THE PLM STATE

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...

I don’t just live and think PLM, I also coach a competitive age group swim team. We are part of the USA Swimming development program. USA Swimming is the national governing body for swimming from age...

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...

In route to my son's baseball practice, he and I were discussing strategy and tactics and the difference between the two.

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...

We completed a three month long Data Migration project recently moving a large amount of data from one PDM environment into another, similar, but different, environment. We hit our originally...

Have you ever heard the saying “Sometimes a great strength can become a great weakness?” Here is an example of that as it applies to the PDM/PLM space that we at ZWS inhabit. A great strength of...

One of the main drivers for descriptions in Agile PLM is the type of part numbering/naming scheme utilized in your environment. An intelligent or semi-intelligent part numbering scheme identifies...