Product development and manufacturing process has come a long way in the last few decades. There is one constant thing in the product development process – changes. The question of how to manage changes and perform revision control is one that most companies are looking after. It raises many questions…
Andrew Sparrow’s article Top 8 Trends Shaping the Future of MES caught my attention earlier this week. The article speaks about a broad spectrum of topics related to MES systems and technological transformation. I found it interesting. Read the article and draw your opinion. Cloud, IIoT, AI, Cybersecurity, Supply chain…
In the fast-paced world of manufacturing business, staying ahead of the competition requires efficient management of product development, manufacturing, and supply chain processes. While it sounds like an obvious thing to do, for many manufacturing companies I meet and talk to, it represents a dilemma that sounds simple – where…
In the realm of engineering and manufacturing, making products faster, better, and with optimal cost is one of the biggest challenges. Industrial companies are experiencing significant pressure and attempting to bring new products that can help manufacturers to overcome their biggest challenges such as working with not accurate data, speeding…
What is the biggest value asset of your brand? Two decades ago, I attended a management couch session where the team failed to put “customers” at the top of the list. I remember that session and it became pivotal in many things that I was doing afterward including writing a…
PLM projects are famous for their complexity and failures. How to turn your PLM implementations from a state of uncertainty and disaster to a state of measurable and accelerated growth. This is my fourth (and probably last) article in the series of works outlining core principles of PLM implementations that…
It is 2023 and every manufacturing company in the world understands that digital transformation is the name of the game. Remember a decade ago conversations about manufacturing and cloud? The game is over. If you want to survive in a digital world, you need to learn how to be digital….
Simplicity and simplification is one of my favorite topics. When it comes to product lifecycle management (PLM), product data management, supply chain management, and product development process, the topic of simplification always turns out to be a very interesting thing. This is where we can hear a lot of customer…
Earlier this week, my attention was caught by a CNBC article Firms are bringing production back home because of the Ukraine war, China’s slowdown. While it was not a complete surprise to me to learn about reshoring, I found some of the data points coming in the article very interesting….
PLM (product lifecycle management) have a reputation as a complex IT project. During my two decades of experience with PLM implementation in different roles, I learned that a PLM project always requires substantial effort from all involved parties – software vendors, implementation service providers, and customers. And PLM projects have…
