Share PLM Summit 2026 — Fino Post Index
Chronological index of all 25 session summaries from Share PLM Summit 2026 in Jerez, Spain. Two days, 110+ PLM leaders, covering AI in PLM, digital thread strategy, MBE, cloud migration, and human-centric change management.
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Share PLM Summit 2026 — From Data Silos to Digital Transformation
A synthesis of 25 sessions from 110+ PLM leaders at Share PLM Summit 2026 in Jerez, Spain. From people-centric transformation to AI's narrow but real role, here are the four pillars that define what successful digital transformation actually looks like in 2026.
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Siemens PLM Components 2026 — Parasolid: One Ring to Rule Them All?
Siemens PLM Components 2026 at Downing College Cambridge brought together kernel teams, customers, and AI-first startups around one question: as geometry representations multiply and AI agents enter the loop, what role does Parasolid play in the next decade of engineering software?
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CDFAM Barcelona 2026 — Conference Report
CDFAM Barcelona 2026 brought founders, engineers, and researchers together around AI multi-agent systems and the inflection point where manual engineering workflows give way to autonomous, agent-native systems. Notes from the talks that mattered.
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The $15.7 Billion Shadow Ecosystem That's Rewriting Engineering Software
1,000+ startups across 45 countries. 10 unicorns. $15.7 billion in venture capital. Back-to-back Threaded conferences in Warwick and Miami showed a parallel engineering software industry that is shipping what incumbents have failed to deliver — and rewriting how engineering work is done.
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The New Generation: 30+ Startups Proving PLM Disruption Is Real
Twenty-five years after MatrixOne, Arena, and Aras proved you could build PLM without owning CAD, a new wave of startups is attacking the same market—but with cloud-native architectures, AI copilots, and a focus on speed over customization[1][2][3]. This isn't just mid-market disruption anymore. Som
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The PLM Challengers: Cloud Natives, Open Platforms, and the Ones That Got Away
By the early 2000s, PLM was dominated by vendors with deep CAD roots—PTC, UGS/Siemens, and Dassault Systèmes. But a different breed of players emerged around the same time, building PLM without owning a flagship CAD system. They bet on cloud, open architectures, and flexibility long before those wer
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Fino Post Index for SharePLMSummit 2025
inaugural #SharePLMSummit in the superb Bodegas Fundador in (very) sunny Jerez, Spain. It is hard to do a final post, but here is a helpful index listed chronologically according to the agenda
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Fino Post Index from Aras ACE 2025
#ArasACE2025 was a fantastic few days in Boston where I got to learn about the Aras Corporation vision, hear from their customers, but especially interview some of the PLM Hall of Fame members such as Peter Schroer, Jim Cashman, Tony Affuso, Martin Eigner, and Peter Billelo amoung many, many others.
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Index of My Summaries from Capgemini Engineering Horizons Conference 2025
Index of My Summaries from Capgemini Engineering Horizons Conference 2025
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Aras Connect Paris 2024 - Fino's Field Report
A field report from Aras Connect Paris 2024: customer momentum, the Aras Innovator roadmap, and what the event signaled for open, upgrade-safe PLM.
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Pre-Conference Workshop on Data Interoperability
Presentation 1: Saab's HELIPLE-2 and Federated PLM by Erik Herzog Erik Herzog of Saab Aerospace provided an insightful introduction to the HELIPLE-2 project at Saab, a proposal for industry standards in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The session opened with a robust dialogue on enhancing PLM t
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Enterprise PLM Rollout: How Large Manufacturers Deploy at Scale
Enterprise PLM rollouts fail more often from governance gaps and integration complexity than from technology limitations. Here's how to manage the factors that actually determine success.
Digital Thread Safety: What the 737 MAX Teaches Us About PLM and Engineering Data
The Boeing 737 MAX disasters exposed a systemic failure in engineering data governance. This is the definitive analysis of what a functioning digital thread would have done differently — and what PLM professionals must demand from their systems.
Demystifying the Siemens Realize LIVE 2020 Announcements
UPDATED 07/10/2020! Siemens Digital Industries Software held its virtual global conference on June 23-24, 2020 to announce its new Teamcenter X platform. The content is free and accessible until July 24 via their website (https://events.sw.siemens.com/realizelive/) and there was a wealth of content
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Key Concepts
AI Copilot (Engineering)
An AI copilot in engineering is an AI assistant that integrates into CAD, PLM, or ERP workflows to augment engineer productivity. Copilots enable natural language queries against product data, automated generation of design alternatives, anomaly detection in simulation results, and intelligent search across large PLM datasets. Unlike autonomous agents, copilots present suggestions that engineers approve or reject — the human remains in the decision loop.
AI Multi-Agent Systems
A class of artificial intelligence systems where multiple independent AI agents coordinate to solve complex problems, share information, and make autonomous decisions, each optimized for specific sub-tasks within a larger engineering or business workflow.
Analytics Dashboard (PLM)
Configurable analytics interface for monitoring product data, workflow metrics, and business KPIs within a PLM system. Emphasizes user accessibility and data-driven insights.
Aras Connect / ACE (Aras Customer Event)
Annual user conference and community event where Aras Corporation shares product vision, demonstrates new features, and hosts customers and partners for networking and knowledge sharing.
Aras Innovator
Aras Innovator is the flagship product of Aras Corporation: a model-based, low-code PLM platform available as a free Community Edition with paid enterprise subscriptions. Its Open XML metadata engine stores all customizations—BOM structures, workflows, lifecycle processes, change procedures—as platform-independent metadata rather than compiled code. This architecture enables upgrade cycles of 2–4 weeks versus the 3–6 months typical of Teamcenter and Windchill.