THE PLM STATE

Stephen Porter

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The PLM State: Habit #4 Part 2 Take Me Out to the Ball Game-How Agreements and Process support Win/Win

Over the summer I got the opportunity to go to Fenway Park with my son and Dad to watch the Red Sox play the Tigers. Surprisingly, they won. Seeing how far the Red Sox have fallen got me thinking...

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The PLM State: Habit #4 Think Win/Win, Have you Hugged Your PLM Vendor Today?

I have worked with people in the past that have used a very agressive approach to their negoations with others. This approach created some hard feelings from pretty much anyone they encountered and...

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The PLM State: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PLM Adoption

It has been a while since my last article however, the untimely departure of author Stephen Covey has motivated me to start a 7 week series as a tribute to him. I wanted to highlight some of the best...

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Process Extension Development - Demoting a Change Order

Demoting a change with an obsolete part on the BOM of an affected item

I often go through the Agile PLM SDK group in LinkedIn. On a recent visit, someone was having an issue with obsolete parts...

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Understanding Agile File Managers

Customers new to Agile PLM may not understand how multiple file managers can work together in a distributed environment. This video will demonstrate how the Agile Distributed File Managers (DFM),...

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Agile SDK and Inversion of Control

Looking for a better way to handle configuration for your Agile PLM development projects? Make your way over to SpringSource and read up on inversion of control (IoC) or dependency injection. I was...

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Setting a List Value through Agile PLM Web Services from Microsoft .Net

If you are having trouble figuring out how to use complex data types with Agile Web services from Microsoft .Net this blog may be for you. The web services for Agile PLM are a great way of providing...

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The PLM State: Final Thoughts from SolidWorks World- A PLM-centric Take

There was a subtle shift this year when it comes to SolidWorks World. Several bloggers have commented on how much more Dassault participated this year. I mentioned this last year with the change-over...

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The PLM State: Oracle’s Death Star for CAD Based PLM

One of the more compelling concepts in Star Wars and in general is the idea of the unstoppable super weapon that gives countries, planets or even evil empires an overwhelming advantage versus their...

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The PLM State: Searching for Hardware Relevance in a Software World-Dell Keynote

It was interesting that Michael Dell spoke for 40 minutes and barely mentioned hardware. It was also interesting that Oracle president Mark Hurd made a point of saying twice how much more they...

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