When incorporating a new component revision, many manufacturers struggle with the question of whether to trigger a new revision of the assembly. You don’t want to bury yourself in a pile of pointless documentation updates, but you also never know when you may need to trace a given change.
Through my personal experience and by working with Arena customers, I’ve come to find that this dilemma […]
read moreOver the years, I’ve seen many new Arena customers wrestle with the question of whether a new component revision should trigger a new revision of the assembly or assemblies that contain it.
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Ian McCullough, product development consultant for startups
“What you want to do will define how you get off the ground. When you make and sell physical goods, you begin to trade flexibility once you […]
read morePrior to Arena and the advent of cloud, PLM was an expensive gamble. PLM solutions took a long time to implement, and implementations frequently failed. Faced with frightening odds, small and mid-size manufacturers […]
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