The Digital Thread
for Manufacturers
Cascadia connects every requirement, part, BOM, engineering change, and work order into one living record — from concept to retirement. The complete PLM your team will actually use. Open source, self-hosted, ITAR-ready.
One thread. Concept to retirement.
Every piece of data a product generates — from the first requirement to the last as-built unit on the floor — lives on a single connected record. No silos. No re-keying. No guessing what's effective.
Requirements
Capture and trace every requirement to the parts and tests that satisfy it.
Design & CAD
Parts, documents, and CAD files versioned together with full revision history.
BOM & Configuration
Multi-level BOMs with clear effectivity — know what's in every configuration.
Engineering Change
Branch an ECO into its own workspace, review it, and merge when ready.
Manufacturing
Work orders and instructions built to the exact revision the floor should use.
As-Built & Ops
Every as-built unit linked back up the thread — through service to retirement.
Sound familiar?
Your “change process” is an email chain and a prayer.
You’re tracking ECOs in spreadsheets, chasing approvals over email, and hoping nobody builds to the wrong revision. One missed update and the shop floor has the wrong BOM.
Your PLM costs more than it’s worth.
Six figures a year for a system your team avoids. Half the data lives outside it anyway, and every configuration change needs a consultant.
You can’t work on two changes at once without breaking things.
One ECO is in review, another is urgent — but your system forces sequential changes. So you wait, or you hack around it, and pray nothing collides.
You can’t see what’s actually going to get built.
Which parts are on which hull? Which revision applies to which contract? Your system can’t answer without a 30-minute deep dive.
A better way to manage change
Branch a change like you branch code. Review it in isolation. Merge it when it's ready — and watch effectivity flow down the thread.
Work on changes in parallel, not in line.
Every engineering change gets its own isolated workspace — like a branch in Git. Make changes, review them, merge when ready. No collisions. No waiting.
See exactly what’s effective, everywhere.
Know which revision applies to which program, design, or unit at a glance. No more cross-referencing spreadsheets to brief the shop floor.
A complete system, not a half-measure.
Parts, documents, BOMs, requirements, workflows, files — the full configuration lifecycle. Use it as your PLM, or layer it over the one you have.
Modern software, no consultant required.
TypeScript and PostgreSQL, deployed with Docker in minutes on your own infrastructure. No shared databases, no multi-tenant compromises.
Built differently, on purpose
Isolated change workspaces
Every ECO gets its own sandbox. Review and merge changes without stepping on work in progress. No other PLM does this.
Your data, your instance
Self-host from our public repo on your own infrastructure. Your data never mingles with anyone else’s. ITAR-ready from day one.
Open source, no strings
The full platform is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0. Self-host free with unlimited users. No feature gating, no open-core tricks.
With or without a PLM
Replace your spreadsheets entirely, or orchestrate changes across an existing Teamcenter or Windchill investment.
Capable PLM, not enterprise PLM
Legacy vendors bundle proprietary software into six-figure contracts — Oracle for the database, HOOPS for CAD, Windows Server to host. We use open source at every layer. Lower cost, full control, no lock-in.
The right trade-off
Need native CATIA rendering and SAP integration out of the box? You need Teamcenter — and its budget. Need solid change management, full BOM control, and document workflows without the overhead? You're in the right place.
Standard formats, no toll booth
STEP, IGES, OBJ, STL, and glTF render out of the box in a capable Three.js viewer. Unlimited viewer seats, free, forever.
Every tier, every feature
No gating BOMs or ECOs behind premium tiers. No “call us for a quote” games.
Self-Hosted
Clone from GitHub. Unlimited users. AGPL-3.0 on your own infrastructure.
Standard Cloud
Full platform. 10–50 users. Dedicated instance, managed for you.
ITAR / GovCloud
AWS GovCloud deployment. Same platform, sovereign infrastructure.
Implementation
We get you running, including data migration from legacy systems.
Clone it. Run it. Own it.
Free under AGPL-3.0. Node 20+ and PostgreSQL 18+. Docker recommended.
# clone and launch in minutes
git clone https://github.com/Cascadia-PLM/Cascadia-App
cd Cascadia-App && npm install
cp .env.example .env
npm run db:generate && npm run db:push && npm run db:seed
npm run devWant a hosted option? kai@cascadiaplm.com