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PLM Wave In a Box?

PLM Wave In a Box?

Google Wave Dead. Long live Wave In a Box (WIAB). Navigate your browser to the following link and you will learn that despite terrible things that happened to Google Wave and the Google’s team in charge of this product, it is still alive and even have some interesting turns ahead….

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How To Define PLM?

How To Define PLM?

What is the proper definition of PLM? This is a simple and complex question at the same time… Recently, I had a chance to see few interesting definitions of PLM. One is very long and comprehensive came from Siemens PLM website and contains lots of examples and even point on…

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PLM Data Warehouse: Dream Or Nightmare?

My new website and blog is BeyondPLM. The original post is here. PLM is certainly dealing with lots of data about products: design, engineering, lifecycle data, manufacturing, processes. When/If you speak to PLM software providers and some big customers you can hear term “Data Warehouse”. DW term is not coming…

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3 Steps To Improve PLM Collaboration

In the landscape of PLM, collaboration is overused word. You can hear “collaborative” a lot, and you’d be thinking all problems of collaboration are already solved. However, I think, we are only in the beginning of starting to have a real collaborative solution. The most important thing for a collaborative…

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12 Steps PDM Upgrade

I bumped into Razorleaf’s blog – 12 Steps EPDM Upgrade Checklist. I find it as a very organizing and quality materials that can help people to handle PDM installation. Actually, I believe, this is also good for any other PDM systems (not only EPDM from SolidWorks). It made me think…

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Hello world!

Welcome to Beyond PLM! I will be starting blogging here very soon. For the moment, please check my Daily PLM Think Tank Blog. Best, Oleg

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PLM Collaboration and Technological Splashes

Technology and products are not always going together. What is the most fascinating to me is to see how technological splashes create future in products. Last year I had chance to discuss Google Wave. It was a completely technological vision with some fuzzy product examples. In my post, last year,…

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Do We Need Chief Excel Officer To Manage BOM?

Do We Need Chief Excel Officer To Manage BOM?

I had chance to read yesterday Arena’s whitepaper “Whose BOM is it Anyway?”. You can find the link this whitepaper for free download here.The white paper is written as a Disaster Story from a manufacturing going trough the hassle of BOM management using Microsoft Excel. In the end of white…

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Microsoft Futuristic PLM Commercials and Google’s reality

Some thoughts about how Microsoft’s futuristic commercials can be connected to Google’ reality. Yesterday announcement of Visual Search or how Google called it Google Googles, drove me to think and connect some of my previous posts and videos I had chance to see before. According to the information provided, ““Google…

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