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A few days ago, I posted an article titled Is your data BOMable?, where I explored the readiness of your...

Let’s be honest – keeping track of accurate Bills of Materials (BOMs) is one of the biggest challenges in engineering...

Walk into any engineering office today, and you’ll see it immediately: Excel open on someone’s screen. Spreadsheets have been the...

Engineers rarely build entirely new products from scratch. Whether designing machinery, electronics, or high-tech projects, most products are evolutions of...

At OpenBOM, our vision has always been clear – to create an open and flexible information model, built using modern...

At OpenBOM, we know that managing changes is one of the most critical – and often challenging – aspects of...

At OpenBOM, we talk to manufacturing companies of all sizes – startups, mid-sized innovators, and established enterprises, and most of...

Products are becoming increasingly complex and teams are distributed across geographies. It brings up a question about how to improve...

At OpenBOM, we make engineering data accessible to business functions—procurement planning, supply chain management, cost estimation, and more.But to make...

If you work in engineering or manufacturing, you probably spend a lot of time trying to keep your data organized—BOMs,...

We are at a time when companies are looking for a new way to engineer and manufacture products – one...

I’m super excited to share more information for users of Siemens NX. Siemens NX is great for complex products. But...

We live in a very interesting time. Over the past two decades, we’ve seen how the internet and mobile technologies...

We’re excited to announce a new addition to the OpenBOM family of CAD integrations — support for KiCad, the widely...

Every engineering team has lived through this moment: a new product revision gets released, the buyer runs a PO, and...

Have you ever faced that moment during a project review where someone asks, “Why did the cost go up?” or...

As we move into the summer, we’re excited to share several new updates and improvements in the May 2025 OpenBOM...

At OpenBOM, we’re committed to reducing friction when it comes to managing your product data. With our latest enhancement, we’re...

At OpenBOM, we’ve always believed that managing product data should be smarter, easier, and more connected, not just for engineering...

At OpenBOM, we’re excited to preview a new feature for users of Autodesk Fusion — the ability to insert a...

Connecting engineering systems with ERP has always been one of the most challenging and often costly aspects of PLM implementation...

Engineering and procurement are two operations that often run in silos even in a small organization or engineering team. Their...

You’re staring at three BOMs – Excel sheets from different engineers. The formatting is inconsistent. Part numbers and columns don’t...

Let’s start with a familiar story. You’re trying to finalize a product quote. The design’s ready. The parts are mostly...