Taming the Wild BOM: Why You Need a PLM System to Corral Your Data
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When I leave the house, I always check for these three things:
Although in the current climate, you probably want to add ‘mask’ to your list too.
We all have favorite places where we leave them so that we can easily find them later; whether it may be on a bedside table, in the kitchen drawer or a coat pocket etc. Wherever it is, we know where to start looking, but what about office equipment and assets? Where are they?
An office asset could be almost anything, it might be electrical equipment like CAD workstations, laptops, mobile phones, photocopiers, drones, digital cameras etc, but might also be valuable artwork, sculptures, title deeds, or even furniture. It might also be things like software licenses.
In each case, you will on occasion ask questions such as who has this asset and where is it now. In other cases you may need to find information relating to the asset or be reminded of when an event is due for instance:
Anyone with a little database knowledge can knock up a simple asset register to hold this type of information. It can have serial numbers of equipment, key dates and the names of staff that they are allocated to. As anyone who has tried this will know, the problem is that staff forget where the system is, how to log on, and how to use it. So nobody maintains the data, and it quickly becomes useless.
The ideal is that this type of asset management isn’t a separate toolset but instead an extension of your existing environment, so that you can:
Customers of our drawing management software Excitech DOCS benefit from not just having a CAD document management system, which is saving them huge amounts of time and helping them achieve and maintain BIM Level 2 accreditation, they also gain from the underlying foundations of M-Files as its vast range of capabilities opens a wealth of opportunities to become more integrated, efficient and organized by taking control of all your assets.
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