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Here is a story I hear almost every week. Engineering export the bill of materials (BOM) in Excel. Procurement works...

Excel is not going away. Let’s start there, because PLM vendors have always defined Excel as the problem. For years,...

Every few weeks during onboarding, someone stops me with the same worried question. They have just seen the words “data...

Across the previous four articles in this series, I made a case that can sound almost philosophical. A Part Number...

Every few weeks I review the onboarding calls where the same thing happens. A team brings in their Bill of...

Welcome to the OpenBOM June 2026 update! Every OpenBOM release is shaped by a simple goal: to make it easier...

Part 4 of the Part Numbers and AI series. The practical one. Part numbering for the AI era comes down...

Part numbers became “smart” because systems were hard to access, expensive, disconnected, and difficult to share. Search, connected data, and...

Last week I wrote about whether AI will kill the Part Number. The short answer was no. AI kills the...

Every OpenBOM implementation eventually arrives at the same question: “What Part Number schema should we use?” And every time, the...

We are proud to share that OpenBOM has been included in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for PLM Software in Discrete...

From BOM management to a connected operational layer across engineering, procurement, inventory, and business systems. Earlier this week, I introduced...