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“In reality, however, PLM has many fathers: Ever since companies started using computer programs in their design work, they needed a way to more easily retrieve and...
The advent of CAD systems such as AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Creo, Solid Edge, or SolidWorks enabled users to create their technical drawings electronically...
“Product data management is the use of software or other tools to track and control data related to a particular product. The data tracked usually involves...
Sometime in the 1990s, electronic archiving and document management systems (DMS software) started to gain momentum in commercial departments. The latter’s advantage...
The Product Data Backbone provides a foundation for the consolidation of product related data and documents from across all departments and systems. That is why the...
"In industry, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design...
With CAD data management as the starting point, Collaborative PLM represents the stage before complete digitalization in technical-industrial environments...
The rapid pace of Digitalization in product-centric industries is increasing the number of systems that contribute to the creation of production related information. In addition, data volumes keep growing...
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Application PackagesFrom change management to risk and contract management
Best practices provide a proven path to quickly implement new software applications into practice. You don’t have to start programming from scratch, but rather rely on approaches that have already been successfully tried and tested elsewhere. PROCAD calls this [...]
Seamless ProcessesGetting out of the digital dead end
A PLM solution creates a seamless experience, giving everyone along the process chain – whether it’s order processing, design, production, or sales – controlled access to a consistent and unified Product Data Backbone. This means that establishing a Product Data [...]
CAD, ERP and PLMPLM integrates information from both CAD and ERP systems
Synchronizing item master data, bills of materials, and project data between the design and production department is always a major challenge but it is one that can be overcome with the use of PLM. Manufacturing companies are frequently confronted with their workflows grinding to [...]
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Digital Information Twin Digital Twin and Digital Information Twin Go Hand in Hand
The structure of machinery and equipment is growing increasingly complex. As Digitalization and Industry 4.0 are intensifying, the share of electronic and software components is ever increasing while the share of mechanical components is going down. By merging the product information on all equipment components in a product and document lifecycle management system (PDM/PLM software) and by doing so throughout its entire lifecycle, companies create a digital information twin [...]