Market structure, M&A flow, and competitive dynamics across the PLM landscape — Dassault, Siemens, PTC, Autodesk, Aras, and the startup challengers. Where the money is moving, which vendors are gaining ground, and which are quietly losing it.
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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?
600 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.
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.
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
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
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
#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.
Index of My Summaries from Capgemini Engineering Horizons Conference 2025
Demystifying Digital Twins
Aras Connect Paris 2024 Field Report
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
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