REGISTER The Design through Purchase Webinar Part 2 of 2
Production planning, procurement, and purchasing are age-old problems. But these days, these problems have new solutions, thanks to all the digital technologies we are developing. At OpenBOM we are dedicated to solving problems of purchasing and procurement by providing a product-driven solution. The planning (Order) BOM is a foundation of the purchasing process. We re-assure…
From BOM to Purchasing
Every manufacturing company is buying parts and outsource some work to contractors and suppliers. Although the process is pretty straightforward, it is not as simple as it might sound. Let’s be honest, the procurement doesn’t sound fancy as a design process, but if it is not done, your shop, team, or company will be delaying…
REGISTER WEBINAR: Back to Basics – The Design through Purchase Process
Production planning can be thought of as the process, end-to-end, of using your BOM to buy the parts you need. The goal of the purchasing process is to create purchase orders that can be used to order standard components and sub-contractors’ work to build the product. Think of them as documents your company will be…
WEBINAR: Create Multi-level BOM, Part 1
One of the most often asked questions about BOM management is how to create and maintain multi-level BOM. This question is also hard because the management of structures (or multi-levels) is the moment of time when you should finally realize that your beloved Excel spreadsheets won’t work for you anymore. In this webinar, we are…
OpenBOM For Autodesk Inventor – Basic to Advanced
Our next educational webinar is about OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor. OpenBOM Director of User experience Steve Hess takes you through simple to advanced BOM methods using OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor. Please bring your questions and join the call. We will cover simple BOMs, Multi-Level BOMs, items management, the specific Autodesk Inventor settings which govern BOM…
BOM Management for SOLIDWORKS (Design changes and Bill of Materials maintenance)
The final (part IV) webinar from the series of OpenBOM Best Practices for Solidworks speaks about bill of materials (BOM) maintenance, which includes lessons about how to manage changes in CAD design, update and revision bill of materials, and in general all changes you need to make in SOLIDWORKS and BOMs. There are 4 lessons…
WEBINAR: OpenBOM for Solidworks Part III – Purchased Assemblies and Configurations
We continue a series of webinars about Solidworks and OpenBOM. In today’s article, we cover part III, which talks about the topic that often drives a lot of questions - configurations and purchased assemblies. In addition to that, I want to remind you that we recently introduced an updated version of OpenBOM Add-in for Solidworks,…
WEBINAR: OpenBOM and Solidworks Best Practices. Part Two.
Integration with engineering data and CAD systems is a big thing. Think about connecting your CAD design data and to Bill of Materials in the instant and easy updatable data set. This is what we do at OpenBOM. We provide integrations to all CAD systems. You can get out of the box CAD add-ins to…