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 ...
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...
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
2016-03-20Automotive, Circular Economy, Data, Digital, Connectivity, IntegrationDisruptive 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
2016-03-08Data, PLM, Talents, Big Data, Integration, IoTBusinesses 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 considerati...
Effective Requirements Engineering: Science or Art?
2015-11-06Data, Engineering, PLM, ECN, Requirements, TraceabilityTypically, requirements are defined as follows: A function that the product or process must have, or a process must do (e.g. a functional attribute like the ability to sign-off the approval of an Engineering Change Notice or ECN followin...