Manufacturing is a process that has been around for centuries and is still relied on today to produce products. Despite the many advances in technology, the manufacturing process has remained largely unchanged. In order to keep up with the latest trends and technologies, some companies have turned to digitally transforming…
Manufacturing companies are under pressure to deliver innovative products faster and at a lower price. At the same time, manufacturing companies are going through many challenges in the current environment – lack of resources, Covid disruption, supply challenges in the past couple of years, just made the situation even harder…
Earlier this week, I shared my thoughts about connected PLM and how the organization of a semantic data layer can provide a foundation to build a new approach in data aggregation and communication. For the last two decades, semantic technology was used for a number of projects, and data management…
The question of standards is the one that always touches the nerve of PLM people. Stan Przybylinski did again by commenting on my Who needs PLM standards article. Stan brought up a question of data locking and the growing importance of standards in cloud-based offerings. Here is the passage: While…
There is no topic in engineering and manufacturing software that can raise more debates than Part Numbers. I remember discussing Part Number schemas with customers two decades ago when I was working at Dassault Systemes. I have an endless number of questions about what would be a recommended Part Number…
Data is one of the most precious assets in the modern business world. Manufacturing companies are sitting on piles of data, but similar to crude oil, data by itself doesn’t do any good to companies. You need to bring the data to a digital refinery and make it accessible for…
Data is taking a central stage in everything that businesses do these days. You can hear about digital strategies and digital transformation every day today. So, let’s bring computers and solve the problem of data mess. Not so fast. For most companies, bringing computers actually ends up with not solving…
Bad habits die hard. When you become accustomed to something, it is hard to break out. And the longer you do it, the harder it is to change. Think about trying to quit smoking. If you did it for many years, you will have a hard time stopping doing it….
Businesses must constantly plan for the future. In the world of manufacturing companies, the future is now. How to get up to speed with the digital transformation, how to get value from the huge amount of data accumulated by manufacturing companies, how to get connected with the customers and turn…
Data is one of the most critical assets in every business these days. As much as everyone speaks about the data, it is shocking to see how ignorant many engineering teams and manufacturing companies are about the data. The question of data management doesn’t come to their mind. Very often…
