“PLM Special Ops” aka Customisation at Source

Business Process-Customization Trade-Offs The typical approach to successfully implementing enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions includes considering a number of people-process-technology related compromises and conc...

Agile and PLM: a ‘Platform of Things’ for Competitive Advantage

The Need for Business Agility Business agility is a source of competitive advantage – allowing organisations to adapt to new business imperatives, technology changes and various other industry forces. The ability to adapt quickly is the ...

Who Pays for PLM?

Companies continuously face tough decisions when it comes to enterprise technology investments, should they relate to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. In practical terms, “PLM is the ena...

Customise, De-customise, Re-customise: the Enterprise Digitalisation Dilemma

Going digital: to customise or not to customise? Digitalisation strategies include the selection, design, build, test, deployment, continuous improvement and maintenance of enterprise IT solutions, such as Product Lifecycle Management (P...

MBSE-PLM Alignment to Support Industry 4.0 and IIOT

Systems Engineering enables product data traceability Organisations and people need simplification to manage complexity and derive ‘big or complex things’ into smaller and manageable systems – where a system is a set of interacting ele...

ALM + PLM = IIoT

Need for data interpretation and traceability The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in manufacturing. It incorporates machine learning and big data technology, harnessing ‘real...