Background
Composable Software – Renaissance of Industrial Software
German Edge Cloud – Composable Software in Practice
2021, German Edge Cloud (GEC), the merger of three start-ups, became a Friedhelm Loh Group company. From the beginning, GEC was a member of the Gaia-X and Catena-X consortia and is actively involved in important lighthouse projects of the Industrie 4.0 platform and...
Siemens Is Excited About Technology Disruption – Embracing And Driving It Forward
Siemens Digital Industries Software is one of the few vendors of industrial software, who covers the management of most of the core processes in discrete manufacturing and process industry. Like most software, in the past this has been monolithic software. In 2019,...
PLM Service Provider ECS With New Services as “Composable Software”
ECS Engineering, Consulting & Solutions in Neumarkt, Bavaria, has been a successful IT consulting and solutions provider in the industry for many years. One of its specialties is integration solutions that enable customers to derive additional benefits from their...
Introduction: Composable Software – Renaissance of Industrial Software
Unless everything is deceptive, we are currently experiencing a veritable renaissance of industrial software. Not since the beginnings of the CAx industry over 30 years ago have there been so many start-ups of software companies. The buzzword is "composable." At the...
Half a century of Computer Aided Design – What does CAD mean today?
PTC’s Dual CAD Strategy: Creo Solutions for Platform Products and Onshape for Agile Product Development
PTC has been one of the world's leading CAD providers since the late 1980s and is now a major supplier of software for engineering, product lifecycle management, augmented reality, and IoT. Jim Heppelmann has been president and CEO of PTC since 2010. Jon Hirschtick,...
NX: From CAD To Engineering
Siemens Digital Industries Software is one of the leading global vendors of engineering software which in the beginning was almost all about CAD, the acronym for Computer Aided Design. During the past 15 years Siemens has become a leading vendor mainly after the...
Half a century of Computer Aided Design – What does CAD mean today?
CAD: It's not just a tool that engineers use to design products. More than any other technology, CAD stands for the beginning of the digitalization of industrial processes and the penetration of the entire industry with the digital. And although CAD has not been the...
PLM after 20 Years – What is the position of the IT and Service providers today?
PLM After 20 Years – Surprising Statements From Important IT Providers
Two articles have been published exclusively in this small series. One on the position of Dassault Systèmes, here Darko Sucic, Senior Director, Industry Consulting in Central Europe at Dassault Systèmes, was my interview partner. And one on the position of Siemens...
PLM after 20 years – What is the position of Siemens Digital Industries Software today?
Siemens Digital Industries Software has had a number of names. Some of them had PLM or PLM software in the center. Now the software company with headquarter in Plano, Texas, which is with more than 20.000 employees a big part of Siemens worldwide, has not only grown...
The Term PLM Was Coined 20 Years Ago – The Position Of One Of The Main Players, Dassault Systèmes, Today?
20 years is a long time in information technology. The term PLM has played an important role in industry digitalization for 20 years. During this time, managing product data centrally and increasingly using it throughout the entire lifecycle of products was, in a...
PLM After 20 Years – What Is The Position Of The Providers Today?
The term PLM for product lifecycle management has been around for around 20 years. Back then, no one talked about digitalization or digital transformation, AI was still a specialty of computer science geeks, and hardly anyone in Germany knew about IoT. Now it's all...