A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
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15 February, 2026

Here is a small signal that exposed a larger problem. If you’ve been living under the rock for the last...

7 February, 2026

Reflections on platforms, ecosystems, and how engineering workflows may evolve beyond files. Earlier this week I attended 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026...

1 February, 2026

It is Sunday morning and I’m taking a flight to Houston to attend the 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026. The event will...

30 January, 2026

I’m heading to 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026 with a very specific intention: to observe, not to collect announcements. This does not...

17 January, 2026

Form-Fit-Function decisions are often treated as small engineering details part of ECO approval process, the kind of thing that should...

15 January, 2026

We are moving fast into the new year and I want to continue sharing some of my thoughts and ideas...

11 January, 2026

My attention last week came across the news about Anthropic donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to an open foundation,...

21 December, 2025

Before starting this article, I want to thank all my colleagues and friends for commenting, sharing their thoughts, and following...

20 December, 2025

A reader wrote to me recently with a question that echoes one I’ve been wrestling with for months: Do PLM...

19 December, 2025

In a recent LinkedIn post, Adam Keating made a statement that immediately caught my attention. He wrote that in the...

14 December, 2025

For years, PLM has been sold with a simple and powerful message: One Single Source of Truth. One system. One...

11 December, 2025

Stories are the only things that reliably capture human attention. It does not matter if we speak about movies, books,...

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