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Quality, Capacity, and Capability: Finding the Best EMS Provider for Your Organization
If you’re looking to get into outsourcing your electronics products or just a few subassemblies, then it’s time to step up to purpose-built software to more effectively manage the process, as well. It’s time to…
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The Workflow between PDM, PLM and MRP
For many, PDM, PLM and MRP software suites may seem like competing systems. It’s not hard to come to that conclusion, either. Afterall, there’s a lot of functionality overlap between them. The fact is these…
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Your Homegrown, Spreadsheet-Based MRP System Is Costing You Productivity
Relying on spreadsheets to manage inventory and production needs seems like a quick and easy solution in the beginning. Afterall, spreadsheets are low-cost, reliable commodity tools that are broadly familiar to nearly anyone working with…
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Your Homegrown, Spreadsheet-Based MRP System Is Costing You Productivity
Relying on spreadsheets to manage inventory and production needs seems like a quick and easy solution in the beginning. Afterall, spreadsheets are low-cost, reliable commodity tools that are broadly familiar to nearly anyone working with…
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Smarter Product Design Using Product Lifecycle Management Software
Getting to production intent is never a straightforward process. Changes to a product’s design can happen for a variety of reasons along the way. Parts may have to change to satisfy performance requirements. They may…
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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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PLM: The Source Code Management Tool for Hardware
Software engineers have broadly embraced Source Code Management (SCM) systems such as Git, Subversion, and Perforce as best practices. Hardware projects don’t need to be treated differently. They just need the hardware project equivalent to…