PLM Customer References & PLM Best Practice with Mike Watkins

I'd like to introduce our Autodesk 'Open Doors' Product Lifecycle Management event. Please join us and our special guests for a day of strategic discussions and information sharing that aims to help you revolutionise your business and improve your processes. Perhaps you’re an expert in PLM but you are still trying to improve some key processes more flexibly and cost effectively, or maybe you suspect PLM could be good for your business but have always believed it’s too big, too complicated, and too expensive and maybe you just want to learn more.  Whatever your situation, attending one of our PLM ‘Open Doors’ events will be time well spent.  Germany:  http://www.autodeskplm360.de/events/autodesk-plm-open-doors-event-serie/ UK & Nordics:           http://www.autodeskplm360.co.uk/events/autodesk-open-doors-product-lifecycle-management-event-series/ Event Date & Locations: Dortmund, 31/10, with CIMData ...

This week I visited Rob Charlton ( Chief Executive ) and Adam Ward (Technology Leader) from Space Group, BIM specialists and new users of Autodesk PLM 360.  Laser survey of Manchester Town Hall Mike: Morning guys great to meet you both, after chatting via twitter for the last few years, it's good to put a face to the twitter name! Can you tell me about Space group and the companies background? Rob:  Space group started out a Waring and nets Partnership in the 1950s. Over the past 15 years we have evolved into space group. This process has occurred through our passion for finding more efficient ways of designing, delivering and operation building. Whilst there is a huge amount of talent in the UK construction industry we do continue to do things inefficiently.  We are passionate about using technology to achieve our goals. _space group now includes space architecture who have been an early adopter of BIM and now e...

This week I met with Nina Dar the Managing Director of Cheeky Monkey business solutions, I've known Nina for many years and prior to my role at Autodesk we met at many occasions at events like PLM Innovation. We share a mutual interest in PLM and discussed many best practices for Innovation. So after joining Autodesk I was really excited to show Nina Autodesk PLM 360 and get her team using our product. Mike: Hi Nina, we've know each other for many years but could you tell my readers about you and Cheeky Monkey? Nina:  I describe myself as a Business Architect; it's a term used in the US for people who have the rare combination of business knowledge, process experience, transformation talents, methodology skills, and a winning personality that helps with communication and business change management.   You have to take the Americanism "winning personality" in the spirit it is meant, as you know Mike, I'm not a wallflower! Really it’s the latest name fo...