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Don’t Use AI to Guess What Your Enterprise Systems Already Know
AI adds value to Engineering Change Management by reducing administrative work, simplifying complex information and supporting better decisions. Enterprise systems provide reliable facts, AI delivers insights, and people remain responsible for decisions.
ECM System evaluation
Choosing an Engineering Change Management solution is about much more than registering and approving changes. This checklist highlights 16 questions to help organisations evaluate how well different solutions support the complete change process across people, systems, data, cost, planning and implementation.
ECM-Go Goes Live: Watch the HydraSpecma Testimonial
HydraSpecma has transformed its engineering change management from manual processes into a centralized, digital workflow with ECM-Go, improving transparency, traceability, efficiency and control across its global organization.
Impact Analysis in Enterprise Change Management
Engineering changes extend far beyond design, affecting production, supply chain and service. Effective impact analysis helps organisations identify consequences early, reduce rework, prevent delays and improve predictability across the enterprise.
Data-Driven ECM: Learn How You Can Improve Your ECM Process with Data and Statistics
Data and statistics are essential to improving Engineering Change Management. By tracking key metrics, identifying bottlenecks and using real-time dashboards, companies can measure performance, make informed decisions and continuously optimize their ECM processes.
Planning in ECM: Why every change should have its own project
Treating engineering changes as projects with clear scope, timelines, responsibilities and dependencies helps manufacturers streamline ECM, reduce delays and rework, balance workloads and improve collaboration and compliance.
Engineering Change Management (ECM) in D365FO
Enterprise Change Management extends beyond engineering to connect people, processes and systems across the business. Discover how integrating D365FO with PLM enables end-to-end change management, better collaboration and full visibility.
Take your ECM Process to the Next Level (webinar recording)
Discover how to transform Engineering Change Management into a holistic, enterprise-wide process. Learn BoostPLM’s six-element framework for connecting people, processes and systems across the value chain.
Why engineers should stop revisioning
Our managing director wrote this post on the critical practice of revisioning drawings and 3D models in CAD and PDM systems. This traditional approach, dating back to hand-drawn revisions, often overlooks the impact on ERP and warehouse systems, emphasizing the necessity for new material numbers to ensure compatibility and process integrity.
