Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog https://beyondplm.com/ Information About PLM, Engineering And Manufacturing Software by Oleg Shilovitsky... Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:35:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://beyondplm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-beyondplmlogo-32x32.jpg Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog https://beyondplm.com/ 32 32 PLM Was Real. The Question Is What It Delivered. https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/09/plm-was-real-what-it-delivered/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/09/plm-was-real-what-it-delivered/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:29:29 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20688 The comments on my article about the history of PDM and PLM took the discussion further than I expected, and...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/09/plm-was-real-what-it-delivered/feed/ 2 Was PLM Just a Marketing Invention? What the Standard PDM and PLM History Leaves Out https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/07/plm-marketing-invention-pdm-history/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/07/plm-marketing-invention-pdm-history/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:32:21 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20677 Did PLM ever become more than PDM with a bigger marketing budget? Before we can answer that question honestly, we...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/07/plm-marketing-invention-pdm-history/feed/ 57 Engineering Doesn’t Lose Data. It Loses Memory. https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/30/engineering-doesnt-lose-data-it-loses-memory/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/30/engineering-doesnt-lose-data-it-loses-memory/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:01:13 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20668 Engineering organizations have become extraordinarily good at keeping data. CAD files are stored. BOMs are managed. Revisions are controlled. Changes...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/30/engineering-doesnt-lose-data-it-loses-memory/feed/ 167 Does the PLM Database Have a Future? https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/29/does-the-plm-database-have-a-future/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/29/does-the-plm-database-have-a-future/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:26:27 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20664 Something unusual is happening in the conversation about the future of PLM. We seem to be moving toward less database...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/29/does-the-plm-database-have-a-future/feed/ 30 MCP Can Activate Product Memory. But Who Builds It? https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/25/mcp-product-memory-who-builds-it/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/25/mcp-product-memory-who-builds-it/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:40:37 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20658 Over the past several months I have been writing about a question that increasingly matters to engineering and manufacturing companies:...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/25/mcp-product-memory-who-builds-it/feed/ 106 Human in the Loop for AI Agents Is a UX Problem, and Nobody in PLM Owns It Yet https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/23/human-in-the-loop-ai-agents-plm-control-layer/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/23/human-in-the-loop-ai-agents-plm-control-layer/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:11:12 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20653 I came across two articles this week (thank you my industry collegues that shared). In my view, read both articles...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/23/human-in-the-loop-ai-agents-plm-control-layer/feed/ 45 How A Correct AI Answer Can Still Be the Wrong Product Decision https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/16/correct-ai-answer-wrong-product-decision/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/16/correct-ai-answer-wrong-product-decision/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:44:34 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20646 Why AI needs the product situation, not only the product definition Imagine an engineer asking an AI assistant a simple...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/16/correct-ai-answer-wrong-product-decision/feed/ 137 The Question PLM and Change Management Cannot Answer: Why Was It Designed This Way? https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/10/the-question-plm-and-change-management-cannot-answer-why-was-it-designed-this-way/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/10/the-question-plm-and-change-management-cannot-answer-why-was-it-designed-this-way/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:35:32 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20633 [HERO IMAGE]  I have been writing about Product Memory for some time now, developing the idea that companies need more...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/10/the-question-plm-and-change-management-cannot-answer-why-was-it-designed-this-way/feed/ 133 Product Memory Is Not Another Database https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/08/product-memory-is-not-another-database/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/08/product-memory-is-not-another-database/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:57:30 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20618 The conversation about Product Memory reached an important milestone last week. The concept started traveling without me. Brion Carroll (II)...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/08/product-memory-is-not-another-database/feed/ 47 Why Product Memory Is Not a New Name for PLM https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/03/why-product-memory-is-not-a-new-name-for-plm/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/08/03/why-product-memory-is-not-a-new-name-for-plm/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:51:44 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20612 As I’m moving forward in the exploration of Product Memory development and working on my book, From CAD Files to...

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