The word “integration” is one of the most frequently used in PLM business. Naturally, PLM puts itself in the middle of other systems and processes, which naturally brings the question about integrations up in the list of priorities. Tomorrow, I’m going to attend the PI DX Integration Spotlight event, which…
This time of the year is a great opportunity to reflect on multiple topics. My article last week – PLM System Architecture Evolution for Dummies generated a great number of comments and discussions online and offline. Thank you very much- you helped me to shape my next blog to talk…
PTC is full speed ahead to the future of SaaS and this is very encouraging confirmation of the industry moving towards cloud SaaS offering and online business. I capture the following slide showing the growth of AWS (Amazon Web Services), the leading IaaS platform from the CIMdata cloud PLM webinar…
Is siloed BOM a thing from the past? My old article PLM, Bill of Materials, and Silo Syndrome raised a healthy number of great comments and discussions on LinkedIn, so I decided to come back to this topic and discuss BOMs, organizational silos, and data management again. A dread silo…
Digital Twin is a new cool name coming on the horizon of PLM and together with DIgital Thread, it has a chance to rebrand what PLM does. For the last few years, the interest in the development of Digital Twin and Digital Thread has grown and you can see how…
Lionel Grealou posted open for debate article – The Place of PLM in the Digital Future (open to debate). I recommend you check it out. My first reaction after reading that the PLM industry believes that PLM digital future is more than guaranteed. I’d be very carefully believing in such…
My recent articles about the digital thread and multi-tenant architecture raised a number of questions and generated a healthy amount of debates about what technologies enterprise companies and PLM vendors have at their disposal and how these technologies can be used. If you missed my article, please check it here…
Over the course of the last few years, digital transformation was a topic of many discussions. While there is a conclusion that the status quo is probably the biggest factor that slows digital transformation in the industry, the opinions about what can provide a big push to manufacturing companies to…
PLM is often called a journey. Once started, the PLM solution is evolving and changing. The paradigm of a journey is a good one. Think about the software you use as a journey equipment. The problem with the PLM journey is that often this journey is much longer than a…
It was never a better time to be in the PLM business than today. I said it in my last article covering what happened with PLM in the 2010s. There are three fundamental things that convinced me to think so. 1- Maturity of the technology that can be applied to…
