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Who should own PLM? Engineering, IT, or someone else?
Other PLM Insights PLM Insights: Who Should Own PLM? Engineering, IT or Someone Else Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an important part of product development and management in any organization.
Practical Applications of AI in Product Development and Manufacturing – Are we there yet?
Since ChatGPT thrust artificial intelligence (AI) into the public domain and greater awareness a few months ago, there have been many discussions about the practical applications of AI and the
What comes first: Process or technology? An old question with a new (and maybe surprising) answer
Ever since companies started to implement enterprise computer systems, such as PLM and ERP, the question that came up sooner or later was what should be done first: First define
Do We Need Both ERP and PLM? Why?
I often hear non-engineers asking this question: We already have ERP, why do we need PLM? And even engineers sometimes ask why it is not enough to manage engineering and
An Integrated Approach to Configuration Management
By Andreas Lindenthal and Henrik Hulgaard When we talk about product configuration we need to distinguish between engineering configuration and sales configuration. Generally engineering defines all the variants, options, alternates
What System Should Own the MBOM? PLM or ERP? Or Both?
Most discrete manufacturers would probably agree that the engineering BOM or EBOM is created and managed in PLM. And it makes sense. CAD data is typically stored and managed in