Cloud technologies are trending. But engineers are still on the fence to decide about how to move to the “cloud future”. Last week at Solid Edge University in Boston, I was learning about Siemens PLM approach in cloud and how Solid Edge is developing complementary cloud features to their desktop…
It is time to rethink the way we work. How many times you’ve heard about it during last few years. People and companies are looking for new ways to stay connected. And Real-time communication market is one of the greatest reflections about what is going on. Companies are realizing today…
Modern manufacturing world is all about communication and networking. Companies are hiring engineers all over the world. Contractors and suppliers are global. Assembly shops are often located close to the distribution and customers. To design and manufacturing efficiently, manufacturing companies need to learn to communicate. And it means tools. What…
One of the best things about living in Massachusetts is that almost every CAD vendor office is not more than 30 min of drive from you. I attended evening event organized by Onshape and Desktop Metal at Onshape office – Modern Design & Metal 3D Printing. Why Onshape and Desktop…
Collaboration is one of these words that always created lot of confusion. For the last few years, we’ve seen CAD companies are actively focusing on enabling collaboration in 3D context – a long list of companies can be placed here, startups and established 3D CAD vendors were working to provide…
Growing complexity and longevity of manufacturing products are raising questions about future CAD and PLM platforms. Platform is such a sweet word in a lexicon of software development and not only. Recently, the voices about creation of new product development, PLM, innovation and IoT platforms are getting more and more…
Cadalyst article about Onshape Enterprise by Cyrena Respini-Irwin caught my attention yesterday by the following passage: Onshape argues that product data management (PDM) solutions are obsolete, and rebuts competitors’ criticisms of its own efficacy in addressing CAD users’ needs. Later in the article, author brings a passage made by Dave Corcoran,…
CAD industry has its own rock-stars. And both Carl Bass (former CEO of Autodesk) and Jon Hirschtick (CEO of Onshape and founder of Solidworks) are part of the rock start CAD group. They are incredibly interesting individuals to meet and talk. I had a privilege to have conversations with both…
I was invited to speak at Develop3D Live 2018 about Data Management. If you followed my blog earlier, you might seen articles about Data management 2.0 before Develop3D Live. Check my earlier blogs here and here. This 1.5 hours sessions combined four presentations made by Joe McBurnie, Mike Payne, Neil Cooke…
One of the advantages of living in Boston area is to be surrounded by CAD and PLM companies. Long time ago, I called Yankee Division Highway (Route 128) surrounding Boston – PLM highway. The situation is a bit different now – Autodesk moved to Seaport district and PTC will be…
