The First Live Demo of OpenBOM Multi-level Revision Support
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…
OpenBOM Data Modeling Demo – Part 1
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…
Back to Basics – Why OpenBOM?
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…
BOM Management – How to manage data about parts in the Bill of Materials.
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,…
Sneak peek of new OpenBOM add-in for Autodesk Fusion 360
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…
How to create Autodesk Eagle BOM (Bill of Materials) using OpenBOM Add-in
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…
Blending Design And Business Data In A Sensible Bill of Materials
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…
How to create Siemens Solid Edge BOM (Bill of Materials) using OpenBOM Add-in
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…