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7 January, 2020

One of the most complex things in engineering data management is to coordinate two BOMs – engineering BOM (EBOM) and...

5 January, 2020

How often you use Solidworks and have a situation where you model assemblies but later buy them as “purchased assembled”...

3 January, 2020

Happy New Year! We are starting 2020 on the right foot by introducing an improved Solidworks add-in data model and...

2 January, 2020

A new year is an opportunity to look back and check what we’ve done, what is our purpose and what...

31 December, 2019

The information in the Bill of Materials and Catalogs sometimes is very complex and contains dozens of attributes. Grid is...

28 December, 2019

Just in a few days, we will step in a new decade. As always at the end of the year,...

21 December, 2019

Everyone needs the information that is in the Bill of Materials. But everyone needs it to be delivered differently. Engineers...

19 December, 2019

A few weeks ago, we shared news about OpenBOM on G2 Crowd Inc, the world’s leading business solutions review website....

19 December, 2019

PLM Philosophy blog suggested an interesting article about 100%, 120% and 150% Bill of Materials. Check it out here What...

14 December, 2019

This week we continued the serious of “BOM Basics” webinars and speak about people. Yes, I always like to say...

12 December, 2019

At OpenBOM, we believe in the visual Bill of Materials. Therefore, almost from day one at OpenBOM, we wanted to...

11 December, 2019

The manufacturing industry is going through a major transformation these days. There is significant pressure on OEM to change their...

10 December, 2019

Communication between engineering and manufacturing isn’t simple. OpenBOM helps you to integrate with any CAD system (check more here –...

9 December, 2019

The manufacturing world around us is quickly transforming and the biggest change I can see around us is the creation...

7 December, 2019

Product development and manufacturing is hard. Remember the time when you were able to buy a bad car? It is...

5 December, 2019

A few years ago, I was talking to one manufacturing company. They developed great products, but struggle with execution and...

4 December, 2019

One more feature request and the way to streamline the process of part creation in OpenBOM. Catalogs are the way...

2 December, 2019

Search is one of these functions that everyone is looking for when it comes to data management. To be able...

1 December, 2019

The bill of materials is something that often considered a simple thing. After all, what can be complex in a...

27 November, 2019

I’ve been attending Autodesk University 2019 last week in Las Vegas, NV. During Design and Manufacturing Keynote, Stephen Hooper Autodesk...

26 November, 2019

Product Structure of the Bill of Materials is the lifeblood of product development and manufacturing. Think about every product that...

25 November, 2019

You can think about the Bill of Materials as a flat list of parts placed in the drawings. This is...

23 November, 2019

I’m super excited to share with you more information about the last OpenBOM release before Thanksgiving break and to include...

23 November, 2019

You’ve made a great design for a new product. Or you’ve made a new feature for an existing product. These...

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