Digital Mockup: from CAD Modelling and Verification to Augmented Design Review

Parameterisation of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models provides assistance to designers and engineers in making manufacturing related decisions, in combining creation feature and geometric parameters. Historically, the Digital Mock-Up (D...

CAD-BOM Alignment: CAD-Driven BOM vs BOM-Driven CAD

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 Thread: Aligning the 8.5 Enterprise Bills of Materials

Building 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...

ALM + PLM = IIoT

Need for data interpretation and traceability The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in manufacturing. It incorporates machine learning and big data technology, harnessing ‘real-time’...

Replace Where Used: PLM’s Achilles Heel?

Product development requires an eco-system of inter-dependent capabilities and complementary functions to bring teams together around a product creation and industrialisation platform. The so-called platform contribute to converting new ...

BOM Convergence: 4 Integration Patterns

Multiple Enterprise BOMs Bills of Materials (BOMs) can be referred as the lifeblood of manufacturing companies. Whether or not the ‘single enterprise BOM‘ vision will ever be achievable is still open for debate from different perspective...

Single Enterprise BOM: Utopia vs Dystopia

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 ...

Value is in the Eye of the Beholder

What 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...

Leveraging Knowledge-Based Configuration for Effective Kit Validation

Effectively product configuration is essential to achieve mass-customisation and equally to satisfy ever more demanding customer requirements. Mass-customisation aims at satisfying the specific needs of individual customers with mass-pro...

Smart and Non-Significant Part Numbers: Why We Need Both to Coexist

Part numbers and bills of material Bills of Material (BoMs) are the lifeblood of product creation – from a wider perspective, BoMs mature as the product evolves: from concept to development, prototyping, start of production, launch, serv...