Engineering Change Management

Bluestar PLM offers fully integrated engineering change management, helping organizations assess design and financial impacts before implementation. This keeps drawings and documentation up to date, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.

Embedded in Dynamics 365

The interconnectivity between Bluestar PLM – and Dynamics 365 ECM allows creating change requests in Dynamics 365, completing the engineering changes in Bluestar PLM, then finalizing the change with the manufacturing changes in the Dynamics 365.

This not only ensures that the whole change is covered within a single flow, but also improves the traceability and manageability of multi-revision product data without losing any of the known Bluestar PLM functionality.

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Reduce errors in the change process

Easier manage and monitor engineering changes with an overview of the complete change history and latest updates, so production will always have access to the latest revisions for reducing costly errors in production.

Ensure the timely phase-in of new revisions in Dynamics 365 with improved responsiveness towards input from customers and colleagues.

An overview of the downstream impact enables you to take more informed and cost-beneficial decisions related to engineering change orders. Save time by not having to identify the impact of change manually.

Smarter Change Management

Bluestar PLM provides an integrated platform to plan, approve, and implement product changes across Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Service — all within Dynamics 365. It ensures that dependencies across departments are automatically accounted for, reducing risk and increasing efficiency.

Engineered for engineering change orders (ECOs), Bluestar enables visual workflow automation with an intuitive drag-and-drop design engine. It supports cross-functional collaboration and aligns teams on best-practice processes without coding or custom scripting.

Maintain a detailed revision history of items, BOMs, drawings, and documentation. Bluestar allows users to compare indented BOM revisions within Dynamics 365 — ensuring traceability and enabling faster, more informed decision-making.

Instantly analyze the downstream effects of product changes on production, procurement, sales, and inventory. Use built-in “What-if” simulations to evaluate feasibility and cost before committing to a change — reducing the risk of disruption.

Make bulk changes to parts across BOMs with ease. Bluestar automatically identifies where affected parts are used and streamlines updates — saving engineering hours and preventing manual errors across design variants.

Key benefits

Your entire organization operating in a shared CAD+PLM+ERP environment will abide by formal change procedures for increased quality and consistency.

With both ERP and PLM change-related data shared across engineering and operations, you will be able to coordinate multiple changes simultaneously with greater precision.

Eliminate redundant administrative processes that accompanies engineering changes when all product data is connected in a single system – Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP.

With both ERP and PLM change-related data shared across engineering and operations, people will be informed and prepared to handle change requests so you can spend less time getting stakeholders up to speed during meetings.

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