VIDEO: Two secrets about BOMs in Excel
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…
Video blog #9 – CAD Data Beyond PDM
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…
Video blog #8: BOM Beyond Excel
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…
Engineering to Order Process
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…
BOM revisions webinar recording
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…
Import and Merge Catalogs in OpenBOM
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…
WEBINAR: BOM Management – How to escape from Excel
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…
BOM Management – Spreadsheet vs OpenBOM comparison
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…