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The Dreaded V5

By Chris Williams On March 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Enterprise Social System, News, Press, Project Management, Social Media, Social technology, Vuuch

What a funny reaction I got from Paul Cunningham… when he asked… “what is the new version?” And I replied V5! Well based on his reaction and his 20 plus years selling for PTC it is clear he has a few V5 scars. It never dawned on me the next release of Vuuch is very much [...]

Gartner Predicts 2012

By Chris Williams On February 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Enterprise Social System, News, People-centric PLM, PLM, Press, Social Media, Social technology, Vuuch

Gartner releases predictions for 2012. Social networking to become a keep element of the PLM solution. Gartner predicts social capabilities will evolve as an integral part the PLM backbone.

Market Implications:

Social networking will continue to grow as part of PLM software. Key roles in PLM, including engineers, scientists, manufacturing specialists, service specialists, potential partners and external innovators, [...]

Vuuch Eyes Growth, Rounds Out Executive Team with Industry Veterans

By Chris Williams On February 6, 2012 · 2 Comments · In News, PLM, Press

Writing a post about team the day after the Super Bowl would certainly feel better if the right team had won… Team is just as important in business as it is in sports and Vuuch has built a Super Bowl wining team. In 2011 Vuuch won great customers and in the 4th quarter started thinking [...]

Chatting with Richard Davis

By Chris Williams On December 15, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Enterprise Social System, News, Press, Social Media, Social technology

Richard Davis came by the Vuuch offices the other day to have a look at what we are doing. Richard is well know by the CAD and enterprise software worlds as he has followed these markets closely for years. Although this was the first time I had ever meet Richard I certainly knew his name from [...]

Microsoft Project

By Chris Williams On August 11, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Enterprise Social System, PLM, Project Management, Social technology

Project plans are a mainstay of delivering any sort of project, yet even the best project teams with the most elegant project plans seem to maintain some sort of “project list”. A project plan is just that – a plan of how you want something to happen. The plan does not mean it will happen [...]

Google Circles and Vuuch Pages

By Chris Williams On July 8, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Enterprise Social System, Social Media, Social technology

I was reading Oleg’s post http://plmtwine.com/2011/07/07/google-plm-and-the-product-data-sharing-models/ on sharing models and Google circle and it got me wondering what they are up to…

So what is Google up to with Circles? My belief is they fully understand the problem of information overload that results from social streams. Yammer, Jive, Facebook, Twitter, or any other social [...]

Social Life-Cycle and/or a System-of-Record

By Chris Williams On June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design History File, Enterprise Social System, People-centric PLM, PLM, Social Media, Social technology

This post started as a reply to Oleg’s post on work-in-progress (WIP) versus system-of-record http://plmtwine.com/2011/06/06/plm-work-in-progress-vs-system-of-records/ but by the time I was done I had written more than a comment…

As Oleg points out there are two distinct things going on. There are, as he states, systems of record and WIP tools. While I agree [...]

Do I need to manage my CAD files?

By Chris Williams On October 23, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Enterprise Social System

I read a post on http://beyondplm.com/2010/10/20/cad-pdm-and-plm-diversity/ about multi CAD file management. The post was spurred on by a tweet Johnathan made. This discussion is oh so old… What struck me reading this was the fact that no one ever talks about the official released file.

Of course [...]

“What’s in a name? That which we call a web page by any other name would smell as sweet”

By Chris Williams On September 2, 2010 · 1 Comment · In BOM, Enterprise Social System, PLM, Work Instructions

The well-known musings of Shakespeare’s Juliet suggest that the names we ascribe to objects entail an element of arbitrariness. She implies that the name given to an object is a mere matter of convention. A name – Juliet explains – does not change or describe an object or its qualities… A rose is [...]

Assembly Instructions in Excel

By Chris Williams On August 19, 2010 · 2 Comments · In BOM, Enterprise Social System, PLM, Work Instructions

Today was really a great day. A customer called with an idea on how to use Vuuch in their assembly process. Yes you guessed it right, they have been managing their assembly steps in Excel, see image to the right showing the first 4 assembly stations of a process [...]

Vuuch Eyes Growth, Rounds Out Executive Team with Industry Veterans

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