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As hardware teams adopt more tools, APIs are essential for maintaining traceability, automating handoffs, and keeping data consistent across engineering, manufacturing, and business systems. By using flexible, bi-directional APIs, teams can eliminate manual work, reduce errors, and unlock real-time insights into design progress and product velocity.

As hardware software stacks grow more complex, siloed and legacy systems like 3DExperience increase cognitive load, limit accessibility, and slow product development. Cloud-native PDM/PLM platforms offer a simpler, more flexible alternative by unifying data access, improving usability, and enabling modern integrations across best-in-class tools.

A well-designed part numbering schema is foundational to efficient hardware development, improving traceability, collaboration, and integration across engineering, manufacturing, and ERP systems. By keeping part numbers simple, consistent, and scalable, teams can reduce errors, save time, and build processes that grow with their products.

Hardware teams are losing critical engineering time to poor data access, clunky PDM/PLM systems, and unproductive meetings, slowing iteration in an already lengthy development process. Modern, cloud-based workflows that improve version control and data accessibility can reclaim that time, reduce delays, and help teams stay competitive in fast-moving markets.

Modern hardware teams face rising customer expectations, tighter timelines, and remote-first workflows that expose inefficiencies in collaboration, data management, and communication. Cloud-based tools and better integration between hardware, software, and cross-functional teams are becoming essential to reduce wasted time, adapt to new work styles, and stay competitive in an increasingly crowded market.

Many hardware products fail not because of poor ideas, but because design-for-manufacturing is addressed too late and managed through fragmented, manual communication. By centralizing DFM feedback and enabling transparent collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, and business stakeholders, teams can balance performance, cost, and yield to bring better products to market faster.

ver the past several years, Dassault has made concerted efforts to onboard users to the 3DExperience (3DX) platform, with the proposition of a single, unified experience across CAD and PLM. While 3DX is an incredibly feature-rich platform, many teams find it difficult to efficiently utilize all the functionality available.‍In this series of posts, we will take a look at a side-by-side comparison of 3DX and Bild’s cloud PDM/PLM to help teams understand which system is the right fit. In this post, we will cover implementation, ease of use, core workflows,‍

Hardware teams adopt cloud storage tools like Google Drive because they’re low-cost, quick to set up, and make files easy to share and scale as products grow in complexity. However, these tools fall short for hardware workflow - lacking true version control, part numbering, release management, in-browser CAD viewing, and design review workflows - often forcing teams to juggle multiple disconnected systems.