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Product Lifecycle Management Questions

How Many BOMs Needed?

QWe currently have Teamcenter Engineering as our Design management tool and SAP for PDM and ERP. It has been suggested that we must now only have one BOM in SAP which is only one view so the design view and manufacturing view of the BOM is the same. Designers will effectively be creating the manufacturing BOM as their design. Do you know of any other organisation that does this and can it work efficiently?

Migrating to 3D

QDear Mr. Amann, What do you think about the replacement of 2D drawings by 3D models for product assembly/manufacturing? Thank you,

Suggested Reading

QHi Ken, I work for a PLM VAR but do not have much direct industry experience of design and manufacturing. Are there any books or articles you can direct me to to learn about basic best practices, e.g. in some of your answers you refer to where and in what phases of design to get part numbers or things like releasing and revising designs and assemblies, master BOM's etc? Thanks,
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Kenneth B. Amann

Director of Research, CIMdata Inc

A graduate of Georgia Tech, Mr. Amann has 35 years of experience researching and working with Product Lifecycle Management and Product Data Management architectures, as well as developing computer-based engineering applications and document / information management systems. Mr. Amann has held senior positions in PLM marketing, development, and consulting. His experience includes evaluating corporate engineering and manufacturing operations, managing PLM programs, recommending collaborative and concurrent engineering and product information management solutions, implementing PLM solutions, and developing and evaluating requests for proposals. Prior to joining CIMdata, Mr. Amann was the managing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Technology Leadership Group, where he conducted research into and evaluated emerging PLM technologies and vendor products based on these technologies.
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