PLM and Social Environment

PLM Prompt: Outlook Social Connector

Short Prompt. I enjoyed video and examples of Outlook Social Connector. If your life is around Outlook and Microsoft Office, you will be surprised by a great job done in Outlook to connect multiple social networks. If you are working as an engineer or designer you can now consolidate email…

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Emerging Social Economies and PLM communities

Two published stories drove my attention and got me to think again about various dimensions of social PLM development. Dion Hinchcliffe “Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy” and “DS Web 2.0 community platform“. I’d put an interest of PLM providers to discover values of relationship in the new…

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How PLM can be more consumer oriented?

I want to talk today about PLM and consumers. One of the very important sides of Product Lifecycle Management is the potential ability to connect dots between manufacturing and their customers. So, manufacturers-consumers link, this is what I want to talk about. I know professor in the university, who is…

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PLM Prompt: Can RSS reader become an Enterprise platform?

The following article got to my attention this morning. Newsgator started back in 2004 as RSS syndication and stretching their capabilities as social tools platform. They use many of MS SharePoint feature and in sync with Office 2010 coming later this year. Time ago, I had chance to discuss enterprise…

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Social PLM challenges

In my view, there is a very strong interest from PLM community to something called “Social PLM”. You probably had chance to follow “social PLM discussion” on plmtwine, on Clarity on PLM blog by Jim Brown, Social Product Development blog by PTC or by experimenting with Vuuch design discussion software….

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PLM, don’t fight processes – focus on people!

Do you think PLM is about a process, right? Reading last buzz about social networking and product development I actually came to the conclusion, there is a significant change in PLM software eco-system toward understanding of the role of people in Product Lifecycle Management. Few interesting discussions about social networking…

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PLM Prompt: SolidJott – way to integrate social tools in CAD?

PLM Prompt: SolidJott – way to integrate social tools in CAD?

I’m looking on SolidJott plug-in for SolidWorks. My opinion, that social tools need to be integrated into CAD environment. The main question, I’m asking -what is practical way to do so? I’ve been looking on few examples of social tools integration into CAD and design environment. Starting from joke-like-twitting-SpaceClaim and…

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PLM Prompt: Social PLM and Security

Note…  Reading very interesting study about higher vulnearability of social networkers. We are all very excited about advantages of PLM social product development and social innovation. I think, social software brings a lot of potential.  But what will be security impact for these people and enterprises? My short prompt. How…

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PLM Collaboration – To Catch Wave vs. To Share List

I think that I’m not exaggerating by saying that every conversation about “collaboration” last week started from  the Google Wave announcement on the Google I/O conference last week. I’ve seen many initial feedbacks in CAD/PDM/PLM related communities and spoke to many colleagues. I think that the majority of people were…

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