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Connecting Engineering BOMs with Inventory and Order Management OpenBOM continues to expand the scope of its integrations, helping companies connect...

Product Memory extends traditional Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) by preserving connected product knowledge across engineering, manufacturing, supply chains, APIs, and...

From Document Control to Continuous Product Intelligence Engineering teams today are surrounded by product data, yet many organizations still struggle...

How engineering teams can stop reconstructing product data from CAD applications, PLM databases, BOM spreadsheets, ERP systems, email, and chats...

For more than two decades, SolidWorks has built one of the most remarkable ecosystems in engineering software. Starting in the...

Yesterday I wrote about the five hard problems engineering and manufacturing teams still face in 2026—from design data trapped in...

Engineering and manufacturing organizations are entering a new era of complexity. Products that used to be mostly mechanical now combine...

I’m excited to share what our team was working on recently and the updates we released in OpenBOM earlier this...

Modern products are no longer just mechanical. A smart appliance, an industrial machine, or an electric vehicle all combine mechanical...

In OpenBOM, Items are the starting point for building product structures. One Item can be used in several types of...

Managing procurement directly from engineering data is one of the powerful capabilities of OpenBOM. By connecting BOMs, inventory, and purchasing,...

A quick heads up on a user experience improvement for orders and PO / RFQ visibility in the dashboard.  If...

A change is not an ECO button, it is a connected process. Change management in engineering rarely starts with a...

For a long time, managing products meant managing mechanical structures. Assemblies, subassemblies, parts, revisions — the Bill of Materials was...

For the third consecutive year, OpenBOM has been recognized in the G2 Top 50 CAD & PLM Software list. When...

Recently, my attention was caught by an article from Rob Ferrone explaining the complexity of a BOM. In a nutshell,...

Let’s speak about how to turn BOM structure, change history and dependencies into product memory to support intelligent decisions.  Earlier...

Do you remember when we paid extra for international and long-distance calls? That model eventually disappeared because technology changed. Pricing...

Product development is accelerating and product complexity kills traditional system architecture. Yesterday, my attention was caught by Martin Eigner’s article...

A few weeks ago, I participated in a webcast about the future of BOM management with Michael Finocchiaro, Patrick Hillberg...

A few months ago, I ordered an electric kettle, and to my surprise, it came with a Wi-Fi card and...

A few weeks ago, Martin Eigner published a thoughtful post discussing a deceptively simple question: Is a CAD model the...

Most teams do not fail because they lack data. They fail because the human part of the data is missing....

When teams begin a new hardware project, one of the most common assumptions I hear is this: we don’t need...