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Across the manufacturing industry, digital transformation initiatives often begin with ambitious investments in digital technologies. Sensors are installed, dashboards are...

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

Bill of materials cost analysis is a foundational practice in modern manufacturing operations. Without a structured approach to BOM cost...

In a recent article, Why ECOs Need a Workspace: Rethinking the ECO for Agentic Change, I focused on a fundamental...

When customers succeed, their products grow. When products grow, product data grows with them. What often breaks along the way...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve received reports from some customers experiencing issues when using OpenBOM with Autodesk Fusion. We...

Understanding how hierarchical structure and product structure work across engineering and manufacturing represents one of the most critical capabilities for...

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...

The manufacturing companies are not what they used to be. In fact, there often isn’t a single company anymore. The...

One of the goals behind the new OpenBOM licensing model is very simple:make it easy to start, even if you...

Every engineering team and manufacturing company is using Excel. For years, we thought Excel was a technical problem. But I...