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Identification

Part Re-Identification: It is not about the Tree

My book The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification has celebrated its first anniversary. I would like to thank everyone who bought a copy and for the amazing feedback. To celebrate the first anniversary I will share chapter 4 from the book which covers the Part Re-Identification Decision tree I propose.  Don’t forget to get your own copy! Re-identification decisions always start with understanding the impact of a change. This is not always… Read More »Part Re-Identification: It is not about the Tree

to revise or not to revise

Parts don’t have Revisions

In the last days of 2023, Martin Eigner posted about Form, Fit, and Function and one of the topics in there was the revisions of Parts. I thought about adding my comment, but it was difficult to capture everything in a short comment. So with this post, I try to provide my insights into the topic, which will be a rewrite of an existing post from a couple of years ago: HELP!!! Parts, Documents,… Read More »Parts don’t have Revisions

Customer Focus

How Configuration Management supports the shift in Customer Focus

Co-Authors: Lucas Heckmann, Florian Böhme, Jean-Hervé Poisson & Badia Dandana This is the second article in the CM+Agile series. This time we will dive into the required shift in Customer Focus and how Configuration Management can support this shift. Why do corporations like most Western Automotive OEMs struggle with products that have short life cycles? Corporations like most Western Automotive OEMs face significant challenges when it comes to developing products with short… Read More »How Configuration Management supports the shift in Customer Focus

Book Launch The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification

The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification: Available Now

Last week I announced the launch of my first book and today it is available:   The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification Unleash the power of Interchangeability and Traceability. If you have struggled with Interchangeability, Traceability, Form, Fit, and Function, this book is for you. It is available on Amazon as a Kindle eBook and as Paperback and on Apple Book store as an eBook. There is still time to join the online launch event on 20… Read More »The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification: Available Now

Book Launch The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification

Book Launch: The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification

It has been a while since I posted on my blog, and that was for a very good reason. I was finalizing my first book:   The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification Unleash the power of Interchangeability and Traceability. If you have struggled with Interchangeability, Traceability, Form, Fit, and Function, this book is for you. During the launch event, I will give you a sneak peek and tell you a… Read More »Book Launch: The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification

Survey

The Impact of the Model-based Ecosystem to Configuration Management Survey

We (the Model-based Ecosystem committee of the IPX Congress) need your help. This special edition of the Future of CM newsletter is about the survey to uncover the impact of going model-based to Configuration Management.  From Documents to Model-based More and more information that used to be stored in documents is being transformed into models. Historically CM has, therefore, been mainly dealing with documents and not so much with models.… Read More »The Impact of the Model-based Ecosystem to Configuration Management Survey

Is Form-Fit-Function doomed?

Is Form-Fit-Function (FFF) Doomed?

Prof. Dr. Jörg W. Fischer trigged a great discussion on Form, Fit, and Function by making the following statement:    I think Form-Fit-Function is dying a slow, cruel death. So the final edition of this year’s The Future of CM’ newsletter will answer the question: Is Form-Fit-Function (FFF) doomed?  Form-Fit-Function is incomplete FFF has been misused or incorrectly used as a tool to identify the impact of changes to a part.… Read More »Is Form-Fit-Function (FFF) Doomed?

IpX True North Podcast

IpX True North Podcast: the CM2 digital thread – the power of linkages

Redefining the Ecosystem of Tomorrow I joined Joseph Anderson and Martin Haket on the IpX True North Podcast. This series is about the topics identified in the CM2-500 standard.  We will discuss these topics in the context of the Future of Configuration Management. The second topic is the CM2 Digital Thread. and the power of linkages. More information about the topics we discussed can be found in the following blog posts: Digital Thread / Twin:  The… Read More »IpX True North Podcast: the CM2 digital thread – the power of linkages

The benefits of NFTs for Configuration Management

Time for a different topic than the CM Baseline, but definitely a topic worth exploring when trying to understand the future of CM. But before diving into Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), it is required to know what a blockchain is. “A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by… Read More »The benefits of NFTs for Configuration Management

Next Disruption Please…

This blog post is based on the presentation that I gave during the CIMdata PLM Roadmap PDT Fall 2021.  Are you implementing Model-Based Initiatives and wonder how this will impact your company from an end-to-end perspective? And how will these initiatives impact configuration Management? Let’s look at the disruptions Configuration Management has faced and will face, focusing on Model-Based Initiatives.  Where, from a Configuration Management perspective, a digital file still in many… Read More »Next Disruption Please…