PLM+ERP

PLM vs. ERP – Don’t Manage Innovation!

PLM vs. ERP – Don’t Manage Innovation!

I was reading Tech Clarity insight “Evolving Role of ERP and PLM“. The topic of PLM and ERP is not new. However, I was always looking for detailed analyzes of PLM and ERP functions and roles in the organization, especially taking into account latest technological and social trends. You can…

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Back to basics: PLM and ERP Integration

I want to finish my ‘back to basics’ set of posts with the topic of PLM and ERP integration. Staying in CAD/PDM/PLM related market for while, I have to say that this topic always was one heavily discussed during PLM implementation. First, I want to distance from discussion about benefits…

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PLM and ERP: Why it doesn’t fit?

Reading Jim Brown’s blog post “Choosing an ERP to Fit PLM?”, I started to ask myself why these systems fit or don’t fit. For many organizations, I had chance to see in my professional life, PLM and ERP integration was always on the level of “love and hate” relationships. People…

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Pitfalls of Selecting PLM For Order to Manufacturing

In today’s consumer oriented environment order to manufacturing systems becomes more and more popular. I see growing number of customers are interesting in the organization of “order to manufacturing” processes. Looking on exiting PLM systems, I’d like to discuss what are potential pitfalls in selecting PLM for such as “order…

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BOM: Manufacturing and Engineering

I’d like to continue the discussion about the Bill of Materials. I learned a lot from previous posts. Thank you all for your excellent comments! For those, who just joining us, these are links to previous posts:BOM: Overstructured, Understructured or LeanSeven Rules Towards Single Bill of Material So, today, I want to focus…

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BOM: Overstructured, Understructured or Lean?

I’d like to continue discussion I started in my earlier post – Seven Rules Towards Single Bill of Materials. So, what are possible collisions on the way to the single bill of materials?. So, let’s take design, engineering and manufacturing bills. When I look on opposite sides – design and…

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Seven Rules Towards Single Bill of Material

I’d like to continue discussion around the topic raised yesterday by Jim Brown and this is about “single bill of material”. I was reading Jim’s post and my thoughts was about why managing of single bill of material is questionable? I think the key answer to that is because in…

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Engineering and Manufacturing Data Management back in 1992

Reading again some books from 1992. Engineering and Manufacturing Data structures and Engineering Information Management Systems. I’d like to share some mixed feeling. We moved forward in many topics for the last 17 years in CAD/PDM/PLM/…. But some fundamental things remain the same, and we continue to discuss it heavily…

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PLM vs. ERP: Demand for Business Process

I want to start today with twitter quote “PLM vs ERP – ERP a transactional system, not suited to manage development of product, integration of all info such as ingredients”. Well, PLM/PDM vs. ERP discussion is old, and I remember it for the last 10-15 years or even more… However,…

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