KiCon North America

Chris Wilson

Chris has over a decade of experience designing low-power embedded systems for the Internet of Things, and four years of product management experience in PCB assembly manufacturing.

He’s taken IoT hardware products from prototype to production at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies.

If you bump into him at the water cooler, ask him about the first IoT hardware he worked on that was donated to the Smithsonian by Vint Cerf.


Sessions

05-30
13:40
40min
Are we PLM yet? A beginners introduction to product lifecycle management for KiCad
Chris Wilson

Have you ever wondered how product teams manage BOMs, revisions, releases, and specifications over the lifecycle of a hardware product?

In this talk, you’ll learn the basics of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software and explore some of the available options for KiCad users. We’ll finish up by showing how to integrate a KiCad database library with Aligni, a cloud-based PLM software offering a free tier for open-source hardware organizations.

Theater