No. BL-PLM · Nexo PLM

A full PLM in Python — no license, no cloud.

Commercial PLMs are expensive, rigid and oversized for mid-market industry — which ends up managing products, revisions, engineering changes and contracts in spreadsheets and network folders. Nexo was born inside a real steel fabrication company to be the single source of engineering information, on a 100% open stack: Django, React and PostgreSQL, running on your intranet.

StatusIn development · internal use

StackDjango + React + PostgreSQL

Screens103 (React)

Tests661 automated

What already works

From the BOM to the shop floor

Real change management

PR, ECR, ECO, ECN and DCO with a validated workflow and a visual graph of each item's life cycle — the rigor of the big PLMs, without their price tag.

Multi-level BOM

Alternates and AML, where-used and a 3-column layout: tree, 3D viewer and properties side by side, the way engineering likes to work.

3D CAD in the browser

Asynchronous STEP/IGES to GLB conversion — a 35 MB model spins live on screen, with no plugin and no license.

Drawing vault

SHA-256 deduplication and an approval flow (In progress → To check → To approve → Released → Obsolete), replacing the network folder.

Connected production

A 12-stage planned vs. actual pipeline, kanban, OTD and lead time KPIs, and a TV dashboard for the shop floor.

100% local AI

7 built-in AI agents — inventory analysis, service life, documents and an executive copilot — with no data ever leaving the intranet.

The system in use

Nexo on screen

A CAD document open in Nexo with a 3D aircraft model spinning in the browser, with orbit, zoom and pan controls. — In-browser CAD 3D viewer — STEP and IGES converted, no plugin and no licence

Multilevel product structure listing positions, part codes, descriptions, quantities and the revision state of each item, including an expandable subassembly. — Multilevel BOM with revision and release state per item

Engineering change screen showing the lifecycle graph that links the change request to the change order. — Engineering change management (PR/ECR/ECO/ECN/DCO) with the lifecycle graph

Full-screen production board with backlog, stopped and late totals, and columns per stage holding the work-order cards. — Shop-floor TV board — backlog, delays and stages, live

Financial dashboard with a monthly revenue bar chart, an asset-status donut and a bar chart of assets per product. — Executive dashboard: monthly revenue and asset distribution

Screens from the real system, with every piece of data replaced by fictional stand-ins: customers, contracts, products and people. No customer information appears here.

Trial by fire

Migrated with real data, not a demo fixture

Nexo's importer has already pulled 6,112 tasks, 17,201 history records, 42 projects and 350 attachments out of a production Redmine instance in industry — idempotently: running it again duplicates nothing. That's how you test a PLM: with the company's own past inside it.

6,112tasks migrated from Redmine

17,201history records preserved

32domain modules in the backend

661automated tests

An honest status: Nexo is under active development and in internal use — it is not a product for sale yet. It's here because it shows the level of system Bueno Labs builds, and because tomorrow it could be the PLM running your operation. Interested? Let's talk.

Contact

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If your company is stuck with a revision spreadsheet and a network folder as its "vault", this project is for you.

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