The one question we get fairly often is: Are you guys a PLM?
And the answer is: "Definitely not, but thanks for asking because TEXbase puts PDM, PLM and ERP systems on steroids. Let me explain...."
From a historical perspective, software automation has been applied to our industry in reverse order to the direction that information actually flows. It all started with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) back in the 70's and 80's which is all about bulk manufacturing. After controlling mass production, software was next applied to defining the individual products that were being made or Product Data Management (PDM). This was followed by ...