital transformation seems to be a common topic for most of PLM companies today. As much as I like…
There is an elephant in the room – PLM vendors business models are built for data locking. You can hear vendors themselves are talking about it. Watch Aras SVP Marc Lind speaks about it here. Digital thread and digital transformation of manufacturing companies bring the question about standards (or interoperability)…
One of the most popular discussions in the PLM domain is about what is PLM. The debates are going on and these discussions never disappoint. PLM keeps driving controversy because of the high diversity of applications, people and companies involved. And when you have many players, you always find a…
Another day and one more conference to follow online. Thanks to social media, twitter and a large group of analysts attending 2019 Siemens Media & Analyst Conference in New York. Few interesting news and data points that I caught during the screening of tweets I wanted to share with you….
I’m following Autodesk Accelerate 2019 event taking place in Grand Rapids, MI this week. You can check it via Twitter hashtag – #adskaccelerate. My attention was caught by the following slide – Autodesk will deliver on-demand data management with Fusion 360 Manage Extensions – presented by Stephen Hooper, VP and…
In the past few weeks, I found the topic of “PLM standards” came across multiple times. I brought the discussion about standards in the last few articles. If you missed my earlier articles, check these links below. Is there a value in PLM data standards? Do we need standards like…
Last week, I presented at ConX19 (Digital Lifecycle and Future PLM Networks) event organized by IpX – The Institute for Process Excellence. If you around for a long time, you might know IpX through the model known as CM2 focused on Configuration Management. With roots into military standards such as…
One of the presentations during last ConX19 event last week in San-Diego, was from Craig Brown, former PLM leader of GM, today CIMdata Executive Consultant or how he called himself during the presentation – “PLM Elder”. I captured a few slides to share as well as wanted to share some…
For the last few years, I’m following the implementation of the PLM system and related infrastructure at Facebook. If you missed my earlier blog from COFES 2019, I shared a glimpse of what Facebook PLM team does. Check it here. The purpose of PLM development at Facebook is to build…
