How a Service Knowledge Management System Fills in the Blanks (Part 2)

Connected products sound like they’re new, but they’ve actually existed for a while. Vending machines dial out inventory information via the Internet or cellular networks to report what sales and wha…

3 Ways to Compliance Management with Supplier Material Disclosure

We’ve recently discussed the compliance management imperatives that call on manufacturers to improve the business value associated with product sustainability using PLM, and key ways to improve …

After-sales BOM and Configuration

Is management and configuration of your after-sales BOM an element of your PLM strategy today?

Configurator for Enabling Customer Choice

When we started this discussion in Beyond Product Configurator Software: Total Variability Management, we began to talk about defining and managing variability across a product suite. In these seri…

Beyond Product Configurator Software: Total Variability Management

Broadly speaking, there are 3 sets of activities that come into play when we talk about defining and managing variability across a suite of products

Service Planning or Service Documentation

The investigation determined that the cause was a degraded ability to manage the configuration and technical documentation for the fleet of assets being operated

Service Lifecycle Management with PLM

What I’ve noticed is more manufacturers look to maximize the revenue and profits through establishing or expand their service and support business

Release and Configuration Management Best Practices

Whether using a basic release process or effectivity, the mainstream Bill of Material definition should be maintained as simply and elegantly as feasible to meet the business process needs of the organization

Moving Product Master Data Management closer to the product innovation epicenter

Previously, we’ve introduced BOM management at a high level, and taken a closer look at some key concepts including BOM configuration and product variant management. The issue of BOM a…