How to Create OpenBOM Catalog From Bill of Materials
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 (BOM) from the…
OpenBOM Export and Import Enhancements
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…
HEADS UP: Import Images from a Spreadsheet to OpenBOM
Excel (or spreadsheets) is one of the greatest inventions of IT for the last decades. Flexible, powerful and easy to use. But, it brings too many problems when it comes to engineering and product data management. In my Do’s and Don’ts of Escape Plan from Excel, I shared my recommendation on how you can move…
Best practices for importing a BOM or Catalog into OpenBOM from an existing spreadsheet
Best practices of Import BOM or Catalog to OpenBOM from your existing spreadsheet The things are rarely happening in the vacuum. Usually, you have already a bunch of data in spreadsheets you want to bring to OpenBOM to keep managing or using this data in the future. What are the most typical use cases? Over…
Heads up – OpenBOM Integration with Google Sheet
We’ve been getting many requests to expand OpenBOM integration with Google Sheet. I’m happy to share some early information about OpenBOM import from Google Sheet coming in the next release (yay!!!). So, let’s say, I want to import BOM from the following Google Sheet The first function will integrate Google Sheet file picker from OpenBOM import…