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…
For many years, data management was considered as something that burdens the activity of designers and engineers focused on CAD system work as their daily activities. I believe many people will say that this is still true. On the other hand, with the growing amount of information many users have…
While looking at the amazing development of 3D Gaming Technologies recently , I’ve been wondering – is it possible to use all this experience for PLM? I think today’s Gamers will will approach enterprises and will expect similar experience from enterprise systems. Although I’m not sure we are there yet,…
We have seen many technological changes over the past 20 years of PC. We changed different versions of Windows and browsers. We moved between one-two-three-many tiers of architecture. Recently, we moved from client-server to SOA… and now we are going to move to Cloud Computing. But looking back, our computer…
It has become obvious – social software has made revolutionary changes in our mind. Flickr, Twittter, MySpace, Facebook and many other social services have changed our way of communicating and collaborating. This leads me to ask a few other questions– what about enterprises? And more specifically – what about PLM?…
“I’LL TXT U”… You are probably familiar with this modern slang. If not – this is time to ask your kids, if you can disconnect them from their iPhones, iPods, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. They will explain to you that this is “the most productive way to communicate”. That being…
I’d like to get back to my ideas related to structured data. I touched it in my previous posts related to Tagging and Structured vs. Unstructured. There are two Web 2.0 related technologies I’d like to touch today – Folksonomies and Tag Clouds. Folksonomies is method to create classification of…
In one of my previous posts (Structured vs. Unstructured) I wrote about ability of PLM to bring additional advantages to users by leveraging technologies emerged in consumer market and web applications. In particular I talked about ability to manage flat view on product data. We are so regular to…
Microsoft Excel is extremely popular. In many cases people are very comfortable working with product data in Excel files. But Excel files need to be managed and this is unpleasant side of Excel story. What we can do with this? – We can take all intelligence of product data…
SolidWorks Labs just released new product Treehouse. My first thought on this application was – this is just great for people that see processes in organization going top down. Going from concept, building initial product topology can be used efficiently in many scenarios: 1. To produce CAD design based on…
