What I learned as a follow up to my report on Product Data Accessibility is that there is a lot more angst about finding product data than I ever realized. I was amazed at the discussion generated by my blog post about accessing all product data regardless of how it is stored. In particular, there…
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Accessing All of Your Product Data Regardless of Where and How it is Stored
A quick peek into some research on … the importance of accessing all product-related information, whether it is stored in a formal system such as Product Data Management (PDM) or not. The report, Issue in Focus: Product Data Accessibility: Getting Value from All of your Product Data, explains the importance for manufacturers to readily retrieve…
Tech-Clarity TV: Effectively Managing Engineering and Product Data
Hear Jim Brown share his views on … achieving business value by effectively managing engineering and product data.The report highlights findings from Tech-Clarity’s The Business Value of Product Data Management: Achieving Rapid and Extendible Benefits. This is the first (and possibly only) edition of Tech-Clarity TV, let us know what you think. Should there be…
PDM? PLM? TLA? WTH? PDM-less PLM?
What I learned this week … came from some reflection on PDM-less PLM: Is It Pragmatic or Just Problematic? on engineering-matters. Chad Jackson raises some great questions about whether PLM can be achieved without PDM. I wanted to share some of my thoughts on managing product data and managing product-related processes. I don’t think you…
Supporting Business Strategies with Engineering Data – PLM? PDM? CPDM? EDM?
A quick peek into some research on … how effectively managing engineering data can improve engineering efficiency. Beyond just efficiency, the study looks at how solutions that manage engineering data – whether you call them PLM, PDM, CPDM, EDM, or any other acronym – can play a critical role in helping manufacturers realize their business strategies.