A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

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13 September, 2016

To select PLM system is not a simple task. While the number of manufacturing businesses asking about Product Lifecycle Management...

27 May, 2016

To select PLM system can be a complicated project. But let’s imagine the moment you’ve made a choice and decided about PLM...

19 January, 2016

Enterprise software is easy. Take any relevant world from a jargon of your company, add word “management” and voilà –...

15 April, 2015

Engineering and manufacturing software industry is well known by very high barrier to entry. It is related to specific professional...

25 March, 2015

I attended PI Congress in Dusseldorf last month. During the conference I had a chance to share my thoughts about...

16 May, 2014

Have you heard about “150% BOM”? BOM management terminology is confusing sometimes. Ed Lopategui gave a shot to explain it in...

12 May, 2014

My last post about Manufacturing BOM raised few interesting comments online and offline. One of them by Jos Voskuil  was pretty...

2 May, 2014

Product Data Management (PDM) was around for the last 20-30 years. However, I can see an increased traction around PDM...

2 April, 2014

In my recent post about bill of materials – Bill of Materials (BOM): process or technology challenge? I touched the variety...

8 March, 2014

Parts and Documents are two different objects in engineering, product development and manufacturing. While “part” usually represents physical object, “document”...

6 March, 2014

Identifications, Part Numbers, Documents, Revisions. Despite initial simplicity these terms are often create confusion in organizations and lead to additional...

21 January, 2014

Manufacturing BOM (MBOM) is an interesting topic. After all design and engineering operation,  MBOM defines how product is going to...

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