How can we improve user adoption of PLM in the organization? What technologies can we use?? How can we reuse what we already have? I’ve found that many companies are using Microsoft SharePoint. It’s interesting that although SharePoint provides a lot of capabilities, not all of them are used by…
I think that PLM in general as well as most other enterprise systems are very non-user friendly. My simple conclusion is that all these systems have a ‘push’ behavior – you need to manage all processes, initiate data transformation, send released design to engineering, release bill of materials to manufacturing……
Let’s start with a strange question – how many “Ps” are there in PLM? Frankly, speaking, I don’t know. I keep finding new ones J. But today, I’ve chosen two Ps for today’s brainstorm – Productivity and Process. Do you see the contradiction in these two terms? When I think…
SolidWorks World 2009 in coming to Orlando next week and I’m preparing to blog about this. And, yes… I’d like to start a discussion about how the SolidWorks community is ready for PLM. Compared to many SolidWorks visualization tools, many customers find PLM and anything to do with data management…
I’d like to open a series of discussions related to business intelligence and PLM. I had a chance to speak with a few people last week at a Gartner Business Intelligence event about various aspects of business intelligence – technological, social, business. One topic was very popular – the need…
Collaboration and Process Management is obviously a very important part of Product Lifecycle Management. But does it really target successful Product Lifecycle Management implementation? Yes, I think that allowing people to collaborate and have this process organized and synchronized with all other processes in your organization is the ultimate goal…
Social networks and social activities is drawing more and more focus in our life. Crowdsourcing has become very popular in many areas involving decisions about people. Do you think crowdsourcing can really come to the PLM space? Despite the fact that PLM and Product Development is very often associated with…
The financial crisis possible can hit PLM companies… but remember, many successful and well-known companies were established during times of economic crises. LexisNexis (1973 oil crisis), FedEx Corp. (1973), Microsoft Corp. (1975), CNN (was a very small company in 1980), MTV (1981), Wikipedia Foundation Inc. (post 2001 recession), HP (Hewlett-Packard…
I want to continue my first PLM Glue Technologies topic (#1 was about data). Sunday is good time to think about something big – such as Business Rules. Business Rules are often used to emphasize connection between organizational goals and operations. Since PLM in view expected 360 Degrees…
How to improve PLM processes before PLM system using BPMN. In many situations when I talked with customers they raised issue of process improvement. In context of PLM it sounds very reasonable and significant portion of PLM is about how to improve process related to product development in organization….
