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Thinking about laptop design, I am amazed after watching this demo:

In the couple of years I have spent in helping the end users to adopt the PLM process supported with a PLM software application, I have learned some lessons in a hard way.  As I went through the hard way, however, I am able to touch the fundamentals with a deeper understanding.

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How much PLM does a small Apparel business need?  I interviewed an owner of an Ontario Apparel company.  She has the whole chain of Apparel design and sample development done in two rooms she rented. Most of the work is done manual.  There is not communication barrier as the number of workers are less than 10 in total and they share initiatives and change requests face to face.  They do not need online collaboration.  They do not have many product lines to manage.  They supply local…

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Summer is over. Last week I was attending SolidWorks media event in Concord Mass. September is going to be a traveling month for me. I’m going to attend Autodesk CIS event in Moscow. Autodesk is making some bold movements in the area of PLM. If you had a chance to follow my blog, you notedAutodesk PLM:…

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Cosmina is a passionate fashion designer.  She knows what she is doing and absolutely into it. My first impression was that this is a design boutique with good taste when I steppted into the door of unit 7 at 2020 Bathurst, right at the corner of Bathurst and Eglinton.

It is an office of 4 rooms, each of which is full with different functions: a meeting/design room, a computer room, a room for pattern making and a room for sample making. Cosmina supervises every aspect of it.  She is…

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When I first started the idea of Lean PLM, I felt very excited as it exactly reflected my vision on how PLM practice should be run.

This time when I joined this big global roll-out project for a PLM system, the slogan for the entire company is Fast and Lean Exellence, to my surprise.

"Lean" is not a new idea and many people are practicing it. But some are better off than others. PLM itself is a set of management theories and practices on how to develop and…

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PLMAC has been configured and linked to its twitter account plm_ac.

As a matter of fact, if you add a twitter account to your linkedin account, your tweets will be auto displayed on your linkedin status bar.

Therefore, as long as you add the twitter account "plm_ac" to your linkedin account and configure the settings properly, the message you want to share from the spot of "What do you want to share?" in "my page" in your PLMAC account will be auto populated to…

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TEC released a news lately about FlexPLM under the spotlight at PTCUser events titled "Under the PTC Umbrela". Knowing about FlexPLM 8 years ago, I realized how long it had taken for a software application to meet businesses. FlexPLM has been a silent and small group activity in the past PTCUser events until last year, when a big Apparel and Footwear company made it under the spotlight. What a jouney!