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PDM/PLM-Product Data and Lifecycle Management

Streamlining Your Data Ecosystem to Reduce Costs

Streamlining Your Data Ecosystem to Reduce Costs

Managing data across multiple systems can quickly become complex and overwhelming. This issue is common for companies across industries. Trying to manage all product-related data and CAD designs across multiple PLM and ERP systems often results in siloed data. This...

Transforming Product Development with Configuration Management

Transforming Product Development with Configuration Management

When developing products, there are many components to keep track of such as parts, data, and configurations.  Keeping up with every minor alteration to a product can be difficult, but using a PLM system like PTC Windchill can help you stay organized.  Configuration...

Leveraging Windchill PLM for Comprehensive Change Management

Leveraging Windchill PLM for Comprehensive Change Management

Change management, though necessary, can often be a difficult process involving multiple teams and data handoffs.  Managing product, system, and process changes to meet organizational goals doesn’t have to be complicated. Utilizing a PLM solution such as PTC Windchill...

Optimizing Solidworks PDM Implementation

Optimizing Solidworks PDM Implementation

When multiple employees of a Fortune 100 medical equipment manufacturing company reached out to us for support with workflow functions and permissions, we knew there was a better way.  Rather than fixing the issues that would inevitably keep occurring with their...

Oracle Database Cloning Made Easy

Oracle Database Cloning Made Easy

As a systems integrator, I spend my time behind a variety of applications every day.  Each of these applications stores its data in some type of database.  The most common databases I deal with are typically MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, and MS SQL Server. As such,...

Security basics with IPTables

Security basics with IPTables

When on the internet, there's always concerns of security.   If you're listening on some services but not others, you need to modify the Linux firewall to allow this. Also, if there's undesirable clients accessing ports and hacking, IPTables is an effective...

Five Major Downsides of Changing Software Tools

Five Major Downsides of Changing Software Tools

Switching to new software tools can often seem like an exciting opportunity to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and modernize operations. Some executives seem to think that simply buying a new software tool will solve many problems at once. However, with...

SDLC Basics: The Vision Statement

SDLC Basics: The Vision Statement

In the Beginning In the beginning, there was an idea. The idea took shape and became a project. The project became an application and the application got used. Or maybe it didn't get used. Maybe it was completely the wrong application for the business. Or maybe it was...

Integrating Meld with Git under Linux

Integrating Meld with Git under Linux

Have you ever used Git? Git has quickly grown to become one of today's most popular source code management solutions for software engineering projects large, small, professional and personal. Developed by Linus Torvalds, Git is classified as a “distributed version...

4 Reasons to Use Static Analysis on Your Codebase

4 Reasons to Use Static Analysis on Your Codebase

All of us who work in software development want the products that we release to be high quality, and also low cost to maintain in the field. This is no big revelation; it’s common knowledge, and it’s common sense. It’s not clear that there is any silver bullet in...