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Twenty years ago, designing a product mostly meant mechanical design. A mechanical assembly captured most of what needed to be...

How many bill of materials do you actually need? I get this question a lot from engineering and operations leaders...

Part numbers are the foundation of product data management in any engineering or manufacturing organization. Every component, subassembly, raw material,...

Earlier this week, I previewed CAD File Agent for SOLIDWORKS. If you missed that, check these two articles: Why did...

A new kind of experience for engineers who never wanted a PDM system in the first place We Started with...

When I left Autodesk, I had a strong gut feeling about where the industry was headed. CAD vendors, I believed,...

Engineering work starts with files. CAD assemblies, parts, drawings and other related design files are the foundation of product development....

One of the most common questions I hear from engineering and manufacturing teams is simple: how do we move product...

There is a moment in every engineering company when Excel stops being a helpful tool and becomes the bottleneck. At...

Most engineering teams do not start with a product data problem. They start with a design problem. They need to...

Every manufacturing company has a BOM review process. The question is what that process actually catches — and what still...

A BOM can exist and still not be ready for release. Here is why that matters  and what a better...