Features

Everything it does.

83 capabilities across 10 areas, all of them shipped and in use today. Start anywhere — or take the tour if you would rather see the whole loop in one scroll. Building machines? PLM for robotics shows how the same pieces fit a robot and the fleet that ships.

Model your data

Describe the things your business makes before you describe what happens to them.

  • Base types and polymorphic types
  • Over twenty field types
  • Field groups
  • Field defaults
  • Part numbering
  • Catalogs and categories
  • Entity reference fields
  • Effectivity dating
  • Project templates
Data model in detail

Records and the grid

A spreadsheet-speed surface over typed data, for the work that is genuinely bulk.

  • The data grid
  • Saved grid views
  • Faceted search
  • Aggregates
  • Multi-field bulk edit
  • Bulk apply template
  • Project-wide search
  • CSV import
  • Export that does not truncate
  • Draft, live, archived, trashed
  • Advanced duplicate
Records and the grid in detail

Bills of materials

Multi-level structures where the line between parent and child is a real record, not a text field.

  • Multi-level structures
  • Where-used
  • Structure planes
  • Approved alternates
  • Scoped substitution
  • Component-wide edits
  • Formulas and multi-output BOMs
  • Quantity and cost rollups
  • Parts summary
  • Structure baselines
  • BOM compare
Bills of materials in detail

Change control

Governed types route every edit through a proposal, named approvers and an immutable revision.

  • Change requests
  • Immutable revisions
  • Named approver rosters
  • Minor and major classes
  • Change packages
  • Comments and request changes
  • Awaiting me, and cycle time
  • Propose a reversion
  • Change lock
  • Obsolescence and supersession
  • Audit trail
Change control in detail

Costing

Cost the product from the structure that already exists, and freeze the answer when it matters.

  • Cost sheets
  • Cost rollup
  • Wastage
  • Markup
  • FOB to landed
  • Mixed currencies
  • Cost snapshots
Costing in detail

Quality and compliance

Checks, dispositions, certificates and traceability, against any record in the project.

  • Check records
  • Disposition
  • Stale approvals
  • Certificates and expiry
  • Samples
  • Lot genealogy and recall impact
  • Life limits
Quality in detail

Planning and sourcing

What to buy, how much of it, and the dates everything has to hit.

  • Material requirements
  • Order-free explosion
  • Time and Action calendars
  • Dependencies and status
  • Milestone workbench
  • Manufacturer profiles
Planning in detail
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