Altium & Duro - When Your Electronics Bend, Your PLM Shouldn't Break

Electronic development teams are reshaping hardware to be flexible, printed, hybrid, and stretchable. The systems used to manage product data are not flexing along with those designs. They’re still rooted in an era of rigid boards and static spreadsheets. Legacy PLM approaches bind up hardware teams. They turn minute design changes into bureaucratic wrangling and every cross-system connection into an IT project.

This session explores what modern PLM looks like in 2026: cloud‑native, AI‑driven, and programmable end‑to‑end. We’ll examine how automation can streamline BOM management, component research, and compliance, and how API‑first architectures let teams embed product data directly into their workflows, much like software teams do with Git. Through real‑world examples, attendees will see how treating product data as a living, queryable system enables faster iteration on novel form factors.

The takeaway: as electronic products evolve, the systems that manage them must be rebuilt — not just patched — to keep flexing with ongoing innovation.