There are plenty of ways out there of identifying parts and documents, many dating back decades. Some of the most heated and protracted arguments in defining a PLM system are how best to number everything. Should we use a “smart” or a “dumb” numbering system? Can a number include spaces and punctuation? How can we…
Author: Graham
What does it mean to be “Part-Centric”?
There is a hurdle that many engineering departments have cleared over the past few decades but many others out there still need to make the jump. Manufacturing people have been there all along. This blog post examines the concept of a Part, why it is so important to PLM and the reasons it can be…
What is PLM? New Readers Start Here
Those of us who work in Product Lifecycle Management tend to forget the time before we understood PLM or what it’s for. So when we get asked this type of question it can be a struggle to come up with a user-friendly answer that is not full of jargon. There are plenty of opaque examples…