‘manufacturing interfaces’

PLMPlus Dawns the Red Gloves of Simplified, Internet-Based, On Demand PLM.

10 Nov, 2009 by in NEWS

I’m sorry if you bit off two of your fingers with delight while reading that headline, but believe it. PLM and simple in the same sentence, along with a completely obscure red glove metaphor? How can that be?

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is renowned for it’s complex implementation and lengthy training period. So, what if PLM were simple? Something that you didn’t have to implement. Something that you didn’t have to maintain. Something that could be accessed from (almost) anywhere. That is the aim of PLMPlus.

We had a heckuva phone conversation with Benny Shaviv yesterday and got the scoop on his fresh new venture, which by the way, recently received $4 Million in round A funding. Looks like someone thinks they’re stirring things up a little. We do too. So, we slammed Benny a very relevant case study type of question… that didn’t even phase him at all. He may be a robot, but most likely he really understands what his biz is about. Take a look.

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Back to The Drawing Board: 4 Key Features For Dead Serious Multi-Touch and 3D Design

12 Jun, 2009 by in TECH

Imagine, you’re five years in the future, trying desperately to get a handle on the new touch-screen gestures for CAD and it’s not all it’s cracked up to be… for designing products. Suddenly, it seems easier to strangle the people forcing multi-touch tech down your throat, along with the bloggers that keep going on about how cool it is.

Whoa there tiger, before you get out the piano wire and menacing look, let’s take a step back… together, have a drink and discuss what’s being done to make 3D design and multi-touch a time to look forward to.

There are people working on the concepts to make it happen. Here’s one of them and four features that are more important as the fruitfulness of multi-touch devices approacheth.

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