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Know Your Requirements and Prioritize

PLM Blog - Aras Corporate Blog — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:32:13 GMT

Once you’ve defined your business objectives, work backwards to identify the related processes

A Flexible PLM User Interface Leads to Success

PLM Blog - Aras Corporate Blog — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:24 GMT

The user interface for your PLM system is the second most important facet to your user adoption, right

Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity

PLM Blog - Aras Corporate Blog — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:07:59 GMT

This month there was a good article by CIMdata on the PLM/CAD community web sites titled “ Open

Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity

PLM Blog - Aras Corporate Blog — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:07:59 GMT

This month there was a good article by CIMdata on the PLM/CAD community web sites titled “ Open

re: Should You Adjust Your PLM Per$pective?

David C. — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:45:15 GMT

Ok perhaps I am a bout a half year late in commenting (:-), but in any event here is my $.02

First I have collaborated with *** Bourke over a period of years and both of us have been working to try and help people understand both systems and what they contribute to an organization.

First of all stating that PLM is more complex than ERP is incorrect and also a very bad strategy in marketing and selling PLM. I can think of a thousand CIO's who upon hearing that would advise you to walk back out the door you walked in through. Complexity is the last thing that a senior manager wants to hear about a solution.

ERP is complex as it is the application that is designed to run the business. It is no small matter to integrate from sales to order management to (yes) engineering/design to manufacturing planning and

build, to the warehouse and distribution. And let's also mention that the process also has to link to

finance as well. As we used to say, "Customer inbound to customer outbound".

Your point about the PLM project being allotted a tenth of the resources as the ERP project is typical,

but it has less to do with a perception that PLM is trivial then you think. When the PDM vendors began

to get into a fruitless competition with ERP, PDM suddenly gave way to PLM. Perhaps that in terms of

the design supply chain there was some logic to that. However we seemed to have lost sight of the

original goals of PDM, to manage the product development process, specifically in managing the product structure (BOM), Engineering Change Management (the "heart" of the system), workflow and document management.

Having worked for PLM vendors I can understand why they are trying to evolve their systems into product

development and portfolio management systems. You have to develop your product and remain competitive,

etc. However after having had numerous conversations with end users at various companies, from large to

small, I can report that their requirements have not changed over time, i.e., we need the basics, period. And implementing the basics, especially in a large organization, is no small thing.

One last point. I'm afraid that Peter's reaction to ERP is frankly a typical "gearhead" reaction, i.e. ERP doesn't work, it's not as important, etc. That thinking is very engineering-centric, and if so then you shouldn't complain about the perception of PLM as the engineering system. Come to think of it, that is not so bad in itself.

re: PLM Isn’t Sexy, but It Could Save Your Life

Itaz Document — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:18:17 GMT

What the crew aboard Apollo 13 demonstrated, corporations to succeed have to implement : team and process.

re: CAD File Management ≠ PLM

Itaz Document — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:13:18 GMT

Its setting priorities and adhering to them. Its rather apt to note that if CAD constitutes a small part of the system, not all our energies can be spent there.

re: Aras Explains PLM Cloud Strategy

Online homework help — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:58:15 GMT

this is informative one

re: Why Aras Doesn’t Sell PLM

Paul Saunders — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:27:47 GMT

Peter,

A great, heart-warming and inspiring post. I used you guys as a bit of a case study when I presented at a recent Aviation IT conference. If only the whole commercial software world thought like you guys.

re: Why Aras Doesn’t Sell PLM

Vik Paranjpe — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:19:42 GMT

Agree wholeheartedly. I also think that it will apply to any enterprise PLM solution, whether free or not free. The "selling" should be a byproduct of your effort to "help" the customer guide through . Let us go Sell value,not product.

re: What is PLM Data “Obfuscation” and I Why Should I Care?!?

Collaboration Cam — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:07:29 GMT

Thanks for the informative article. Obfuscation is a really cool word. It is kind of fun to be stumped by the first word of an article, it adds an extra element of challenge when reading further.

re: PLM Isn’t Sexy, but It Could Save Your Life

Oleg Shilovitsky — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:43:43 GMT

Marc, if you remember 15-20 years ago, the popular response about software usability complains (early version of SAP UI experience) was "you are here to work- not to play!". It was 1990s. In 2010s, coolness becomes a factor... People are buying cool stuff. Just my thoughts... Oleg

re: PLM Isn’t Sexy, but It Could Save Your Life

Joe — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:16:36 GMT

"Houston, we've had a problem" correct quote.

During a Life Sciences forum in Princeton NJ, I had the honor of meeting Jim Lovell prior to the banquet dinner. I got 10 minutes to talk with him one on one before the dinner began.

Wish I could have been there to see both of them together.

re: PLM Isn’t Sexy, but It Could Save Your Life

Jos Voskuil — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:24:54 GMT

Peter hi,

You are right and you are not alone, there is a whole community of PLM , ALM and CM friends.

I wrote a post about the same topic too last year: http://wp.me/pfRxK-eJ

I think partly it is in our risk-liking behavior or desire to take short cuts and higher margins.

For many industries it is clear that if you have a data management system in place, you can reduce risk and at the end be more reliable - unfortunate management is often judged by annual results not by long term vision

Best regards

Jos

Understanding the Economic Advantages of Enterprise Open Source in PLM

Aras Corporate Blog — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:00:37 GMT

Understanding the economic advantages & financial benefits of the enterprise open source format in