Making the value of technology clear
Can smart manufacturing, connectivity, and IoT reduce the tradeoffs of serving customers well? In this blog post, Julie Fraser explains both the importance of moving to smart manufacturing and how connectivity and IIoT support each other in moving a company forward. No company can afford to stay behind – moving to digital approaches is a…
Jim Brown and I had the opportunity to catch up with Anark to get an update. Anark has been serving the engineering and product development community for a long time, starting with their ability to translate and publish 3D visualization data and building that into a collaboration platform for manufacturers, and we wanted to catch…
Making plant floor software more straightforward to use, rollout, maintain, and sustain is a worthy endeavor. The fourth annual release of the GE Digital Proficy portfolio as an integrated release was packed! Updates range from expanding industry fit to architecture for enterprise rollout, cloud everywhere, composability, consistency for connected workers, sustainability functionality, and pre-built analytics…
Julie Fraser and I were introduced to Denodo through a connection made in the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International Smart Manufacturing Community. Denodo is a large, fast-growing data management company with capabilities supporting enterprise data fabric and data integration. We spent some time with the Denodo team, learning about their solution for data virtualization…
I caught up with an old friend who has an exciting new role as Executive Board Member and Co-Owner of PDTec, a company that I am excited to get to know better. The company offers a series of composable apps based on their data management platform, ice. NET. I love their tagline “innovation through integration”…
2023 is in the rearview mirror and I’m reflecting on a few things that Michelle Boucher and I learned and what they mean for our industry. Here are some takeaways from Autodesk University 2023, including AI and PLM strategy updates, that will have a big impact on the industry. This is only a small portion…