New Zealand’s Nyriad LTD is a software company at the nexus of computational storage infrastructure. Together with OpenBOM and their partners, Nyriad develops technology…
CATIM Bill of Materials requirements is as diverse as their products! According to CATIM Solution Architect, “Combining BOMs from desperate design systems was next…
Companies buy 70% of parts of stuff used in products. Standard components, fasteners, re-usable stuff – cabinets, motors, pumps, PCB controllers, caster wheels, bearings……
The procurement of components is one of the most important activities that stands between design and production. About 70% of parts in every product…
The last year was a huge success for OpenBOM. If you missed my earlier blog, please check – OpenBOM – Looking back in 2019.…
The Holidays Break is over. This year, we will continue our weekly educational webinars about BOM management. Today, I want to announce next week’s…
One of the most complex things in engineering data management is to coordinate two BOMs – engineering BOM (EBOM) and manufacturing BOM (MBOM)… Oops.…
How often you use Solidworks and have a situation where you model assemblies but later buy them as “purchased assembled” (bearings, pumps, etc). On…
Happy New Year! We are starting 2020 on the right foot by introducing an improved Solidworks add-in data model and user experience. Historically, OpenBOM…
A new year is an opportunity to look back and check what we’ve done, what is our purpose and what we would like to…
The information in the Bill of Materials and Catalogs sometimes is very complex and contains dozens of attributes. Grid is a good way to…
Just in a few days, we will step in a new decade. As always at the end of the year, we ask ourselves what…
Everyone needs the information that is in the Bill of Materials. But everyone needs it to be delivered differently. Engineers might have an access…
A few weeks ago, we shared news about OpenBOM on G2 Crowd Inc, the world’s leading business solutions review website. If you missed that…
PLM Philosophy blog suggested an interesting article about 100%, 120% and 150% Bill of Materials. Check it out here What is mean by 100…
I’m always saying BOM is teamwork. A single person doesn’t do a BOM. A mechanical engineer can do his work, PCB design can do…
This week we continued the serious of “BOM Basics” webinars and speak about people. Yes, I always like to say that technologies are easy,…
At OpenBOM, we believe in the visual Bill of Materials. Therefore, almost from day one at OpenBOM, we wanted to allow users to share…
The manufacturing industry is going through a major transformation these days. There is significant pressure on OEM to change their business models and transform…
Communication between engineering and manufacturing isn’t simple. OpenBOM helps you to integrate with any CAD system (check more here – OpenBOM Integrations). Right after…
The manufacturing world around us is quickly transforming and the biggest change I can see around us is the creation of online services. A…
Product development and manufacturing is hard. Remember the time when you were able to buy a bad car? It is over. All the cars…
A few years ago, I was talking to one manufacturing company. They developed great products, but struggle with execution and manufacturing. I asked them…
One more feature request and the way to streamline the process of part creation in OpenBOM. Catalogs are the way to manage Item Masters…
Search is one of these functions that everyone is looking for when it comes to data management. To be able to identify and isolate…
The bill of materials is something that often considered a simple thing. After all, what can be complex in a list of parts? However,…
I’ve been attending Autodesk University 2019 last week in Las Vegas, NV. During Design and Manufacturing Keynote, Stephen Hooper Autodesk Vice President and General…
Product Structure of the Bill of Materials is the lifeblood of product development and manufacturing. Think about every product that companies are designing, manufacturing…
You can think about the Bill of Materials as a flat list of parts placed in the drawings. This is a simplistic and wrong…
I’m super excited to share with you more information about the last OpenBOM release before Thanksgiving break and to include several important usability improvements…
You’ve made a great design for a new product. Or you’ve made a new feature for an existing product. These things are exciting, but…
Want to learn more about how to manage data about the product you design, manufacturing and support? As much as BOM sounds like a…
Bill of Materials (or how companies call it sometimes “product structure”) is an essential part of product information. BOMs contain data about assemblies, quantities,…
We are reviewing everything these days. From 25$ earbuds and 100$ hotel rooms to phones computers, apartments, trips… you name it. A consumer economy…
