The Minerva PLM TV Podcast

Most of us would agree that books on PLM, Engineering Design and Change & Configuration Management are not the most exciting read. In fact, many of us have actually fallen asleep while reading. So, why is it such a boring experience to read books on PLM? Why do most of us turn a few pages and then put the book away for good? In this special episode of Minerva PLM TV, we discuss the problem of PLM education and why the need for better-written books on PLM is needed to educate the next generation of engineers.

Digital transformation isn’t a one-and-done project. Change is constant and the rate of change your business is experiencing is only accelerating. Therefore, whatever you’re transforming must be done as part of a larger, more holistic vision—a constantly changing, multi-year roadmap that your executive team continuously revisits and modifies.

In other words, it’s a strategy that never ends. In this interview with Jennifer Moore, Mark Reisig, director of product marketing at Aras, talks about why successful transformation is a collective challenge and why now is the perfect timing for digital transformation.

In this episode of Minerva PLM TV, Jennifer meets with Dr. Martin Eigner and continues their discussion about Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) evolution and more precisely how to transform engineering digitalization on a concrete PLM system.

Dr. Eigner starts by elaborating on the difference between horizontal and vertical integration of the engineering process. He further shares why System Modelling is not an isolated application but integrated in the engineering process.

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Eigner and Jennifer talk about PLM and intelligent integrated Requirements Management, Variance in SysLM, Simulation Management, FMEAs, Digital Twin, Maintenance Repair Order (MRO), and more.

Our February book club read was Product Lifecycle Management, A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by Uthayan Elangovan, CEO of Neel Smartec.

In this book, Uthayan summarizes the essential topics of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the era of Industry 4.0. The book discusses emerging technologies, their contribution towards enhancing product design, development, and manufacturing.

It also presents the integration of PLM to key solutions with an enterprise such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with IIoT and integration of mechanical, electronic components, embedded systems, firmware, and software focusing on smart design, development, and manufacturing in the digital transformation journey.

Listen in as Jennifer talks with Uthayan in this weeks episode of Minerva PLM TV

In this episode of Minerva PLM TV, Jennifer meets with Mark Caradonna to discuss CAD integrations with PLM – why people hesitate to do it and how they can benefit from it.

There are various types of CAD integrations, and Mark outlines the main differences. He goes deeper and addresses a typical discussion with people considering integration – is not easier to add the CAD files into the PLM system in a zip file instead of integrating with our ECAD software?

Further, Mark sheds light on why companies need both Technical Data Management (TDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and why these systems work best together, not as a substitute to one another.

He concludes by answering commonly asked questions in ECAD integration with PLM.

John Stark, renowned author of several textbooks on PLM, responds to the Minerva Book Club review of his PLM novel Products2019.

The book focuses on the main character, Jane, invited by the CEO of the fictional manufacturing company Meier, to map the company’s current processes and create a blueprint of the company’s products as they progress from their start of life through to their end of life.

If you are interested in buying the book, you can pick it up here from Amazon (This is not an affiliate link, we do not get any provisions if you choose to buy this book from this link) https://www.amazon.com/Products2019-management-Definition-Realisation-Retirement-ebook/dp/B08CD2TRNH

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In this episode of Minerva PLM TV, Jennifer has invited colleagues and a friend of Minerva to do a book club-style review of renowned PLM author John Stark’s new PLM novel, Products2019: A project to map and blueprint the flow and management of products across the product lifecycle.

The book focuses on the main character, Jane, who is invited by the CEO of the fictional manufacturing company Meier, to map the company’s current processes and create a blueprint of the company’s products as they progress from their start of life through to their end of life.

If you are interested in buying the book, you can pick it up here from Amazon (This is not an affiliate link, we do not get any provisions if you choose to buy this book from this link)

https://www.amazon.com/Products2019-management-Definition-Realisation-Retirement-ebook/dp/B08CD2TRNH

How do you start a process improvement program? How do you encourage people to think about a solution in a non-constrained way? And how do you apply key considerations to each step of the improvement process?

In this episode of Minerva PLM TV, host Jennifer Moore has invited PLM consultant Brian Smith to address all of these questions and more.

In this episode of Minerva PLM TV, Jennifer once again meets with Bjørn Arvid Fidjeland to discuss the importance of getting more value from your data by giving your data context and structure.

Now, data has to be clean, translatable, and accessible. But it also has to be connected to the context it should be used in.

Otherwise, the data becomes meaningless. Bjørn talks about how connected data is used in the context of capital facility management and how you can combine structured data from that context with data from another context, like product development context.

It is the ability to combine and work with data across structures to reveal context and meaning across the lifecycle.

This is where data brings true value. He continues by sharing insights into how the European Spallation Source organizes their data across the lifecycle and what value they add.

In the last part, Bjørn covers how the digital twin can be applied to give data context and structure.

In this episode of Minerva PLM TV, Jennifer meets with Lionel Grealou to discuss the importance of people in PLM and other business-related transformation initiatives.

Lionel talks about the definition of Stakeholder Management and how to identify which roles should participate in the test and validation phase of a project. He continues by sharing the importance of including detractors in new projects and what value they add.

In the last part, Lionel covers how people can manage different roles and personalities in a project.

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