Bill of Materials Best Practices – Product, Parts, BOM
In my blog today. I want to talk about the basics of how to manage information in OpenBOM. And basics of OpenBOM is about how to create a product BOM, to manage parts, and add them to the BOM. Remember, simplicity is of of the most important elements of OpenBOM. We know how important to…
What is the best way to import data to OpenBOM?
Importing legacy data is one of the most painful stages of any business system PDM, PLM, ERP, and practically any other system. To import data is a project that usually underestimated the amount of complexity, data cleaning, data import, and validation. OpenBOM is very different from many other BOM management and PLM systems you know.…
Part Two Webinar About OpenBOM for SOLIDWORKS Is Coming
Last week, we had the first webinar in the series of “Best Practices”. We realized the amount of materials to share is large and we want to split it in a series of smaller bite-size webinars. If you missed the last, check it out in the OpenBOM Webinars’ Archive or navigate to this link. In…
Best Practices: Organizing Product Information Using OpenBOM
OpenBOM helps you to organize information about the product. As much as it sounds simple and obvious, the organization of the data is one of the most important and complex processes to accomplish in the organization. Even the smallest organization with just a few people can create an enormous amount of complexity by not organizing…
Bill of Materials Best Practices – How To Leave Excel BOM Templates Behind You?
What is the Bill of Materials? The question is simple, but the answer is not. Asking this question in your team, you can find a diversity of answers and for a big surprise, you find all of these answers correct. Two main groups of people focusing on BOM and materials are engineers and project management.…