Today’s manufacturing companies are facing challenges that go far beyond the typical issues of labor shortages, rising material costs, and ever-increasing regulations. The world is becoming increasingly digitized, with software permeating every aspect of our lives. Product design, production planning, manufacturing operations need to be able to keep up with…
Data is at the heart of every PLM technology and system. Therefore from a very early stage of PLM development software vendors put significant attention on how to create the best data modeling capabilities for their PLM system and technologies. A few months ago, I published my article where I…
For the last two decades, PLM was developed in the well-established business strategy, product, and technology discipline. A lot can be said about PLM’s value proposition, business value, innovation, and vision. I can speak hours about how to manage a full product lifecycle and how an organization should get through…
I spent some time this weekend catching up on PLM news and publications. The following post from Jenifer Moore at Minerva caught my attention, The post speaks about the topic of PLM upgrades, presented in one of the recent CIMdata researches shows a comparison between Aras, Dassault, PTC, and Siemens…
As COVID hit the world, the PLM industry, like many other industries, made an interesting trajectory from traditional (physical) events to very large online conferences and a huge number of various online webinars, video recordings, and digital media. Just before COVID19 shut down the entire world, I attended the PI…
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…
