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Welcome to 'Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering,' the ultimate podcast for all things digital in the manufacturing industry by Razorleaf. Join us as we take a deep dive into the multifaceted world of digital transformation, exploring topics such as the digital thread, digital twins, IDEs, model-based strategies and delving into the frontiers of cutting-edge technologies like PLM, MES, Integration, and more. Our expert hosts, Jonathan Scott, Jen Ferello, Juliann Grant, and Eric Doubell, will be your guides, providing valuable insights, captivating interviews, and the latest industry updates to ensure you remain at the forefront of the ever-evolving digital landscape. Whether you're a technology enthusiast, a business leader, or simply curious about the digital realm in manufacturing, this podcast is your essential resource for staying sharp and well-informed.
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Build, Buy or Wait, Navigating the AI Implementation Stack Is your company ready to build its own AI solution? In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott welcome back Dr. Diego Tamburini — executive consultant and AI practice lead at CIMdata — for a deep dive into what it actually takes to move from AI experimentation to production-ready deployment in manufacturing and engineering organizations. Diego brings 25+ years of experience...
The man who helped name an industry sits down with Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering to trace the winding path from Product Data Management's humble origins to today's AI ambitions — and delivers a blunt warning: fix your data integration first, or AI will fail you. About This Episode Brion Carroll, CEO/Principal Consultant at Digital Solution Group, is not just a PLM practitioner — he's one of the people who built the very first PDM system and coined the category name. In this episode, Brion...
PLM Is Changing Fast: AI, Cloud & 3DEXPERIENCE Insights from ENOVIA 2026 What’s really happening with PLM, AI, and cloud adoption right now? In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott, with their Razorleaf colleagues, François Schlub and Andrew Halley, break down the biggest takeaways from the ENOVIA User Conference 2026, hosted by Dassault Systèmes in Boston. From AI-powered virtual twins to cloud migration strategies and digital thread i...
What happens when you take the digital twin concept beyond products and factories, and apply it to your entire business? In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with John Biagioni, President of Lampin Corporation and a leader with experience ranging from machinist to a billion-dollar company executive. John joins hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott to explore how a business-level digital twin can drive smarter, more resilient decisions across finance, operations, and customer relationshi...
What happens when a company does everything you can do to a private jet - except build one from scratch? Aaron Lane has spent 25+ years at Duncan Aviation, navigating a PLM journey that went from literal paper boxes loaded onto departing aircraft, through a legacy ERP stretched beyond its limits, to SmarTeam, and finally to Aras Innovator. In this episode, he pulls back the curtain on what that transformation actually looked like - the messy parts included. Whether you're greenfield, brownf...
Inside Solumina: The Digital Backbone for Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing What does it take to manage manufacturing where failure simply isn’t an option? In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott continue their digital product series with Sung Kim, CTO of iBase-t, for a deep dive into the Solumina platform—a manufacturing operations management system designed specifically for complex, highly regulated industries like aerospace and defen...
AI is everywhere right now—but in digital engineering and manufacturing, many leaders are still asking the same question: where does it actually help? In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott sit down with Dr. Diego Tamburini of CIMdata to separate hype from implementation reality. With decades of experience spanning Microsoft, Autodesk, and Siemens Digital Industries, Diego shares how organizations are applying AI today—not in theory, but i...
In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, we break down the biggest themes and takeaways from 3DEXPERIENCE World (formerly SolidWorks World), held this year in Houston. The message was loud and clear: AI is here — and Dassault Systèmes is betting big on it. From the headline-making partnership with NVIDIA to live AI demos inside the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the event showcased ambitious plans for AI-driven engineering workflows. But beyond the stage announcements, what are customers...
Digital engineering gets a lot of attention. But what happens after the design is complete? In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, we sit down with Naveen Poonian, CEO of iBase-t, to explore why execution — not just engineering — is the real battleground of digital transformation in aerospace and defense. From Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) to Supplier Quality Management (SQM) and Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO), we ...
