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If you’ve ever put together a bill of materials (BOM) for a product, you know that it can be a...

When you are finalizing development, you will look at transitioning your product to production. In order to do this, you...

At its core, OpenBOM is a data management platform. As such, it allows customers (engineers and industrial companies) to be...

In the engineering and manufacturing landscape, product data management (PDM), product lifecycle management (PLM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems...

I’m excited to share a short video that gives you an introduction to OpenBOM – Change Request and Approval. This...

CAD systems are a source of the most fundamental information that companies are using to build products. Many product development...

Change management is one of the most complex disciplines in the organization of product development and manufacturing. The biggest challenge...

Data is a new oil and businesses understand the tremendous importance of data in a new business world. For a...

Have you ever wondered what all those visualization types in OpenBOM are for – Single-level, Multi-level, Flattened? OpenBOM is a...

Manufacturing companies use a bill of materials (BOM) to perform multiple analyses and calculations. One of the most typical is...

User experience is extremely important for engineers. The time of ugly user interfaces and disconnected solutions is over in the...

In business, the saying goes that “two heads are better than one.” And when it comes to making decisions, this...

Single source of truth (SSOT) is one of the most fundamental concepts that has been coming alongside many organizations as...

Managing product data is a critical part of any successful manufacturing operation. In order to make informed decisions about where...

Digital transformation is all the rage in the world of business. Manufacturing companies are no exception; those that have not...

During the life of your product, you will reach out to suppliers for quotes. This might be during your initial...

In my article yesterday, I was talking about OpenBOM as an alternative to GrabCAD Workbench. Check this out. Stratasys is...

As you may have heard, GrabCAD Workbench is sunsetting in the middle of 2023. When I read the article –...

Education and training are very important for us at OpenBOM. Although we provide a dedicated onboarding training service, we believe...

Welcome to the August 2022 release of OpenBOM.  This release brings a host of user experience improvements that we know...

If you are developing a product, there will be a time when you need to transition from making prototypes to...

If you put a frog into boiling water, it will jump out immediately. The frog’s survival instincts are geared towards...

If you’re in manufacturing, you know the importance of agile procurement planning. You need to be able to change plans...

Bad habits die hard, especially when it comes to engineers using Excel. Dumping CAD and other engineering and manufacturing data...