I’m in Dallas, TX for Solidworks 2019, which is about start. You can feel it. Halls are still half empty, but people are starting to come and traditional gatherings are happening around. The one not to miss is CAD Monkey Dinner, Sat night before Solidworks World (thanks for the shot…
Engineering.com article A Solidworks user look at Onshape brought my PDM twisted mind again to what I call CAD version of Turgenev’s novel “Faters an Sons. Modern CAD Onshape is competing with once modern CAD Solidworks created almost by the same group of people, but 20 years later. Read the article and…
Complexity of PLM systems and user experience is well-known problem in the world of PLM. Even all PLM vendors are in full agreement about focusing on user experience and user interface, it is still not enough. Few years ago, I shared my thoughts here – Lipstick on a pig. Why…
Last year, I wrote about Why traditional PLM ranking is dead. The article raised a wave of discussion and debates about how to compare PLM solutions – a comprehensive set of tools and technologies coming from giant software vendors. One year later, my attention was caught by another ranking article…
It is not a secret that PLM has strong roots in engineering. PLM was born as an extension of CAD and engineering business. Expanding from CAD, PDM and engineering was a very logical approach, but it created high level dependencies between PLM and engineering disciplines. Some of you might disagree,…
Once upon a time, PLM and cloud things were not friends. PLM companies were telling that cloud is not secured and manufacturing companies will never trust their IP to cloud services. But things have changed. Autodesk was the first vendor who open cloud PLM pandora box back in 2011. And since…
PLM differentiation is hard. In past, I shared my thoughts about how to differentiate PLM products, technologies and vendors. You can see some examples how PLM companies are differentiating themselves through technology, packaging, business models, brand and other factors. However, things are getting hard. Everyone has a platform these days and…
I’m not going to CES these days, but I probably should. Time is too big constraint. But I always read reports from CES – they can bring a lot interesting perspective. One of these, I’ve been reading over the weekend. – CES 2019 – A show report – learning by…
Silos. We’ve heard this word many time. For many years, PLM sales pitch was to eliminate silos and create a single version of truth in an organization. Until now, singe version of truth is the best way to sell PLM. In my PLMx PI presentation last year, I shared my…
PLM was started few decades ago and it looks like coming to some sort of mid-life crisis. I can see it by an increased number of questions about PLM challenges, accumulated problems, regrets about past projects and challenges in existing implementation. There is growing number of questions about ability of…
