re-imagining plm for the future business

Oleg Shilovitsky @ Beyond PLMCopyright © Beyond PLM 2015

Re-imagining PLM for the future business

Who am I?1990s: Selling and developing Autodesk apps in Israel 2000s: SmarTeam, Enovia, Dassault… platform and applications for PDM and PLM

2010-12: Inforbix (acquired by Autodesk): Developed tech for cloud search and data analytics

2012-14: Autodesk: joined the team working on PLM 360 and search technologies

2015… Beyond PLM consulting and social media

After 20 years with SmarTeam, Dassault Systems and Autodesk, I’m consulting engineering and manufacturing companies about PLM and technologies

Copyright © Beyond PLM 2015

Beyond PLM


Beyond PLM…

I started to blog in 2008 and didn’t stop…

For the last 6 years I wrote ~1800 blogs about PLM and related topics - technology, engineering, manufacturing...

It is more than 1’000’000 words …and I learned a lot:What I learned about PLM from six years of daily blogging


http://beyondplm.com/2015/02/03/what-i-learned-about-plm-from-six-years-of-daily-blogging/



Internet 1990s...

Internet Access Windows 95 eBay founded

Smartphone 1990s...


Nokia 9000

Storage 1990s...


It is a generation shift...


Internet penetration


Mobile phones and smartphones


Internet is a new platform


Re-imagining enterprise


Reimagining: Visitors management process


Re-imagining: Customer care process


Re-imagining: Payment process


Next industrial revolution


Product

Smart, platform and service orientedCopyright © Beyond PLM 2015

Demand for personal manufacturing


Mass-customization and personalization is widely adopted

Value chain economics

Build to order, speed, engagement with consumer


Production economics

Small is a new big. Low barrier to enter for small manufacturers Copyright © Beyond PLM 2015

Top 3 PLM platforms - roots are in 1990s


A lot of history and overhead of integration

Traditional PLM reached their limits

Challenge to keep large PLM

installations up to speed:

● costly

● slow ROI

● hard to bring new functions


Enterprise systems are stuck between a rock and a hard place(s)

Single System

Federated Platform


Need to think outside of RDBMS

DB size

DB transaction

Response time

Single node DB problem

It won’t scale...


Current PLM paradigm


The era of networks is here...

What common between these platforms? They are NETWORK based


PLM industry risk - “aging platform”


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Re-imagining PLM for the future businessThe PLM market has reached a plateau; SMEs do not have the resources to throw at large evaluation and deployment

projects and larger companies are dissatisfied with a technology that has changed very little in the 10-20 years since its

roll-out and offers limited short-term ROI.

The disconnect between customer demands and platform capabilities has led to the need to ask some very important

questions as to the future of the PLM industry and the need for change to avoid extinction.

This session will cover:

● Exploring the desperate need for vendor and software transformation and conflicting paradigms

● Understanding the three major inhibitors of current market growth - global collaboration, integration and fast ROI

● Re-thinking existing design, product data management and business process paradigms

● Clearer cloud strategies as a solution to this rut

● Limitations of turning to cloud because of the security, human factor and integration

● Re-aligning the software offering with the need for more agile, flexible and global operations

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