OpenBOM Manifesto

Revisions, Change Requests, and Change Orders in OpenBOM This article is concluding our five days blog series with OpenBOM Product...

Ask an engineering team when the BOM is finished and they will point to the release. Ask a purchasing team...

On Monday we said that nobody has a BOM problem. On Tuesday we followed a design out of CAD and...

There is a button in every CAD system that engineers know well: export BOM to Excel. It feels productive. In...

For the last 10-15 years, I watched CAD vendors promise to deliver cloud PDM, but the promise didn’t come true....

Why disconnected BOM and product data holds AI agents back — and how to fix it AI agents in engineering...

For almost three decades, most PDM and PLM systems followed the same architectural assumptions. A product was represented as a...

Last week I wrote about where product lifecycle knowledge gets lost, and I also published a longer piece on Beyond...

Product lifecycle knowledge is not created in a single system or at a single moment. It emerges across discussions, iterations,...

If you work with CAD systems—SolidWorks, Altium, anything in that CAD family—you already know the reflex. Something doesn’t add up....

After I introduced the idea of Product Memory, one question kept coming up in almost every conversation: “Who actually owns...

From Document Control to Continuous Product Intelligence Engineering teams today are surrounded by product data, yet many organizations still struggle...