Last year, I wrote about Why traditional PLM ranking is dead. The article raised a wave of discussion and debates about how to compare PLM solutions – a comprehensive set of tools and technologies coming from giant software vendors. One year later, my attention was caught by another ranking article…
Digital Twin buzzword is trending and everyone in manufacturing is building some kind of Digital Twin. PLM folks might have their own definition of digital twine while you can already hear about multiple twins. The following Siemens PLM article interview with Jim Rask can give you bunch of technological buzzwords…
PI PLMx event is coming to London just in few weeks. Check more info here – PI PLMx London. I was very happy to see that the topic from my recent PLMx event in Chicago made it as a theme of London event – Lifecycle intelligence: Lifecycle Intelligence- Deliver service…
Welcome to another weekly update about my video blog – Musings about Bill of Materials.. I spent last discussing various aspects of synchronization of BOM and CAD data structures. It is one of these topics that usually complex. Different viewpoints – design, engineering, manufacturing, procurement around data are creating many…
Remember discussions about mass production and mass customization? I’ve been following this topic for quite some time from very early – The role of PLM in mass customization and morel recent articles Cloud CAD/PLM and mass customization future. Including few very specific topic speaking about role of Bill of Materials integration and…
It is not a secret that PLM has strong roots in engineering. PLM was born as an extension of CAD and engineering business. Expanding from CAD, PDM and engineering was a very logical approach, but it created high level dependencies between PLM and engineering disciplines. Some of you might disagree,…
Digital transformation is a new darling of technological marketing PLM. It is promising to transform processes and organize data and work in a much better way than companies did before. Imaging all changes in our consumer live in driving, communicating, shopping now applying to business transformation. I’m very much excited…
Once upon a time, PLM and cloud things were not friends. PLM companies were telling that cloud is not secured and manufacturing companies will never trust their IP to cloud services. But things have changed. Autodesk was the first vendor who open cloud PLM pandora box back in 2011. And since…
I’m just getting up to speed with my video blog creation. There are so many topics I want to cover, but it takes time. So, step by step. My blogging buddy Jos Voskuil just published his BOM reprise and mentioned one of my videos (thank you Jos! I owe you…
My recent article Can we liberate product data from PLM vendors and dissolve it with digital thread raised a good number of questions, comments and discussions online and offline. I learned something – each time you touch the nerve of data ownership and value creation process, it will raise questions. And…
