Blogs

The Vision and Mission of Eurostep and why we are pleased to be a partner to Microsoft
A few weeks after Microsoft Inspire 2020, I am happy to map the Eurostep view of the world in regard to Satya Nadella’s presentation. It is very satisfying to see ...
“Defense offsets – From ‘contractual burden’ to competitive weapon”
The above is the title from a McKinsey & Company report published 2014. The authors were Kevin Dehoff, John Dowdy and O. Sung Kwon. I came across this paper through ...
Eurostep Company update 2/2 – May 2020
What is happening at Eurostep? How are you doing? How is COVID-19 affecting Eurostep? Part 2 of 2 This is a follow-up blog post to the one published earlier this ...
Eurostep company update 1/2 – May 2020
What is happening at Eurostep? How are you doing? How is COVID-19 affecting you? Part 1 of 2 We all get similar questions these days so here is an update ...
Cloud is going to play a major role in CAD, PLM, Supply Chains and SME Digital Transformation; the “if” and “when” are gone.
Last week PTC announced the acquisition of OnShape, a deal of 470 MUSD. These kind of deals always get a lot of attention. But the move by PTC is not ...
Engineers are badly needed to solve climate change, not just with renewable energy but also designing products in a much smarter way
Eurostep learned a lot about Circular Economy in an EU funded project called ResCoM. Our role was to evaluate the use of a ISO standard called PLCS, Product Life Cycle ...
Why launching late could be perfect timing for a cloud PLM service
PLM is late in moving to the cloud. Gartner and many others predicted several years ago a much higher adoption rate by year 2019 than we have seen. Fast-moving industries, ...
Do we need a standard like PLCS to build a digital thread?
Posting this as a blog on the Eurostep web site but you can follow the discussion on Linkedin here. PLCS is not needed for a digital thread but it is ...
How to make better decisions using your hidden product information
In the good (?) old days of the industrial revolution, the drawing artefact carried the abstract product definition. The drawing was a physical and tangible thing, which made it easy ...