It hard to make a change when operating in your comfort zone. I decided to push myself out of blogging comfort zone and start my video blog. Long time ago, the running joke was that to make enterprise software is easy – just pick a name of enterprise company department,…
I have a small anniversary today. I started my blogging back in 2008. It happened back at Autodesk University 2008. The idea of blogging came to me as I was looking how to share knowledge and ideas about Product Lifecycle Management. I can say that I have learned a lot…
The importance of software in modern manufacturing product is hard to underestimate. For the last decade we’ve seen how complex mechanical products are transforming into sophisticated electro-mechanical products and later growing up to a platform to run software code. Think about automobile and the number of mechanical units replaced by…
Few presentations from last week 3DEXPERIENCE forum in Boston made me think about trajectories of BIM and PLM. In the past, I shared my thoughts about BIM and PLM – PLM common vs different, Autodesk trajectories of PLM and BIM. The topic is also in focus on interest by research…
One of the complex topics in product development and manufacturing is multi-level BOM. Very often, multi-level BOM is presented as an important functionality supported by PLM systems in comparison to management of BOM using Excel spreadsheets or sometimes even ERP systems. Here is Wikipedia definition in Bill of Materials article:…
To maintain consistent Bill of Materials is one of the most complex data management processes between design and manufacturing. Siemens PLM blog Defining Part Bill of Materials gives you a very good perspective on how the data synchronization process is done in today’s PLM systems. The fundamental element of this process is…
Single BOM is such of these topics that usually drives lot of debates. You can catch up on my very earlier article about “Single BOM” topic – Seven rules towards single Bill of Materials and Single BOM in six steps. I’ve learned a lot from manufacturing companies about how they use BOM and…
For the last year, I had chance to talk many manufacturing companies in range from small hardware startups to large manufacturing companies with billion dollar revenues and production facilities across the world. I’ve learned that one simple question that can help you to understand all engineering and manufacturing processes in…
The idiom “the devil is in the detail” refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details, and derives from the earlier phrase “God is in the detail” expressing the idea that whatever one does should be done thoroughly and the details are really important. When it comes to…
Manufacturing is changing these days. For the last few months, I’ve been observing many changes in manufacturing environment driven by factors such as globalization, additive technologies, distributed global manufacturing networks, one-click manufacturing, maker movement and hardware startups. Thinking about modern manufacturing challenges brought me together with my partner, Vic Sanchez,…
