If only I could see… The global supply chain was historically the place to be blamed for inefficiency and vulnerable to disruption. It is usually a place with the biggest amount of legacy systems or inefficient homegrown Excel spreadsheets. The supply chain information is prone to be fragmented and disconnected…
Digital Twin is at the peak of inflated expectation according to ResearchGate publication and it keeps bringing topics for discussion. What does the Digital Twin catchy phrase mean? Is it a catchy name, technology, innovation, marketing? Will Digital Twin brings something new or it is another variant of what we…
PLM companies turned digital overnight. Visit every website of PLM vendors, consulting, resellers and you will find that they are all gone “digital” now. Digital is a magic word nowadays. Everyone wants to go digital. The first step is truly understanding what that means. For many companies, it is about…
A single source of truth is the paradigm that sells PLM and many other systems. PDM and PLM providers used and continue to use this model as a fundamental thing when selling PLM vision, strategy, software, and technology. It is still a dominant model behind most PLM implementations in the…
Nothing is more painful in PLM business as PLM upgrades. Historically, PLM implementations took a long time and include many customizations. The result of this practice was a PLM implementation based on a specific version of PLM software, which is customizable to the level that made a system upgrade very…
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…
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…
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…
Happy Friday! It is a dream day and I want to continue the article I wrote a few months ago – PLM 2030 – the point of no return for the fax machine. PLM 2030 is a giant online environment connecting people, companies, and services together in a big network….
In my recent discussion about Rethinking PLM architectures for Digital Thread, I’ve got an interesting comment about why Files are the problem for Digital Thread organization. The problem with PLM systems for managing Digital Threads is that PLM systems store objects, as in files. The data necessary to maintain a…
