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Part 4 of the Part Numbers and AI series. The practical one. Part numbering for the AI era comes down...

Part numbers became “smart” because systems were hard to access, expensive, disconnected, and difficult to share. Search, connected data, and...

Last week I wrote about whether AI will kill the Part Number. The short answer was no. AI kills the...

Every OpenBOM implementation eventually arrives at the same question: “What Part Number schema should we use?” And every time, the...

We are proud to share that OpenBOM has been included in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for PLM Software in Discrete...

From BOM management to a connected operational layer across engineering, procurement, inventory, and business systems. Earlier this week, I introduced...

On Friday I wrote about how OpenBOM re-thinks cloud PDM and moves engineering teams beyond the local vault. The question...

For the last 10-15 years, I watched CAD vendors promise to deliver cloud PDM, but the promise didn’t come true....

Spreadsheets work for a BOM until one missed revision reaches purchasing or production. At that point, the low-cost tool becomes...

Think of your production process like a complex symphony. You have skilled operators, capable machines, and quality materials, but without...

A BOM spreadsheet usually breaks at the first serious engineering change. Then purchasing, suppliers, and production start working from different...

AI will not fix broken CAD-to-Excel-to-file processes. It will expose them. Engineering teams that want real value from AI need...