A digital network platform that manages Product data and connects manufacturers and their supply networks
“The OpenBOM team has been an asset to our organization!” says Full Circle Water engineer Jason Rosty. “From the initial scope of work to roll out and training, this team is invigorating and eager to make this product work for any scenario! We have been collaborating ever since our first phone call. Highly recommended.”
“Our product is an interactive game room that we design, build and sell,” he says “It has modular rooms, each with sub-systems like our proprietary PCB system and modular game component designs.”
According to Jeremy, “Pre-sales will bring each modular system into a top-level BOM then use OpenBOM to rollup cost for every component and sub-component, including labor.”
“We bought OpenBOM because it was the best fit for our company and we’re extremely surprised at how quickly the OpenBOM team put together the onboarding training for my team”.
Make sure OpenBOM is easier to use than any PDM, PLM or ERP system and requires no special skills.
Include preview images of your parts and assemblies in the BOM to increase visibility. 3D viewer.
Access and edit data in real-time by multiple people to speed up communication and collaboration.
Integrate with CAD, PLM, ERP, and accounting systems to automatically extract and synchronize data.
Import BOMs and catalogs from your legacy data sources (Excel files, databases, etc.)
Single source of truth for all information. A central repository of information about all your parts and materials.
Keep all changes and revisions to your BOM in a history log.
Simply maintain “quantity on hand” for each part in the catalogs.
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Established in 2015 by Newman Cloud Inc., OpenBOM develops modern product-oriented data management and business tools for manufacturing companies. OpenBOM cloud-based real-time collaboration & data management technology allows managing Parts, Catalogs, Bill of Materials, Inventories, and purchase orders across networks of engineers, supply chain managers, and contract manufacturers. OpenBOM enables people to seamlessly share and collaborate data using online Bill of Materials from initial design through all stages of engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain.
When it comes to the development of data management solutions for industrial companies, manufacturing OEMs, engineers, suppliers, and contractors, we know that flexibility is a key element of successful architectures. Flexibility is a powerful concept that is appreciated by engineers and IT professionals. As much as out-of-the-box functionality is appreciated, the requirements for flexibility are…
DetailsIn today’s blog post we’ll be finishing up a 5 part series about OpebBOM’s data management best practices. If you missed the first 4 installments of this series, please check them out here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. In the previous blog posts, I covered basic principles of OpenBOM data management…
DetailsToday, I’ll be continuing a series of articles about OpenBOM data management best practices. If you missed the first 3 parts, please check this link for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. In my previous articles, we discussed fundamental data objects (properties, catalogs, and product structure/BOM/). Today I’d like to talk about “Views”. Before continuing…
DetailsThe bill of materials software 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. BOM engineering is a complex discipline requires sophisticated data management and you’re trying to avoid it, the results can be brutal and painful. The results are usually very painful and coming faster than you can think – missed components, wrong cost estimation, delayed product deliveries, and frustrated engineers and customers running around trying to figure out where is the last and most updated bills of materials. At OpenBOM, we believe in openness and simplicity as the main drivers to help companies to get up to the speed with data management science behind Bill of Materials. It should be easy to start using OpenBOM and discover how to do it step by step. The Bill of Material is a structure representing all items needed to make a product. Depending on the product and business it includes a different level of details about how the product is engineered, manufactured, assembled, sold and maintained. Every engineering and manufacturing business should be concerned if parts and assemblies, as well as any other related data, are not managed properly.
Very often companies are asking – what to include in the BIll of Materials? A very simple answer to this question is EVERYTHING. The idea of not having something in a BOM is bad and to hope that you will remember what is needed is a recipe for disaster. Very often, we’ve been asked about what is a typical data set of the Bill of Materials. Here is a quick summary of what I think is absolutely essential.
Part Number: This is a unique string that identifies every single component in the product. Not all part numbers are the same. You probably heard about OEM, Manufacturing, Suppliers and many other part numbers. Those are additional pieces of information. You might not use all of them. But, to have a unique Part Number for every single item is a must to have to keep things organized. Description: It usually gives the organization a simple way to look at the details about parts and components. Used for search, simple identification Description is not unique and must not be used to reference parts for any purposes except human interaction. Part Number is used for everything else. Part Name: Names make it easier for organizations to track components. Many systems have internal names with specificity useful to Operations, Test, and Engineering teams. A separate nomenclature might be with customers in Sales organizations. Unlike part numbers, part names aren’t necessarily unique. Consistent use of part names like connector, adapter, and cable, can help keep everyone on the same page. Unit of Measure: A very important piece of information that helps to identify how to measure the quantity of the part. Type (s): Usually absorbs the different types of information to classify part of help to identify how to manage the part. Organizations can apply multiple types to classify parts and how data about part can be processed. Revision and Phase: This is used to identify the level of maturity and specific changes. Companies are using various practices when creating new part numbers of revise existing parts. In addition to these parameters, organizations are usually including information about the manufacturer, suppliers, cost, and other pieces of data in BOMs.
The information I mentioned above is usually the same about the item (part, purchased assembly). However, another group of information is typically included in BOMs and it represents a specific part usage.
A very important element of the Bill of Materials. Effectivity is usually representing specific characteristics saying if a part (or assembly) can be used and under what conditions. There are different types of effectivity – date, configuration, serial number.
Last, but not least piece of information is related to complex products having multiple configurations. A BOM that contains information about multiple configurations usually called “configured BOM” and the BOM that represents information about a single configuration is called resolved.
A list of components represented as one level is usually the basic way to plan the BOM. However, components are connected into assemblies and those usually have sub-assemblies. This is a simple single-multi-level structure. A flattened BOM is a report that summarizes the usage across multiple levels.
OpenBOM Bill of Materials core elements are represented using the Reference-Instance model and described by the following picture. You can see references (items) and their instances combined into parent-child relationships. 
OpenBOM provides a super-efficient and easy-to-use user interface to view, control, and collaborates around the Bill of Materials. 
