Use Cases & Best Practices

Practical guidance for engineering and manufacturing teams, from part numbering and BOM management to product release workflows. Connect these best practices with PLM and BOM management, xBOM and data modeling, and the latest OpenBOM updates.

11 March, 2025

Managing product structures efficiently is crucial for engineers and manufacturers. OpenBOM provides powerful tools to visualize and organize Bills of...

3 January, 2025

Design Projects in OpenBOM are a service designed to manage design files (e.g., CAD files and beyond), control their versions,...

1 November, 2024

Data management in today’s digital age is absolutely important to help your business to thrive and not die. The “garbage...

16 August, 2024

Transitioning from a prototype to full-scale production is one of the most critical phases in product development. While creating a...

1 March, 2024

In today’s dynamic business landscape, the seamless exchange of product data between manufacturers and their suppliers has become a cornerstone...

15 December, 2023

The relationship between a manufacturer and its contract manufacturer can be critical to its success. Sometimes during the lifetime of...

24 November, 2023

Everyone knows that China is the global manufacturing powerhouse of the world that attracts business from all around the world....

27 October, 2023

For years, small manufacturers have relied on Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable, and other ways of managing their product data. The...

1 September, 2023

During product development, the journey from concept to production is complex and bumpy. One of the critical factors that determines...

16 August, 2023

The manufacturing industry is rapidly evolving, with constant changes in the ways products are designed, produced, and brought to market....

6 January, 2023

Timing is everything. The last few years hammered the idea that you can manage information using Excel spreadsheets and store...

6 December, 2022

OpenBOM is a digital thread cloud-native platform that helps you to manage product information and connect to contractors and suppliers....

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