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Re: Three million people — Blog — Barack Obama

Chris Williams — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:46:07 -0000

Unions are a worn out idea of the past
that continue to drag the country down.
Why do you think jobs go overseas?
Buy what you want and make America competitive. Years ago CAT broke the union, tossed them
out and had officer works run the factory.
They found 5000 jobs where the people did absolutely nothing. So much for hard work! Vote him out and take back the country.

Re: Michelle Obama: “Let us never forget” — Blog — Barack Obama

Chris Williams — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:39:27 -0000

Like most of the speakers she really
said nothing. Much of the speech was about ideals that both parties believe. To stand and say America is about anyone can
is stating the obvious and why people come here. At the end of the day her husband has hurt
the fabric of the country. His hope and
I will provide of the first election was not about work hard. It was all about vote for me because I will
take care of you. No more years!

Re: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs on maintaining your focus: checklists rock

Chris Williams — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:40:09 -0000

If you want a check list that is collaborative then check out Vuuch. Each list is on it's own web page and you can structure your lists. You can invite people to activities or to a page. Activities can be up dated from many places, even email. There is an Outlook add-in and you can even keep lists associated to MS documents (create a collaborative list for a PPT or Word document). And activities can be classified and related to multiple pages.

Each page (list) also has a classification. You can create as many custom page types as you want.

With Vuuch the list is shared with as many poeple as needed.

www.vuuch.com http://doc.vuuch.com

Re: Cumulus Computing

Chris Williams — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:59:25 -0000

Not sure why there is such a reaction. I guess fear. But don't forget the status quo is comfortable and in general people hate change. Look at the beginning of parametric feature based CAD and you will find that a majority said it was cool but they could never switch.

Control of the compute resources.

Re: Cumulus Computing

Chris Williams — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:55:18 -0000

Be leery of linear thinking…

Re: Cumulus Computing

Chris Williams — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:52:27 -0000

This is a very funny topic and one people have strong feelings about yet they do not understand it. The first thing that seems interesting to me is that SAAS and Cloud have somehow become the same thing to people, yet they are not. The next is how strongly negative people are yet they do online banking and use gmail. And to top it off one of my customers asked their customer to use Vuuch and were told they could not becuase they did not trust these cloud solutions (the customer saying we cannot do this is using ARENA PLM and has my customer checking desingns into ARENA).

Today Vuuch is SAAS, not cloud.

Below Derrek points out a very powerful element - "I wnat it to work"!

Re: Mythbusting “Facebook and Business Don’t Necessarily Mix”

Chris Williams — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:42:35 -0000

What he seems to completely miss is the fact you are not in control of social media. How does he propose to stop/control the positive/negative discussion about your good/bad product? And since when does a social media campaign cost millions of dollars? If you are paying millions of dollars for this then it is not very authentic, nor social.

Re: SolidWorks To Customers: You Are Not Entitled to Service Packs

Chris Williams — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:43:38 -0000

Why not look at SpaceClaim, at least they share a parking lot with SW.

Re: SolidWorks To Customers: You Are Not Entitled to Service Packs

Chris Williams — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:41:33 -0000

It is totally common that if you are not on maintenance you do not get fixes. Maintenance is not just new features. Maintenance covers both bug fixes and enhancements. Your car is like this as well. Many things you get fixed are due to design flaws. Certainly things do get recalled but this is due to public safety. Do not kid yourself into thinking the car guys are fixing all the problems they know about. Even serious problems with cars go through a cost analysis. Meaning will the law suits due to death cost less than the recall.

Re: SolidWorks To Customers: You Are Not Entitled to Service Packs

Chris Williams — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:24:40 -0000

What else will change?

Re: SolidWorks To Customers: You Are Not Entitled to Service Packs

Chris Williams — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:24:17 -0000

Totally fair policy and the way most software companies do things. I bet DS is behind this change.

Re: SolidSmack Promo Week: Vuuch For Discussing Things About Design.

Chris Williams — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:10:59 -0000

Josh I agree. The UI designer really needs his head examined. With each round of beta user things get better UI wise and understanding wise, well I hope any way. Either way that is what I am telling myself. After the webinar it would be great to hear what others think. Hard to understand (Y/N)? Look forward to seeing everyone on line.

