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“What’s in a name? That which we call a web page by any other name would smell as sweet”

On September 2, 2010 By

The well-known musings of Shakespeare’s Juliet suggest that the names we ascribe to objects entail an element of arbitrariness.  She implies that the name given to an object is a mere matter of convention.  A name – Juliet explains – does not change or describe an object or its qualities…  A rose is [...]

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Assembly Instructions in Excel

On August 19, 2010 By

Today was really a great day.  A customer called with an idea on how to use Vuuch in their assembly process.  Yes you guessed it right, they have been managing their assembly steps in Excel, see image to the right showing the first 4 assembly stations of a process [...]

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What’s in a BOM

On April 27, 2010 By

Of course it is clear a BOM has components.  But what is maybe not so clear is the fact that a BOM also reveals relationships between team members or that a BOM organizes what needs to get done.  For example if your team is developing a new washing machine shouldn’t the BOM be able to [...]

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Da BOM is Da BOOM

On April 21, 2010 By

Everyone loves to talk about being the BOM and whenever this subject comes up the first thing you hear is there are multiple versions of da BOM.  But I wonder how true this really is?  Of course it makes sense to say there is an Engineering BOM, a CAD BOM and a Manufacturing BOM, but [...]

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