Many years ago, I wrote an article about my love and hate relationships with BOM and PLM Excels – Why Do I like My PLM Excel Spreadsheets. But, there are many bad consequences of Excel usage. What happened if you use Excel or other Spreadsheets – PLM Excel Spreadsheets: From Odes to Woes. A spreadsheet…
Excel is still the most popular application to manage Bill of Materials. Many companies consider Excel as a safe heaven. After all enterprise and business products fail, Excel can do a job. But the thing with Excel is that the visible part of Excel is easy. An invisible part of Excel is the one that…
In this video, I’m talking about CAD integrations transformation. Traditional CAD integrations are focusing on how to manage files on PDM vaults to get control of storing files, managing versions, and access by engineers. At OpenBOM we created a set of very unique CAD integrations focusing on extracting data from CAD files in a granular…
In this video, I talk about how to stop using Excel and move to OpenBOM. In fact, most of engineers and companies I meet are convinced that Excel is not good, but they scary of making a change. Excel (or spreadsheet) looks like something they familiar with even it is very bad and leads to…
There are three typical manufacturing processes – built to stock, configure to order or custom product development (sometimes called engineering to order). Today, I want to talk about the last one that very often brings a lot of complexity in both design and manufacturing aspects of the process. There are two main characteristics of engineering…
The only thing that is constant is change. During product design, engineering, production planning, manufacturing, support… any manufacturing organization will be going through the process of continuous changes. This is a reality and to be able to manage these changes in the Bill of Materials is extremely important. In this webinar, we provide some basics…
A catalog model is a fundamental building block of OpenBOM data organization. Think about it as a distributed storage of all items data. Everything you have in your company – engineering parts, standard parts, products, literally everything is stored in OpenBOM catalogs. You can create a single catalog of multiple catalogs. Each catalog can have…
How to escape from Excel? Data migration is hard Moving your BOM from Excel to the cloud shouldn’t be… In this webinar, we discuss best practices and useful tricks on how to escape the Excel-universe of BOM management and manage product data in a structured way. It covers examples of import data from various Excel…
When it comes to BOM management software, spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are one of the most popular. And it is not because Spreadsheets are very simple and flexible, but because an alternative is very complex and expensive. As a result, individual engineers, contractors, and entire manufacturing companies are still choosing…
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…