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BOM Review started with a simple premise: catch data problems before they travel downstream to purchasing, manufacturing, and release. The...

Welcome to the OpenBOM August 2026 update! The August 2026 update brings important improvements across BOM validation, Public API access,...

I had a conversation with Rob Ferrone earlier this week and we decided to publish it. Rob spent 25 years...

Every company that validates a bill of materials produces two things. The first is the corrected BOM. Missing quantities filled...

The most dangerous request in a PLM implementation is not “can we import our Excel files?” Of course you can....

Over the last three days I have looked at BOM Review from three angles. I explained that a BOM review...

What makes a BOM “good”? Is there such a thing at all?  The traditional perspective of any PLM or even...

A few months ago I spent time experimenting with an open source agent environment OpenClaw – a free and open-source...

Since we first introduced OpenBOM BOM Review in July, I have been asking engineering managers a simple question: how many...

We keep improving OpenBOM, and not every improvement is a new feature inside the product. Here is one that lives...

Everyone Is Asking for the API. Almost Nobody Is Asking the Right Question. Over the last few months we noticed...

There is a question I hear in almost every conversation with engineering and manufacturing companies in 2026: do we still...