Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog https://beyondplm.com/ Information About PLM, Engineering And Manufacturing Software by Oleg Shilovitsky... Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:34:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 https://beyondplm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-beyondplmlogo-32x32.jpg Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog https://beyondplm.com/ 32 32 AU 2026 and the Autodesk Bet on Context for PLM https://beyondplm.com/2026/10/01/au-2026-autodesk-context-plm/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/10/01/au-2026-autodesk-context-plm/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:34:26 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20724 I continue to share my thoughts about AU 2026 I attended a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. In my...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/10/01/au-2026-autodesk-context-plm/feed/ 1 AU2026: From a Platform You Build On to a Platform That Builds With You. What Autodesk Platform Services Means Right Now https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/27/au2026-autodesk-platform-services-builds-with-you/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/27/au2026-autodesk-platform-services-builds-with-you/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:58:11 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20712 I’m slowly digesting AU 2026 and this week will be coming with a series of articles sharing what I learned...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/27/au2026-autodesk-platform-services-builds-with-you/feed/ 61 How Every Wave of CAD Automation Created a Data Problem It Could Not Solve https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/20/gpt-6-astra-cad-automation-product-memory/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/20/gpt-6-astra-cad-automation-product-memory/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:27:33 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20701 Last week was busy for me – I attended Autodesk University 2026 in Las Vegas. Before I dive into a...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/20/gpt-6-astra-cad-automation-product-memory/feed/ 121 AU 2026: The Platform Question Is No Longer APIs. It Is Context. https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/15/autodesk-university-2026-apis-product-context/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/15/autodesk-university-2026-apis-product-context/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:50:36 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20695 I am back at The Venetian for Autodesk University 2026. After Nashville and San Diego, AU returns to Las Vegas,...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/09/15/autodesk-university-2026-apis-product-context/feed/ 113 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/ 130 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/ 62 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/ 170 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/ 32 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/ 115 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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