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,…
If you use SOLIDWORKS to design products, one day you will obviously need to create a Bill of Materials for what you want to build. As every professional 3D Mechanical CAD system, SOLIDWORKS gives you a way to create a Bill of Materials table in a drawings as well as to export BOM to Excel. …
OpenBOM data organization contains Bills of Materials and Catalogs. If you’re not familiar with data modeling in OpenBOM I recommend you to check a few articles to get up to speed. OpenBOM Data Management Fundamentals How Many Catalogs To Create in OpenBOM In some situations, you can create a Bill of Materials from the CAD…
This question is asked by OpenBOM users and customers more often than you can think about. Although you can think about BOM as a list of parts in the drawing, this way of thinking about information about a product, parts, cost and many other related pieces of data is very simplistic. We are often asked…
The question about what is BOM (Bill of Materials) sometimes drives controversy in manufacturing companies. It happens that different people see BOM different or use different terminology to describe it. Think about engineers, manufacturing planners, people making cost assessment, supply chain and purchasing. I found an article in PLM Philosophy Blog speaking about what is…
I’m very much excited to give a first preview of the work we’re doing to improve customer workflows and feature scope of OpenBOM and Autodesk Fusion360 integration. For the last months, we’ve been working with many Autodesk Fusion360 customers and learned about their demands and needs in improvements of workflows between OpenBOM and Autodesk Fusion360. …
The spreadsheets are part of everyday life for every single manufacturing company. People love them despite all the mess they can bring. And people hate them because of the same reasons. At OpenBOM we are taking an approach to integrate spreadsheets into the user experience and workflows in a non-invasive way. So, we are good…
I had a great honor to present at ConX19 – event organized by the Institute for Process Excellence. Check out more about the event on the website. In my presentation, I was sharing what is my perspective on digital transformation in engineering and manufacturing software. As an industry, we are at a very interesting point…
I’m very much excited about our new BOM management educational webinars. At OpenBOM we accumulated a huge spectrum of knowledge about Bill of Materials, BOM management, best practices, and related topics of engineering and manufacturing. As part of our contribution to openness and knowledge about engineering and manufacturing, we decided to start a weekly webinar,…