By Verdi Ogewell, on Engineering.com -
Is time running out for “old school” PLM? Is the end at hand for the most common solutions in the world’s companies?
Håkan Kårdén thinks so. He is Eurostep Group’s CEO and organizer of the PLM event PDT Europe, and he isn’t alone in his reasoning.
“What we’re seeing now,” he said, “is an unprecedented stream of radical changes transforming product development, manufacturing, maintenance and business setup."
The new generation of smart, networked products requires matching platforms and technologies to be developed, produced and operated. System development was previously focused on CAD, CAE and PLM/PDM solutions. Now the discussion has moved towards platform thinking and "the lifecycle model-based enterprise," including much-hyped concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial IoT, digital twins and digital threads.
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