Multi-Level BOM Revisions – Introducing Baseline Option
Change is the only constant thing in product development. As we do design, production planning, procurement, manufacturing, we do changes and we need to track changes all the time. It sounds simple, but it is a tedious task that requires a lot of effort and coordination. OpenBOM gives you a great set of unique functions…
Product Structure, Effectivity, and Configurations
These three topics are usually complex and can be confusing, especially for non-sophisticated users. In my blog today, I want to share the basics of what concepts such as product structure, item, reference, instance and give you some examples from OpenBOM. I will talk about what we do today and we’re planning to do in…
Flexible Bill of Materials Data Model
The Bill of Materials is the most fundamental part of any PLM solution. Therefore, when designed OpenBOM, we paid special attention to how to create a model to hold product data (Bill of Materials) and to make it flexible and extendible. The data management architecture of OpenBOM is built using flexible data objects holding different…
6 Steps To Learn OpenBOM with Demo Data Set
What can be a better way to learn and start using OpenBOM by exploring a demo data set OpenBOM provides you immediately. Here are 5 steps to do as soon as you Sign-up to OpenBOM and get to the OpenBOM dashboard. 1- Search and Open Bill of Materials with Wireless Router (created from Solidworks) Full-text…
WEBINAR REGISTRATION: Back to basics and demystify Multi-Level BOM
The terminology sometimes can be confused. Multi-level BOM, Product Structure, Indented BOM, Parent-Child Relationships. All these names mean basically the same thing but can come in different variations and flavors of descriptions. How OpenBOM manages product structure and relationships? OpenBOM core data model is capable to manage the parent-child relationships. OpenBOM has a sophisticated data…
Product Structures, Indented BOM, Multi-level BOM, and Parent-Child Relationships
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…
WEBINAR: OpenBOM Reference-Instance Model and a Single Source of Truth
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…
OpenBOM Circular Reference Found – What does it mean?
Product structures and bill of materials are complex data entities. A typical BOM is a collection of items that might look like a simple list. But when you attempt to manage data around the Bill of Materials and product structure you can find it insanely complex. Any product is a hierarchy of elements. These elements…