Thanks

Re: Ask the Reader: How Do You Make Versions of Your 3D Assemblies?

Chris Williams — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:47:34 -0000

This is one of the things we are exploring with Vuuch. How do these representation work and how do they work without impacting the user habit in a negative way. This leads to how Vuuch allows structuring of Vuuch pages (parts). For example you might have a parent page (represents a part) which has sub pages (represents potential solutions for the part) or you might simply have a page for each solution you are looking at and these pags are related through specific activities. Or you may have a single Vuuch page for the part which has multiple part files related to it.

Re: Ask the Reader: How Do You Make Versions of Your 3D Assemblies?

Chris Williams — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:19:04 -0000

Sounds like a folder and reference nightmare!!!!

The idea of managing member parts through the top level single file assembly is a very cool idea (saves a lot of messy folders). This is the typical stuff that happens on a designers desktop.

I want to check an idea with everyone. I think of these variations as “representations”. Imagine a case where three alternatives of Assy_A (which has a set of design requirements, issues and tasks) are evaluated using one of Josh’s methods. Each solution being evaluated is a representation of Assy_A and therefore each has a common set of requirements, issues and tasks. But each variation is also stand alone and therefore has additional issues and tasks specific to only it. Thoughts?

Re: SAP – Too Much, or Too Little Credit for PLM Efforts?

Chris Williams — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:45:27 -0000

http://blog.vuuch.com/?p=612

Re: SAP – Too Much, or Too Little Credit for PLM Efforts?

Chris Williams — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:36:37 -0000

Jim one of the points that seems to be surfacing is the notion of iterative in that PLM is developed to support an iterative process and ERP does not support iterative change. This seems confusing to me and maybe I am wrong or just confused, but isn’t managing multiple versions combined with configurations and effectivity dates a clear example of iteration?

After going back and reading through this post I got thinking about how and why there is a lack of a common view. I expect this has to do with a clear “definition” of PLM. Jim have you seen a clear and concise definition of the features of PLM? I’m not talking about some marketing hype about product innovation. I’m talking about something that clearly defines what it delivers and how. I know the “definition” topics has been written about a lot but I expect by now someone has resolved this.

Re: Who Will Disrupt Entrenched PLM Vendors?

Chris Williams — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:25:26 -0000

You tackled disruption from only the technology side and while this is an important perspective it is not the only one. What about business model and what about feature set? In PLM we have seen attempts at business model combined with technology change (BOM.com and ARAS) but I cannot think of a trifecta. Rereading I see you equated Vuuch to a technology shift. While Vuuch is a technology shift it is also a feature and business model shift. Again rereading I agree with your point that technology alone will not shift the market. As we debated last week what if ERP got on the other side of PLM? What if ERP were to surround PLM by moving into design?

Today, maybe, ERP is doing a bit of copy cat protectionism against PLM. They see PLM waving swords at their space so they have answered with a check in the box by adding PLM features. Which from a selling perspective has worked well for them as they own executive IT relationships and maybe this is all they need (maybe they do not really need to go after the PLM market as maybe all they need to do is keep PLM out). Maybe PLM is just not that interesting to them.

I see the SolidWorks case a bit different. If PTC had bought them then I would agree. SolidWorks at the time was not a competitor for DS. Maybe this is splitting hairs a bit but at the time CATIA simply was not a competitor. At that point in time CATIA was holding its own based on relationship and IBM. DS purchased SolidWorks as a strategy against PTC versus buying a competitor which is why up until now DS has taken a hands off approach with SolidWorks.

Re: Who Will Disrupt Entrenched PLM Vendors?

