While Silicon Valley birthed the personal computer and Boston’s Route 128 pioneered CAD innovation, Europe’s contribution to Product Lifecycle Management tells a fundamentally different story—one of manufacturing heritage meeting digital transformation.
From San Diego to Seattle, West Coast innovators infused PLM with computing breakthroughs, consumer-focused design thinking, and eventually, cloud transformation that would reshape how the entire world approaches product development.
The central United States—spanning from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast and from the Appalachians to the Rockies—has been home to pioneering companies and visionaries who fundamentally transformed how products are designed, engineered, and manufactured.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software has a surprising epicenter: Boston's Route 128, home to many PLM and engineering software giants.