Three teams, three tools, no structure all three can write into.

A hundred and twenty engineers, no technical data tool

The R&D team grew to a hundred and twenty people without ever acquiring a technical data management tool. Files have no revision stamp, so nothing is searchable and nothing can be shown to be compliant.

for 120 people in R&D

« We have no technical data management tool at all. Searching and proving compliance are both hard. »

How do you answer that today?

Three sites, three continents, one machine

The same machine is configured and built on three continents. Each site rebuilds the bill of materials line by line from the others' exports, because there is no structure all three can write into.

no shared source, BOMs retyped line by line

« If it is complicated, people simply do not do it. »

Three bills of materials pretending to be one

Engineering, process and production each need a different view of the same product. There is one BOM, so aligning them means rewriting drawings that did not need to change — and the engineering office absorbs it.

so every change means redrawing

« Aligning the engineering and production BOMs forces pointless drawing updates that overload the engineering office. »