Why companies are increasingly using low-code platforms like Mendix to build mobile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) apps and web-portals to extend their engineering processes into the field, connect with customers, suppliers, partners and employees on the move and close gaps in their Digital Thread.

The inflection point represented by the advent of low-code could provide UK industry with an opportunity to leapfrog a generation of older technologies to close the manufacturing productivity gap.

This paper explores, what defines a low-code approach and why this is often better than what went before.

If someone asked you to design tomorrow’s legacy PLM system, where would you begin?

A thought provoking short read…