Going digital: to customise or not to customise? Digitalisation strategies include the selection, design, build, test, deployment, continuous improvement and maintenance of enterprise IT solutions, such as Product Lifecycle Management (P...
00Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications are often referred as a ‘single system of record’ for product data across the product creation lifecycle. As maturity increases, product and process information flows from PLM to downstream...
10The number one challenge of manufacturing is getting ‘the right product, at the right time, at the right price‘. Competitive advantage used to come from automation and more recently digitalisation, but this has now become the norm with t...
00Manufacturing organisations aim to create more and better innovative products and bring them faster to market. This is enabled by enterprise product development and manufacturing tools and technologies to automate core business administr...
00Bills 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 ...
00What may provide value to one specific end user, stakeholder group or function may not provide the same value to another. One universal ‘one-size-fits-all‘ solution does not exist or may not be perceived in the same way; therefore, it is...
00Cloud is a hot topic these days. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and PDM/CAD solutions are no exceptions to that – many are now available on Cloud infrastructure and pay-as-you-go (PLM/PDM/CAD software-as-a-service). However, one shou...
00By definition (according to the Oxford dictionary), an engineer is: A person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures. A person qualified in a domain or industry of engineering, especially as a professional: eg ...
00Implementing any enterprise-IT solution, PLM, ERP, or others, requires a degree of personalization in the form of either (or more realistically a combination of) configuration, extension or customization. Typically, choosing one or anoth...
00Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are like the ‘central nervous system‘ of the organization, providing the ‘sensory‘ input to management – so that they understand what is happening with their finances, employees, suppliers and...
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