What are the implications for PTC’s acquisition of Onshape?
Today at Liveworx, PTC announced that Onshape's cloud infrastructure, now dubbed Atlas, will be the platform for all of PTC's products going forward. The...
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ZWSOFT - What Do They Offer, What Applications Do They Provide and What Do They Do?
What does ZWSoft offer. What applications do they provide.
Read more arrow_forwardOnscale - What is Simulation-as-a-Service?
https://youtu. be/xuGEABA-_3I What are the benefits of OnScale's Simulation-as-a-Service solution.
Read more arrow_forwardWhat is Digitalization?
The term 'Digitalization' has been floating around more prominently this year. What is it? What is involved? Is it new? We answer those questions in this v...
Read more arrow_forwardIs PLM A Never-Ending Journey?
Some suggest that the ongoing expansion of PLM can go on forever in the context of continuous improvement. Chad Jackson gives his perspective on this contr...
Read more arrow_forwardWincom - What is it? What's the value?
Most companies are going to customize PLM to some extent. The question becomes how do you manage and update that customization when you upgrade to new rele...
Read more arrow_forwardIntegrity and Windchill Integration
PTC recently announced the integration between Integrity and Windchill. Chad Jackson is here to talk about why this is so important....
Read more arrow_forwardSolid Edge Requirements Management - What's Involved
Solid Edge has a solution for customers who want to have the capability for requirements management, but don't want to invest in full PLM. Chad Jackson tak...
Read more arrow_forwardThe Upgrade Path with Aras Innovator New Releases
Aras offers an intriguing commitment: they'll take care of your customizations during an upgrade of their Innovator PLM platform. Do they follow through? C...
Read more arrow_forwardSolid Edge's Database-less Data Management - How Does It Work?
Solid Edge has forgone the use of a database to manage their files. Instead, they are using the Windows Indexer in order to organize their system. Chad Jac...
Read more arrow_forwardHow is Engineering Documentation Managed Today?
How are companies managing engineering documentation? We break it down in one of our recent studies....
Read more arrow_forwardOnshape's Latest Progress Data Management and More
Onshape has gone through a few changes recently. From data management to branching, we've broken down the companies latest improvements....
Read more arrow_forwardThe Engineering Executive's Conundrum
Change initiatives represent a real opportunity for improvement... and disruption. In this post, we talk about this catch-22 for engineering executives....
Read more arrow_forwardSolid Edge - Meeting Customers Where They Live
The News and Capabilities At the PLM World event in Orlando, Siemens PLM announced a new data management approach for users of Solid Edge. Here's the brea...
Read more arrow_forwardOne-Quarter Still Use Paper to Execute Development Processes and Projects
Today, we're living in a world highly enabled by digital technologies. They have become an integral part of our world, both professional and personal.
Read more arrow_forwardManaging Engineering Data - Few Dedicated to Enterprise Systems
This finding reveals the type and frequency of technologies used to manage design and development data....
Read more arrow_forwardThe Democratization of PLM
Today is a time of dramatic change for software solutions. Larger development organizations, including OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and supplier...
Read more arrow_forwardA Single Source of the Truth for the BOM Still Doesn't Exist
It is crazy how time flies. Blink and 2015 is gone.
Read more arrow_forwardaPriori - Adding Costing to the Engineering Toolbox
If there's one finding that seems to be show up again and again in our research studies, it’s that engineers are seriously time constrained. There's simpl...
Read more arrow_forwardUpdate on SPLM Strategy for Engineering Solutions
It is that time again. Every year, in the fall, Siemens PLM holds an analyst event where they provide an update on their perspective on the industry, thei...
Read more arrow_forwardSiemens PLM Teamcenter - Separating Platforms and Apps
In the past five years, CAD applications have undergone a significant amount of change. We've seen the advent of Direct Modeling.
Read more arrow_forwardPDM is a Personal Productivity Tool
Ready for a rousing debate on Product Data Management (PDM). It may not be the most compelling topic, but reading up on it has its uses.
