Everyone needs data, but nobody wants to manage this data. When it comes to data-driven processes, the ability to populate the data needed for product design, production planning, and purchasing is next to none. Manufacturing companies are looking at how to establish a repeatable process for setting up product structure, making cost assessments, purchasing planning,…
The article gives you the fundamentals of the OpenBOM purchasing process. Check it out first. In this article, you will learn the details and best practices of managing Order BOM and planning to purchase. You will also learn how to manage Items data using OpenBOM catalogs and create vendor lists including Approved Vendor List (AVL). …
Designing products is fun. But once you move from the design stage to production, you need to plan production and purchase. And it is very hard to do, even it sounds very simple – count parts, select vendors, organize part lists and purchases. Design data is complex and located in CAD systems that are not…
In this video, I can demonstrate how you can move items from one catalog to another catalog in OpenBOM. OpenBOM has a flexible data model. It allows you to adjust the data model (properties in the catalog) when you import data on the fly. Therefore, to move items between catalogs you just need to use…
In this video, I talk about what is OpenBOM and how OpenBOM can help you to stop using Excel and Spreadsheets to manage Bill of Materials in your company. In many ways, OpenBOM is different from old on-premise PLM systems, and many cloud PLM tools available on the market today. Here are the key points…
You need to create a solid foundation to build a house. The same holds true when it comes to managing products, changes, manufacturing, and purchasing. With no good foundation, the solution will be sloppy and unstable. The reason why Excel and spreadsheets based solutions are weak is because they don’t provide a solid function to…
In this video, I talk about the Bill of Materials and Purchasing. For many companies a purchasing process is a messy combination of Excels extracted from the CAD system, manually created purchase orders and information about vendors. OpenBOM Design to Purchase process helps you to organize information about the Bill of Materials, Vendors, Cost, and…
In this video, I share a story about how OpenBOM helps engineers and manufacturing companies to stop using spreadsheets to manage product data, bill of materials, calculations, and purchasing. This is a visualization of the OpenBOM engineering story you can read here. Here are a few things you will learn from this video: 1- OpenBOM…
A few weeks ago we announced support for Autodesk Fusion360 native table features. If you missed my earlier blog, please check it here – OpenBOM Native Drawing Support For Fusion360. And today, I’m coming again with a piece of early information about new features in OpenBOM for Autodesk Fusion 360. We’ve been working with many…
Imagine you overcome your resistance to change and decided to leave Excel and move to OpenBOM. In this video today, I want to talk about what will happen to you if you do so. If you’re an engineer working on design… You will create automatically Bill of Materials from the CAD system You will import…