Manufacturing is a process that has been around for centuries and is still relied on today to produce products. Despite the many advances in technology, the manufacturing process has remained largely unchanged. In order to keep up with the latest trends and technologies, some companies have turned to digitally transforming…
PLM Events are coming back! After more than two years of virtual events, the industry seems to be coming back to real (or as some people call it physical) events. While we’ve been super excited about new virtual opportunities, after some time, online events proved to be more of a…
Last week, I broke my longest “no traveling” period of 25 months to attend CIMdata Industry and Market Forum that took place in Ann Arbor, MI. For many of us attending the forum, it was the first trip after COVID, which brought a lot of excitement about the opportunity to…
Dear friends, I’m super excited. Later this week, I will be attending the first in-person PLM event for a little bit more than two years. The previous event I attended was Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020. The topic back in 2020 was the role of a “platform” in digital transformation….
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…
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…
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…
Earlier today, I attended a traditional CIMdata PLM Industry and Market Forum, which CIMdata holds usually in multiple geographies. Today was the North American forum. Check the website for more details. Although the forum this year was still virtual-live, CIMdata preserves the geo-specific forums. The theme of the forum –…
