Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
Today was clearly “Microsoft day” in the news. Even Marissa Mayer’s appointment as a CEO of Yahoo didn’t distract us from the excitement about Microsoft Office 13. So why the excitement? Let me share with you why. First, Microsoft announced the long awaited and BIG release of Office 2013. Navigate here to learn more, Microsoft [...]
Are you familiar with the theory of “multiples discoveries?” If not, here’s a short explanation courtesy of Wikipedia. The independent invention of Calculus by Newton and Leibniz is a classic example. Also, I recommend you read Malcolm Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker magazine, In the Air. It’s a long but very interesting article for a [...]
For years, taking better advantage of product data in manufacturing companies meant using traditional data management and collaboration tools available to only a relatively few number of people in an organization – not everyone had the skills nor deep pockets to afford using them. Today, product data continues to play a vital role driving innovation. [...]
Inforbix attended SolidEdge University (SEU) this week in Nashville, TN. Upon my morning arrival to the hotel, I was greeted by many stars: And despite the steamy June Nashville climate outside, thanks to the very efficient A/C, temps inside the hotel were kept near Polar levels. However, I was soon distracted from the chill when [...]
How many data types and sources exist in your company? If you work for a typical manufacturing company there are many data types and sources in use. For example, data can be found within CAD documents, in assemblies, in Excel, in PDFs, in PDM and PLM systems, and even in ERP and CRM systems. Moreover, [...]
Integrating information from various sources is an important goal for anyone working in today’s complicated data environments. Engineering departments will generate, source, and use data in different ways than people in production and manufacturing. Yet much of this data within a company is related or linked in one way or another. Take for example, BOMs. Access [...]
Inforbix attended COFES 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. One of the great things about COFES is the networking opportunities. I had a chance to catch up and meet with a bunch of industry colleagues, analysts and future customers. This year, we had a Tech Suite where we discussed the problem of data complexity. The core idea of Inforbix is NOT to manage data, [...]
We are going to to attend COFES 2012, which starts tomorrow, April 12th and runs through the 15th. This is Inforbix’s second appearance at COFE; last year was our introductory exposure at COFES. Read more about our attendance last year here. We were please to win the CADwire Techno Award. I’ve taken special notice of the COFES [...]
The topic I’d like to talk about today is usually one that is overdone. Openness. A typical conversation in enterprises have with vendors goes something like this: Are you open? Vendor: Are you kidding us? Of course we are open. We are very open… Sound familiar? In fact, achieving openness is very hard. Many things come [...]
Cloud is trending. Autodesk recently launched their new PLM in the cloud product Autodesk PLM 360. Inforbix is very good at linking on-premise data with the cloud; it does so without moving any actual CAD or other sensitive files into the cloud. So as an experiment, we decided to see how Inforbix and Autodesk PLM [...]