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.
When engineers modify a design, they must decide between updating the original design or assigning a new part number, based on interchangeability. The Form-Fit-Function rule helps determine if designs can be swapped without issues.
When dealing with technical systems or parts of an industry, designations and abbreviations can be many, and they can be difficult to tell apart and even to quite understand. In this article, we will help you understand the terms Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Data Management (PDM) and we will highlight the differences between the two.
Windchill is a great system for control of not only CAD and drawings, but also technical documents. However, the out-of-the-box solution for document reviews are limited and often requires additional manual procedures in e.g. Excel to manage and drive the document reviews.
Learn in this article, how to use Windchill more efficiently for Document Management.
Good Document Management Systems require the right people behaviour, governance & ownership, classification & attributes and last but not least workflows. In this video Peter á Porta will take you through this foundation.
Windchill is a powerful PLM tool for administrating CAD-models and Bill of Materials.
Using Windchill for Document Management provides additional benefits.
Are you struggling to automate name and translation of materials in SAP? Do you spend a lot of time to ensure consistent part names and to translate the names to multiple languages?
In this article we will show how this can be automated based on classification.
Intelligent or non-intelligent Part Numbers. What are the pro’s and con’s?
Have you ever attended endless workshops on reengineering processes without success? Learn about the four elements you have to focus on in order to succeed.
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