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Yesterday I wrote about the five hard problems engineering and manufacturing teams still face in 2026—from design data trapped in...

Engineering and manufacturing organizations are entering a new era of complexity. Products that used to be mostly mechanical now combine...

I’m excited to share what our team was working on recently and the updates we released in OpenBOM earlier this...

Modern products are no longer just mechanical. A smart appliance, an industrial machine, or an electric vehicle all combine mechanical...

In OpenBOM, Items are the starting point for building product structures. One Item can be used in several types of...

Managing procurement directly from engineering data is one of the powerful capabilities of OpenBOM. By connecting BOMs, inventory, and purchasing,...

A quick heads up on a user experience improvement for orders and PO / RFQ visibility in the dashboard.  If...

A change is not an ECO button, it is a connected process. Change management in engineering rarely starts with a...

For a long time, managing products meant managing mechanical structures. Assemblies, subassemblies, parts, revisions — the Bill of Materials was...

For the third consecutive year, OpenBOM has been recognized in the G2 Top 50 CAD & PLM Software list. When...

Recently, my attention was caught by an article from Rob Ferrone explaining the complexity of a BOM. In a nutshell,...

Let’s speak about how to turn BOM structure, change history and dependencies into product memory to support intelligent decisions.  Earlier...

Do you remember when we paid extra for international and long-distance calls? That model eventually disappeared because technology changed. Pricing...

Product development is accelerating and product complexity kills traditional system architecture. Yesterday, my attention was caught by Martin Eigner’s article...

A few weeks ago, I participated in a webcast about the future of BOM management with Michael Finocchiaro, Patrick Hillberg...

A few months ago, I ordered an electric kettle, and to my surprise, it came with a Wi-Fi card and...

A few weeks ago, Martin Eigner published a thoughtful post discussing a deceptively simple question: Is a CAD model the...

Most teams do not fail because they lack data. They fail because the human part of the data is missing....

When teams begin a new hardware project, one of the most common assumptions I hear is this: we don’t need...

A Complete Guide to Managing CAD, BOM, Procurement, and ERP Data Getting started with product data management is rarely a...

After returning from 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026, I found myself having many variations of the same conversation I had with engineers...

Engineering work begins with design and… still with CAD files. Designs are created in CAD systems, simulations are performed in...

Getting started with engineering software should feel like starting work, not like starting a procurement process. Yet many teams still...

Most product teams collaborate all the time. Engineers work in CAD systems and exchange files. BOMs are exported to Excel...