Flyt för Aras PLM: - De senaste årens vinnare när det gäller nya användare
Flyt för Aras PLM: - De senaste årens vinnare när det gäller nya användare
”Great ERP, worse PLM” – What SAP PLM needs to sharpen its competitive edge
PLM Spending: A period of “Digestion” after two years of explosive growth
The Market for PLM Services: Why Accenture thinks they can rattle IBM
TV-report: The Internet of Things – The secret to what PLM and ERP can do in the smart revolution
Not ”a load of crap” anymore: ”PLM 360 is way ahead of plan”, says Autodesk’s Carl Bass
"Demolish the silos in PLM": Why Dassaults Bernard Charles believes in the 3D Experience
The Next Big Boom in PLM and ERP and the Battle Over mBOM Ownership
From the graveyard of ERP to the world’s largest start-up: Infor TV Report
What Happened to Volvo engineering and PLM under Chinese ownership?
Will GE and PTC’s joint venture create a ”PLM and manufacturing advantage”?
Inside Daimler Mercedes Switch from Dassault Systèmes to Siemens PLM and NX
Truck Maker’s PLM Model a Focus in Volkswagen’s War Over Ownership
The Role of 3D Printing in Manufacturing and PLM – TV Report
The Third Platform – A Quantum Leap for PLM and ERP
SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual: Late and Great, but too Expensive? – TV Report
Big Data – Big Problem? – TV Report
Applauds to the European Parliament’s call to modernise EU public works projects with BIM technology
Siemens, Tesis PLMware and Industry 4.0
Why PTC acquired ThingWorx and how M2M will change everything
Autodesk’s CEO, Carl Bass: We want to change the way people work – TV Report
How MOBILITY transforms Product Development, Manufacturing and Service – TV Report
Can PLM Systems Manage Highly Complex Products? – TV Report
Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE Platform – TV Report
PLM Systems Cleared for Take Off at Airbus
FRONTRUNNERS Takes a Look Inside Volvo’s Construction Equipment
Battle of the Visions part 3: PTC breaks new ground in the PLM landscape - claims CEO Jim Heppelmann
User experience the deciding factor when Dutch shipbuilder, Damen, chose IFS
PTC’s Windchill 10.0 – will 100 million in R&D take PLM to the next level?
The French Connection ...more possibilities than problems, when SolidWorks is “dassaultified”?
Management swap at SolidWorks - Jeff Ray Steps down as CEO, Bertrand Sicot takes over
SolidWorks’ Jeff Ray confirms in an interview transition to Dassault’s V6 platform
Do you manage your master data with spreadsheets? Throw them out. The analyst firm Gartner recommends that you use a Master Data Management (MDM) solution instead.
They cite good reasons for making the switch; "MDM has the most impact on things like cost and quality." Master Data Management is a hot topic with large manufacturing companys and as a result, it is also an important development path for the PLM and ERP vendors.
In fact, its boling down to a "battle over ownership of the mBOM", pitting the PLM vendors against the ERP players.
The partnership between PTC and GE Intelligent Platforms to develop a
state-of-the-art integrated PLM-MES solution provides a glimpse of what
could be the next big boom in the world of product realization:
solutions that connect the PLM, MES and ERP systems into seamlessly
functioning IT units for the shop floor and manufacturing. With this
partnership, PTC made up a lot of ground on the PLM "shop floor IT
leader," Siemens (PLM and automation), and on Dassault Systemes. On
the ERP side the competitive situation is clearer - SAP dominates.
Why Manufacturers can Benefit from Master Data Management
Gartners PLM analyst Marc Halpern talks about MDM (Master
Data Management), which he claims has been "a weak link when it comes
to product realization processes. Yet, there are gains to be made,
especially when it comes to stuff like BOM (Bill of Materials)
management." He adds that, "managing BOMs with high level MDM solutions
has the most impact on life cycle performance". It affects almost
everything from cost, quality and sourcing, to tooling, factory layout,
customer options, and service efficiency.
These are good reasons for manufacturing companies to invest more in
this area, and a growing number of them are doing so: "Absolutely",
agrees PTCs CEO, Jim Heppelmann, "manufacturers increasingly recognize
the value of Master Data Management to safeguard the reliability of
the data exchanged between PLM, ERP and MES systems."
Here are the top five reasons why manufacturers need Master Data Management (according to Gartner):
7 Root Causes of Product Data Errors
Ashley Morris, a researcher at Cardiff University in the UK,
has identified seven root causes of product data errors. The three most
important ones are:
Product development teams are all-too-familiar with how these
errors occur given the various systems that manage the data. Generally
cBOMs (configuration BOMs) and eBOMs (engineering BOMs) are created in
the PLM systems, whereas mBOMs (manufacturing BOMs) and sBOMs (service
BOMs) emanate from ERP or/and MES systems. But theres no rule here.
Several variants and combinations are "on the map".
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, is a good example of system
diversity. Like most large manufacturing companies, Airbus uses a
number of different solutions to get their BOMs together. The creation
of the mBOM actually involves three systems:
The Airbus system currently works well, but it illustrates the kind
of challenges that companies faces. To deal with this diversity
effectively, implementing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
between PLM, ERP, MES and MRO systems is a top priority.