CAD Integration

Many manufacturing companies using SOLIDWORKS as a mechanical design CAD system start with a relatively simple engineering process. A few...

Most engineering teams do not start with a product data problem. They start with a design problem. They need to...

A continuation of the April 20, 2026 OpenBOM article: AI Agents and PLM Adoption: Why Understanding Your Work Comes First...

Part numbering sounds simple until a design project starts to grow. At the beginning, many teams use whatever feels convenient....

Managing a bill of materials for a SolidWorks sheet metal design is very different from managing a standard mechanical part....

At OpenBOM, design integrations are not treated as optional add-ons or isolated utilities. They are a core part of how...

OpenBOM Expands Integrations with Financial, MRP, and ERP Systems. And today, we would like to speak about Katana MRP.  Manufacturing...

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

For years, one of the biggest challenges in manufacturing has been getting engineering data out of CAD and into the...

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

I’m excited to share how recent improvements in OpenBOM are streamlining CAD-to-Cloud workflows for faster, cleaner BOM data. In the...

A few days ago, I posted an article titled Is your data BOMable?, where I explored the readiness of your...