AI may dominate headlines, but the real transformation in product development is happening elsewhere—in how teams manage complexity across mechanics, electronics, and software without slowing time to market. In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott continue their conversation on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with Eran Reinshmidt and Safae El Abkari of Dassault Systèmes. This discussion moves beyond aerospace and defense to explore h...
AI is everywhere right now—but in digital engineering and manufacturing, many leaders are still asking the same question: where does it actually help? In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott sit down with Dr. Diego Tamburini of CIMdata to separate hype from implementation reality. With decades of experience spanning Microsoft, Autodesk, and Siemens Digital Industries, Diego shares how organizations are applying AI today—not in theory,...
In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott continue the digital product series with a deep dive into mechanical variation management and tolerance analysis. Joined by James Stoddard, co-founder and research fellow at Sigmetrix, the conversation explores how tolerance analysis acts as a critical bridge between ideal CAD models and real-world manufactured parts. The discussion unpacks why variation can never be eliminated, how poor tolerance dec...
Episode Summary How risky is it to buy engineering software from a company owned by private equity? Does SaaS actually reduce risk—or introduce new problems? And what should technology buyers really be evaluating in today’s rapidly consolidating digital engineering market? In this episode of Stay Sharp, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott sit down with industry analyst Monica Schnitger, President and Principal Analyst at Schnitger Corporation. With nearly two decades of experience advisi...
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is often viewed as a heavyweight discipline reserved for aerospace, defense, or highly regulated industries. In this episode of Stay Sharp, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott challenge that assumption. Joined by Eran Reinshmidt and Safae El Abkari from Dassault Systèmes, the conversation explores how MBSE principles apply directly to fast-moving consumer markets. From coffee machines and vacuum cleaners to furniture and connected appliances, the gues...
In this episode of the Stay Sharp podcast, Juliann and Jonathan continue their digital product series with returning guest Oleg Shilovitsky, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenBOM. With over 25 years of experience in PLM and engineering software, Oleg unveils what truly sets OpenBOM apart—and why traditional PLM systems fail modern manufacturing organizations. From the shift from single-company databases to interconnected digital networks, to how product data must support real-time collaboration acros...
What will digital engineering and manufacturing really look like in 2026? In this forward-looking episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott step back from day-to-day execution and examine the trends, technologies, and curveballs shaping the next phase of the industry. From AI-driven data enrichment and digital twins moving beyond PLM, to ERP vendors entering new territory, humanoid robotics, additive manufacturing at scale, and even quant...
As 2025 comes to a close, Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering takes a look back at a year of standout conversations, memorable insights, and practical lessons from across the digital engineering landscape. In this special year-end episode, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott revisit powerful soundbites from guests who helped shape the show’s most meaningful discussions. Spanning AI, digital thread and digital twin, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), PLM lessons learned, and emergi...
Episode Summary AI is everywhere, but in engineering and manufacturing, hype often outpaces reality. In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, we unpack what it actually means to be “AI-ready” and why most organizations are struggling to get there. Hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott are joined by Graham Law, PLM Solution Architect at Razorleaf, to explore the unglamorous but essential foundation of successful AI initiatives: clean, governed, connected engineering data. With o...
In this episode, Juliann and Jonathan sit down with John Salyers and Korey Greene of Sea Box, a company transforming standard shipping containers into high-engineering, mission-ready solutions. This is a refreshingly honest look at a PLM journey filled with false starts, side-hustle implementation work, CAD file chaos, revision control challenges, and the realities of deploying PLM in a fast-moving engineering organization. John and Korey share how Sea Box went from a home-grown Microsoft Acc...
In this episode of Stay Sharp in Digital Engineering, hosts Juliann Grant and Jonathan Scott sit down with globally recognized PLM pioneer Dr. Martin Eigner to unpack the evolving landscape of PLM, digital threads, configuration management, and cross-enterprise integration. Dr. Eigner brings decades of research, academic leadership, and industry experience to dissect topics many engineering leaders struggle with: • What configuration items really are • Why extended digital threa...
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