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...

Since Aras moved to an open source distribution model in 2007, I’ve had more than one exasperated CIO ask me why I won’t “sell” him my software.  This always makes me laugh a little, after all, who likes being SOLD anythi...

“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 /...

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 recommendi...

In a typical 10,000 person company there are probably 50-100 full-time 3D CAD engineers. So how come these few CAD users and their CAD software vendors so often drive the selection of an enterprise PLM system that will likely touch thousands of users...