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...
Digital Twins Mature Over Time As More Data Is Accumulated
2019-01-24CAx, Digital, Enterprise, Digital Twins, IoTDigital twin technology: why and how it matters? A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical product or process, used to understand and predict the physical counterpart’s performance characteristics. Dr Michael Grieves Co...
Managing the ‘Lifecycle of Things’ Across the Enterprise
2019-01-22Circular Economy, Digital, IoT, lifecycleThe rapid pace of technological change brings both opportunities and threats for businesses, across domains and industries. As a matter of fact, every organizations increasingly rely on technology to differentiate their products, service...
Overcoming Barriers to Change to Avoid Getting Lost in Transformation
2019-01-19Strategy, Change, Digital, transformationDigital transformation is the new constant, no doubt about it: everyone talks about it, everyone recognizes the need to gain or retain competitive advantage, everyone wants to leverage value from new technologies, new requirements, new p...
Digital Thread: Aligning the 8.5 Enterprise Bills of Materials
2018-05-18Enterprise, Manufacturing, BOM, Value ChainBuilding Blocks of the Manufacturing Enterprise Broadly speaking, the lifeblood of manufacturing companies is the Bill of Materials (BoM). More accurately, the lifeblood of manufacturing ARE the BoMs. As a matter of fact, there are multi...
Towards Integrated Configuration Change Management (CMII)
2018-04-21PLM, Change, Product ConfigurationConfiguration change management is the control of a product definition throughout the lifecycle of the product. It is an integral part of the design and development process for products and processes. Traditional change management (CM) f...








