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A Gentle Introduction to Electronics Contract Manufacturing
Outsourcing electronics manufacturing can be a confusing prospect filled with new terms, hidden details, and plenty of dead ends. This is especially true for startups and small businesses in the thick of high growth. We’ve…
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Aligni Recommends: Integrating Quality Management and PLM Is a Recipe for Profit
Engineering.com put together a great article about the issues that arise when PLM systems are not integrated with a company’s quality management processes. The article goes into detail on where this disconnection can start costing…
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Fall 2023 Update
It has been a productive summer at Aligni. As Halloween approaches and the leaves fall, we wanted to share with you some of our recent updates and maybe a bit of a tease about what’s…
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Can You Tell When an Engineering Change Management System Is Needed?
Larger manufacturing organizations employ a number of advanced processes to manage production operations. The processes help guarantee efficiency, quality, and on-time delivery. For smaller firms, these systems tend to be too burdensome to make sense…
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How to Know When You Need a PLM System
Product development and management processes have a lot of moving parts to oversee and there’s a lot riding on things going well. Many times, smaller companies and hobbyists often try to manage their BOMs and…
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Work Smarter with Item Master Equipped PLM and MRP Systems
In the day-to-day and over the long term, a manufacturing company manages a large amount of data and communication regarding the parts and materials it uses to make its products. Using a centrally-located database system…
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Product Engineering Needs PLM
Achieve Better Organization, Collaboration, and Efficiency in Product Development Using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Systems for Component Information Management Product Lifecycle Management is more than just a quality process. It is an approach to product…