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Lifecycle management for technical data can be implemented through high-end PDM-Software, while lifecycle management for all product data must be ensured by all systems involved in the overall process (PLM integration solution).   The fundamental product and process describing data are created in the engineering processes. The working platform for this is professional PDM software together with integrated authoring systems (CAD/CAE/DMU, ECAD/EDA, CASE etc.). With revision and version mechanisms as well as multi-level release processes the virtual product (digital twin) is built. The integrated PDM solution ensures seamless lifecycle management of the engineering data.   This guarantees that all subsequent processes (product planning, procurement, ordering etc.) get always correct work data. Systems such as ERP use this data in a read-only manner, i.e. original engineering data is not changed or may not be changed in ERP. A typical example of this is the parts master record (PMR) in PDM. From a technical point of view, it fully describes a material or immaterial component. In ERP it becomes the article master record (AMR) (in SAP material master record). It supplements the part master record with dispositive data such as manufacturer, prices, delivery time, store inventory, etc. ERP must manage this additional information consistently with the underlying PMR data across all change loops.   If all systems provide this with regard to all data in all subsequent processes (PDM-ERP, ERP-MES, ERP-CRM etc.) lifecycle management of the product data becomes reality. A decisive point is the lifecycle management of engineering data. This data source must be complete, up-to-date and consistent at any time. All change requests arising from the value creation work processes (and also from the use at the customer) and affecting the digital twin must converge centrally at the change control board. So the circle closes and a new life cycle begins.   By the way: A BPM system should be the platform for the process-based use of all business applications.   #PDM #ERP #MES #CRM #PLM #ProjectManagement #ProcessManagement #DataManagement #LifecycleManagement #ProductManagement #EngineeringData #ProductData

🔧 PLM Implementation: Essential Strategies for Success Just read a great article on how to get your PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) project right — it’s about more than software. Success comes from aligning your goals with governance, tech, and people. Key take-aways: - Set clear objectives (time-to-market, cost savings, quality) and secure executive buy-in. - Nail data governance: clean up legacy data, set standards, ensure accuracy. - Make the right tech choice: vendor-neutral, gear for integration with your ERP/CAD. - Drive user adoption through training, champions and phased rollout. - Monitor KPIs and build continuous improvement into your rollout. Read now: https://lnkd.in/edtSdiq3 #PLM #ProductLifecycleManagement #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #BusinessStrategy #TechImplementation

POV: The integration is “working.” 😅 (As long as you run it on Tuesdays, after lunch, while humming, and absolutely no one asks questions.) If you’ve ever been in a PLM → ERP → MES integration, you know exactly what I mean. We start with “We’ll build a seamless digital thread.” And somehow end up with👇🏼 “Okay… so Janet needs to click this button twice, Carl runs the sync job manually, and PLEASE nobody touch the BOM during the transfer window.” Integration isn’t just technology. It’s culture… patience… and sometimes a tiny bit of superstition. 🙃 But when it finally works … consistently, repeatably, and without ritual sacrifice 🙌🏼everything changes ✅ Engineering → Manufacturing alignment ✅ Real-time updates ✅ Less tribal knowledge ✅ No more “Which version is the real version?” chaos The real win is when the system becomes predictable not when the demo looks pretty. Here’s to the teams who keep tuning, simplifying and unifying the thread. You’re the unsung heroes of product development. 💪🏼 #PLM #ERP #MES #Integration #DigitalThread #Manufacturing #Engineering #DataFlow #ProductDevelopment #RealTalk

🚀 6 Pillars of Digital Manufacturing – Building the Future of Smart Industry! Digital transformation in manufacturing goes beyond automation — it’s about connecting people, processes, and data seamlessly across every stage of production. Here are the 6 key systems driving the change: ✅ PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) – Manages product design, innovation, and lifecycle. ✅ PDM (Product Data Management) – Centralizes and secures product-related data. ✅ BOM (Bill of Materials) – Defines structure, cost, and version of every product. ✅ ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) – Streamlines operations, finance, and supply chain. ✅ MES (Manufacturing Execution System) – Bridges planning and shop-floor execution. ✅ QMS (Quality Management System) – Ensures consistent quality and compliance. Each system plays a critical role in enabling Industry 4.0, improving collaboration, efficiency, and traceability across the value chain. 💡 Digital manufacturing isn’t the future — it’s happening now. #DigitalManufacturing #Industry40 #ERP #PLM #MES #QMS #Automation #SmartFactory #ManufacturingTransformation

The cost of delivering an incorrect customized solution extends far beyond immediate replacement expenses. Organizations face significant risks including: ➡️ Customer dissatisfaction ➡️ Damaged relationships ➡️ Potential revenue loss from negative market perception To avoid these expensive mistakes, it’s essential to understand the core issues of configuration management and put effective strategies into action. This blog by Jesper Blak Møller outlines the causes and consequences of data misalignment between PLM and ERP systems, and how a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach using Virtual Tabulation® technology makes it possible to both validate and align PLM and ERP product configuration data. Read the blog here 👉🏻 https://okt.to/PhpSoE #ManufacturingInnovation #PLM #ERP #EngineeringInnovation

