From the monthly archives: August 2009

People Centric PLM – A New PLM Age Is Born

On August 11, 2009 By

PLM systems have been touted as the next generation of product development technology for just about 10 years! WOW!!! It is hard to believe it has actually been this long, time flies when your having fun… Massive amounts of spending and value has been created through the advent and installation of PLM, but are we done? No we [...]

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PLM Strip Show

On August 7, 2009 By

As applications become complex the UI becomes overwhelming. Look at the top CAD applications the number of commands multiple like rabits. To make it look like there isn’t command overload picks are pushed down the menu stack. Closer to a daily example look at Internet Explorer, how many menus do you use? One, two and [...]

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People or Process another Chicken and Egg?

On August 5, 2009 By

What is more important People centric or Process centric?  And are these mutually exclusive?  Certainly people need to be involved in a Process but what they do and how/when they interact is scripted and for this reason a Process is not People centric.  Current day PLM tools are Process centric and therefore have limited the value that can be [...]

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Debating PLM as Open Source

On August 5, 2009 By

Oleg touched on a subject that seemed to strike at the hart – he questioned the value and opportunity for PLM to be “Open Sourced“.  After re reading the post and all the comments I was struck by the fact that NO ONE asked the question or re phrased the question [...]

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