This week we continued the serious of “BOM Basics” webinars and speak about people. Yes, I always like to say that technologies are easy, but people are hard. Bill of Materials Management is teamwork that requires the coordination of many people in the single process of creation and use of information in the bill of…
At OpenBOM, we believe in the visual Bill of Materials. Therefore, almost from day one at OpenBOM, we wanted to allow users to share visual information. This is how we can with OpenBOM Images Properties. These properties can be generated automatically when you extract data from the CAD system and placed in the OpenBOM Bill…
The manufacturing industry is going through a major transformation these days. There is significant pressure on OEM to change their business models and transform companies from being totally focused on product development into companies focused on providing services to their customers. There are many examples of how this business transformation can go. One of the…
Communication between engineering and manufacturing isn’t simple. OpenBOM helps you to integrate with any CAD system (check more here – OpenBOM Integrations). Right after you integrated OpenBOM with CAD, the question about next integration pattern will come – how to integrate engineering BOM with ERP system. Before jumping to discuss how to integrate OpenBOM with…
The manufacturing world around us is quickly transforming and the biggest change I can see around us is the creation of online services. A decade ago, we lived in a world that was driven by files and emails. This means everything was pretty much done by applications running on the computer and then send to…
Product development and manufacturing is hard. Remember the time when you were able to buy a bad car? It is over. All the cars are good now. The same is happening with all the other products. The customer expectations are skyrocketing these days. The complexity of products is growing enormously – products are becoming connected,…
A few years ago, I was talking to one manufacturing company. They developed great products, but struggle with execution and manufacturing. I asked them – how do you manage Bill of Materials? The answer was shocking… They told me “we don’t”….. 12!@#!@(@(#!@# – that was my answer. How come? What do you do? The person…
One more feature request and the way to streamline the process of part creation in OpenBOM. Catalogs are the way to manage Item Masters for all types of parts you have in your company. Think about standard, engineering and any other items. When you create a BOM you can make a selection of existing parts.…
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 data you need is extremely important. At OpenBOM, we developed multiple approaches to easily slice and dice data in different ways. To remind you what is available today here are…
The bill of materials is something that often considered a simple thing. After all, what can be complex in a list of parts? However, as we can see in practice, manufacturing companies are usually underestimating the complexity and fail to manage it properly. The results are usually very painful and coming faster than you can…