What is PLM? This question is accompany the product lifecycle management business for the last 20+ years. Started as a solution to manage CAD files, PLM has strong engineering roots and for many years was considered a pure engineering system. Check CIMdata reports from my last trip to CIMdata Industry…
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…
Earlier this week, I attended the CIMdata PLM forum. You can find my first article with comments here – PLM Forcing Factors and Hot Topics. Today, I want to share some of my additional notes coming from the presentation done by Stan Przybylinski, VP of CIMdata speaking about the 2021…
Data is one of the most critical assets in every business these days. As much as everyone speaks about the data, it is shocking to see how ignorant many engineering teams and manufacturing companies are about the data. The question of data management doesn’t come to their mind. Very often…
How big is the future SaaS/cloud PLM market? As much as this number sounds simple, the answer is not easy to find. As much as I was trying to find some numbers, analysts, as well as CAD and PLM vendors, are very much silent on this topic. One of my…
I started my series of articles about PLM and ERP by speaking about PLM vs ERP Tug of War, continued about how PLM and ERP can change the battleground, and finally sharing my thoughts about PLM vs ERP growth opportunities. In these articles, I discovered what separates PLM and ERP…
PLM and ERP are the two most dominant enterprise systems when it comes to handling product information and product development process, yet the number of debates about their coexistence in manufacturing companies is endless. What is PLM for and why ERP only is not enough is one of the most…
Cloud and SaaS are changing PLM software. The new technology makes SaaS PLM easily accessible and available instantly to customers. New data management technologies allow customers to share data and go beyond traditional PLM databases. SaaS is also transforming business models by introducing subscription business models. Today I want to…
PLM Sales is one of the topics, I have a special passion for blogging about. Some of my previous articles about PLM sales, in case you missed that: PLM Sales Cheat Sheet How to not suck in PLM Sales The art of PLM sales In the last four months in…
In my What is PLM Circa 2020s article, I talk about how I see the future of PLM development. The previous generation of PLM systems was designed on top of an SQL database, installed on company premises to control and manage company data. It was a single version of the…
