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A BOM management system organizes product Items, assembly relationships, quantities, revisions, and supporting information so engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing can...

Product development depends on people working together across engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and suppliers. Each participant brings different information and often...

Every day brings another example of AI at work: reading documents, writing code, analyzing data, generating content, or helping someone...

For years, the PDM vs PLM conversation followed a familiar pattern. Product Data Management controlled CAD files and engineering revisions....

A design change is not finished when the CAD model is saved. Engineering still needs to know which component changed,...

A buyer asks which bracket to order. Engineering sends a drawing. The BOM lists a part number, the supplier quotation...

The engineering frontend workflow across disciplines This is the third article in the series of articles about OpenBOM engineering frontend....

Files and Items in the product knowledge graph This is the second article in the series of articles about OpenBOM...

An open cloud architecture connecting design and engineering information I’m starting a series of articles this week to speak about...

Welcome to the OpenBOM October 2026 update! This month we’re putting AI to work on one of the oldest chores...

For most of my career in engineering software, I have watched teams turn a bill of materials into purchase orders...

Team ownership is an administrative detail right up until the day it becomes a blocker. People change roles. An engineering...