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Balancing Complexity in PLM: The Case for a Minimum Viable MBOM

Balancing Complexity in PLM: The Case for a Minimum Viable MBOM

For years, manufacturing companies managed the division of two disciplines PLM and ERP in a very simplistic way – PLM for engineering, and ERP for manufacturing. The division represented the natural forces of two vendors. PLM’s roots were in CAD, design, and engineering, and ERP’s roots in MRP, and procurement…

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SaaS PLM Acceleration Trends

SaaS PLM Acceleration Trends

The manufacturing industry is one of the last groups of businesses that are going to adopt SaaS and cloud technologies. Although cloud adoption started already a decade ago, unlike CRM, Marketing and Sales/Advertising, engineers and IT were very careful to bring cloud / SaaS to business. In my view, it…

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BOM 101: How Many Levels Do You Need in BOM?

BOM 101: How Many Levels Do You Need in BOM?

I’m continue my BOM 101 series of posts. When working on bill of materials, you can often hear about the ability of BOM management software to support so-called “multi-level” BOM. You can search for the definition of multi-level BOM using Google and find many results. I found the following definition…

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Who wants to manage Product Data?

One of the ambitious goals PLM puts in front of strategists, implementors and developers is to manage a product lifecycle from early on (requirements, initial product designs) and until the end of product lifecycle towards manufacturing, supply chain and disposal processes. At first glance, it sounds like a great idea,…

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