Is PDM Disruption Ready?
What’s it take to get some love? At one time, PDM was the bleeding edge of the software industry for product development. After trying to manually manage the complex interrelationships between CAD...
View ArticleOracle’s Fourth Evolution of PLM?
A few weeks ago, I came across a tweet that caught my eye. I thought that looked pretty interesting. I hadn’t heard from the Oracle folks in a while. So I then headed over to look at their blog post. I...
View ArticleBrave New World: PLM without PDM
Is PDM and requisite part of PLM? That’s the question we took at a recent roundtable discussion at this year’s COFES. You see, in the past year, there have been a number of PLM-ish products that have...
View ArticleCan SDM Be Effective without CAD PDM?
A little while ago, I started writing a good bit more about simulation topics. In particular, I’ve been looking closely at Simulation Lifecycle Management, both in general as well as reviewing specific...
View ArticleArena Solutions PartsList and PDXViewer
Ask some folks in the industry what comes to their mind when you mention concept design, and most would probably start talking about the new 2D sketching and 3D direct modeling capabilities that are...
View ArticleClosing the Loop on Engineering Notebooks
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been writing a series of posts on the engineering notebook. More specifically, I’ve been writing about how a variety of technologies used outside engineering could...
View ArticleGranularity vs. Integration: Requirements Management
As of late, there seems to be a lot of discussion about granular solutions compared to integrated solutions. I wrote about it a few months ago in a post titled Point Solutions, Integrated Solutions and...
View ArticleAre Wikis the New Engineering Knowledge Management?
There’s a real laundry list of issues that have been circulating around engineering for quite some time. One of the notable ones have been engineering knowledge management. People have been trying to...
View ArticlePLM is Just Data Management… Whatever Dude?
A little over a week ago, Adam O’Hern published a really good post titled PLM Should Be LIke Google. Really. over at solidsmack.com. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Adam does a really good...
View ArticleTechnology is Pulling the The Engineering Specification Apart
Not too long ago, two main deliverables fully described the design of a part: the drawing and the specification. The drawing provided a geometric representation of the part both nominally and from a...
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