Companies continuously face tough decisions when it comes to enterprise technology investments, should they relate to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. In practical terms, “PLM is the ena...
Customise, De-customise, Re-customise: the Enterprise Digitalisation Dilemma
2017-08-11Enterprise, ERP, PLM, Customization, OOTBGoing 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...
MBSE-PLM Alignment to Support Industry 4.0 and IIOT
2017-05-20Data, Industry 4.0, Innovation, PLM, IoT, MBSESystems 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...
Product 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...
PLM/ERP/MES: The ‘Holy Trinity’ of Manufacturing
2017-02-12ERP, MES, Platform, PLM, Strategy, TechnologyThe 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...