Cloud and SaaS are getting high attention these days of PLM vendors and customers. The interest is driven by many benefits cloud technologies and SaaS applications can bring to both manufacturing companies and vendors. Multi-tenancy is a key element of SaaS applications, but unfortunately, the terminology is often misleading and…
Differentiation is a big challenge for everyone and it is an even bigger challenge for PLM vendors. The reality of developing solutions for engineering and manufacturing is that it is really hard to find how to differentiate yourself from others. In the end, all manufacturing companies are doing the same…
Customer preferences changed significantly since Henry Ford invented the Model-T and built a completely vertically integrated manufacturing facility making everything from iron, glass, rubber, and automobile. These days we can see a strong increase in the demand for customer orientation starting from the model, color fashion, and ending up with…
My recent articles about low code in PLM triggered a good volume of debates and comments. Thanks, everyone for sharing your thoughts and comments. If you missed my blog, please check to catch up here: PLM Honeycode Low code – a sexy version of messy PLM customizations Low code is…
I had a chance to dig into The State of Product Development 2020 report done by Onshape. You can get it here for free in exchange for a simple questionnaire, which I did. The report contains many interesting data points about what is important for manufacturing companies these days and…
Over the weekend, I was catching up on the Mendix World online event. Mendix, which is Siemens Industrial Software darling, recently got in focus because of the growing trend of low code development in PLM and manufacturing companies. Check the website- it gives access to tons of videos with presentations…
Unless you’ve been under the rock for the last decade, you most probably heard about SaaS (Software as a Service). The term was around for a quick long time, but recently it became especially hot. It can be used as a fundamental difference in variety in cloud PLM technologies available…
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…
