I had a chance to dig into The State of Product Development 2020 report done by Onshape. You can get it here for free in exchange for a simple questionnaire, which I did. The report contains many interesting data points about what is important for manufacturing companies these days and…
The roots of PLM are in CAD file data management. It was so obvious for CAD vendors to store data in files, that nobody even considered that the root cause of PDM problems – CAD files, should have been eliminated much earlier. It didn’t happen and this is how the…
PLM is too complex and too expensive. I’ve heard it many times, especially from medium-size and small manufacturing companies. Licenses, servers, IT resources. The last decade of cloud development in PLM demonstrated that vendors are looking at how to improve the ROI of PLM systems, yet PLM business is far…
Cloud and SaaS are changing PLM software. The new technology makes SaaS PLM easily accessible and available instantly to customers. New data management technologies allow customers to share data and go beyond traditional PLM databases. SaaS is also transforming business models by introducing subscription business models. Today I want to…
I wrote about PLM-ERP integrations in the context of the agreement between Siemens and SAP. If you missed my article, please check it out here – Will Siemens and SAP come on the same BOM? Siemens/SAP partnership agreement was a trigger that made me come back in my thoughts about…
Unless you lived under the rock for the last few years, you’ve heard about Digital Twin. Wikipedia article gives a very simple definition of Digital Twin- as a digital replica of a living or non-living physical entity. Digital twin refers to a digital replica of potential and actual physical assets,…
Last week I shared my thoughts about What platform is needed for Digital Thread? Thanks for your comments and discussion online and offline. The topic seems to be trending and the amount of publications about Digital Thread is growing. At the first glance, you can think about that digital thread…
Tech companies are trending in our current pandemic world. One of the trends that became obvious over the course of the last few months is how technology and the companies that adopted technology for the last decades are continuously winning over the companies that didn’t do so. I can see…
Earlier this week, I shared my impression of Aras’ take on Digital Twin and Digital Thread. If you missed my article, check it out here. Aras has a unique view of these disciplines. You can see how Aras flexible modeling engine used to build dependencies and relationships between objects to…
The use of the term “PLM” might have worn out its welcome says Peter Bilello, president of CIMdata analyst and consulting service outfit. CIMdata is a well-known name for leadership and strategic view on PLM. CIMdata uses “cPDM” as a name commonly associated with PLM. A broader scope of CIMdata…
