THE PLM STATE

At the executive level, if you really do the cost benefit analysis around regulatory compliance, sometimes, it appears that the cost associated with it versus the penalties of non-compliance might be...

Back in 2010 I wrote an article titled “No Engineering Organization is an Island”. The point of the article was to detail how almost all PLM systems can trace their origins back to Engineering....

If you have been paying attention to our many emails and social media posts, Zero Wait-State has themed our appearance at this year's Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience (MSCE) around the...

I have to admit that as I age I struggle with my fitness and weight. I once could eat whatever I wanted with little consequence and could jump in and out of exercise programs without wrecking my...

On January 8^th, 2002 George W. Bush signed into law an education reform bill known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This law supported standards based educational reform to ensure that all...

Migration is one of those words that conjure up fear in the hearts of IT professionals. Migration is a word associated with hardship and danger when referring to the migration of people. Data...

There have been some great articles published this week that touch on disruption in the enterprise software market. There are various theories floating around that enterprise software is due for a...

Many years ago I worked for a national company that specialized in CAD and PDM and we were training a group of people on a computer aided manufacturing (CAM) system. Our trainer was a very...

This will be my last installment of the Superfriends series but certainly not the least. I write this blog in tribute to the rare women in this field. We work in a male dominated field so typically...

Product portfolio management (PPM) is somewhat of a hot topic. Way Back in 2006 Aberdeen was touting the critical nature of new product development indicating that in their benchmark study almost 25%...