This month there was a good article by CIMdata on the PLM/CAD community web sites titled “ Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity ” which explains the benefits for companies and the implications for the PLM market that are resulting from the business model innovation inherent in open source...
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Understanding the economic advantages & financial benefits of the enterprise open source format in PLM is important when building a corporate business case for a PLM strategy. There are a number of factors that your team will want to consider when conducting an evaluation, with two of the most important...
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Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) PLM solutions are great in concept. The reality, however, is not so rosy or promising. A while back, Chad Jackson did a post on his blog, Engineering Matters , called My Points in the ‘Why Hasn’t PLM Taken Over the World’ Live Blog Debate . That post is where I...
Last week, Jennifer McCullough here at Aras, did an interview with Peter for the Siemens PLM Community online magazine titled PLM Doesn’t Have to Weigh You Down along with her own blog post titled Frustrated by a Stuck PLM Project? Then, yesterday I saw that Oleg had his own thoughts on the subject...
Last week in an interview with Peter Schroer, I got to uncover some great details about the SharePoint Collaborative Product Development (CPD) solution, aka Sharepoint PLM. This week I caught up with Marc Lind for his take on this Aras co-developed initiative with Microsoft, Razorleaf and Actify. Watch...
A discussion on Oleg’s blog Beyond PLM made me think about the motivations and incentives of open source as an approach for developing software and how it fits with associated business models. The post was titled “ PLM and Open Source Licenses ” and covered a lot of good points, however...
Recently, Graham McCall at AESSiS wrote a pretty good blog post titled “ Why Some People Don’t Like PLM ”. It’s a good re-post here and figured I’d include my own 2 cents as well. First, here’s Graham’s perspective: I thought it might be a good idea to examine...
“Obfuscation” is the term for scrambling of the data and/or table names, property names within the PLM database. This is the way the other major PLM / PDM systems were / are designed. The database table for the Part Master is not called / labelled “Part” – it’s labelled...
On one hand, we're getting promising news about the growth in manufacturing in the US and Asia (but with Europe a little less confident). On the other hand, the words "double-dip recession" are in the business press every day. Gartner is recommending that CIOs prepare for a potential round...