As the world is moving towards connected web applications, we are at OpenBOM are discovering new opportunities to integrate OpenBOM with platforms and applications…
There is only one constant thing in the world. It is a change. Engineering and manufacturing companies are living and breathing the changes every…
Ease of navigation between data is somewhat very important when you work with such complex data as the Bill of Materials, Catalogs, and other…
A new feature of Item Master panel is to support multiple catalogs. In the previous release, we introduced Item Master panel – a very…
Long-awaited feature to import Vendor list from a spreadsheet is here. Yay! Now you can import the existing Excel spreadsheet of vendors you’re working…
The magic names such as EBOM, MBOM, SBOM, and others are standing for a specific domain of knowledge — engineering, manufacturing, planning, supplier, etc.…
As you probably heard, PTC agreed to acquire Onsahpe. The press release and additional materials from PTC can be found here. PTC is acquiring…
CAD is one of the main sources of data when it comes to Bill of Materials. This is a starting point where the design…
Efficiency is a killer in all manufacturing companies. Better, faster, cheaper. You probably heard it many times. Many manufacturing companies, especially small ones are…
Happy Friday! Today I want to review a new coming search user experience in OpenBOM Part Search. Those of you who tried this search…
Old habits die hard. BOMs and Drawings are one of the most controversial topics in engineering data management. Back in days when a drawing…
OpenBOM gives an amazing solution for Solidworks users. Think about finishing your dream Solidworks project. You’re almost done with your favorite design and you…
Once you registered to OpenBOM, you probably have a question – what to do next? As much as it is a very simple question,…
For every engineering using the CAD system, the design of the product is a lot of fun. But, when the time comes to order…
One of the most critical features in BOM management is the ability to manage multi-level structures (BOM). Think about complex structure of assemblies, sub-assemblies,…
Food is one of the best examples to illustrate the Bill of Materials Management and manufacturing. If you think about it more, any restaurant…
Earlier this week webinar about one of the most complex BOM management topic – interchangeable revisions and part numbers. Managing part revisions is hard…
When it comes to BOM management software, spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are one of the most popular. And it…
One more quick preview of changes in the OpenBOM dashboard coming in the next release. It is related to the search experience. We found…
Simple things are hard. In the coming release, we are making changes in an element of OpenBOM user interface that was created a long…
The question about Part Numbers, schemas and the way it will be organized and managed are always the topic that drives a lot of…
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. From the first days of OpenBOM, we wanted to deliver a simple yet powerful solution for the Bill of…
I’m super excited to share with you news about the new OpenBOM add-in for Fusion 360. We’ve been working closely with many OpenBOM users…
If you’re using Autodesk Eagle for your electronic PCB designs, you know that one day you need to create Bill of Materials to plan…
Bill of Materials is the lifeblood of every manufacturing company and business. However, when it comes to the data, manufacturing companies are usually facing…
Bill of Materials aways sounds like a simple thing. You probably heard it before – BOM is a list of parts, what’s the big…
If you are using Siemens Solid Edge to design products, one day you will have to create BOM to build an actual product. Even…
If you are using Autodesk Inventor to design products,it will be a day you will need a Bill of Materials to build an actual…
If you use SOLIDWORKS to design products, one day you will obviously need to create a Bill of Materials for what you want to…
OpenBOM data organization contains Bills of Materials and Catalogs. If you’re not familiar with data modeling in OpenBOM I recommend you to check a…
This question is asked by OpenBOM users and customers more often than you can think about. Although you can think about BOM as a…
The question about what is BOM (Bill of Materials) sometimes drives controversy in manufacturing companies. It happens that different people see BOM different or…
I’m very much excited to give a first preview of the work we’re doing to improve customer workflows and feature scope of OpenBOM and…
The spreadsheets are part of everyday life for every single manufacturing company. People love them despite all the mess they can bring. And people…
I had a great honor to present at ConX19 – event organized by the Institute for Process Excellence. Check out more about the event…
I’m very much excited about our new BOM management educational webinars. At OpenBOM we accumulated a huge spectrum of knowledge about Bill of Materials,…
