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By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:00:02 +0000

Eric, I had change to see change management for product development implementation in various ways. People are looking for flexibility combined with formal process. And this is always a big challenge. Thanks for your comments! Oleg.

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By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:15:36 +0000

Hi Pascal, Thank you for pointing on this document. I’d agree on your view on Part and Item. I think Product structure is definitely broader that Bill of Material. However, I’ve seen in many organization this terms are opposite. It was pleasure to discuss. Come again to plmtwine! Best. Oleg.

By: Pascal Morenton

Pascal Morenton — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:17:02 +0000

Hi Oleg,

I do agree with you : education and learning are key points to success an implementation, even for the managers. But how many companies (and especially the SMB) give a significant part of their PLM budget to the education ?

Few months ago, a small french working group tried to define basic definitions of some main concepts of PDM. We publish a – french speaking – document :

http://cao.etudes.ecp.fr/documents/rex_plm_gestion_de_configuration_B_1.pdf

I’ll try to translate some definitions in english (forgive me !) :

Item : it is a generic element of a decomposition. It could be a part, a function etc.

Part : it is an element of a organic decomposition related to a product

Product structure : hierarchical decomposition of a product to adress specific business needs

BOM : we didn’t agree on that term ! For me, it is a “flat” view of all the components of a product. It’s a kind of shopping list to make a product.

After these definitions, it remains majors difficulties : defining more complicated concepts as “Configuration management” or explaining what is a data model and why we should look at it first !

It’s not easy, especially when the chosen editor do not give its data model !

Glad to discuss with you, Oleg.

Regards, Pascal.

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:34:15 +0000

Hello Pascal, I you are asking very important questions. Items, Parts, Bill of Materials, Product Structure etc. All these definitions are part of implementation steps. However, in organization, education is very important steps. BTW some of terms you mentioned are overlapping in my view. Can, you explain how do you see the following difference: Part vs. Item; BOM vs. Product Structure…. Thanks for coming to discuss on plmtwine! Oleg/

By: Pascal Morenton

Pascal Morenton — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:52:31 +0000

Maybe we should insert a STEP 0 which aims to define the main concepts or terms used in CAD, PDM or PLM :

What is a part ? What is an item ?

What is a BOM ? What is product structure ?

What is a status or a state ?

I assume that in any company, there are as much definitions as people (and as much excel or access files as definitions). Does installing a software allow to unify these definitions ?

Definitely, you have to insert a STEP 0 in your plan : let’ forget the software and let’s go back to basics.

Regards, Pascal.