Chris Williams — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:03:46 -0000

Jim maybe I need to reread this but it seems to me you are saying disruption does not happen and certainly cannot happen in a space filled with giants. How can you say ERP cannot go through disruption? Think back and you will see ERP is a space that was created out of disruption. Remember when everyone moved from that old stuff they had to Oracle and SAP and spending millions of dollars to remove the old? Do you remember a company by the name of Computer Vision or for that matter PTC? Remember when everyone would tell you it was impossible to throw out your old CAD data and move to the disruptive cool parametric feature based solution? Disruption is always possible and part of what makes it possible is the argument/belief that giants do not fall. Giant moment works until someone puts a rock in their way. There are so many cases of a giants fall from glory… just look at companies in the PLM space like PTC who created the market growing 40% a year for 10 years by being a disruptive force and is now a “body at rest” and as you say a body at rest tends to stay at rest. How many PTC executives do you think sat in a conference room and in a reaction to SolidWorks uttered the words how can they beat us, we have already won?

Of course disruption is hard and therefore disruption only comes along everyone once in a while… Let’s not forget that when it happens there is always a dead giant laying somewhere on the side lines.

Re: SAP – Too Much, or Too Little Credit for PLM Efforts?

Chris Williams — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:34:17 -0000

Conrad you are correct. PLM cannot hold SAP out of this space http://blog.vuuch.com/?p=609. When/If SAP gets it right then the value to use a CAD based PLM solution versus a ERP based PLM solution will be minimal and as well SAP can push out the PLM vendor on price alone.

Re: 5 Reasons Why Werewolves Will Take Over 3D Product Design

Chris Williams — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:27:42 -0000

OK so what does Facebook for files really mean. There is a transformation that happens when you are bitten by a werewolf and when something is Vuuched there is also a transformation. Or rather, being Vuuched, leads to a WEB representation of the item that got Vuuched. Checkout this link to a SolidWorks file that has been Vuuched http://vuuch.me/collaborati.... The best thing is there is no pain, no blood letting and no mess. Just install the plug-in and a simple one button push and your file has a WEB representation. Like we the people have a WEB representation on Facebook, with Vuuch your files have a WEB representation.

Re: SolidWorks World 2010: You Will Not Use SolidWorks on the Cloud

Chris Williams — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:56:56 -0000

I do not disagree. I beleive they were show tech for tech sake. This is a very DS thing to do and I also imagine they really do not yet know the business parameters so it is impossible for them to talk to this at this point. IMHO no one should be concerned about what they just purchased. The new cloud based version of SW will not distroy the workstation version and I would bet that you will be able to pick which way you want to use your license. Just my guess of course. Kevin it would be great to get you as a tester for Vuuch. We have allowed people to use what we are doing from day one. The objective is to work closely with users so that the solution is tuned to what people want versus something that is cool and not useful.

Think Facebook for files. the idea is that when you Vuuch enable/discover a file a WEB page is developed that represents the file. The page is of course private to those involved with the file. Everything going on with the file (in this case we will say a SolidWorks part) is available on the WEB page (http://vuuch.com/media/part... as well it is available in Outlook (http://vuuch.com/media/outl... and Solidworks (http://vuuch.com/media/sw.png). Now everything about a part file is tracked and embedded in SolidWorks. All of your email discussions, tasks, issues and notes are related to the part they are about. It takes one click to create the page. Once this is done everything is tracked and you have realtime awareness based available part by part.

Re: SolidWorks World 2010: You Will Not Use SolidWorks on the Cloud

Chris Williams — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:19:36 -0000

Of course there are more unknowns. But that was true when you drove to work today as well. We are in a time of unknowns.

Re: Part II — Hot Startups to Watch in 2010

Chris Williams — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:56:54 -0000

Would love to find Vuuch on your list of hot startups.

Re: PLMPlus Dawns the Red Gloves of Simplified, Internet-Based, On Demand PLM.

Chris Williams — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:36:10 -0000

So other than being in the cloud how is it different than typical PLM systems? Is see it manages CAD change and has BOMs etc... What is the magic?

Re: SMACK! CATIA-SolidWorks Translator. Your Move Dassault.

Chris Williams — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:47:02 -0000

Matt I have done this. As well as working with Catia data I have also built translators for it. As josh points out below, in many cases the work around is better than the real feature based data... What I think woud be a better feature and something I am surprised is not pushed more is the ability to have Catia data in SW as background data and vice versa, as this would better support the use case for data sharing across systems... Don't forget that everything they do or do not do with the product is intentional.