No doubt, there’s a lot of potential in 3D printing, but before we overhaul the manufacturing industry there are questions that need to be considered. Today, we serialize parts for traceability and tracking. This becomes more complicated with 3D printing…

It's graduation season and speeches and inspiration can be found on every campus... and in every corner of the Internet. Even though my own graduations are long behind me, I love this one , titled Question Authority from Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter…

The title immediately caught my attention, " Technology: Augmented Reality on the Plant Floor " and the article got me thinking about all the possibilities the future holds for manufacturing. Imagine this: you're on site doing maintenance on one of…

What's up with the product lifecycle? I ask this because I recently read 2 articles that offered conflicting opinions, with one saying that product lifecycles were "collapsing" and the other talking about how people are holding on to their stuff longer…

This post by HBR's Scott Anthony got my attention in a big way. First, he talks about disruptive innovations in business which, as a card-carrying member of the Aras Community, is a topic near and dear to my heart. Ok, we don't really have cards, but…

Like a lot of people in our industry, at this time of year I have one eye on my various news feeds to see what is coming out of CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. The latest thing to catch my eye is the iOS-Compatible LEGO MINDSTORM EV3. According…

As those of you who've been here for training know, our global headquarters is located in Andover, MA. But what you might not know is that we're not the first innovators to hang our hats on this spot. Our building has a long history of innovation, beginning…

As technology advances, so does the complexity of the products it produces. In the 1970s, a typically luxury car had around 2,000 parts in it and most were mechanical. Today, there are more than 30,000 parts in the average car and they are blend of mechanical…

From frustrating file management to the convenience of cloud, as technology has advanced over time so too has PLM. PLM was once a humble, paper-based system that tended to be slow, fragmented and a little disorderly, making innovation and product development…

Kickstarter, a crowd-funding website for business startups and creative projects, has become increasingly popular since its in launch in April 2009. Kickstarter funds an extreme diversity of endeavors ranging from indie films, music and books, to journalism…

While twittering about last week, someone I follow noted "Business Insider article titles make him laugh". So of course I had to click into This Ex-Salesforce Exec Wants To Save The Planet - And Kill Oracle, SAP in the Process . Pretty bold title but…

A while back Ralph Grabowski’s upFront.eZine published a piece titled “ Just How Open is Aras with its Open-Source PLM ” which involved my response to another reader’s statement about Aras. To Ralph’s credit, he published a substantial portion of my response…

Okay, it's official. 2012 has started it's race to the finish line. Can you believe the first quarter of the year will be over by the time you come back to work on Monday? Really, it will be. That puts you just one short month away from the start of ACE…

Like anyone involved in the PLM world, I too have been following the continued announcements of Autodesk PLM 360. There was a veritable thunderstorm of posts on twitter yesterday that took up my feed for the better part of the morning on the subject.…

This morning on Copyblogger I read a piece by John Truant that discussed the negative affect that playing by the rules can have on a business... "If you're doing everything right, but find yourself unable to stand out from your competitors... I can…

Happy new year to everyone! We’re looking forward to a great 2012, and looking back at 2011 it was another record breaker. In addition to achieving record sales and double digit growth again (that’s 5 years in a row for anyone counting), we increased…

Last week Aras was launched in Greater China. The interest level in the Microsoft open approach for PLM and Quality management solutions is particularly high throughout the region. Businesses in Asia are increasingly recognizing the need for PLM solutions…

A few days ago Jim Brown at Tech-Clarity had posted on “the impact of the economy on the engineering software industry?”… This topic is a bit different than the implications for end user customer companies. The emphasis is on the engineering software…

Recently, I was asked by the Product Development & Management Association ( PDMA ) to present on our innovation and corporate transition to an open model. The PDMA was interested in hearing about our transition: What were the motivating factors? …