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Aras With a Focus on PLM Market Leadership
For Aras, a year that has brought a lot of news has come to an end. . New investors have taken over the majority of shares and new managers have joined the team of directors. Is it possible that Aras will become a new heavyweight in the PLM...
Book review of Dietmar Trippner “The 1×1 Of Strategy”
Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Trippner is known to many people in industry, especially in the field of engineering and the IT used in it. For many years at BMW, from 2004 to 2014 in the upper management, he was one of the initiators and founders of ProSTEP GmbH...
“Apache Log4j 2 Security Vulnerability And The Beauty of SaaS”
When a vast number of systems around the world was impacted early Friday morning with a critical open-source vulnerability breach, Log4j, PTC was able to keep its SaaS customers safe. Within just three hours, we mitigated that high severity issue...
Friedhelm Loh Group Acquires Digital Technology Poland
The Friedhelm Loh Group is further expanding its offering for the digitalization of the industrial value chain. Eplan, Rittal and German Edge Cloud are getting a new sister company from Poland: Long-time development partner Digital Technology...
Profiles of Providers and Institutes
PLM After 20 Years – What Is The Position Of The Providers Today?
Twenty years after the term PLM first appeared, the topic of structured data management is by no means dead.
Other buzzwords came to the front. How do the providers position themselves? Where are the users? This series gives answers.
New background series: Interviews on 40+ years of CAD
For almost half a century, CAD has been an important and often driving element in industrial digitalization. What will it be in the future? And what does the acronym mean for the suppliers still active in this market? Look forward to the experts’ answers. First up are those from Siemens and PTC.
Research
Internet of Production (IoP)
Due to an increasingly dynamic environment, companies are facing numerous challenges, such as the micro-segmentation of markets and ever shorter product life cycles. One way to address these challenges is to sustainably increase their innovative strength.
The »Smart Factory 4.0« Demonstration Cell
The way to Industrie 4.0 involves the trial, testing and skilful combination of novel methods, concepts and technologies. To this end Fraunhofer IPK has developed the »Smart Factory 4.0« demonstration cell which uses batch size 1 production to make the modes …
Enabling System Lifecycle Management through neutral data interfaces
The complexity of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations has already reached an unpleasantly high level, and the rise of complexity of products and their development will probably accelerate further. By establishing System Lifecycle Management (SysLM) as the next level PLM …
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PLM, Digitalization, IoT, …
PLM After 20 Years – What Is The Position Of The 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...
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