Excel (or spreadsheets) is one of the greatest inventions of IT for the last decades. Flexible, powerful and easy to use. But, it brings…
CAD data is one of the main sources of engineering information used to create the Bill of Materials and extract additional data to organize…
Best practices of Import BOM or Catalog to OpenBOM from your existing spreadsheet The things are rarely happening in the vacuum. Usually, you have…
One of the ways to create a new BOM or Catalog is to create them from scratch. If you skipped the fundamentals of OpenBOM…
I’m starting the next level of OpenBOM Basics series of blog articles. In my first series (OpenBOM 101), I covered the main features of…
As we continue developing OpenBOM, we found a growing number of OpenBOM Professional Teams are demanding more advanced set of features. When we first…
We’ve been getting many requests to expand OpenBOM integration with Google Sheet. I’m happy to share some early information about OpenBOM import from Google…
Management of Part Numbers is often causes some confusion for customers working with Solidworks. The questions about Part Number settings are coming so often,…
Since the very early days of OpenBOM, we’ve been focusing on how to help engineers and teams to work together. OpenBOM unique real-time collaboration…
Working with Solidworks multi-body part such as weldment can be tricky in Solidworks. Especially when you need to create Bill of Materials. In some…
Autodesk Fusion360 plug-in for OpenBOM is going through the series of enhancements and improvements based on your feedback and requirements we collected. Today, I…
Modern products are often a combination of mechanical and electronic components. Electronic wrapped in plastic or smartphones on wheels. You probably heard it before.…
The calculation is an important part of the Bill of Materials. I’m sure don’t need to explain why. OpenBOM does have some very unique…
Colored parts often represent some level of difficulties when you attempt to manage it in Bill of Materials and inventory. Imagine that your company…
One of the questions often comes from new OpenBOM users about Catalogs – how many Catalogs should I create? This is a great and…
OpenBOM data management gives you a lot of flexibility. While in general, I see it a very good thing and can give you a…
A few days ago, I wrote an article explaining how OpenBOM is managing the parent-child structure of information in Bill of Materials. If you…
Even OpenBOM looks and smells like a spreadsheet, inside OpenBOM manages data using multiple databases. The concept of a spreadsheet is applied to OpenBOM…
Earlier this week several customers asked me to clarify how OpenBOM can manage parent-child relationships. After answering on several questions, I decided to come…
I’m thrilled to share that first OpenBOM integration with accounting package is now available. You can integrate between OpenBOM and Quickbooks Online. Obvious question…
If you’re a longtime citizen of engineering and manufacturing communities, you probably heard people saying that if you have 2 engineers, you might have…
One of the questions I’m getting from users is how to create a link from OpenBOM to other sources of information. Engineering information is…
Another cool new feature coming soon in OpenBOM. Many of you asked us how to transform your existing BOM spreadsheets into nested structure Bill…
When it comes to Bill of Materials, calculations is one of the most important things. Think about BOM as a recipe of what you…
Cloud software is evolving with new features and functions. As such Onshape was evolving and introduced new user experience. Which made me think it…
Bill of Materials is a lifeblood of your manufacturing business. It defines all components and assemblies you need to have to produce a product.…
User experience is one of the things companies are thinking more these days. At OpenBOM we are thinking about how to help people exploring…
One of the questions often asked by OpenBOM users and customers is how OpenBOM is merging data between CAD systems and Bill of Materials…
Earlier this week, I shared a series of articles about OpenBOM BOM and Catalogs. If you missed that, I will encourage you to take…
I’m coming with the final part of my set of articles about OpenBOM Bill of Materials and Catalogs. Check Part One and Part Two…
I continue my set of articles about OpenBOM Bill of Materials and Catalogs. If you missed Part One, please navigate here to catch up.…
If there is something in engineering and manufacturing companies that I learn for sure for the last two decades is that terminology is…
Formulas are important. After all, Bill of Materials is a recipe of the product and calculation and rollups are big part of main BOM…
All products these days is some sort of combination of electronics and mechanical design. It comes everywhere and creates a new level of complexity.…
In this article, I want to share detailed information about new OpenBOM data properties – Data and Currency. Date Property The new Date property…