Read more arrow_forwardThe Diverging State of PDM
A little more than a year ago, I wrote post titled The PDM Revolution is Upon Us, Brought to You by CAD in the Cloud, which postulated what would happen as...
Read more arrow_forwardPDM Capabilities - The Right Fit for Small Organizations
Technology can be a powerful thing. But is it always a good fit for every organization.
Read more arrow_forwardConcurrent Product Development - Problem Solved or Issue Ignored?
This post reviews the value proposition of Concurrent Product Development, originally powered by CAD, as well as revisits why it is no longer a central top...
Read more arrow_forwardWhat is Siemens PLM's HD-PLM?
HD-PLM is Siemens PLM's product strategy to access PLM information through 3D models. This posts provides some detail into how it works and the value it pr...
Read more arrow_forwardWhat's the Biggest Challenge in Transitioning to PLM?
Yes, this is a pop quiz. Alright. Quick, now, think about your answer. Got it? OK, now, hold on to it. Remember it. Stick it in a safe place in your head....
Read more arrow_forwardMitigating the Legacy Data Risk to PLM Deployments
Deploying PLM or PDM? Heh. That’s literally a whole different class of software. Many things can go horribly wrong along the way to a go-live date. If you’...
Read more arrow_forwardPDM - Boon or Plague?
Wow. So PDM is a hot topic now, eh? Over the past few weeks, we've had our Tech4PD episode on PDM for small organizations and a slew of blog posts on the t...
Read more arrow_forwardPLM Requires Business Transformation? Bollocks
Do you read Jos Voskuil's blog? If you don't, and you're involved in PLM at your company, you should follow his posts. He has great ideas and insights into...
Read more arrow_forwardHas PLM Been Misdirected All This Time Around?
Deploying PLM. I know few technical champions that face the prospect of starting a PLM deployment with earnest joy. Mostly, that's because it can be a long...
Read more arrow_forwardEngineering-less PLM?
Back in September, Yoann Maingon over at Minerva, an Aras reseller, wrote a blog post that got my attention:Stop Starting PLM from Engineering!!! The gist...
Read more arrow_forwardCan Siemens PLM's Insight XT Succeed where PTC's ProductPoint Failed?
Back in June, I attended PLM Connections, the user event for Siemens PLM, in Las Vegas. Of course, there were a lot of product updates and announcements ov...
Read more arrow_forwardGranularity 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 t...
Read more arrow_forwardMy Thoughts on System Engineering Capabilities at PlanetPTC 2012
Back in June, I went to PlanetPTC 2012 and got caught up on their new releases and products. One of the major things that captured my attention was their...
Read more arrow_forwardCan 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...
Read more arrow_forwardBrave 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.
Read more arrow_forwardOracle's Fourth Evolution of PLM?
A few weeks ago, I came across a tweet that caught my eye. I thought that looked pretty interesting.
Read more arrow_forwardIs 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.
Read more arrow_forwardThe Many Faces of Product Data Management
As I've said before and I'm sure I'll say again, terminology in this industry can be a source of confusion. And even though it's been around for quite som...
Read more arrow_forwardThe Second Incarnation of MSC Software's SimManager
A few weeks ago, I published a post titled The Misnomer of Simulation Lifecycle Management to kick off a longer and deeper look at the current state of the...
Read more arrow_forwardNuage - The First Social PLM System?
Well, looks like we've got PLM systems coming out of the woodwork nowadays. We had Autodesk launch PLM360.
Read more arrow_forwardNX Simulation - One Model to Rule Them All
When you start looking at simulation software tools, you quickly realize that there is a lot there. There are tools for preprocessing.
Read more arrow_forwardKenesto - A New Take on PLM
Well, looks like Mike Payne is at it again. The man that's notable for starting a good number of CAD companies, including PTC, Solidworks and Spaceclaim,...
Read more arrow_forwardThe Misnomer of Simulation Lifecycle Management
It doesn't seem like it was that long ago when we started hearing about Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM). But blink your eyes and its five years late...
