Engineering Data Management in Practice: Why Drawings Fall into Chaos and How PDM/PLM Put Them Back
1. The Problem: Engineering Data Is Slipping Through the Cracks Every manufacturing company reaches a point where drawings, revisions, and part numbers stop behaving like a system and start behaving like a rumor. A machinist runs an obsolete revision, a design engineer edits a file that another team is already using, and the purchasing department …
