Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
Social is the interesting trend today. The power and size of social networks, and how they continue to grow, capture people’s attention. So much so, social has captured the interest of enterprise software vendors (CAD, PLM, ERP) with their attempt to replicate the success of social networks and other social oriented software in the enterprise. [...]
PDM has been around for decades. The Cloud is trending. At Inforbix, we think it’s time to combine PDM and the Cloud into something new. So we started experimenting on a new kind of PDM we think will be much simpler and easier to deploy, use, and adopt than traditional PDM systems. We’ll share more [...]
In manufacturing companies, there are different sources of pain. I’ll focus today on a particular kind of pain caused by the growing amount of data generated by designers, engineers, production, suppliers, customers, etc in manufacturing companies. The pain is not caused by the data itself. Rather, for many companies, it’s getting buried in an ever [...]
Management of documents in a company or organization is not an unusual task. Actually, document management (DM) is a fairly common and necessary job. Normally, IT is the entity within companies responsible for figuring out the how, what, who, etc of DM. IT usually ends up implementing a DM solution that is in practice a [...]
For years I’ve observed a growing trend to stoically accept complexity when it comes to data management. More so in manufacturing companies where data is particularly complex, e.g. CAD, BOM, Assemblies, and managing it even more so. Whether homegrown or sourced from product data management vendors, PDM systems tend to be complex and complicated to [...]
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 [...]
There is one project in data management I believe everybody tries to avoid: legacy data import. Let’s face it, it’s one of the most complicated, time consuming, and painful aspects of any data management project deployment. Legacy data import usually lead to tons of related problems such as how to map data to a new or [...]
The amount of data, especially design and engineering related data, is growing in every organization. There are CAD drawings and designs, Bill of Materials in Excel files, PDF files, xRefs, ECOs, parts and assemblies lists, etc etc. I think much of this data exist in various forms and files throughout manufacturing companies. To take all [...]
The Internet is part of our everyday life. Rewind a few decades and there was no Internet. All was just disconnected data. Did you know it all started from “information overload”? Watch the following video for a quick and entertaining history lesson: Information Pioneers: Sir Tim Berners-Lee from Information Pioneers on Vimeo. The problem that [...]
Systems have a way of taking on a life of their own in the world of metaphors. For many years, the common metaphor for enterprise systems was the “sorting” of data buckets. Outlook with its searchable folders is an example of the metaphor. There are many more to be found in enterprise systems. Without resorting [...]