There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to choosing the best PLM systems and solutions for manufacturing companies. It doesn’t matter if you’re selecting a solution for a startup, SME, or large manufacturing enterprise. The decisions are not simple. In the old school PLM and enterprise…
Manufacturing is under pressure. Increasing global competition and the need to reduce manufacturing costs are putting pressure on companies to find new ways to produce products. At the same time, customers are demanding ever-higher quality products with shorter lead times. Digital transformation is on everyone’s mind in the manufacturing business…
The PLM industry was buzzing about cloud migration for the last decade. For all these years, industry analysts and researchers were following the progress the PLM market was making toward cloud migration. You can find some of my thoughts about cloud PLM from 2017 – PLM Cloud Adoption 2017 and…
Most manufacturing companies have to select a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system sooner or later. The decision is not easy, because there are many factors to consider. Many organizations are missing the difference between PLM application (or software platform) and PLM system. The first one is software coming from a…
SaaS is growing and I can see every day how manufacturing companies are adopting SaaS solutions. What was a vision back in the 2010s, now coming as a reality in 2020? However, not everything is clear in this migration from the legacy PLM platforms to SaaS. As manufacturing companies are…
When the idea of PLM systems first time was introduced, one of the main drivers was to develop an infrastructure for collaboration and for sharing information among the company users during product design, engineering, manufacturing, and sales. Such an idea of a single source of truth, breaking siloed systems was…
If you’re like many manufacturers, you’re probably still relying on legacy PLM systems to manage your product data. But as today’s products become more and more complex, these older systems are no longer able to keep up. In order to stay competitive, you need to move to a modern PLM…
SharePLM post that started with one of my favs quotes from Leonardo Da Vinci “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” caught my special attention last week. It was a call about “simple PLM”, which is, in my view, one of the most controversial topics among PLM industry experts. I won’t hide…
How do you envision the future of PLM data modeling? In my earlier posts, I was talking about some of the trends that are happening in PLM architecture and technologies these days. If you missed them, here are some of the links to them. A growing role of data in…
Earlier this week my attention was caught by Hexagon Nexus platform announcements. Hexagon announced Nexus. According to the announcement, it is a platform to connect siloed engineering and unlock smart manufacturing innovation. I was not able to attend the HXG Live conference in Las Vegas, but I had a chance…
