✨ PLM is fundamentally changing. There's a whole new dynamic within the community. I experience this in numerous customer discussions. 🗣️💼
I believe it's the changes in the Supply Chain that are setting completely new requirements for PLM, or what we understand by PLM. We at STZ-RIM Reshape Information Management are trying to capture this dynamic and topics, to underpin them methodically, and to make them discussable. 🔧📊
This new knowledge then flows directly into our coaching program, "Methodical Essentials for PLM Experts". 📚🎓
Yesterday was such a day again: We had a team of BDF EXPERTS with us. BDF-Experts are top specialists for challenging PLM topics. We were very pleased that you were with us. Maximilian Böttge Sebastian Fuchs Tom Tetzlaff Anton Gaus🤝🌟
In the course of the discussion, we also discussed the paradigms for an ERP-near PLM. Why? Because both the guys from BDF-Experts and us notice in many customer situations that due to the dynamization, the fragility of the Supply Chains, and the control claim to these, completely new requirements and concepts for an ERP-near PLM emerge. 🔄🛠️
A central paradigm of yesterday's discussion on ERP-near PLM was "Generic Structure Instance Embedding". A working name for a concept that fundamentally rethinks the approach to generic product structure. 🤯💡
The classical approach to generic product structure assumes that the top structure of a product is purely generic, i.e., structuring. From a certain structural level, the product structure is then completed through positions/position variants by components/assembly instances. 📐🔩
However, if you want to implement a growing CTO+ Modular Kit, this approach needs to be rethought. This is done by extending the Generic Structure into the deeper levels of the product structure. The boundary between structuring and instantiation disappears. The instantiation is no longer horizontal but vertical to the structure, and a "double structure" emerges that contains both the instances and the generic structure. This makes automated instantiation that can also include the CTO+ portion possible down to the lower levels of the structure! 🔄✨
An exciting approach that enables a growing Modular Kit with maximum automation and CTO+.
Sounds complicated? It is – but only when building it for the first time. Once the concept is established, it enables offering high-variant products at the prices and delivery times of standard products on the market! 🏭💼
What do you think?
Now, if you want to know more about it, feel free to book our "Methodical Essentials for PLM Experts" workshop at the RIM Academy (https://lnkd.in/egrBZE2x). 📅🎟️
