Some very interesting news is coming from Lockheed Martin. Navigate to the following link – Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking Project. Thanks ArnoldIT for this information. Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. The Eureka Streams technology,…
I read news from the last week – Chrysler Group LLC contracts with Siemens PLM software for product design and development platform. It wasn’t a big surprise, since initial information about it leaked into the news back into May 2010. The news about large companies switching over big software vendors…
What do you think about the power of FREE? The following article in UK Guardian made me think again about the power of free influence. Times loses almost 90% of online readership. Take a look on the following quote: The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making…
The ability to have an important engineering information reference seems to me obvious. Thanks for one of my readers, who sent me information about Knovel. I found the Knovel’s web site interesting and even with my little engineering background, I could find some useful information. I found specially interesting the experience…
I read MCADCafe article – PLMIG announces a 10-Year PLM Industry Vision. It navigates you to PLM IG (Interest Group) where you can read a short article of PLM Industry Vision for 2020. I found the following statement interesting: By 2020, PLM has been publicised and developed as a professional activity so that…
I’m proud to share some numbers about live discussions that happen in PLM Think Tank: Think Tank Topics: 500. Total Page Views: 250’000. Number of comments: 3800. You can see the full list of topics here. Thank you all for helping me to make this real! Best, Oleg
The things are moving fast these days. One of the most fascinating trends is the emerging connection between physical and virtual words. PLM vendors are talking about it long time. However, I was looking for real-life examples that can bring some practical sense into this story. My attention was caught by the…
What is the proper definition of PLM? This is a simple and complex question at the same time… Recently, I had a chance to see few interesting definitions of PLM. One is very long and comprehensive came from Siemens PLM website and contains lots of examples and even point on…
Welcome! The new web site “Beyond PLM” is up and running. This site was work-in-progress for some time, so if you discovered it before, please keep it on your radars. I’m going to blog here about software for engineering and manufacturing. You will find my comments, thoughts and information on various…
Two PLM software providers were mentioned in Business Review USA in the list of top 5 American Enterprise Software Companies. These two are Siemens PLM and Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). Other three on the list are Oracle, Microsoft and Infor. In addition, BR mentioned the following: PLM has proven most…
