Connected PLM transformation is one of the strong trends I can see happening in the market of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The main drivers of this process are going deep into manufacturing transformations – new connected products, global markets, competition, supply chain complexity, changes in business models, such as switching…
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…
Everyone has a dream. What’s your dream? If you’re a user, you would like to have a system that will read your mind. If you’re a business owner, you would like the system to magically adapt to every single need you will have as you go and use the system….
My attention was caught by Yoann Maingon’s article The Limits of All SaaS published in French in his blog – Open PLM. The article brings an interesting perspective of comparison between SaaS and Low-code PLM strategies by quoting Siemens Mendix CEO. Check this out and make your conclusion. Here are…
Differentiation is a big deal in business and every company wants to stand outside compared to their business counterparts by providing a set of unique features and strategies. When it comes to PLM engineering and software, the differentiators are hard. Manufacturing companies are looking to solve a set of typical…
Every manufacturing company now is a software company. I’ve heard this statement a few years ago from one of our customers tell me that manufacturing companies see software as the next biggest competitive differentiator. Back in old days, building a piece of the machine was a challenge. Companies were competing…
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…
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…
Every manufacturing company is sitting on the goldmine these days. I’m talking about the data that is owned by a company. Every company is producing a huge amount of data every day. Data is a critical asset in every company and it is well understood by everyone. Here are just…
The manufacturing industry is one of the last groups of businesses that are going to adopt SaaS and cloud technologies. Although cloud adoption started already a decade ago, unlike CRM, Marketing and Sales/Advertising, engineers and IT were very careful to bring cloud / SaaS to business. In my view, it…
