In my previous article CAD Files and Collaboration, I was talking about how OpenBOM can simplify the process of collaboration by extracting CAD data directly from CAD systems and CAD files and making it easily available, instantly shared, and editable using super intuitive Google-spreadsheets like user experience. Today, I want to talk about how OpenBOM…
Collaboration is a key to success in modern manufacturing. Companies are hiring the best talents globally and working with the best contractors and suppliers in the world. Manufacturing facilities are often located close to consumers and supply chain networks are global too. Excel and email are bad collaboration tools. To support such a level of…
Suppliers and contractors are an essential part of your product development and manufacturing processes. The time when an entire product was designed and manufactured in a single place is gone forever. These days, an average manufacturing company will have dozens and sometimes hundreds of suppliers and contractors. I’ve learned that when it comes to efficient…
To have the right data shared with the right people at the right time. How many things did you hear this mantra? We all need to have data, but to deliver the data to the right people is hard. People are located in different places, working for different companies, and using different systems. Traditional data…
OpenBOM provides unique multi-tenant data management technology and out of the box process to communicate between engineers, purchasing planners and production. Real-time simultaneous collaboration and flexibility, combined with support for CAD and integrations, out of the box formula and calculations process can give you a way to transform the processes in a matter of days.…
One more preview of improved collaborative data synchronization between BOM levels, with roll-up formulas and catalogs. The same as a preview from yesterday – Catalog to BOM real-time collaborative updates, this improvement will provide instant data updates between levels, formulas, and catalogs. This change is part of our user experience improvements and an essential step…
Imagine you work with OpenBOM and you have a catalog and few BOMs open in multiple browsers. Also, one of your colleagues has a BOM open in the browser. You made an update of the catalog. Until now, you should have been refresh the browser to see updated catalog data. Kind of annoying. You complained…