Getting Started

A change is not an ECO button, it is a connected process. Change management in engineering rarely starts with a...

Do you remember when we paid extra for international and long-distance calls? That model eventually disappeared because technology changed. Pricing...

Product development is accelerating and product complexity kills traditional system architecture. Yesterday, my attention was caught by Martin Eigner’s article...

A few months ago, I ordered an electric kettle, and to my surprise, it came with a Wi-Fi card and...

Most teams do not fail because they lack data. They fail because the human part of the data is missing....

When teams begin a new hardware project, one of the most common assumptions I hear is this: we don’t need...

A Complete Guide to Managing CAD, BOM, Procurement, and ERP Data Getting started with product data management is rarely a...

Engineering work begins with design and… still with CAD files. Designs are created in CAD systems, simulations are performed in...

Getting started with engineering software should feel like starting work, not like starting a procurement process. Yet many teams still...

Most product teams collaborate all the time. Engineers work in CAD systems and exchange files. BOMs are exported to Excel...

When people talk about inventory management or purchase orders, the conversation usually starts in accounting or ERP systems. That is...

This is the first article in a new series called “OpenBOM: Getting Started 2026.”  The idea behind this series is...