The rise of cloud-enabled PLM solutions Global PLM platform accessibility is – and will become more and more – critical to enable concurrent product development, Engineering and Manufacturing, while efficiently managing data security and...
What is the difference between Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Life-cycle Management (PLM)? There are many schools of thought around the topic, and here are a few perspectives to consider: PDM was there before PLM, so it might ...
Guiding Principles on Sizing PLM Implementation Initiatives
2015-02-15PLM, Delivery, Implementation, Planning
By definition, a project has a defined start and end, clear objectives and scope, and finite budget – which can be managed as part of a portfolio or/and under a program umbrella. Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) projects are not diffe...
The lifeblood of manufacturing companies is the Bill of Materials (BoM). Simply put, a BoM is the list of assemblies, parts and components that make up a system and that are required to manufacture a product. A BoM is usually in a hierar...
The question is: “what will manufacturing processes of the future look like, and what will be their defining features?“ There is an increasing demand for products that match customer expectations precisely and more closely, in a timely a...
Enabling Outsourcing and Open Innovation with PLM
2015-02-03Innovation, Outsourcing, PLM, IP, Open Innovation
The principle of ‘Open Innovation’ as introduced by Chesbrough (2003) has become widely used in a range of industries. It is widely accepted that open innovation is concerned with combining internal and external ideas as well as inte...
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