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Is the casual or “read-only” user in PLM an outdated concept? From my discussions with industry analysts, the value of a full-blown PLM user is approximately $80 per month, or $960 per year. My experience is that you are being charged significantly…

Received a DNA kit as a gift. Filled the test tube to the required line, capped it and sent it off for analysis. A couple of weeks later the interesting, mixed results came back. A two-page list of diseases that I might have the variant for or where the…

Out-of-the-box (OOTB) is dead. If your employees are mindlessly walking around, unable to use data to get their jobs done because you have an old customized OOTB system, you have a serious problem. That’s right: PLM zombies. The root cause for this…

In my previous blog, "The Talk" I discussed the all too familiar story of PLM sponsors unexpectedly facing the limitations of their newly installed PLM systems due to the outdated frameworks upon which most older PLM systems are built. My point was that…

Creating a painting involves many separate steps and skills. From preparing the canvas or board to receive the medium, to mixing the medium to achieve the correct hue, to the use of different brushes, knives, and brush strokes to achieve different effects…

While vacationing in Maine, I learned a saying of theirs: “You can’t get there from here.” This is their way of relaying the impossibility of traveling from point A to point B in a direct path due to various ponds (you might call them lakes), mountains…

Digital transformation is happening all around us—but is it working? This infographic explains how a platform to own the lifecycle of your product’s data, processes, and strategies is the key to successful digital transformation.

Wish me a happy anniversary: I’ve been writing about the PLM industry for 10 years, with 3 different software vendors (5, counting M&A). But in that decade, I had yet to see the promise of “one platform for the entire product lifecycle” fulfilled. Until…