I will be speaking at Teardown this year! Link to heading

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 using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software with KiCad. I’ll walk through how to automatically generate a KiCad database library from part data stored in Aligni, a cloud-based PLM software offering a free tier for open-source hardware organizations.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025/long-talk/are-we-plm-yet-a-beginners-introduction-to-product-lifecycle-management-for-kicad

Talk Slides Link to heading

Make sure to check out the additional slides at the end of the deck for topics that I didn’t have time to cover during the talk.

Teardown 2025 - KiCad PLM Talk - v1.0.2.pdf

Talk Video Link to heading

I’ll update this page with a link to the video recording once it’s uploaded to YouTube by Crowd Supply.

Minimal KiCad+Aligni Example Project Link to heading

I put together a minimal example project demonstrating the KiCad database libraries integration. Check out the README for instructions on how to clone and try out this project on your own.

https://github.com/cgnd/aligni-example-kicad-project