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

PLM Basics

15 December, 2021

Change is the only constant thing in product development. Therefore, one of the most popular questions everyone wants to answer...

12 June, 2021

PLM is the system, technology, and process at the heart of your product development. It is a central control point...

10 November, 2020

Small and medium-sized organizations are very interesting. Their problems are very much similar to the problems of large companies, but...

10 March, 2020

My simple question What should trigger BOM revision triggered a bloodbath of debates about FFF (form, fit and function) and...

15 January, 2020

My last week’s OpenBOM article How to Manage EBOM and MBOM () triggered a good discussion on LinkedIn and offline,...

22 May, 2017

Some products are bought. Think about milk, gas, pain medicine, airplane tickets. The vendor just need to let know potential...

28 September, 2016

Engineers don’t like PDM (product data management) and consider it as an unnecessarily evil. At the same time, complexity of...

26 August, 2016

The old joke says you can take any word from a terminological lexicon of manufacturing company and turn it into...

21 April, 2010

Customization is a topic in Product Lifecycle Management that always raises discussions. There are multiple aspects related to customization of PLM...

22 December, 2009

I’d like to continue discussing topics that create maximum confusion between PLM marketing and reality. Today, I want to talk...

15 December, 2009

How many CAD systems do you have in your development organization? I do believe more than one. And if you...

14 December, 2009

I’m continuing with a set of ‘back to basics’ questions and discussion. My topic today is about singularity or what...

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