Category: Product Lifecycle Management

  • In Redmond Today for Microsoft Platform Strategy review

    Came into Redmond yesterday morning for a few meetings on the Microsoft campus.  Today I attended the first day of the Platform Strategy review which is held every so often by the Developer and Platform Evangelism group.  The last one I attended was in 2003, which it turns out was the last one that was…

  • Innovation is a Team Sport Podcast: Jim Brown, Aberdeen

    Another one of the recordings that John captured at PLM Europe last week.  This is the introductory discussion in the Innovation is a Team sport track, delivered by Jim Brown of the Aberdeen Group.  Jim discusses the results of research conducted 12 months ago that shows a direct link between open data standards and the ability…

  • Innovation is a Team Sport Podcast: Alan Walker, Siemens

    This is one of a few podcasts that John was able to capture at PLM Europe Last week. They are all from a track session focused on how the JT Open community (that we are active members of) helps end user and vendor members drive more innovation into their products. Alan Walker from Siemens Power…

  • One word

    Unbelievable! How much worse can this story get, and yet the Dassault stock seems completely uneffected. Airbus’ A380 megajet is now a full two years behind schedule—and the reason, CEO Christian Streiff admitted on Oct. 3, is that design software used at different Airbus factories wasn’t compatible. Airbus: First, Blame the Software

  • A cool app from UGS that I can explain to my Mom in 2 minutes

    I just got done with a presentation at our user conference on one of our newest technologies: Geolus Search. We got ahold of this from sd&m this past summer and have made a number of enhancements since then. It occurred to me that we created a lot of videos for my presentation and I should…

  • PLM Europe – Open Keynote Presentations

    For whatever reason, I was able to adjust to the GMT +1 time zone with no issues.  However, it didn’t matter so much since the event started today at 10:30 to allow for local travel.  The opening keynote was delivered by Tony.  He did a great job of reviewing our performance and outlining the vision…

  • AMR Roundtable at Innovation Leadership Summit

    At the conclusion of the summit we had a small roundtable lead by Mike Burkett from AMR Research. The voices you’ll here in addition to Mike are Chris Lorence from GE Aircraft Engines, Shawn Greenwald from Motorola and Tim Coles from JCB. You’ll hear me in there too.  The discussion mainly focused on the early…

  • Bruce Buff – Jones New York on Innovation in the Fashion Industry

    This is a different take on what it takes to innovate. Think you are fast? How do 90 day life cycles and 1 day development processes sound to you?

  • Pat Erickson from Thomas Built Bus on Innovation

    Another presentation from one of our users on how their innovation process has been helped by Teamcenter.