Archive for June, 2021

Will Graph Database Become The Future PLM Silver Bullet?

Will Graph Database Become The Future PLM Silver Bullet?

The world is slowly but surely getting hooked on the data. Finding the right way to manage the data is not less important than figuring out the user experience or business model. But you can rarely find the conversation about different database technologies coming from PLM vendors. You can ask…

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Rockwell-Plex, SaaS, and Product Data Intelligence?

Rockwell-Plex, SaaS, and Product Data Intelligence?

Efficiency and productivity are at the core of many decisions made by manufacturing companies. How to reduce the cost and optimize the performance while developing new innovative products. Talk to many manufacturing companies and you will find how painful these problems are. Earlier this week, the announcement about Rockwell Automation…

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What PTC Can Learn From 10 Years Of Autodesk Cloud Development?

What PTC Can Learn From 10 Years Of Autodesk Cloud Development?

CAD and PLM companies are on the run towards the cloud. Each company has its own journey, stories, strategies, and technologies. But you won’t find any company in the universe of engineering and manufacturing software these days that is not trying to find its path towards the cloud, SaaS, digital…

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What Is Autodesk One Data Platform and Where Autodesk PDM/PLM Goes?

What Is Autodesk One Data Platform and Where Autodesk PDM/PLM Goes?

Earlier this week I attended the Autodesk Accelerate 2021 event. The event was originally started back in 2014 as an Autodesk PLM event, but within the time was transformed into a special manufacturing and innovation event. This is the second virtual Accelerate event. Earlier events took place in Boston and…

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PLM+ERP Integration and Future Digital Thread

PLM+ERP Integration and Future Digital Thread

Last month, I published a series of articles about PLM and ERP exploring the war between both systems for data ownership, different strategies of PLM and ERP vendors, and how I can see some future strategies in the development of integrations between PLM and ERP systems. Also, I was exploring…

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Who will be the last CAD vendor to adopt Cloud and SaaS for PLM and AEC?

Who will be the last CAD vendor to adopt Cloud and SaaS for PLM and AEC?

Engineers are super innovative people when it comes to the development of new products, technologies, and services. However, when it comes to the tools and software…err, engineers are super conservatives. I was puzzled by this status quo for many years while developing and selling engineering and manufacturing software, PDM, and…

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PLM – People vs System and Technology Conundrum?

PLM – People vs System and Technology Conundrum?

In my recent article – 5 Things PLM Vendor Won’t Tell You But Should, I discussed things that usually are falling off the main agenda of PLM sales and planning meetings. As some of my readers rightfully mentioned – companies better do some planning before going to speak to vendors….

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Demystifying PLM Data-Driven Approach

Demystifying PLM Data-Driven Approach

Data is a new oil. Unless you lived under a rock for the last few years, I’m sure you’ve heard this statement at least once. The data is indeed a source of much recent innovation and super-successful businesses in this world. If you can make data work for your business…

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5 Things PLM Vendor Won’t Tell You But Should

5 Things PLM Vendor Won’t Tell You But Should

PLM is the system, technology, and process at the heart of your product development. It is a central control point to manage your product data and processes. From one side, it sounds very simple – data gets in and data goes out. Your data such as design files, engineering information,…

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