How to provide the mechanical design community access to a growing library of products available and connect engineers working on different products together? Various developers for the last few decades asked this question and developed multiple solutions. Yet, the industry brought anything that connects an entire population of mechanical designers…
The roots of PLM are in CAD file data management. It was so obvious for CAD vendors to store data in files, that nobody even considered that the root cause of PDM problems – CAD files, should have been eliminated much earlier. It didn’t happen and this is how the…
PLM is too complex and too expensive. I’ve heard it many times, especially from medium-size and small manufacturing companies. Licenses, servers, IT resources. The last decade of cloud development in PLM demonstrated that vendors are looking at how to improve the ROI of PLM systems, yet PLM business is far…
Omne Trium Perfectum. Friday is a special day and I’m always trying to make Friday blog special. I’ve been thinking about the magic of number three. If you’ve been in communication for a long time, you’ve no doubt came across the phenomenon of the rule of three. It is very…
I’m continuing to explore Siemens and SAP partnership. In my earlier articles, I touched some business aspects of partnerships. You can check my blog – Siemens + SAP = winners, losers, and questions. Each company brings its own strength to this partnership and currently focused on discrete industries. The rumors…
There is a new cool buzzword in the PLM universe called “low code”. If you didn’t hear about it yet, don’t worry about it. Things just get started. Last year I asked if Low code will save PLM from future customization and make PLM more open. I took examples from…
Cloud and SaaS are changing PLM software. The new technology makes SaaS PLM easily accessible and available instantly to customers. New data management technologies allow customers to share data and go beyond traditional PLM databases. SaaS is also transforming business models by introducing subscription business models. Today I want to…
I’ve been following the Autodesk platform and PLM development for many years. Autodesk was the first large company that endorsed and adopted public cloud services to develop PLM almost a decade ago. A lot of changes happened since that time and I’m always watching with a high level of curiosity…
I wrote about PLM-ERP integrations in the context of the agreement between Siemens and SAP. If you missed my article, please check it out here – Will Siemens and SAP come on the same BOM? Siemens/SAP partnership agreement was a trigger that made me come back in my thoughts about…
A little bit more than one month ago, two giant companies, Siemens and SAP announced their partnership to deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across the product lifecycle, supply chain, and asset management. If you missed my first article about what means the combination of Siemens and SAP software for PLM…
