The modern product development environment creates many challenges for product development and manufacturing teams. Increased competition, supply chain conditions, global customers, and competition are just a few of the challenges faced by manufacturing teams. At OpenBOM we work with manufacturers, contractors, and suppliers helping them to organize data and product development processes to sustain these…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OpenBOM data management gives you a lot of flexibility. While in general, I see it a very good thing and can give you a lot of value really quick, it can be also confusing sometimes. Today, I want to talk about different ways to manage data in multi-level structures and some rules I recommend you…