THE PLM STATE

As further proof of my dedication, I am writing this blog from the mountains of Durango. One thing about Colorado is that in spite of its beauty, getting around here can be very challenging. We spent...

I've always been a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, namely his westerns. One in particular was his 1992 film Unforgiven. In this movie I loved the fact that he provided a more realistic perspective of the...

Flow, according to poet W. H. Auden, "is the state of forgetting oneself in a function." Whether its riding a wave or hitting a golf ball, the feeling of "being in the flow" is unsurpassed....

I wrote this blog back in 2010, and invite your comments about how pricing has changed (or not) over the past 6 years.

A blog written by Oleg Shilovitsky titled "How to Manage ECO's without paying...

On September 6, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) communicated its intention to add 6 more substances to the REACH Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) List. (...

My previous blog on intelligent part numbers generated a lot of good response on LinkedIn. The general consensus seems to be that intelligent part numbering is anything but, and that there is a lot...

Over the past several years, the word customization has taken on very negative connotations in the enterprise software implementation space. Horror stories of lengthy implementations and hard to...

I'm pretty much a geek when it comes to engineering history, especially anything involving system failures due to design shortcomings. I guess that's why I am so drawn to History Channel’s Modern...

When I saw that James Cameron was going to be the day two speaker at SolidWorks World (2010), I thought to myself, pretty good timing considering he is the hottest director with the hottest film out...

Part One of this “Strange Trip” Article Series delved into a little of the origin of Zero Wait-State and our strategic shift in Sales, Marketing, and Product Development, which included our recent...