Do Not Put the PLM Cart before the Data Management Horse
January 4, 2012
We ran across an interesting article on IndustryWeek titled, New Age PLM: Both the CTO and CIO Should be Interested. A very tech-term-heavy read there was some really good points made nonetheless. The focus of the article was Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and how new strategies and technologies are allowing PLM success to influence other aspects of the process.
We were intrigued with the author’s comments on data management. All too often data management is overlooked in the overall PLM solution although, as the article point out, data often resides where it is created which can be all over the world for many companies. This exact conundrum leads the author to express,
The new age PLM systems bring in much needed maturity to enable consistent Engineering Data Management, collaboration and visualization of different CAD formats. This leads to a detailed examination of the way the enterprise is organized to work with engineering assets, and because it addresses data structures, it leads to questions about product structures.
As companies are waking up and realizing that things cannot go on as they always have a new industry for solutions is emerging. We recommend rather than be swept away by the tide of newcomers companies keep their focus on the real issues at hand, primarily data management. For PLM solutions to work effective data management solutions must be in place. The engineering industry is a difficult industry for data management and only by working with dedicated professionals specializing in the industry can companies be assured their PLM solution will be effective.
Catherine Lamsfuss, January 4, 2012
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