The bill of materials is something that often considered a simple thing. After all, what can be complex in a list of parts? However, as we can see in practice, manufacturing companies are usually underestimating the complexity and fail to manage it properly. The results are usually very painful and coming faster than you can…
The March 2020 release of OpenBOM introduces two new and exciting features, 1) Multi-Level Revisions and, 2) OpenBOM storage. Both are designed to take your BOMs to the next level allowing you to track exactly which revision of a sub-assembly BOM is present in a particular top-level assembly BOM and to enable reference file storage…
Today, I want to start a series of demo videos to talk about the OpenBOM data management platform and capabilities. OpenBOM provides a set of very unique data management features. To learn these features will help you to start using OpenBOM more efficiently and create a data management strategy for your company. The storyboard of…
It has been a long time since I wrote blogs about the basics of BOM, Bill of Materials and BOM management. While it is pretty obvious that the Bill of Materials is a lifeblood of every since the manufacturing process, I found people are getting confused about how BOM management is directly connected to company…
You can think about the Bill of Materials as a flat list of parts placed in the drawings. This is a simplistic and wrong way to think about the information. Here is a slide deck I captured a few weeks ago at PI PLMx in San-Diego by Rick Chang, Director – Enterprise Methods and Tools,…
I’m super excited to share with you news about the new OpenBOM add-in for Fusion 360. We’ve been working closely with many OpenBOM users and learn what to improve in OpenBOM for Fusion360. Here is a shortlist of new things that will be coming very soon. 1- New compact user interface. We understood how important…
If you’re using Autodesk Eagle for your electronic PCB designs, you know that one day you need to create Bill of Materials to plan production, estimate cost and making purchases. Eagle is a very flexible environment and you can use ULP programs to do almost everything you want. So you export BOM to Excel can…
Bill of Materials is the lifeblood of every manufacturing company and business. However, when it comes to the data, manufacturing companies are usually facing many challenges related to how this data should be organized, stored and managed For many years, CAD was an ultimate tool to store all information. This is usually a place where…
If you are using Siemens Solid Edge to design products, one day you will have to create BOM to build an actual product. Even Solid Edge has BOM report function, it will open a pandora box of Excel BOM management. The last thing you want your manufacturing organization to do is to get drawn into…
If you are using Autodesk Inventor to design products,it will be a day you will need a Bill of Materials to build an actual product. Autodesk Inventor has a tool to create a Bill of Materials and also to include it in a drawing and export it to Excel. While this is very much standard,…