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The PLM Old Fart Paradox | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. The PLM Old Fart Paradox. February 25, 2015. Have we chosen…. Jim recognizes that young talent in particular is crucial in understanding how newly emergent communication and collaboration technologies can be brought into the PLM fold. Any of these technologies can prove to be both transformative and disruptive to PLM as we know it. He goes on to appeal for solutions to resolve the status quo:. Somewhere along a natural career progression, you reach c...
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Lost in CAD Translation | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. Lost in CAD Translation. April 25, 2015. The amount of choice in the ever-expanding CAD universe is not without a strong caveat: the persistent interoperability woes. Reliable direct translation seems to be the preferable solution, especially with regards to preserving design intent. Could things get worse? Yeah, they’re worse. Larger companies purposefully limit their interoperability exposure through format mandates to their supply chain&...It̵...
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The PDM/PLM Divide | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. July 1, 2014. A great void continues to expand in the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and even progressively simpler Product Data Management (PDM) technology solutions. A chasm exists between the large enterprises successfully engineering complex information infrastructure into manufacturing juggernauts, and the small design firms merely surviving with the digital equivalent of brute force. It’s literally becoming an abyss,. Any sol...
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A RENT-A-CAD Future? | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. September 17, 2013. Within the mainstream, Microsoft is keen on pushing Office 365, aggressively pricing access to the entire Microsoft Office suite for $100 a year on up to 5 PC’s and. Their hope is in a few years people will strain to remember perpetually licensed Office. Regardless, the subscription model does have compelling advantages, especially for professional users whose needs involve large swaths of the Adobe Creative Suite. While it’...
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Put Your PLM in the Box | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. Put Your PLM in the Box. August 1, 2015. As enterprise software vendor houses struggle with one another to maintain and expand their territories and influence, they fight across both philosophical and logistical boundaries. What’s to say where the boundaries falls between, we know these battle lines are long-contested, not a day goes by where there’s not another story about PLM bumping up against ERP. What’s in the box? Andrew White of the Gartner Bl...
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A Red BOM Rises | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. A Red BOM Rises. May 8, 2014. Remember how I told you not to taunt happy-fun multi-headed dragon? Well, Multi-Headed Dragon is cranky. Increasingly, it looks like new battle lines are being drawn on the stage of a very old war. An important question to ask: will territory finally be ceded one way or another, or is this just another episode of Bill of Material (BOM) Groundhog Day? Integrations shall be shaken! BOMs shall be splintered! They cite good ...
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The Day the Strength of PDM Failed | E(E)
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Engineering(Engineering) A technology innovation blog. The Day the Strength of PDM Failed. January 15, 2015. With traditional PDM. Now, from the cloud ranks comes a new battle cry, as CAD upstart Onshape greets the world with a first ever blog. Onshape’s bottom-up re-imagining of CAD is certainly refreshing, and is something the industry would benefit to see more of. They are to be commended. But where does the prophecy start to stretch a bit? It all starts with a comment which essentially translates to.
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