Product Lifecycle Management

What Is Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Today, Autodesk presented a look at their 2014 portfolio along with a preview of their offerings for building, plant, product, and factory design. If you misse...

What Is Configuration Management?

Configuration Management is a set of inter-related processes meant to enable people to work together better.  Configuration Management (CM) is like a s...

3 Easy Steps to Proper PLM Education

I have recently read several articles about the complex nature of PLM: PLM Should be Like Google, and PLM is Too Complicated. Some would like to make...

PLM vs. ERP

Recently I've read several posts about PLM vs ERP. First, one from Oleg Shilovitsky about the differences, and one from Arena Solutions about ho...

Does Your Cloud do PLM?

Today, Autodesk presented a look at their 2014 portfolio along with a preview of their offerings for building, plant, product, and factory design. If you misse...

Evaluating Your PLM Strategy

I finally think spring is here! I could be hallucinating, but I don't think so. I am starting to see flowers, and blossoms, and people on the driving range, so...

PLM Implementations

Starting a PLM implementation activity can be a daunting task for anyone. I have been reading a couple of articles that mention some of the challenges on this ...

What Is a PLM Agile Deployment?

Have you heard of scrum? Scrum is an agile development methodology often used to develop software. You can read the Wikipedia definition HERE, since they ...

What Is Social PLM?

For the past two years I have heard many technology vendors touting the benefits of social tools. No one can miss the astounding uptake of such solutions as&nb...