PLM version

A version refers to a particular variation of an electronic file, typically issued by a process or system outside the PLM system. While revisions typically identify successive steps in the evolution of an item, versions often are not sequential. Versions are commonly used for computer program files to identify a specific set of features, a set of bug fixes, and/or a particular build number. For example, a version "3.2.203" may indicate the marketing feature set "3.2" plus the compiler build "203". While you have an accurate picture for how many releases are represented in going from revision "01" to revision "04", you'd have little feel whether there were a few releases, or several hundred, between file versions "1.0.403" and "2.1.1042".Many PLM systems permit specifying both a revision and a version for the same item, which enables the PLM system to assign its own sequential revision to the outside system's seemingly-arbitrary, and generally non-sequential, version.