PLM and BOM Management

Over the last three days I have looked at BOM Review from three angles. I explained that a BOM review...

A few months ago I spent time experimenting with an open source agent environment OpenClaw – a free and open-source...

A few weeks ago I was on a call with an engineering manager at a 60 person industrial equipment company....

Every few weeks I review the onboarding calls where the same thing happens. A team brings in their Bill of...

Every OpenBOM implementation eventually arrives at the same question: “What Part Number schema should we use?” And every time, the...

Martin Eigner recently shared a reflection that stayed with me. In a LinkedIn post about engineering in the 1970s and...

Why the PLM data problem is really a workflow problem and why review, validation, and context must become the new...

Last week I was at the Share PLM Summit. AI was everywhere: in the keynotes, in the vendor demos, in...

Here is the problem most PLM and other product data tools ignore Most engineering and manufacturing companies already know they...

For years, BOM review was often treated as a procedural step between engineering and release. Teams created bills of materials,...

How modern products require connected data models that combine mechanical, electronic, software, and manufacturing information across the lifecycle. Why Mechanical...

Every manufacturing company has a BOM review process. The question is what that process actually catches — and what still...