PLM software
Somebody built four hundred units from revision B. The change went out in revision C.
Product data goes wrong quietly. A bill of materials in a spreadsheet, a drawing set in shared storage, a change agreed in a meeting and communicated by email. Every version is nearly right, none is authoritative, and the cost of the gap arrives as scrap, rework or a recall.
What it replaces
- BOMs in spreadsheets, copied per variant, drifting apart with every edit.
- Drawings in folders with revisions distinguished by filename convention.
- Engineering changes agreed verbally, with no record of what was affected or who approved it.
- Purchasing ordering to a superseded specification because the update never reached them.
What we build
The parts that make it a system.
Scoped to what you run. A module you do not need is not a discount we withhold — it is work nobody does.
Part and BOM management
A single part master with attributes and approved sources, multi-level BOMs with where-used, and variants and options handled as configuration rather than as copies.
Revision and change control
Formal engineering change requests and orders with impact analysis, approval routing, effectivity dates, and a history that shows exactly what changed between two revisions.
Documents and specifications
Drawings, specs, test reports and certificates linked to the part and revision they belong to, with controlled release and superseded material clearly marked as such.
Release to production and supply
Released BOMs handed to purchasing and production with the effectivity that tells them when to switch, plus supplier-facing packages containing only what a supplier should see.
Where AI actually helps
And where it does not.
Narrow but real. Finding duplicate and near-duplicate parts across a grown part master is the classic win and frequently pays for the project on its own. Extracting structured attributes from supplier datasheets is the second. Generating designs is not what this system is for, and anything that writes to a released BOM without human approval defeats the point of change control.
Integrations
What it has to talk to.
A system that does not reach the ones you already run creates a second place to type things, which is the problem you started with.
- CAD systems for part and assembly metadata, at the file level rather than as a plugin
- ERP for the manufacturing BOM, purchasing and costing
- Supplier portals or a controlled export package for external manufacturing
- Quality systems for test records and non-conformance
The limits
What we do not do here.
Including, on several of these pages, telling you not to buy a build at all. That advice has cost us work. It has also stopped projects that would have failed in month three, which is cheaper for everyone.
- We do not build CAD, viewers or geometry tooling. We manage the data around your CAD; we do not replace it.
- Deep native CAD integration with Solidworks, Creo or NX is vendor-specific plugin work with its own licensing, and we would rather integrate at file and metadata level than half-build it.
- Regulated PLM — medical devices under FDA design control, aerospace configuration management — carries validation requirements that are a project in themselves. We will scope that honestly or recommend a validated platform.
In practice
Where this shows up.
Discrete manufacturing
Variants multiply faster than the spreadsheet can hold them, and the cost of the wrong revision reaching the floor is scrap measured in units.
Contract manufacturing and electronics
Approved vendor lists and component substitution decide whether a build can proceed, so where-used and change impact are the daily questions.
How it runs
Fixed scope, fixed price, working software each sprint.
01
Discovery
A call, then a written read of the problem — what it costs today, what would have to be true for software to fix it, and whether we're the right people.
02
Proposal
Fixed scope, timeline and price. No open-ended discovery phase billed by the hour.
03
Build
Agile sprints with something running at the end of each one. You see progress in the product, not in a status deck.
04
Ship & support
Cloud deployment, production monitoring and a maintenance arrangement that starts before launch, not after the first incident.
Related
Systems that usually come up in the same conversation.
Most of these share data with each other. Where two are in scope we would rather build one system than two that sync.
Inventory Management
Stock numbers you can act on — because the system knows what is reserved, what is in transit and what was miscounted.
ERP
One system across sales, purchase, stock and accounts — scoped to what you actually run, not to a product's feature matrix.
Document Management
A document system that knows what a document is about — versioned, permissioned, retained and actually searchable.
Tell us what your PLM system would have to handle.
Pick a time that suits you. Tell us the problem, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to solve it.