Digital Ladders and Snakes: Enterprise Capability Accelerators and Inhibitors

Enterprise capabilities: maturity models and deployment roadmaps Business competencies regroup multiple capabilities which are not uniform across the organizations despite implementation of various digital technologies. Over the past dec...

Digital Mockup: from CAD Modelling and Verification to Augmented Design Review

Parameterisation of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models provides assistance to designers and engineers in making manufacturing related decisions, in combining creation feature and geometric parameters. Historically, the Digital Mock-Up (D...

CAD-BOM Alignment: CAD-Driven BOM vs BOM-Driven CAD

The need for BOM-CAD alignment and associated challenges Bill of Materials (BOMs) typically contain parts / items which are grouped into component and sub-component assemblies based on fit-form-function factors and other usage & market s...

MBSE-PLM Alignment to Support Industry 4.0 and IIOT

Systems Engineering enables product data traceability Organisations and people need simplification to manage complexity and derive ‘big or complex things’ into smaller and manageable systems – where a system is a set of interacting ele...

ALM + PLM = IIoT

Need for data interpretation and traceability The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in manufacturing. It incorporates machine learning and big data technology, harnessing ‘real-time’...

Single Enterprise BOM: Utopia vs Dystopia

Bills of Materials, aka BOMs, are multilevel metadata structures that represent a hierarchical arrangement of components, materials, and other information required to develop, engineer, assemble, produce the finished product, as well as ...

What PLM Identity Crisis?

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an ‘old‘ discipline; it came out in the mid 80’s as the engineering data management solution of choice to support product development, especially in the context of optimising CAD and Product Data Mana...

Single Source of Truth vs Single Version of Truth

Effective Master Data Management (MDM) and product development efficiency are closely linked. They are both concerned with data optimisation, decision-making and process improvement principles. Business process efficiency requires effect...

Connected Cars: Driving the Data Highway

Disruptive change The automotive industry is going through a disruptive change – moving into the era of full connectivity, full mobility, full integration, full immersive experience. First and foremost, connectivity decisions are an impo...

Big Data Engineering: Current Skills and Future PLM Considerations

Businesses demand more intelligent products and intelligent products demand data intelligence. The typical challenges with data engineering (which obviously relate to the ‘science of data‘) include one or more of the following considerat...