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Every engineering and manufacturing team knows why BOMs must be validated before release. Catching a mistake early is cheap. Catching...

Welcome to the OpenBOM July 2026 update! The July 2026 update focuses on helping engineering and manufacturing teams improve BOM...

Last week, the global PLM community gathered in Lecce, Italy, for the IFIP 23rd International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management...

Revisions, Change Requests, and Change Orders in OpenBOM This article is concluding our five days blog series with OpenBOM Product...

Ask an engineering team when the BOM is finished and they will point to the release. Ask a purchasing team...

On Monday we said that nobody has a BOM problem. On Tuesday we followed a design out of CAD and...

There is a button in every CAD system that engineers know well: export BOM to Excel. It feels productive. In...

When companies start looking for better tools to manage product information, the conversation usually begins with a very specific pain....

Here is a story I hear almost every week. Engineering export the bill of materials (BOM) in Excel. Procurement works...

Excel is not going away. Let’s start there, because PLM vendors have always defined Excel as the problem. For years,...

Every few weeks during onboarding, someone stops me with the same worried question. They have just seen the words “data...

Across the previous four articles in this series, I made a case that can sound almost philosophical. A Part Number...