In the age of digital transformation, enterprises are constantly striving to harness the vast potential of emerging technologies to stay ahead in an ever-competitive marketplace. For many years, product lifecycle management and product data management have been among the leading technologies to help manufacturing companies manage product development processes, support…
It is a long weekend in the US. The time to catch up on what you missed during the slow summertime and before the busy race toward the end of the year. If you’re a PLM professional, it is time to check what is important in the product lifecycle management…
I was invited by Domain Systems, a leading PLM service provider with decades of experience helping manufacturing companies implement PLM systems to share my thoughts about PLM simplification trends in the webinar. You can find the recording here. As the digital age advances, the intersection of manufacturing and software becomes…
Startups are brutal. According to multiple statistics from Forbes, CB Insight, and other sources, 90% to 97% of startups will fail, and the remaining 70% will not survive more than 5 years. Among the top reasons startups fail are lack of market, running out of cash, team failure, competition, business…
Summer is here with a bit of relaxing August time. But we all know what is coming later – the end of Q3 and Q4 with the end-of-year sales rallies. I can see this time is usually filled with very high sales and implementation activities in PLM projects. Today, I…
With the advance of modern digital tools, organizations are looking at how to transform their activities. For most companies, it starts from reviewing their traditional document-oriented processes and the introduction of new digital tools. The trend is broad and it is obvious for most organizations these days that digital transformation…
New product development is an essential part of innovation. Every day, engineering and manufacturing organizations across the world are challenged with the goal of developing new products. It happens in new product hardware startups and large enterprise organizations. How to help these organizations to achieve long-term success? According to a…
JIRA software, developed by Atlassian, is a widely recognized tool used for software development teams for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. According to the 6sense article, JIRA has a whooping 86% market share in its category, which is super interesting. To me, it raises many questions about key…
For years, manufacturing companies managed the division of two disciplines PLM and ERP in a very simplistic way – PLM for engineering, and ERP for manufacturing. The division represented the natural forces of two vendors. PLM’s roots were in CAD, design, and engineering, and ERP’s roots in MRP, and procurement…
What is PLM? This question is accompany the product lifecycle management business for the last 20+ years. Started as a solution to manage CAD files, PLM has strong engineering roots and for many years was considered a pure engineering system. Check CIMdata reports from my last trip to CIMdata Industry…
