The engineering bill of materials (EBOM) is a special BOM, which is used by the companies to define all products of how the product is designed and includes all technical specifications of the products. There are so many definitions of EBOM. You can check some of them in my Beyond PLM blog here and here.…
Terminology is everything. Ask two engineers a question and, if you’re lucky, you will get three answers. But don’t be surprised if you will get more. All names I mentioned in the title of this blog means basically the same thing, but engineers call it differently. Product Structure In my experience, product structure is the…
One of the reasons everyone likes Excels and other spreadsheet applications is because of their simplicity. You can open it and type whatever you need, adding columns, copy/paste, making formulas, and doing other things. Our vision at OpenBOM was to create a simple way to manage product information and bill of materials yet to avoid…
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…
Autodesk Fusion 360 users, I have great news for you. A new OpenBOM add-in for Autodesk Fusion 360 is coming and this is one of these releases I was waiting for a long time. Earlier this year, we introduced a concept of one-click CAD integrations. It was the outcome of our work with many customers…
We are working on a new OpenBOM user interface. I had a chance to give you my early heads up about this project in our blog. If you missed that, please check out this article – New OpenBOM UI/UX. Today, I want to share the very first video of the new OpenBOM look and feel.…
Is your company ready for BOM Management? Do you think it is a funny question? Not really… Many companies, especially in the early stages of its development, prone to the illusion of BOM that needs to be done once to list part in the product and place it on the drawing or to keep it…
In this video, I will show you how to use different units of measures in BOMs and purchasing orders (POs) using OpenBOM. This situation is usually happening with materials and consumables (eg. wood, pipes, metal, food ingredients, etc. A typical scenario is a BOM with a unit of measures (eg. tsp) is different from the…
This week’s webinar is about my favorite topic – the core data model of OpenBOM called Reference-Instance Model, which allows managing product data and product structure in the most simple, yet powerful and reliable way. There are 5 lessons in this webinar: Lesson #1 – Let’s make a BOM of parts? (two skateboards, 4 and…
Our next educational webinar is about OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor. OpenBOM Director of User experience Steve Hess takes you through simple to advanced BOM methods using OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor. Please bring your questions and join the call. We will cover simple BOMs, Multi-Level BOMs, items management, the specific Autodesk Inventor settings which govern BOM…