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This is the fourth article in our series on selecting the right engineering platform. In the first article, How to...

This is the third article in our series on selecting the right engineering platform. In the first article, How to...

When manufacturing companies evaluate product lifecycle management software, they often begin by comparing functions. Does the system support change management?...

Gartner, the PLM Market, and Why We’re Writing About Competitors For many years, we deliberately avoided publishing articles comparing OpenBOM...

Excel is a natural lifeblood of every organization. We have “love and hate” relationships with Excel at OpenBOM. While we...

Seamless integration with design tools was always the main goal of OpenBOM. As such we’re expanding our integration with PCB...

Some of the most valuable product improvements are not new capabilities. They are the removal of repetition. Adding items to...

The demand for API usage has been growing dramatically in the last year. There are two observations here – an...

BOM Review started with a simple premise: catch data problems before they travel downstream to purchasing, manufacturing, and release. The...

Welcome to the OpenBOM August 2026 update! The August 2026 update brings important improvements across BOM validation, Public API access,...

I had a conversation with Rob Ferrone earlier this week and we decided to publish it. Rob spent 25 years...

Every company that validates a bill of materials produces two things. The first is the corrected BOM. Missing quantities filled...