Podcast: A Better Approach to BOM Data Management and Purchasing

Oleg Shilovitsky

19 December, 2020 | 2 min for reading

Podcast: A Better Approach to BOM Data Management and Purchasing

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky December 19, 2020 Leave a comment

Modern manufacturing companies are facing increased challenges such as cost competition, product complexity, supply chain risks, and many others. Engineering and manufacturing companies are facing increased product complexity, aggressive timelines, and budget constraints. To compete in a modern manufacturing marketplace, companies need to maximize their resources and find non-traditional cost-saving opportunities outside of historically known…

3 Elements of OpenBOM Digital Thread Management

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky December 15, 2020 Leave a comment

If you never heard about Digital Twin and Digital Thread, don’t worry… you’re not alone. Although these concepts were around for a long time, they are not very well know to a broader group of people outside of PLM insiders and large OEMs. But, for the last few years, I can see both concepts are…

How Multi-Tenant SaaS PLM Can Unlock The Value Of Data Sharing In Manufacturing

Blog, ManufacturingBy Oleg Shilovitsky December 6, 2020 Leave a comment

Data is the new oil, which can provide a huge value in modern business. If you look around these days, you will see multiple examples of how businesses are creating tons of value of data and data sharing. Yet, in manufacturing, data sharing is still in the infancy. World Economic Forum publication Share to Gain:…

WEBINAR: OpenBOM Reference-Instance Model and a Single Source of Truth

Blog, WebinarBy Oleg Shilovitsky September 10, 2020 Leave a comment

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…

Engineering-Centric vs Supply Chain-Centric PLM Dilemma

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky September 9, 2020 Leave a comment

One size doesn’t fit all. TechClarity Ebook educates are about Engineering vs Supply Chain centric PLM systems. Engineering-centric companies may value deeper capabilities like CAD integration from traditional solutions hosted on the cloud. Supply chain-centric companies likely favor agility and collaboration from newer cloud-native solutions. Today’s supply chain volatility and supplier-centric collaboration processes turn the…

VIDEO: OpenBOM Data Model “Hello World”

Blog, BOMBy Oleg Shilovitsky August 21, 2020 Leave a comment

If you ever studied programming language, you’re familiar with this “Hello World!” program. It is usually the simplest program you can think about to produce something that it works – literally printing “Hello World!”. When I first learned C programming language, I remembered my Hello World program. #include <stdio.h> int main() printf(“Hello, World!”); } In…

VIDEO: OpenBOM Data Model Explained

Blog, BOMBy Oleg Shilovitsky August 20, 2020 1 Comment

Flexibility is the key to efficient product data management. Therefore at OpenBOM, we developed the most robust and flexible data model to support product information. Watch the video to learn more about OpenBOM data model In this video, I explain 2 fundamental elements of OpenBOM: – Items – Bill of Materials. An item can…

VIDEO: OpenBOM PLM – Single Version of Truth

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky August 1, 2020 Leave a comment

Product information is a foundation of design, planning, and manufacturing. How to manage it efficiently? You can easily export data from CAD to Excel, but you will spend a lot of time making updates, especially if you will add more data such as cost, suppliers, planning, and other pieces of information. Data sharing is another…

Is OpenBOM safer than Excel to manage Bill of Materials?

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky July 30, 2020 Leave a comment

These days more and more software is available as a service (SaaS). And many engineers and companies are asking the question of how safe these solutions are comparing to conventional systems installed on your company servers or Excel spreadsheets located on your desktop of company servers. The concern about cloud software (SaaS) is much lower…

FRIDAY VIDEO STORY: What is OpenBOM?

BlogBy Oleg Shilovitsky July 30, 2020 Leave a comment

In my video today, I will explain to you what is OpenBOM in less than two minutes and five sentences. 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. 1- OpenBOM is an online (SaaS) application. Old on-premise…