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“Can you just send me the files?” This is one of those questions that sounds almost trivial, yet it keeps...

In the previous article, I introduced OpenBOM Review as a way to bring comments and discussions from emails to the...

PLM, as an industry, has never suffered from a lack of awards, quadrants, or analyst graphics. What it has struggled...

When I look back at 2025, what stands out most is not a list of features or releases, but the...

For years, I have been watching the same pattern repeat itself across engineering and manufacturing teams. The BOM lives in...

In the last few posts, I started with the limits of PDM and file-based workflows, then gradually moved toward collaborative...

Looking back at 2025, it is clear to me that this was a year of tightening the foundation. Many of...

This is the last post in a series of 30 blogs about OpenBOM. That matters less as a milestone and...

Engineering and manufacturing organizations rely on product information that is accurate, accessible, and shared across teams. This is easy to...

The article I published earlier this week – Why PDM Alone Is Not Enough to Manage Engineering Data – explored...

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

For a long time in manufacturing, CAD files represented everything engineering needed. CAD was the center of the engineering data...