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VIDEO – Introduction to OpenBOM Change Management

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky December 2, 2021 Leave a comment

Im super excited to introduce you to OpenBOM's enhancements that Changes Management functions. The new functionality expanding PLM features and capabilities of OpenBOM provides support for advanced lifecycle management, change management, and configuration control. This will become available in OpenBOM's Company Subscription. What is new in Change Management? OpenBOM's update later this week and now…

Extending OpenBOM Professional User Subscription With Advanced Purchasing Functions

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky December 1, 2021 Leave a comment

I often explain what we do at OpenBOM by saying “we build an airplane and fly it at the same time”. The number of features and functions has been growing tremendously since we last defined OpenBOM subscriptions. For the last year, we worked with thousands of engineers and manufacturing companies and we’ve added many new…

OpenBOM – Looking Back in 2021

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky November 30, 2021 Leave a comment

We are moving fast towards the end of 2021 and it is time to start looking back on everything that was done during the year. I wanted to give you a quick summary of what was done at OpenBOM in 2021, but quickly realized that that article will be way too long for anybody to…

OpenBOM Roadmap 2022

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky November 30, 2021 Leave a comment

As we are getting closer to the end of the year, it is a great time to talk about the OpenBOM roadmap for 2022 and speak about what was done and what is coming up next year and beyond. We live in a SaaS world and leverage all great things about being able to develop…

Happy Thanksgiving and Thank you!

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky November 25, 2021 Leave a comment

Holidays are always a great moment to stop and reflect on what we do, what made us who we are, and to say thank you for everything we have. We appreciate our customers, as well as all of those who make up our team! Without everyone's hard work, we wouldn't be where we are today.…

NPI Process: Have a Bad Prototype? Now what?

BlogBy Jared Haw November 25, 2021 Leave a comment

During the new product introduction (NPI) process, you will need to make multiple prototypes. Unfortunately, some of these prototypes will fall short of your expectations. Also, during each phase of the development process, you will need to make prototypes. Depending on which phase of the NPI process you are at, the prototypes will yield different…

Manufacturing Robots in Digital Era

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky November 24, 2021 Leave a comment

Robots are everywhere in our lives these days. While they might not look exactly like humans, the manufacturing of products with robotics behavior is skyrocketing. The RPA market is booming and expected to reach nearly $3 billion this year as new vendors compete with larger established RPA specialists and tech giants for enterprise automation business.…

VIDEO PREVIEW: Change Orders and Multiple Change Requests

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky November 23, 2021 Leave a comment

I’m continuing to introduce a new set of change management functions that we are going to introduce in OpenBOM in the next release. If you missed some of our earlier articles, please check them out below: OpenBOM Change Order Dashboard and Video preview of Change Orders. OpenBOM Change Management Model To remind you of enhancements…

VIDEO PREVIEW – OpenBOM New Change Order Dashboard

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky November 23, 2021 Leave a comment

Earlier last week, I shared the first set of information about OpenBOM change management function enhancements we are planning to introduce in the next release. If you missed that, check this out - Change Order Dashboard. New functionality will include a new change management model, which contains existing revision and change requests that now can…