AI and Product Knowledge Graphs

Explore how OpenBOM’s AI-powered platform connects product knowledge graphs with real-time CAD integration, structured CAD file management and PDM, and seamless contract manufacturing and supplier collaboration workflows.

13 October, 2026

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

28 September, 2026

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

25 September, 2026

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

23 September, 2026

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

2 July, 2026

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

25 May, 2026

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

20 April, 2026

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

8 December, 2025

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

18 November, 2025

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

17 September, 2025

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

6 September, 2025

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

4 September, 2025

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

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