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Effective Product Returns using PLM

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:31:00 +0000

How can PLM systems effectively aid returns management/reverse logistics? My views on the topic at MCADCafe Blog:...

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My PLM blog crosses the 10,000 page views mark…

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:49:00 +0000

Yeah I know a lot of sites have 10,000 visitors every day (probably before even I begin my day), so my blog crossing the 10,000 Page views mark (in fact its 11000+ views now) over the course of two...

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Cloud Based PLM and Enterprise Application Integration

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:42:00 +0000

Putting PLM in the cloud is not enough – What matters most is enterprise application integration. Read my thoughts on this topic at MCADCafe:...

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Increasing Software in Automobiles – Can ALM-PLM Help?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:21:00 +0000

My thoughts on increasing amount of software in today's automobiles and how a ALM-PLM solution can help. Read more at MCADCafe:...

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Competing on Analytics – Time for PLM based Analytics?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:36:00 +0000

In my opinion PLM vendors currently provide fragmented analytics tools – Most of them address only a very specific section of the addressable market need. Also the problem seems to be compounded by...

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Holiday Spending, Returns and Need for a Closed Loop PLM System

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:17:00 +0000

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Adobe’s Solutions for Manufacturing

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:27:00 +0000

Adobe Systems has historically focused upon creating multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development...

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3D PDF Technology – Where it fits in

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:29:00 +0000

I happened to read about PROSTEP PDF Generator 3D in CIMData’s website this weekend which lead me to explore the world of 3D PDF’s. I find interactive 3D PDF files pretty amazing. For those of...

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What Google+ failure can teach about PLM implementation and User Adoption?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:28:00 +0000

A few days back, Google engineer Steve Yegge wrote a classic tirade about Google's inept handling of the Google+ platform. (You can read it all here). Google+ was supposed to be a Facebook killer,...

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The under-appreciated role of PLM in implementing Document Creation Retention and Destruction (DCRD) policies

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:23:00 +0000

Have you heard about the famous (or infamous?) “Pitt’s Postulate”: “Whenever you think you’ve destroyed the last copy of any document, there’s always one more that exists, and it will surface at...

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Securing your PLM Infrastructure (before it’s too late!)

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:40:00 +0000

I read an interesting report at Symantec’s website - The average organizational cost of a data breach [in 2010] increased to $7.2 million and cost companies an average of $214 per compromised record,...

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Using Rule-Based or Supervised Document Classification for Legacy Data Migration in a PLM Implementation

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:02:00 +0000

I was reading about Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA, also Latent semantic indexing ) recently and the controversies over whether Google used this technique to rank their search results, though the jury...

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Creative problem solving using Visual Analytics in Product Development

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:06:00 +0000

Visual analytics is a new interdisciplinary science aimed at drawing inference and conclusions from data. In contrast to standard machine learning or statistics, visual analytics emphasizes...

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Data Visualization/Infographics in PLM – Will it help make better decisions?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:36:00 +0000

As PLM implementations and usage have matured over time, from being a simple repository of CAD data to a single source of truth, the data locked in these systems have also increased exponentially....

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The World’s Largest Machine and PLM!

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:24:00 +0000

When you think about large machines what does come into your mind? The Caterpillar 797? Or the Liebherr T 282B? Or the Krupp's Bagger 288? Or the NASA's Mobile...

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QR Code and PLM

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:58:00 +0000

Yoann some time back wrote an exciting article on Integrating QR-code tag in User form in Aras Innovator (http://bit.ly/dGW2gx). This is a very interesting union! I am surprised to see that not many...

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Examples of Frugal Engineering

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:04:00 +0000

This blog post is in continuation to my earlier post on "Frugal Engineering and PLM". In that post I had tried to but a brief idea on what Frugal Engineering was (which is also being now termed as...

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Frugal Engineering and PLM

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:45:00 +0000

The term frugal engineering was coined in 2006 by Renault Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn to describe the competency of Indian engineers in developing products. He says in an interview "...We are here...

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Can PLM encompass ALM (Application Lifecycle management)?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:17:00 +0000

Some time back I had raised this question in the "PLM Group" in LinkedIn - Can PLM encompass ALM (Application Lifecycle management)? A large number of products today contain software in them....

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One More TLA - PxM Anyone?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:49:00 +0000

Edsger W Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002) said in his paper “On the cruelty of really teaching computing science” in 1988 “…no endeavour is respectable these days without a TLA (=...

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Responses to “Top Five Concerns About PLM Systems”

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:57:00 +0000

Oleg Shilovitsky published an article in his blog titled "Top Five Concerns About PLM Systems". My response to the article. While TCO and customized change management can be dealt with, I believe...

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Aardvark for PLM?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:34:00 +0000

This blog is based on a posting I published in the "PLM PDM Professionals Group" in LinkedIn. Aardvark for PLM? Lately an enormous amount has been written about “Social PLM” and how it has the...

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Quality Risk Management: Missing Link in the Product Lifecycle?

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:38:00 +0000

Tech-Clarity published a new report titled "Quality Risk Management in Life Sciences: Preventing Failures, Protecting Patient Health". The study reviews two manufacturers’ experiences using Quality...

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Augmenting PLM system as a LMS in FDA regulated companies

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:39:00 +0000

Learning Management Systems Most of us have used a LMS system sometime or the other. Broadly “A learning management system (commonly abbreviated as LMS) is a software application for the...

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PLM and Innovation

noreply@blogger.com (Jyotirmoy Dutta) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:53:00 +0000

Does the word “innovation” seem like a clichéd utterance to you? Google it and you get a mind-boggling 142,000,000+ hits. Every company or organization today seems to be willing to attach the word to...

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