Read more arrow_forwardPLM - The Debate Over The Troubled TLA
It's funny. It seems that unresolved debates come back in vogue like retro clothes.
Read more arrow_forwardHow Many of Today's Products Are Truly "Engineered?"
Curious question, right. For those that are in engineering and have been exposed to the development of various types of products, you might have pondered...
Read more arrow_forwardPoint Solutions, Integrated Solutions and the Granularity Value Proposition
A few weeks ago, I published a software review post titled Actify Centro and Microsoft SharePoint: The 3D Mashup . In it I looked at one of Actify's new p...
Read more arrow_forwardMechatronics Management (Part 2) - Electrical Aspects
This series of four posts looks at the management of items, data and bills of material for mechatronic products. It is split into mechanical aspects, elec...
Read more arrow_forwardMechatronics Management (Part 1) - Mechanical Aspects
For the past three years, I've headed out to Phoenix AZ for the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software to talk with numerous providers and users of...
Read more arrow_forwardThe PLM Misnomer - What We Know It Isn't
Seems there's been a lot of buzz lately about what exactly PLM is. Jim Brown and I went back and forth in the comments of one of my posts. Jim also had a g...
Read more arrow_forwardPlanview - A Little More than PPM? Not Quite PLM?
We all know what Product Portfolio Management (PPM) is. Right? Is the system that let's us assess product ideas, compare them and ultimate fund a few for d...
Read more arrow_forwardSimply Pragmatic - The SPLM Teamcenter and Microsoft Office Integration
Most people that follow this blog might notice a recurring theme in my posts: engineers simply have too many lifecycle responsibilities to be come experts...
Read more arrow_forwardIntegrating Simulation and Test - From Conflict to Collaboration
There's nothing quite like a good old war between departments, is there? As disruptive as it can be, conflict between organizations happens all too often....
Read more arrow_forwardWhat is the Killer App for the Modern Engineer?
A couple weeks ago, I asked a question that has been on my mind for a while: do engineers have the broadest reach within the enterprise? I've always though...
Read more arrow_forwardDoes SharePoint Add Complexity to PLM?
It is a fast-paced and complicated world, isn't it? While we've gotten instant access to information around the world, I think it's gotten harder for each...
Read more arrow_forwardPDM-less PLM - Is It Pragmatic or Just Problematic?
Since PLM was first conceived, it has almost been inseparable from PDM. The majority of PLM deployments included PDM as part of the PLM deployments. Howeve...
Read more arrow_forwardVuuch - A Unique Approach to Social Computing in Product Development
Overall, the objective behind Vuuch is the same as it has been for any other collaboration solution provided in the last ten years. If you resolve issues f...
Read more arrow_forwardHoward Schimmoller Talks About Windchill at Lockheed Martin MS2 Divisions
I've always been extremely curious about PLM deployments in larger enterprises. Based on my experience, larger companies tend to take on PLM to support an...
Read more arrow_forwardVISTAGY and the Impact of Developing a More Complete Product Definition
A few weeks ago, I published a post that focused on the form, fit and function aspect of the product record. In it, I differentiated between artifacts that...
Read more arrow_forwardManaging Engineering Numbers with Truenumbers
As an engineer, you very possibly may have found yourself in the following situation. You've prepped for a engineering status meetings. You aggregated your...
Read more arrow_forwardSome Answers to the Question - What exactly is PTC's Windchilll SocialLink?
When I attended the PTC/User conference and heard this announcement earlier this year, I thought it was an interesting concept. I knew it brought more soci...
Read more arrow_forwardWhat is the Impact of Siemens PLM's HD Strategy on Decision Support?
Siemens PLM's HD strategy provides stakeholders a way to visually access and navigate information in Teamcenter, Siemens's PLM offering. For stakeholders t...
Read more arrow_forwardMy Takeaways from PLM Connections 2010
Traveling to Dallas TX for PLM Connections in 2011 was great in terms of getting product updates. Here are some my quick thoughts, including those on my ne...
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