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Welcome to the OpenBOM October 2026 update! This month we’re putting AI to work on one of the oldest chores...

For most of my career in engineering software, I have watched teams turn a bill of materials into purchase orders...

Team ownership is an administrative detail right up until the day it becomes a blocker. People change roles. An engineering...

Last Friday, I published Everyone Wants to Build the Engineering Harness. But What Will It Run On?. My argument was...

Over the past few months, the conversation about AI in engineering has shifted. A year ago, the question was which...

An effective PLM system implementation gives your team a dependable way to complete a real product task. For a growing...

Think about the last time a project became stuck. A component did not arrive. A supplier produced an earlier revision....

Last week I wrote about adopting OpenBOM one product and one workflow at a time. The idea is simple. Skip...

To adopt OpenBOM, start with one product or assembly and one business problem. Organize the information, bring the team into...

OpenBOM manages product information through three levels: live collaborative data, automatic change history, and immutable snapshots. This architecture allows engineering,...

From checking readiness to supporting the decisions that make delivery possible. A product can begin drifting toward a late launch...

Shop Floor and Supplier Access to BOM, Drawings, and 3D Models  Shop floor access to engineering data means giving a...