Integration has a very important role in PLM implementations. PLM is intended to manage design and engineering aspects of product development. ERP is intended to manage manufacturing resources, process and inventory. Therefore PLM and ERP are complementary. Most of PLM implementations I’ve seen in my life, required PLM-ERP integration. At…
I’m coming to COFES 2015 next week, which will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona. PLM and the cloud is one of the topic I’m planing to discuss during the analyst and user briefing sessions. I’ve been thinking to beat a schedule and share some of my thoughts on blog before…
It has been already few years since I started to discuss cloud PLM opportunities on my blog. I found one of my early blogs about PLM and cloud – PLM and cloud: hold the promise? So, what changed since then? Actually, quite a lot… We’ve seen massive adoption of cloud…
To manage Bill of Materials (BOM) is not a simple job. Often you can hear a simple definition of bill of material as a “list of component needed to build a product”. However, in reality, BOM is much more complex and contains information about product structure, the ways product is…
The interest to cloud PLM is growing these days. At the beginning of this year, I discussed future PLM business model during the PLM Innovation conference in Munich. You can navigate to my historical post here. You can see lots of conversations about cloud these days. However, until now, only…
Cost is one of the aspects all cloud PLM providers bring to the table these days. The demand and the expection is that that PLM (or any other software) on the cloud will become cheaper than on-premises’ alternative. Earlier this week, I’ve been reading an article from CIO magazine –…
Three years ago, I published the article – Do We Need Personal PLM? In a nutshell, the idea I was discussing was about aggregation and re-purposing data coming from multiple sources using SOA (yes, it was a quite popular buzzword back in 2009) and other technologies. Earlier today, I stumbled…
Cloud is hyping these days. However, it also becomes real and moving from the state of “think” to “make” something. Navigate to the Jim Brown’s post. One of my favorite passages out of that post is following: Now there is more to do than talk, something can be done about…
I think, 2012 will become a year of cloud. Arena Solutions is not a new kid in the block. The company was pioneering On-Demand, SaaS and recently cloud technologies for the last decade. My attention was caught my Arena’s press release yesterday – Arena Launches New Products to Help Engineers…
Simplification is a significant trend. I’ve been watching it a lot in consumer space. People got really obsessed by simplification after Apple. And these are all good things. However, I want to come back to something I call “simple PLM”. Well, you can tell me it is a joke… maybe….
