CAD File Management and PDM

4 December, 2025

Every once in a while, something shifts in the way engineering teams collaborate. Sometimes it’s a new tool, a new...

3 December, 2025

Manufacturing teams across industries face a consistent and very familiar operational bottleneck: the moment a design leaves the CAD system,...

21 November, 2025

I continue my 30 days blogging journey. Yesterday, I outlined how customers can start using OpenBOM and today we do...

23 October, 2025

Welcome back to Day 10 of the 30-Day OpenBOM Learning Journey! In Week 1, we covered the “why” behind OpenBOM...

18 July, 2025

Product data management is no longer just about locking files in a vault. Modern engineering teams work across disciplines such...

11 July, 2025

If you work in manufacturing or procurement, you already know the struggle. You need STEP files for CNC programming, PDF...

27 June, 2025

At OpenBOM, we talk to manufacturing companies of all sizes – startups, mid-sized innovators, and established enterprises, and most of...

29 April, 2025

Meet Sarah. She’s a mechanical engineer at a growing robotics company, juggling CAD models, spreadsheets, supplier lists, and emails from...

5 March, 2025

Selecting a PDM or PLM system is one of the most critical decisions for an engineering team and manufacturing organization....

27 November, 2024

OpenBOM Design Projects is a simple yet powerful and robust PDM service allowing OpenBOM users and customers to manage CAD...

9 July, 2024

Product Data Management (PDM) has been around for a long time, but its core functionality has remained largely unchanged. Initially...

29 May, 2024

Modern engineering and manufacturing environment is distributed. Back in the days, all the engineers were sitting in the same room...

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