Stephen O'Lear

Over 30+ year of information systems experience focused on PDM and PLM including design, development, implementation, sales and marketing of solutions. Currently focused on Service Lifecycle Management/MRO and document and content management.

Document Management – not a Teamcenter best kept secret.

March 28, 2023

Thanks to everyone who stopped me after the PLM Connections 2017 presentation on Improving Communications with Technical Documentation. And a special thanks for providing the subject…

By SteveOLear
2 MIN READ

Product Variability Continuum – The Business of Product Variation

May 15, 2017

The world economy trades countless products among industries and consumers.Across that myriad of products, companies tailor their processes for how product lines are planned, engineered, manuf…

By SteveOLear
4 MIN READ

Parts Catalog Authoring Quick and Easy!

April 13, 2017

Parts Catalog in Teamcenter using RapidAuthor for Teamcenter
Many decisions are made when launching a product development. For many products with a longer lifecycle reliability, accessibility, an…

By SteveOLear
3 MIN READ

Document Management – Definitions and Deployment are Changing in a Digital World

September 29, 2016

Document management within our companies is changing faster than ever. In AIIM’s “Content Management 2020: Thinking Beyond ECM” John Mancini notes this migration and exponential growth from dist…

By SteveOLear
3 MIN READ

How a Service Knowledge Management System Fills in the Blanks (Part 4 of 4)

June 8, 2016

IoT must be back-ended with service knowledge management to enable intelligent service with product knowledge and service history.
Although connected products seem like they’re new, they’ve been …

By SteveOLear
4 MIN READ

How a service knowledge management system fills in the blanks (Part 3)

May 26, 2016

IoT and Big Data require service knowledge management to complete the understanding of product to succeed at service.
Connected products seem new, but they’ve been around for a while. Vending mac…

By SteveOLear
5 MIN READ

How a Service Knowledge Management System Fills in the Blanks (Part 2)

April 7, 2016

Connected products sound like they’re new, but they’ve actually existed for a while. Vending machines dial out inventory information via the Internet or cellular networks to report what sales and wha…

By SteveOLear
5 MIN READ

How a service knowledge management system fills in the blanks

March 7, 2016

I saw an old commercial on TV the other night I hadn’t seen in decades

By SteveOLear
3 MIN READ

Service Plan to Service Execution – Right Job, Done Right, First Time

August 20, 2015

Service execution is successful when service events are complete, accurate, quick, and affordable which means based on service requirements in service plans linked to product and as-maintained configurations

By SteveOLear
4 MIN READ