Collaboration becomes increasingly important for manufacturing companies. Earlier this week, the news about Airbus deal with Google G-suite created some buzz. In the following article, Airbus CIO explains why Airbus abandoned Microsoft for Google Docs. Here is the key passage: Airbus tied the shift to a digital transformation taking place…
Collaboration isn’t a new word in a lexicon of 3D, CAD and PLM software. Sometimes, collaboration sounds a bit buzzy, but if you think about it from a practical standpoint, we do need to have tools that can help us to communicate and work together with remote teams or even…
Cloudization is one of the top hot topic in the industry in recent years, and it is also the key technology to transform how people will collaborate and communicate in the future. Cloud can bring a difference to CAD and PLM business by sharing data, enabling distributed processes and creating…
Manufacturing is under going tremendous transformation process. Build to order, speed and engagement with consumer are most important competitive factors. The challenge for manufacturing companies is to lower cost of products. At the same time, customers’ demand is mass-customization, which potentially increasing the cost. The speed of one click manufacturing…
I’ve been following F8 conference for the last few days. An annual Facebook gathering is usually a good place to catch up on latest FB news and innovative development. Although it might be boring for some people looking after VR / AR gadgets, my favorite thing so far at F8…
Internet is changing everything in our lives. And it includes manufacturing ecosystem. I shared my thought about how networking will change design, engineering and manufacturing. You can catch up on my earlier articles – PLM and new manufacturing in networked world; Plug-n-produce and manufacturing networks; Future product lifecycle and digital…
Collaboration is one of the most prominent values offered by PLM vendors. Product development and manufacturing is a team effort and therefore “collaboration” is very important. The last decade of technological and web development open new horizons in what collaboration can do. Many PLM vendors got excited by the ability…
After decades of using emails threads and sequential workflow diagrams for collaboration in enterprise, the shift is coming – welcome to  interactive communication. It can provides a new way to simplify communication user experience and to change a way systems and people are working together and managing processes. You can…
For years, one of the most important element of engineering software was to establish data ownership mechanism and lock data in the system. Vendors achieved it by getting control of CAD data files, locking data into propriety database, etc. The recipe for enterprise application was simple – take an enterprise…
The demand for real-time collaboration is getting stronger. The idea to “get your team on the same page” was translated into reality in Google Docs a decade ago and since that time became quite popular. Microsoft introduced very much similar functionality in Office 365. Apple was the last to catch…
