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Jim Brown
 Jim Brown researches how manufacturers innovate, develop, and engineer products and how they leverage PLM software to enhance product profitability. Jim currently leads the product innovation research at Boston's Aberdeen Group. Jim began his professional experience with roles in manufacturing engineering and software systems at General Electric, before joining Andersen Consulting (Accenture), where he focused on enterprise software applications. He was the founder and President of Tech-Clarity, a firm focused on researching and communicating the business value of PLM and enterprise software solutions. He has also served as the PLM analyst for Technology Evaluation Centers and The PLM Evaluation Center, and has been an executive at several software companies. Jim is a frequent author and speaker on applying software technology to achieve tangible business benefits User Stats
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PLM and ProfitabilityRecent PostsOne-to-One: ADAPX - Digital Markup in the Real World?April 25, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) I had the chance to talk with ... Phil Cohen of ADAPX at COFES earlier this month about their unique pen-based solution that allows physical markups on drawings or notebooks to be transfered back to the original drawing electronically. Phil, along with industry veteran Jeff Drust, were quite a hit showing off this innovative solution. What do they Do? Recent PostsResearch Rap: Are Product Configurators PLM?April 23, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) A quick peek into some research on ... using configuration solutions to customize products comes from Aberdeen's Michelle Boucher as a follow up to her Tailoring Products to Customer Preference benchmark. The follow up research shows that the use of configuration solutions helps to improve profit margins. I'll provide a bit of the research here, but then pose a question. Should configurators be a part of PLM? ERP? Or in some cases, CRM? You will see, I have an opinion.
Recent PostsOne-to-One: Oracle and PLM IntegrationApril 20, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) I had the chance to talk with... Hardeep Gulati at Oracle the other day about their integration strategy for PLM. Now that Agile is a part of Oracle, integration to the rest of the enterprise systems (whether they are Oracle or 3rd party solutions) is a very important issue. As you might imagine, the Oracle solution is not a one-off but a structured approach with applicability beyond PLM. Recent PostsWhat I Learned: New Frontier for CAD: Nano MachinesApril 15, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) What I learned this week ... is that despite the maturity of CAD there are still new frontiers of product design - namely nano technologies - that will require a fundamentally new generation of CAD solutions. I had the opportunity to hear about Nanorex is doing to develop a fundamentally new set of CAD tools for the nano world. Mark Sims presented at COFES last week on some very interesting work he and the team at Nanorex are doing that I felt I had to share in relation the maturity of the CAD market. Recent PostsOne-to-One: Dassault Systems walking the SOA Talk?April 11, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) I had the chance to talk with ... Dassault Systems this week about their SOA strategy and their soon-to-be-released V6 architecture and product suite . I have to be honest, this was the second time I talked to them about this and I am
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MarkIII(k), a nanosc...
getting a much better impression. Maybe I am jaded by seeing too many vendor presentations that I know "stretch" reality, reminding me of one vendor that in the "B2B" days was accused of having a "P2P" problem - converting "PowerPoint" to "Product." V6 is not yet released, but based on what I can see this is not a case where there is a lot of presentation material without subs...