Engineering & Manufacturing
3 articles on Engineering & Manufacturing from the DDSPLM team.
Why Tool Room Inventory Goes Bad: The BOM Revision Gap
Material sitting on the rack was purchased correctly, against a valid approved BOM. It became dead stock because the design revised and no one communicated exactly what changed — only that it did.
The Hidden Cost of Manual BOM Prep in Mold and Die Design
How seven unavoidable manual steps — part extraction, stock size calculation, photo capture, ERP reformatting — consume a full day of design capacity per tool release, and multiply across every revision.
5 BOM Errors That Cost Stamping Tool Shops Money
Five mistakes that appear in almost every manually-assembled Bill of Materials for press tools and stamping dies — and why they keep recurring regardless of how careful your team is.