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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. From the first days of OpenBOM, we wanted to deliver a simple yet powerful solution...

I’m super excited to share with you news about the new OpenBOM add-in for Fusion 360. We’ve been working closely...

If you’re using Autodesk Eagle for your electronic PCB designs, you know that one day you need to create Bill...

Bill of Materials is the lifeblood of every manufacturing company and business. However, when it comes to the data, manufacturing...

Bill of Materials aways sounds like a simple thing. You probably heard it before – BOM is a list of...

If you are using Siemens Solid Edge to design products, one day you will have to create BOM to build...

If you are using Autodesk Inventor to design products,it will be a day you will need a Bill of Materials...

If you use SOLIDWORKS to design products, one day you will obviously need to create a Bill of Materials for...

OpenBOM data organization contains Bills of Materials and Catalogs. If you’re not familiar with data modeling in OpenBOM I recommend...

This question is asked by OpenBOM users and customers more often than you can think about. Although you can think...

Content Updated 2/26/2024 The first step to understanding bills of materials (BOM) and how BOM operates is defining the term...

I’m very much excited to give a first preview of the work we’re doing to improve customer workflows and feature...

The spreadsheets are part of everyday life for every single manufacturing company. People love them despite all the mess they...

I had a great honor to present at ConX19 – event organized by the Institute for Process Excellence. Check out...

I’m very much excited about our new BOM management educational webinars. At OpenBOM we accumulated a huge spectrum of knowledge...

Excel (or spreadsheets) is one of the greatest inventions of IT for the last decades. Flexible, powerful and easy to...

CAD data is one of the main sources of engineering information used to create the Bill of Materials and extract...

Best practices of Import BOM or Catalog to OpenBOM from your existing spreadsheet  The things are rarely happening in the...

One of the ways to create a new BOM or Catalog is to create them from scratch. If you skipped...

I’m starting the next level of OpenBOM Basics series of blog articles. In my first series (OpenBOM 101), I covered...

As we continue developing OpenBOM, we found a growing number of OpenBOM Professional Teams are demanding more advanced set of...

We’ve been getting many requests to expand OpenBOM integration with Google Sheet. I’m happy to share some early information about...

Management of Part Numbers is often causes some confusion for customers working with Solidworks. The questions about Part Number settings...

Working with Solidworks multi-body part such as weldment can be tricky in Solidworks. Especially when you need to create Bill...