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✳︎ Product lifecycle management

Manage engineering changes without chaos: versions of bills of materials, change orders with approvals, and clear visibility of which revision is in production. Engineering and manufacturing finally work from the same data.

CHANGE CONTROL
ECO #112 PROPOSEDREVIEWED + APPROVEDREV E RELEASED ✓CHANGES MOVE LIKE CODE REVIEWS
BOM VERSIONINGAPPROVALS
One truth for engineering

Every manufacturer knows the moment: production builds revision C while engineering already lives in revision E, and the difference surfaces as scrap. Odoo PLM ends the versions war: bills of materials are versioned, engineering change orders carry approval flows, and everyone can see which revision is actually in production.

Engineering and the shop floor finally share one truth.

Changes move like code reviews: propose, discuss, approve, release. Documents and drawings attach to the product revision they belong to, and the handover from engineering to the shop floor stops being a meeting and becomes a record.

FIG.01 - REVISION TIMELINE
REV C · IN PRODUCTIONREV D · PHASED OUTREV E · RELEASEDREV F · DRAFTWHO BUILDS WHAT - VISIBLE TO EVERYONE
Technical drawing · BOM versions
How it works
the loop runs itself
STEP 01Engineer proposes a change
STEP 02Approval flow signs it off
STEP 03BOM version updates
STEP 04Production builds the right revision
1 truth
engineering and production read the same BOM revision
ECO
change orders with approval flows, like code review
Diff
compare BOM versions side by side before release
0 scrap
from building the wrong revision: releases are explicit
Key capabilities
Spec sheet · 4 functions
Engineering change orders with approval flows
BOM versioning and comparison
Document attachments per product revision
Smooth handover from engineering to production
In an ERPSWISS project
Part of our 7-step delivery
STEP 1Configure
We structure your BOMs, revisions and approval chains to match your engineering process.
STEP 2Integrate
Released revisions flow straight to Manufacturing orders: the shop floor always builds the right version.
STEP 3Train✳︎
Your team learns PLM in the training step of our 7-step journey, with your processes documented in your own Knowledge base.
Good to know

Odoo PLM: one module, one shared database, zero double entry.

Odoo PLM is one of the standard applications of the Odoo platform, part of the Inventory & Manufacturing family. Like every Odoo module, it runs on the same database as CRM, sales, inventory and accounting: information entered once is available everywhere, with no connectors, no sync jobs and no manual exports. Companies choose it to replace a patchwork of disconnected tools with one integrated system that is easier to maintain and cheaper to own.

In daily work, teams rely on PLM for: engineering change orders with approval flows; bom versioning and comparison; document attachments per product revision; smooth handover from engineering to production. Because the module is part of the platform, every action leaves a clean trail for reporting: managers watch live dashboards instead of assembling spreadsheets, and the numbers stay consistent across departments and companies.

ERP SWISS is an official Odoo partner. We implement and configure PLM for companies in Switzerland, France, Germany, the EU and Armenia, including localization, data migration, staff training and long-term support. A typical implementation takes weeks, not months: we configure the standard module to your processes first, and add custom development only where it truly pays off. Book a free demo to see it on your own scenarios.

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