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This Tech Tuesday session came with a fresh new format: richer visuals walking through the latest Aras updates.
We were joined by special guest Eli Donahue, Sr. Manager, Developer Relations at Aras Corporation, who demoed the Aras InnovatorEdge platform live.
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Is PLM dying, or has the engineering world simply outgrown it?
We welcome back industry veteran Doug Macdonald for round two to unpack his report, The Future of Product Lifecycle Management: After Forty Years, Where Are We and What’s Next? Doug makes the case for FPHE (Future Platform of Hardware Engineering), a new category designed to replace legacy PLM systems that no longer fit the complex, multi-disciplinary nature of modern hardware development.
In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, our hosts are joined by Prithvi Singh Chauhan, Machine Learning Engineer at Geminus AI.
They explore the practical application of AI and machine learning to operational digital twins across oil and gas, manufacturing, and energy systems. The discussion covers why traditional physics models fall short in real-time operations and how combining physics-native engineering with fast machine learning solves speed, staleness, and domain silos.
Halfway through a live database migration, Honeywell’s team lost their server connection. With no way to tell whether the scripts were running or failing, all they could do was wait.
In this episode of Stay Sharp with Razorleaf, we sit down with Ryan Sims (Senior IT Engineer at Honeywell) and Brian Neff (MES Technical Team Lead at Razorleaf) to discuss how Honeywell Aerospace successfully upgraded its Solumina MES with zero shop floor disruptions.
Digital engineering is moving fast, but the fundamental challenge remains: how do you get your mechanical, electrical, and procurement data to “talk” to each other?
In this episode, we dive deep into the “Product Memory Flywheel” with Oleg Shilovitsky, co-founder and CEO of OpenBOM. We explore how OpenBOM is using AI agents to solve the industry’s most persistent, “boring” problems—like CAD file management and Bill of Materials (BOM) errors—and why fixing these unglamorous issues is the key to true digital transformation.
How did we get from CAD and PDM to the PLM systems we use today? And have we really moved beyond PDM?
In Stay Sharp Episode 151, we sit down with Doug Macdonald, a longtime PLM industry veteran and self-described “lifelong innovation enthusiast and recovering advocate for PLM,” to explore the history of product lifecycle management—and how the technology evolved alongside the products and businesses it was designed to support.
It’s a milestone worth celebrating: Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering has reached 150 episodes!
In this special episode, co-hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott take a break from the usual guest format to look back at nearly three years of Stay Sharp. Together, they revisit the topics, trends, guests, and conversations that have shaped the podcast—and consider what’s still left to explore.
From the beginning, the podcast has focused on the rapidly changing world of digital engineering, manufacturing, and product development. But as the hosts reflect on 150 episodes, one thing becomes clear: while the technology continues to change, many of the fundamental challenges remain remarkably consistent.
In this episode, we sit down with Oleg Shilovitsky, industry expert, author of Beyond PLM, and CEO of OpenBOM, to explore a transformative concept he calls “product memory.”
If you’ve ever looked back at a product design decision two years later and wondered, “Why did we make that choice?”, you aren’t alone. Oleg explains why product memory is the missing context layer that connects decisions to data, filling the gaps that traditional PLM, PDM, and ERP systems often miss. We discuss the “three parents” of product memory—including the critical role AI plays as a forcing function—and dive into the complex questions surrounding data ownership, security, and the future of business models in a post-SaaS world.
What if you could answer a complex engineering change request in minutes instead of days?
In this episode of Stay Sharp: In Digital Engineering, we welcome back Chris Finlay, former Vice President of Engineering Innovation at SAIC and current Digital Systems Engineering Director at Raytheon, to explore the tangible, practical benefits of the digital thread. We move past the buzzwords to discuss how to break down engineering silos, improve traceability, and implement a digital strategy that actually delivers value.
