Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog https://beyondplm.com/ Information About PLM, Engineering And Manufacturing Software by Oleg Shilovitsky... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:13:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://beyondplm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-beyondplmlogo-32x32.jpg Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog https://beyondplm.com/ 32 32 PTC Next 2026: Jetstream, the One Announcement That Was Building the Road https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/17/ptc-jetstream-collaboration-context-product-data-layer/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/17/ptc-jetstream-collaboration-context-product-data-layer/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:12:00 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20476 Part 3 of my PTC Next 2026 series. In Part 1, I asked whether “intelligent” PLM is new architecture or...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/17/ptc-jetstream-collaboration-context-product-data-layer/feed/ 0 PTC Next 2026: New PLM Context Layer, or the Monolith Rebuilt? https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/15/ptc-next-2026-new-plm-context-layer-or-the-monolith-rebuilt/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/15/ptc-next-2026-new-plm-context-layer-or-the-monolith-rebuilt/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:57:05 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20468 Part 2 of my PTC Next 2026 series. In Part 1 I asked whether “intelligent” PLM is a new architecture...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/15/ptc-next-2026-new-plm-context-layer-or-the-monolith-rebuilt/feed/ 8 PTC Next 2026: Is Intelligent PLM a Rename or a New Architecture? https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/14/ptc-next-2026-intelligent-plm-rename-or-architecture/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/14/ptc-next-2026-intelligent-plm-rename-or-architecture/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:07:03 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20455 Last week, I attended the first PTC Next 2026 event in Chicago. The event is part of a new  PTC...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/14/ptc-next-2026-intelligent-plm-rename-or-architecture/feed/ 20 Lessons for PLM AI Builders: CAD Police, Database Wars, and Anthropic’s Fable 5 https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/13/plm-ai-builders-cad-police-database-wars-fable-5/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/13/plm-ai-builders-cad-police-database-wars-fable-5/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:20:04 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20452 A government order took Fable 5 offline overnight. The CAD and database eras already taught engineering software the answer: build...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/13/plm-ai-builders-cad-police-database-wars-fable-5/feed/ 42 Did We Solve PLM, or Just Learn How to Describe It? https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/07/did-we-solve-plm-or-just-learn-how-to-describe-it/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/07/did-we-solve-plm-or-just-learn-how-to-describe-it/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:59:37 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20447 Why AI won’t fix the HOW problem of PLM implementation without a missing truth layer. Three recent conversations pushed me...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/07/did-we-solve-plm-or-just-learn-how-to-describe-it/feed/ 82 Who Can Replace the Big Three PLM? Why That May Be the Wrong Question in the Age of AI https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/04/who-can-replace-plm-why-that-may-be-the-wrong-question-in-the-age-of-ai/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/04/who-can-replace-plm-why-that-may-be-the-wrong-question-in-the-age-of-ai/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:19:54 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20438 A presentation making rounds in the PLM community right now opens with a question that every analyst, vendor, and enterprise...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/06/04/who-can-replace-plm-why-that-may-be-the-wrong-question-in-the-age-of-ai/feed/ 31 What I Learned at Share PLM Summit: AI Needs Product Memory, and Product Memory Needs People https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/24/what-i-learned-at-share-plm-summit-ai-needs-product-memory-and-product-memory-needs-people/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/24/what-i-learned-at-share-plm-summit-ai-needs-product-memory-and-product-memory-needs-people/#comments Sun, 24 May 2026 15:42:40 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20421 I just came from Jerez (Spain) where I attended Share PLM Summit 2026. In my article today, I wan to...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/24/what-i-learned-at-share-plm-summit-ai-needs-product-memory-and-product-memory-needs-people/feed/ 252 PLM AI Luddites: 7 Patterns That Look Like AI Adoption But Aren’t https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/18/plm-ai-luddites-ai-adoption-patterns/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/18/plm-ai-luddites-ai-adoption-patterns/#comments Mon, 18 May 2026 13:12:29 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20414 Earlier last week, my attention was caught by multiple articles discussing a trend in which employees are maxing out their...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/18/plm-ai-luddites-ai-adoption-patterns/feed/ 143 Beyond Digital Thread: The Case for Product Memory in Engineering Organizations https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/17/beyond-digital-thread-the-case-for-product-memory-in-engineering-organizations/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/17/beyond-digital-thread-the-case-for-product-memory-in-engineering-organizations/#comments Sun, 17 May 2026 22:09:08 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20411 For the last two decades, the PLM industry has pursued the vision of the Digital Thread. The idea is both...

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]]> https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/17/beyond-digital-thread-the-case-for-product-memory-in-engineering-organizations/feed/ 21 What is Product Memory? https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/14/what-is-product-memory/ https://beyondplm.com/2026/05/14/what-is-product-memory/#comments Thu, 14 May 2026 16:20:29 +0000 https://beyondplm.com/?p=20404 The Context Layer That Makes AI Agents Useful in Engineering Every new AI agent session starts from zero. LLMs are...

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