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GrabCAD and Open Engineering Source: Dream or Reality?

GrabCAD and Open Engineering Source: Dream or Reality?

Everybody knows about open source software (OSS). The model of OSS skyrocketed for the last decade and made lots projects on the web very successful. The evolution of open source wasn’t simple. It evolved from just making software source code available to quite complicated system of open software licensing. Open source inspired…

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Product Lifecycle Future in 60 years point-of-view BBC film

Product Lifecycle Future in 60 years point-of-view BBC film

Speak to people about PLM and they will tell you about CAD design, BOMs, processes, ECOs, collaboration and other similar topics. I want to change it and speak about “lifecycle” part of PLM. The core function of the lifecycle is the ability of PLM system to maintain changes and manage…

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Brin and PLM beef?

Brin and PLM beef?

An unusual topic for today. I read The Guardian article Google’s Sergey Brin bankrolled world’s first synthetic beef hamburger. Navigate here to read more. Here is an interesting passage: Brin’s money was used by a team led by physiologist Dr Mark Post at Maastricht University to grow 20,000 muscle fibres from…

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Why PDM stuck in non-web age?

Why PDM stuck in non-web age?

Web as a platform. You can hear many conversations about that nowadays. Started as cloud talks, it comes more to the point where we can see  the discussion about how “world wide web” is changing user experience and computing paradigms. One of the strongest trends coming on top of massive…

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Cloud PLM and Google Loon Sunday Dreams

Cloud PLM and Google Loon Sunday Dreams

Sunday is a good day to dream and think about something completely crazy and impossible. More than four years ago I started to explore the potential of cloud PLM on my blog. If you are long time readers you can probably remember my Where is PLM on industry cloud map? or…

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