Integrated BOM for Manufacturing

Why Integrated BOM?
Your bill of material (BOM) is central to developing and building commercial products. The quality of your BOMs have a direct impact on the quality of your products, as…

Integrate Product Complexity Management and Decision Making

Product complexity management is very challenging for many manufacturing companies. Managing product variety and its resulting complexity is crucial for the success. Variety offered to the market pla…

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Evaluating Product Complexity

Industry trends demand tradeoffs to achieve a competitive advantage while maintaining an optimal level of product complexity.

The Future of ETO Software is So Bright!

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of Engineer to Order (ETO) software.We’ve explored the power of Engineer-to-Order processes to acclerate lead times, and the importance of capturing t…

Managing Product Complexity

Complexity is a byproduct of increased product variability. Over several decades product variability has grown exponentially due to market demands, technical complexity, corporate strategy, product/p…

Rethinking Product Configurator Software

With your current product configurator strategy, can you keep up with the variability demanded by your customers and still remain profitable?

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A Visual Product Experience: Not Just for Designers Anymore!

“A picture paints a thousand words” – whether it is the 70’s love song by Bread or an acknowledgement of people’s innate ability to process a tremendous amount of information at a glance – there is f…

ETO w/o W-H-Y is not G-O-O-D

Engineer-to-Order (ETO) automation, if you’ve never seen it in action, is actually quite impressive.Capturing all of the process elements needed to bring a unique product variant to a customer…

Defining the Part Bill of Materials

We’ve been exploring bill of materials management from the perspective of configurator on PLM as well as specific discussions about guided production configuration and product variant management…