AI and Product Knowledge Graphs

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

Last Friday, I published Everyone Wants to Build the Engineering Harness. But What Will It Run On?. My argument was...

Over the past few months, the conversation about AI in engineering has shifted. A year ago, the question was which...

Think about the last time a project became stuck. A component did not arrive. A supplier produced an earlier revision....

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

Companies struggle to get real business value from AI in engineering and manufacturing not because the technology is weak, but...

Why AI agents will expose the same adoption problem PLM has always had PLM Adoption Was Always Harder Than the...

For a long time in manufacturing, CAD files represented everything engineering needed. CAD was the center of the engineering data...

For most of my career in PLM, I’ve watched engineering teams rely on routed documents—ECO packets, PDFs, and linear approval...

At OpenBOM, our long-term vision has been consistent: to enable engineers and manufacturing companies to make better decisions by providing...

Modern engineering and manufacturing teams don’t sit under one roof anymore. They are increasingly distributed across different offices, time zones,...

In the last few weeks, we’ve been building in public and sharing the progress of OpenBOM BOM Excel MCP —...