I finally got Riverside to export the edited version of this video. I hope you'll enjoy it! 🤔 PLM is dead? Long live the digital thread! 😄 The future of Product Lifecycle Management took center stage with a chorus of industry visionaries: - Christine Longwell: “As long as PLM is considered a PLM tool from a vendor, it will never get the corporate attention that it needs to get funding for that information to break out of your engineering system. You need PLM to go through your services group, to manage ideation, to listen to what the customers want.” - Oleg Shilovitsky: “I think the names and the three letter acronyms are essentially dead. That’s why we cannot invent a better one—because we already invented one and some people like it and hate it.” - Martin Eigner: “My dream, my really dream, is to build up a symmetrical data model—a digital thread above all the legacy systems—so end-to-end processes like release management, change management, configuration management, quality management sit on top of these processes.” - Patrick Hillberg Ph.D. Hillberg: “PLM is to product lifecycle management what IBM is to international business machines—it’s an acronym that no longer means what it meant when it started. If we want to manage product life cycles, we need to figure out how to integrate the databases to create a digital thread.” - Jos Voskuil: “Recently, I’m working a lot with companies and I don’t mention the ‘P word’ anymore...I think we all agree we have to solve business issues and those business issues because of digitalization can now become end-to-end business issues.” - Brion Carroll: “If we keep that term [PLM], we should make it be what it actually is, not what it’s been serviced as vendor products. We should begin to champion stretching PLM to be ideation to commercialization—and back.” - Brion Carroll (II): “Introducing the digital thread to people in manufacturing and why they need to look upstream is a conversation I have regularly to find that business imperative… It’s weird that the people who drive business continuity all the way from ideation to on the shelf have the pedigree of PLM.” - Juliann Grant: “PLM doesn’t really get its rightful due when it comes to looking at the C-level. ERP gets the right money and resources, but PLM is tougher because it touches so many places—from incoming marketing, sales, design, to service.” - Jim Brown: “It doesn’t matter what we call it. It’s about what are the business problems that need to be solved. It’s more important about the strategy first and about the business processes, and what vendors call PLM today isn’t enough to fulfill that.” - Rob Ferrone: “For at least my first five years, I didn’t even know we were doing product data management. For the next ten years, I hadn’t even heard of PLM—yet we’d grown the company to over a hundred people by then doing product data management across the life cycle.” See the first comment for the link! #PLM #DigitalThread #BetterCallFino

The cost of delivering an incorrect customized solution extends far beyond immediate replacement expenses. Organizations face significant risks including: ➡️ Customer dissatisfaction ➡️ Damaged relationships ➡️ Potential revenue loss from negative market perception To avoid these expensive mistakes, it’s essential to understand the core issues of configuration management and put effective strategies into action. This blog by Jesper Blak Møller outlines the causes and consequences of data misalignment between PLM and ERP systems, and how a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach using Virtual Tabulation® technology makes it possible to both validate and align PLM and ERP product configuration data. Read the blog here 👉🏻 https://okt.to/6fP1QJ #ManufacturingInnovation #PLM #ERP #EngineeringInnovation

The cost of delivering an incorrect customized solution extends far beyond immediate replacement expenses. Organizations face significant risks including: ➡️ Customer dissatisfaction ➡️ Damaged relationships ➡️ Potential revenue loss from negative market perception To avoid these expensive mistakes, it’s essential to understand the core issues of configuration management and put effective strategies into action. This blog by Jesper Blak Møller outlines the causes and consequences of data misalignment between PLM and ERP systems, and how a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach using Virtual Tabulation® technology makes it possible to both validate and align PLM and ERP product configuration data. Read the blog here 👉🏻 https://okt.to/bHtlAT #ManufacturingInnovation #PLM #ERP #EngineeringInnovation

The cost of delivering an incorrect customized solution extends far beyond immediate replacement expenses. Organizations face significant risks including: ➡️ Customer dissatisfaction ➡️ Damaged relationships ➡️ Potential revenue loss from negative market perception To avoid these expensive mistakes, it’s essential to understand the core issues of configuration management and put effective strategies into action. This blog by Jesper Blak Møller outlines the causes and consequences of data misalignment between PLM and ERP systems, and how a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach using Virtual Tabulation® technology makes it possible to both validate and align PLM and ERP product configuration data. Read the blog here 👉🏻 https://okt.to/2jQ4uS #ManufacturingInnovation #PLM #ERP #EngineeringInnovation

😅 Things You Absolutely Can’t Say on a PLM Project (…unless you want the room to go silent) Let’s be honest, every PLM project has its own “unwritten rules.” Here are a few you learn the hard way 👇🏼 💥 1. “This should be easy.” Instant heartburn for every architect within a 10-mile radius. 📄 2. “We’ll just keep the old spreadsheets.” Congratulations, you’ve just summoned the Digital Thread Demon™. 🕵️♂️ 3. “Can’t we go live without change management?” Sure… if you want chaos as your core business process. ⏳ 4. “We don’t need a test environment.” Famous last words before someone wipes out a whole BOM on Friday at 4:59 PM. 🤡 5. “Engineering and manufacturing already communicate great.” If I had a dollar for every time someone said this… I’d own my own helicopter 📚 6. “Let’s migrate everything… manually.” This is when your data team starts updating their LinkedIn profiles. 👋 7. “The system should work exactly like our old one.” Ah yes, the classic “new system, old pain” implementation strategy. 🧙♂️ 8. “We’ll fix the process after go-live.” And thus begins Chapter 1 of 1001 Never-Fixed Things. 🏃♂️💨 9. “Training? We’ll figure it out.” Also known as the moment the project quietly died. 🔌 10. “We don’t need integration… we’ll copy/paste.” This is ERP’s villain origin story. PLM projects are wild, wonderful, and occasionally ridiculous and honestly, that’s what makes this work fun. What would you add to the list? 😄 #PLM #digital #ProjectManagement #Itot #Funny #PDM #MES