Making the value of technology clear
Might international standards for data exchange and interoperability between trading partners worldwide finally take hold? Could multi-enterprise manufacturing networks get cost-effective data flows in an open, vendor-agnostic network? That’s the intention of International Manufacturing-X Council (IM-X). Michelle Boucher and I had an opportunity to learn about this new consortium of 10 nations from CESMII (The…
I just learned about a new solution from a briefing from PLM provider Duro. The briefing, by coincidence, followed a recent conversation on LinkedIn about the value of a simple approach to managing product data. The discussion brought me back to a lot of my early research on “how much PLM is enough” and generated…
How does Selerant’s CPG PLM solution DevEx fit into TraceOne’s broader manufacturing and retail PLM strategy? Jim Brown shares two key takeaways from the Selerant (now Trace One Inc.) user conference. Trace One Displays CPG & Retail PLM Synergy at User Conference I was excited to speak at the 2023 Trace One user conference and…
Jim Brown and I are intrigued by what consumer products companies and retailers can do to design products and trade more effectively and sustainably after our briefing with TradeBeyond. Their multi-enterprise PLM and supply chain collaboration platform is expanding. By acquiring Pivot88, they strengthened existing industry-specific capabilities, deepened their presence in apparel, and added quality,…
I had the opportunity to visit Graphisoft’s Budapest headquarters for their recent Building Together | Connect event. I left the event with several key takeaways: They showed significant progress and alignment around their strategic vision to integrate AEC design processes across disciplines They delivered on a variety of enhancement requests for their existing customer base…
How do you manage a semiconductor production facility? Most people in the chip industry would say: with semiconductor MES. With its complex processes and products that cannot be clearly seen with the naked human eye, the semiconductor industry began broadly adopting MES in the 1980s and 1990s. And therein lies the problem. The systems that…