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Your firm is not alone if it put in the time and outlaid the capital on an ERP deployment only to find the challenge of on-time customer shipments still an active and pressing problem.
ERP’s sweet spot lies in its ability to manage the financial information surrounding the purchase, production, or assembly of parts. ERP stops short of managing the product innovation process; PLM manages product innovation and can simulate production process plans in the earliest stages of design.
DISCUS Software Company, headquartered in Columbus, OH, has announced a premier authorized partnership agreement with Adaptive Corporation. Adaptive will sell and support DISCUS’ First Article Inspection (FAI) software solutions to businesses operating in aerospace, defense, automotive, medical and various other manufacturing industries that have stringent quality requirements.
Despite global sales market share stuck at single-digit levels, electric vehicles (EVs) are steadily filling the development pipelines at major OEMs. And as engineers are acutely aware. EVs bring a paradigm shift in the noise, vibration and harshness (NVG) arena. Their harmonic spectra are dramatically different than those of even the smoothest, most refined combustion-engine vehicles and hybrids.
An Interview with Jon Gable, PLM Business Leader, Adaptive Corporation
ConnectPress: Describe the traditional roles of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and how they might work more closely in the all-digital vision of Industry 4.0.
Jon Gable: Essentially, ERP is focused on the operations side of a business—how a company produces a product—that includes tracking cash, materials, production capacity, orders and executions, labor factors, risk, compliance, and more.
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You and your team spent months implementing the shop’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The costs were more than you care to discuss. Despite this, no one can argue that […]
Advanced, integrated digital tools can optimize noise, vibration, and harshness as well as range performance on battery powered vehicles.
In the 1980s, computer aided design software (or CAD) started to be widely adopted by companies of all sizes, because for the first time it was possible to run the […]