Aptean PLM Lascom Edition vs GitPLM

Aptean PLM Lascom Edition is a web-based product lifecycle system for industrial products and systems, covering pre-sales, manufacturing, delivery and after-sales service. It supports tender responses with requirements, quotations and proposed product composition, then manages customization, project documents, change requests and their impacts. Teams can compare prototype and standard configurations, centralize industrialization data and planned configurations, and track serialized items by serial number or batch. After delivery, it stores serialized product records, tracks retrofits and changes, creates customer documents from templates, and reports corrective actions and anomalies. A shared repository holds product, document and program information, including technical drawings and complex data sets. Dashboards, alerts and reports show repository contents and program progress. The responsive full-web interface is available through browsers on any device. The maker describes Azure-hosted SaaS, cloud and on-premise options across its products, with training and support in its SaaS methodology. Pricing is on request.

GitPLM manages product manufacturing information alongside product designs in Git. It brings together bills of materials, part numbers and manufacturing release data, including combined BOMs across subassemblies and release information for custom components. Its terminal interface supports column searches, per-column parametric searches, editing and datasheet links. Partmaster and BOM records use CSV files, while release configuration uses YAML. GitPLM can provide a parts database to KiCad through its HTTP Libraries feature and reload data when CSV files change. Optional release hooks can run tools such as KiCad’s InteractiveHtmlBom generator, though those hooks are supported only on Linux and macOS. The KiCad HTTP server can use an authentication token. GitPLM is described as a self-contained Go binary with no dependencies, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and is deployed on-premise. It is free, released under the Apache 2.0 license, and designed for small teams building products.