Earlier last week, the founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg introduced to the world a new vision of Meta. If you missed that moment, you can catch up with a huge amount of news, videos, and articles already posting videos and explanations about what Facebook did and is the…
AI and PLM We live in a very interesting time. The manufacturing environment is changing rapidly. It is driven by multiple factors such as global description because of COVID and supply chain, the introduction of new products, amazing technological innovations, and digital transformation that is happening everywhere these days. It…
The question of standards is the one that always touches the nerve of PLM people. Stan Przybylinski did again by commenting on my Who needs PLM standards article. Stan brought up a question of data locking and the growing importance of standards in cloud-based offerings. Here is the passage: While…
Earlier today, I’ve been catching up on some of the online events and reading. Today, I watched sessions from the Propel event – Propulsion2021. The materials are available online here for everyone, so you can get them at any time. Propel is an outfit that decided about an interesting strategy…
Technologies are simple, but people are hard. I’ve heard this phrase from somebody more than a decade ago and I love it. Not to diminish the importance of the technologies, but if anything I learned during the last 20 years is that people can screw up any technology. Technologies are…
I’ve been catching up on conferences and virtual events earlier today. One of them was a virtual Autodesk University 2021. The event that usually was happening live and gathering ~10 thousand people, for the second year was a complete online event. The event is completely free and you can check…
Everyone has a dream. What’s your dream? If you’re a user, you would like to have a system that will read your mind. If you’re a business owner, you would like the system to magically adapt to every single need you will have as you go and use the system….
There is no topic in engineering and manufacturing software that can raise more debates than Part Numbers. I remember discussing Part Number schemas with customers two decades ago when I was working at Dassault Systemes. I have an endless number of questions about what would be a recommended Part Number…
My attention was caught by Yoann Maingon’s article The Limits of All SaaS published in French in his blog – Open PLM. The article brings an interesting perspective of comparison between SaaS and Low-code PLM strategies by quoting Siemens Mendix CEO. Check this out and make your conclusion. Here are…
The market for large enterprise PLMs is very lucrative and complex. Practically every large OEM in this world already implemented one or two PLM solutions in the last 15-25 years. These companies are large, complex, and moving very slow. To sell to these accounts can take a few years of…
