3 Steps To Deploy An Effective Product Data Strategy
Manufacturing companies are competing to win the digital transformation race. It is super critical to find what are key success factors to make it happen. Working with many manufacturing companies and engineering companies, we found that their ability to develop an effective product data strategy is a critical factor in achieving success and it is…
PREVIEW – Automatic Part Number Assignment for Autodesk Fusion 360
Part Number is a topic that usually generates a lot of discussions in engineering and product development teams. Historically, manufacturing companies were inventing a complex system of part numbers to reflect on a variety of topics - component type, version, the specific number, revision, and many others. Modern software changed the paradigm of work by…
The 12 Pillars of OpenBOM That Separates It From The Rest
For the last few years, we’ve been growing OpenBOM's online SaaS platform using agile development methods and customer-oriented product development processes. We’ve been guided by our vision to build an online product development platform and customer feedback has helped us prioritize a specific set of features, re-working unavoidable mistakes, scaling, and making it more mature…
Design To Manufacturing Process Using OpenBOM for NetSuite Integration
The time when manufacturing companies were practicing “over the wall” manufacturing processes is gone forever. Modern manufacturing companies are looking at ways to establish a continuous connected process that can streamline data integration from initial CAD design downstream to manufacturing, production planning, and procurement. Information flow and connected services From a practical perspective, it means…
BOM: From Part List to Product Information
BOM is the foundation of everything in product development and manufacturing. It has always been the case, however, BOM was usually downplayed as a simple spreadsheet with a list of parts. While there is nothing wrong with the list of parts, modern manufacturing environments bring many questions and issues that require us to rethink our…
OpenBOM Quickbooks Integration Enhancements
Sending information downstream is one of the biggest challenges in engineering and manufacturing organizations. Producing spreadsheets and sending them to procurement teams is an easy step, but it can quickly become a nightmare of engineering. Updates, clarifications, details, and many other reasons that lead to the need of recreating the Excel sheet lead to major…
From CAD files to Product Structure, File Derivatives, and Full System Model
The modern product development environment creates many challenges for product development and manufacturing teams. Increased competition, supply chain conditions, global customers, and competition are just a few of the challenges faced by manufacturing teams. At OpenBOM we work with manufacturers, contractors, and suppliers helping them to organize data and product development processes to sustain these…
What’s New in OpenBOM September 2021
Welcome to the new OpenBOM release! I’m super excited to share what we’ve been working on for the last month. We have several super cool features, but we also have been taking care of OpenBOM's performance and user experience. Clearly, one of my favorite improvements is the new filter and dashboard search features - improved…