Episodi

  • ProveIt! 2026 — Key Learnings

    ProveIt! 2026 — Key Learnings
    Feb 21 2026
    ProveIt! is the 4.0 Solutions / Walker Reynold's annual industrial operations conference. This year it drew 51 software vendor sponsors and hundreds of manufacturers to Dallas for five days of live demos, keynotes, and honest conversation about what's actually working on the factory floor. I stayed
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    4 min
  • From Suite-Centric to Thread-Centric PLM

    From Suite-Centric to Thread-Centric PLM
    Jan 11 2026
    Executive Summary PLM isn’t broken. The suite-centric architecture is. Keep PLM Core as the System of Record for what must be governed (BOM/configuration, change, lifecycle state). Then modernize the stack around it: * Data Contract + Governance: semantics, access rules, lineage, quality * MCP
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    7 min
  • The New Generation: 30+ Startups Proving PLM Disruption Is Real

    The New Generation: 30+ Startups Proving PLM Disruption Is Real
    Dec 7 2025
    Twenty-five years after MatrixOne, Arena, and Aras proved you could build PLM without owning CAD, a new wave of startups is attacking the same market—but with cloud-native architectures, AI copilots, and a focus on speed over customization[1][2][3]. This isn't just mid-market disruption anymore. Som
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    11 min
  • The PLM Challengers: Cloud Natives, Open Platforms, and the Ones That Got Away

    The PLM Challengers: Cloud Natives, Open Platforms, and the Ones That Got Away
    Dec 7 2025
    By the early 2000s, PLM was dominated by vendors with deep CAD roots—PTC, UGS/Siemens, and Dassault Systèmes. But a different breed of players emerged around the same time, building PLM without owning a flagship CAD system. They bet on cloud, open architectures, and flexibility long before those wer
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    8 min
  • From SmarTeam to 3DEXPERIENCE: How Dassault Systèmes Redefined PLM as a Business Platform

    From SmarTeam to 3DEXPERIENCE: How Dassault Systèmes Redefined PLM as a Business Platform
    Dec 7 2025
    While PTC and Siemens built PLM by extending engineering-centric PDM, Dassault Systèmes took a fundamentally different path: it started with CATIA's dominance in aerospace and automotive, acquired the building blocks for a multi-tier PLM portfolio, faced a major architectural setback, pivoted brilli
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    9 min
  • From IMAN to Teamcenter: How Siemens Built the Industry's Most Comprehensive PLM Platform

    From IMAN to Teamcenter: How Siemens Built the Industry's Most Comprehensive PLM Platform
    Dec 7 2025
    By the early 2000s, two powerful but incompatible PDM systems dominated different corners of manufacturing: UGS's IMAN ruled assembly-heavy industries like automotive and aerospace, while SDRC's Metaphase served discrete manufacturing and mid-market customers. What happened next—a merger, strategic
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    10 min
  • From PDM to PLM: How PTC Evolved Windchill into the Enterprise Backbone

    From PDM to PLM: How PTC Evolved Windchill into the Enterprise Backbone
    Dec 7 2025
    When Pro/INTRALINK reached the limits of engineering-centric PDM in the late 1990s, PTC made a strategic bet that would reshape its future and the PLM market: acquiring an upstart company called Windchill Technology and transforming it from an internet-based collaboration tool into the foundation of
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    11 min
  • PLM History 101: PDM (Part 6) - Toward PLM and the Digital Thread

    PLM History 101: PDM (Part 6) - Toward PLM and the Digital Thread
    Dec 3 2025
    From the 1980s to the 2000s, we see PDM evolving from simple file control into something much more ambitious. By the early 2000s, the distinction between PDM (managing CAD data) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) started to blur. The systems from PTC, UGS/Siemens, Dassault, and others were expan
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    2 min