Odoo Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a collaborative version control and change-management application built to coordinate product development information especially valuable for manufacturing businesses that need to manage Bills of Materials (BoMs), product revisions, and engineering change orders (ECOs). It helps teams work together on product specifications and control changes before, during, and after production, ensuring every department uses the latest product data.
What’s special about Odoo PLM?
- Engineering Change Orders (ECOs)
Track and manage approved product changes systematically through ECOs. Each change can document updates to BoMs, operations, and design specifications giving you control over product evolution. - Version control for BoMs
PLM enables you to manage multiple versions of Bills of Materials with smart versioning, diff and merge support, and easy comparison of revisions, preventing outdated instructions from reaching production. - Always updated BoM data
The latest approved BoM version is always visible to production teams so that assemblies and tasks use current data. - Traceable change history
Keep a full record of every modification, with traceability and audit trails that show who made changes, when they were approved, and what was altered. - Document integration
Attach technical files, drawings, worksheets, or quality documents directly to product records or ECOs, with all revisions accessible in context. - Collaborative workflows
PLM facilitates cross-department collaboration engineering, manufacturing, quality, and purchasing teams work from the same product information, reducing miscommunication.
How does it impact your business?
- Better product coordination
Centralized PLM ensures everyone from design to production works from the same up-to-date product version, eliminating errors caused by outdated information. - Faster change implementation
Structured engineering change workflows reduce delays in making product improvements or corrections. - Stronger traceability & compliance
Every change is logged and traceable critical for regulated industries and quality audits. - Improved cross-team collaboration
Integrated document and version control tools allow engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, and quality teams to coordinate faster, with fewer meetings and less rework. - Reduced production risk
Automatic BoM updates aligned with approved product versions help ensure shop floor accuracy and reduce costly mistakes.
Bottom line
Odoo PLM provides a robust product version control and change management solution that ensures structured development, full traceability, and cross-department collaboration throughout the product lifecycle.
DBS enables the implementation of controlled engineering workflows, standardized change processes, and seamless integration with manufacturing ensuring accurate versioning, reduced errors, and complete visibility over product evolution from design to production.
DBS enables the implementation of controlled engineering workflows, standardized change processes, and seamless integration with manufacturing ensuring accurate versioning, reduced errors, and complete visibility over product evolution from design to production.
