Category: Product Lifecycle Management

Later today, we will announce a significant step-up in our partnership with one of our longest term partners, IBM. We have had an alliance with IBM a long as I can remember, but it was mainly focused on hardware. With our support of the PDIF a few weeks ago we opened the door a bit…

Just finished the newest book from Henry Chesbrough, Open Business Models.  I was drawn to his first book (Open Innovation, 2003) because it fit right at the intersection of our new corporate message (innovation) and what I was focused on (our open strategy).  This new book takes a deep dive into the business model aspects…

IndsutryWeek just published a nice write up of the intergration one of our partner’s products with Teamcenter.  The increasing electrical content of manufactured products combined with increasing regulation has really driven demand for these sort of compliance solutions. IndustryWeek : Environmental Compliance Just Got Easier

This via the guys at download squad:  A German research team has developed some software that allows any standard webcam to be used as a 3D scanner.  Now if they could only make any standard laser or ink-jet printer into a replicator we’d be set! Institut für Robotik & Prozessinformatik

.!. WorldCAD Access: IBM Expands Presence in PLM

There’s something more to this than I can put into words right now. The idea of posting data sets for all to use is amazingly interesting to me. I guess all those years of regression analysis in Quattro Pro while in engineering school are coming back to haunt me. Whatever it is, the idea of…

.!. Well a few weeks ago it the guys over at 3DMojo had a problem with “express”. Now they have a problem with “turnkey “. While I’ll give them that the use of the word turnkey is definitely a flash to the past, I’m not so sure I agree with the key part of their…

Especially from the heart of what many see as the opposite of a manufacturing based economy (no, not the IFTF…Silicon valley): The book starts with one vast insight about the nature of technology. This is it: manufacturing isn’t boring. Figuring out how to produce thousands or millions of units of complicated, high-performance components requires as…

This in via Boing Boing today.  An interesting application of build to order concepts.  Imagine this taken one step further: users could upload body, clothing and weapon designs and Vicale could manufacture them.  If a user thought they had done something really cool, they could open up a shop on Vicale and sell their action…