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For a long time, APIs in PLM systems lived in an awkward place. They existed, protected by software vendors to...

Welcome to the final OpenBOM release of 2025! This December update reflects many of the patterns we consistently see when...

“Can you just send me the files?” This is one of those questions that sounds almost trivial, yet it keeps...

In the previous article, I introduced OpenBOM Review as a way to bring comments and discussions from emails to the...

PLM, as an industry, has never suffered from a lack of awards, quadrants, or analyst graphics. What it has struggled...

When I look back at 2025, what stands out most is not a list of features or releases, but the...

For years, I have been watching the same pattern repeat itself across engineering and manufacturing teams. The BOM lives in...

In the last few posts, I started with the limits of PDM and file-based workflows, then gradually moved toward collaborative...

Looking back at 2025, it is clear to me that this was a year of tightening the foundation. Many of...

This is the last post in a series of 30 blogs about OpenBOM. That matters less as a milestone and...

Engineering and manufacturing organizations rely on product information that is accurate, accessible, and shared across teams. This is easy to...

The article I published earlier this week – Why PDM Alone Is Not Enough to Manage Engineering Data – explored...

OpenBOM Expands Integrations with Financial, MRP, and ERP Systems. And today, we would like to speak about Katana MRP.  Manufacturing...

For a long time in manufacturing, CAD files represented everything engineering needed. CAD was the center of the engineering data...

Choosing a PLM or PDM system has never been simple. Engineering and manufacturing teams often evaluate software under pressure: products...

Every once in a while, something shifts in the way engineering teams collaborate. Sometimes it’s a new tool, a new...

Manufacturing teams across industries face a consistent and very familiar operational bottleneck: the moment a design leaves the CAD system,...

Everyone wants AI right now: copilots, assistants, automations, the whole thing. But very few teams stop to ask the real...

Over the past month, I’ve written a lot about architecture, data models, digital threads, xBOM structures, multi-tenancy, ordering, security and...

Every manufacturing company today is under tremendous pressure to deliver products faster, more efficiently, and with fewer mistakes. Product complexity...

We are almost at the end of our 30 day journey of OpenBOM. Today we speak about data architecture and...

From EBOM to Procurement Readiness to Build Getting a product ready for manufacturing always depends on one thing. The organization...

Digital thread is often described in vague and futuristic terms. Many companies imagine it as something that requires a large...

In my article today, we speak about best practices for part numbers, classification & catalog management in OpenBOM. If there...