Category: Product Lifecycle Management

I  normally don’t link to content behind a pay-for wall, but I found the article below so compelling I couldn’t help myself.  Nick Carr gained notierirty a few years ago with the publication of “IT Doesn’t Matter” in HBR.  Since then he’s gone on to start (and stop..and start again) blogging and been a semi-regular…

We are doing some work with UC Berkley professor Henry Chesbrough and I ran across this podcast over the weekend.  Good basic overview for those who have heard about but aren’t sure of the details of open innovation. HBR IdeaCast 10: Opening Up Innovation & Dealing with Underperformers

The Manufacturer has an interesting article this month about the conflict between IP protection and global collaboration. Yes, it does feature a few of the products from my company. I see this as being the key issue that succesful innovators will figure out: how to create new ideas (through collaboration with partners/customers/competitiors) at a rate…

This is a really interesting article about how a number of factors (outsourcing, innovation, rapid prototyping) are all going to change what it means to work in a factory in the future.  Sounds like all those blue collars are going to have to get some bleach. DigitAll Magazine

Boy, this reminds me of the news from Nike a few years ago, blaming their implementation of i2 for their supply chain problems. I wonder if it will have the same effect on Dassault as a company as it did on i2? The Seattle Times: EADS execs pledge to restore confidence in Airbus, fix A380…

It seems our “friends” at Dassault had to do a hasty retreat from one of their recent press releases. A small detail about the customer quote eluded them and so they were forced to issue this retration: Dassault correction I’m sure it was just “lost in translation” 😉

The Manufacturer.com – The illusion of openness Interesting article from one of my favorite pubs out of the UK on manufacturing.  We have been talking about an SOA strategy at UGS for over 5 years.  In some ways it was forced upon us rather than a grand vision because of the needs we had to…

General Motors getting vehicles to market faster – Autoblog This is good news for one of our biggest and oldest customers, GM. It seems that they have at least solved the TTM problem, which had been an issue for many years. Now if they could just get more “inspired” designs like the Sky and Solstice…