We are expanding property types in OpenBOM. If you missed an earlier article, check this out – we are adding Currency property. One more…
I have to admit – this is one of the long-awaited enhancements of OpenBOM. But later is better than never. New property types are…
Any BOM or Catalog in OpenBOM can easily be shared by clicking the “Share” button with anyone with an OpenBOM account using their email.…
OpenBOM User Defined views is a very powerful mechanism that allows you only to see data you want or need to see in BOM…
An OpenBOM Team Admin manages and controls who gain access to OpenBOM within a Team or organization. Access is not limited to internal, i.e.,…
The core function of production planning is to calculate how many parts need to be ordered to make a production batch. OpenBOM does by…
The end goal of every design and manufacturing process is to assemble a product and ship it a customer. This is in a nutshell…
A Vendor List contains information about companies you’re using as a source of standard parts as well as contractors and suppliers. We call them…
To manage parent-child relationships is a fundamental function in the Bill of Materials. OpenBOM does it on demand by connecting Part Numbers. It is…
For the last several months since we introduced OpenBOM Design to Purchase solution, we’ve been asked by customers to provide integration with accounting software.…
OpenBOM has a flexible export function including a selection of properties, filters, sort, ordering rows and customization of a company logo. I want to…
Formulas in OpenBOM are equations you create in a cell which performs simple arithmetic operations using the designated cells. The basic principle to understand…
The user-defined view is a powerful mechanism that allows you to provide a custom way to present data. You can think about “raw data”…
Nothing stands still in this world, change is the only constant. This old pearl of wisdom also applies to engineering and manufacturing. Once something…
In this video, I’d like to introduce you to BOM types. There are three fundamental BOM types – Single Level BOM, Multi-level BOM and…
Products are getting more complex these days. With an increased demand for high-tech electronic, smart devices and IoT, the number of electromechanical products and…
It is 21st century outside and digital transformation is one of the most visible trends outside. However, many companies are still relying on drawings…
Search is an important function in every software these days. At OpenBOM we’re thinking how to get Search done in the way it will…
One of the most unique features of OpenBOM is to support data sharing and collaboration. Think about something simple and powerful? This is exactly…
BOMs and Catalogs are fundamental elements of OpenBOM reference instance model. Think about Catalog as a distributed database of parts, components, assemblies. Every component…
You probably heard about OpenBOM Reference-Instance Model already. If you missed that, this is a link to catch up. In a nutshell, Reference-Instance model…
One of the biggest dilemmas in traditional PDM and PLM software world is related to relationships between design and Bill of Materials management systems.…
Digital Transformation is one of the fanciest words in a modern lexicon of technologist, strategist and marketing people. Digital is such a sweet word.…
You have asked me about files and how to store them connected to BOM items. Well, here you go! OpenBOM is not your typical…
The manufacturing industry is changing. A long time ago, manufacturing shops were big and slow. Over the past 15-20 years, the manufacturing industry has…
Bill of materials is a recipe of your product. Everything you need to make, purchase, and assembly must be placed in the BOM list.…
In the world of business software, replacing spreadsheets or Excel is the most popular topic. Guess what? Almost every successful business software is doing…
One of the most frequently asked questions about OpenBOM is related to multi-level BOM. Does OpenBOM actually support hierarchical multi-level structures? How to create…
If you visit OpenBOM website for the first time, you might be curious – who is OpenBOM for? The best way to explore OpenBOM…
The Bill of Materials (or BOM) is the lifeblood of every engineering and manufacturing process. Regardless of how simple or complex the product is,…
On the surface, Bill of Materials (BOM) is simple. This is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Bill of…
А platform is one of the most popular words in modern software (and not only vocabulary). In the old days, a platform was usually…
My attention was caught by the Dragon Innovation article BOM 101. Dragon Innovation is a great company, part of Avnet and providing consulting to hardware…
Hello OpenBOM users! I’m very excited about our new website and a new blog. For quite a long period of time, I’ve been blogging…
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