There is a bad word in PLM jargon and it is “customizations”. For years, customization was considered as a bad thing. Started decades ago, when PDM and PLM systems were merely toolkits and you needed practically manually to adjust database tables and change system software code to adjust PDM or…
A single source of truth is the paradigm that sells PLM and many other systems. PDM and PLM providers used and continue to use this model as a fundamental thing when selling PLM vision, strategy, software, and technology. It is still a dominant model behind most PLM implementations in the…
I’ve been following the Autodesk platform and PLM development for many years. Autodesk was the first large company that endorsed and adopted public cloud services to develop PLM almost a decade ago. A lot of changes happened since that time and I’m always watching with a high level of curiosity…
SaaS PLM is trending and we’re going to see more SaaS PLMs marketing and sales coming from vendors very soon. PTC is focusing on the SaaS industry following the acquisition of Onshape last year. Siemens just jumped in SaaS PLM bandwagon – check my earlier blog articles about Teamcenter X…
Unless you lived under the rock, you’ve heard about SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. If you will try to figure out the details, you can find a lot of controversy and marketing materials using these names to explain strategies, technologies, and applications. I share my thoughts earlier about PaaS, SaaS, and…
Cloud is everywhere. It is hard to find a single company that is not developing products for cloud environment. Cloud systems are often presented as an alternatives to existing on-premise systems solving problems such as IT simplification, data management robustness, global access and many others. At the same time, manufacturing…
Unless you live under the rock for the last few years, you’ve heard about DevOps. So, for starters, this is my best description of DevOps from Atlassian. DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, in order that they can build, test,…
To decide what PLM to chose is a hard job these days. Everyone in the PLM business is focusing on helping manufacturing companies to design better, faster, cheaper products. Everyone is IoT, cloud, connected, intelligent and focused on user experience. Everyone is capable to produce a nice video and when…
I’ve been following Autodesk development in PDM and PLM space for the last decade. You can check some of my articles about Autodesk PLM360 and Fusion Lifecycle – Autodesk Future PLM trajectories and How Autodesk plans to connect multiple generations of CAD, PDM, and PLM just a few months ago…
I’m still digesting tons of information I’ve got last week during AU2019 in Las Vegas. I will continue to share my comments and thoughts during this week and maybe even more. Today, I want to share what I’ve seen at Design and Manufacturing Keynote. It was presented by Greg Fallon,…
