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

How engineering teams can stop reconstructing product data from CAD applications, PLM databases, BOM spreadsheets, ERP systems, email, and chats...

For more than two decades, SolidWorks has built one of the most remarkable ecosystems in engineering software. Starting in the...

Yesterday I wrote about the five hard problems engineering and manufacturing teams still face in 2026—from design data trapped in...

Engineering and manufacturing organizations are entering a new era of complexity. Products that used to be mostly mechanical now combine...

I’m excited to share what our team was working on recently and the updates we released in OpenBOM earlier this...

Modern products are no longer just mechanical. A smart appliance, an industrial machine, or an electric vehicle all combine mechanical...

In OpenBOM, Items are the starting point for building product structures. One Item can be used in several types of...

Managing procurement directly from engineering data is one of the powerful capabilities of OpenBOM. By connecting BOMs, inventory, and purchasing,...

A quick heads up on a user experience improvement for orders and PO / RFQ visibility in the dashboard.  If...

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

For a long time, managing products meant managing mechanical structures. Assemblies, subassemblies, parts, revisions — the Bill of Materials was...