CAD File Management and PDM

Engineering work starts with files. CAD assemblies, parts, drawings and other related design files are the foundation of product development....

There is a moment in every engineering company when Excel stops being a helpful tool and becomes the bottleneck. At...

A SolidWorks model is essential. A BOM is essential. Drawings, PDFs, STEP files, and DXFs are essential too. Many teams...

In the previous article, I wrote that engineering teams usually do not lose control because CAD design is wrong. The...

How file-based workflows, disconnected BOMs, and the limits of PDM combine to create a product data problem most engineering teams...

After returning from 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026, I found myself having many variations of the same conversation I had with engineers...

A recent LinkedIn comment from Scott Morris captured something many manufacturing companies are quietly struggling with but rarely say out...

When experienced configuration management practitioners repeatedly say “CAD is not a part,” it is usually a signal that the industry...

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

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

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

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