Problems we are brought in to solve
We’re rarely called when everything is going well.
We’re called when organisations have invested heavily in PLM, yet engineering still feels harder than it should.
“We spent a fortune and PLM still doesn’t work.”
This is the most common starting point.
Systems have been configured, users trained, go-live declared - yet core engineering work remains fragmented, manual and error-prone.
Business processes were never agreed.
Success was measured in features, not outcomes.
No one owns the behaviour behind the system.
“No one trusts the BOM.”
When engineers don’t trust product data, they stop using it.
This is not a tooling problem - it is a failure of ownership, accountability and discipline.
Multiple versions of the same structure.
Manual rework to ‘fix’ the system.
Decisions delayed while data is verified offline.
“Every change is slow, painful or political.”
Change becomes theatre when responsibility is diffused and accountability is unclear.
Endless approval loops.
Changes raised too late to matter.
Closed-loop change that only exists on paper.
“Our data migration left us worse than before.”
Migration projects often focus on volume, not integrity.
When flawed data is moved at scale, problems multiply rather than disappear.
No clean-up or quality baseline before migration.
No ownership model after go-live.
Legacy behaviour preserved inside new systems.
The real problem behind all of this
These issues don’t exist in isolation.
They are symptoms of organisations trying to digitise behaviour that was never properly defined in the first place.
Why Delta PLM exists
Delta PLM exists to restore discipline, ownership and clarity to engineering environments.
PLM systems should become assets not obstacles.