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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...

Choosing a PLM or PDM system has never been simple. Engineering and manufacturing teams often evaluate software under pressure: products...

Every once in a while, something shifts in the way engineering teams collaborate. Sometimes it’s a new tool, a new...

Manufacturing teams across industries face a consistent and very familiar operational bottleneck: the moment a design leaves the CAD system,...

Everyone wants AI right now: copilots, assistants, automations, the whole thing. But very few teams stop to ask the real...

Over the past month, I’ve written a lot about architecture, data models, digital threads, xBOM structures, multi-tenancy, ordering, security and...