What Manufacturing PLM is for
An AI-native Product Lifecycle Management platform for electro-mechanical manufacturers between fifty and five hundred people — built BOM-first with CAD attached, and designed from the first schema to publish to an ERP rather than argue with one.
The beachhead, stated plainly
Electro-mechanical manufacturers, fifty to five hundred people, on cloud CAD or willing to attach desktop CAD to a BOM-first system. That is who the product is designed around, and naming it is more useful than claiming to serve everyone. It puts Manufacturing PLM against Arena, Duro, Propel and Autodesk Fusion Manage — not Windchill or Teamcenter, which solve a different problem for a different company at a different price.
Why BOM-first rather than CAD-driven
A CAD-driven PLM makes the assembly tree the source of truth and derives everything from it. That works beautifully until purchased parts, packaging, firmware, labels and consumables need to be in the structure — none of which exist in the CAD model. BOM-first treats the bill of materials as the object under change control and attaches CAD to it, so the parts of the product that were never modelled are first-class rather than afterthoughts.
What we deliberately do not build
No ERP functionality: no general ledger, no accounts payable or receivable, no invoices, no sales orders, no purchasing transactions, no inventory movements. No on-premise or ITAR-segregated deployment. No formulation or recipe model, and no artwork and label management — both have structure mathematics different enough that bolting them on would compromise the core. Saying so on a public page costs a few unqualified leads and saves everybody the evaluation that ends badly.
How it is built
In numbered, sequential prompts, each leaving something shippable and each documented in a public note describing what was built, what was left out and why. The build log on this site is generated from those notes rather than written for marketing. It is the most honest thing we can offer a buyer evaluating a young product against an incumbent with twenty years in market.