Intelon Optics Makes Product Data Easy Available Across the Organization Using OpenBOM There is much more to high-tech bioengineering company Intelon than meets the eye…. Literally! Intelon Optics engineers and manufactures a device for measuring ocular (eye) tissue properties, and OpenBOM is helping them do it! I sat down with Lexington, Massachusetts-based Senior Director of…
Fize Medical – OpenBOM Out of the Box SaaS PLM Experience For Onshape The team at Israel-based Fize Medical needed PLM to take their innovative medical device to market quickly so they embarked on a thoughtful journey to assess the options. Not because they needed sophisticated PLM features or had complex PLM lifecycle requirements. In…
Team Waterloop Using OpenBOM To Organize and Socialize Design Data and BOMs. Team Waterloop is a student team based out of the University of Waterloo’s Sedra Student Design Centre in Waterloo, Ontario. Together, this multidisciplinary group of students is designing and building some of the most advanced Hyperloop transportation technology of the future. For the…
FF Robotics Saves Times And Money by Standardizing 16K Individual Components and Optimizing BOMs Israel based FF Robotics is solving an age-old problem using some very high-tech solutions – How to pick a better apple (actually, any fruit) fresh off the tree! Using a proprietary gripper, their twelve arm multi-axis robot gently picks a harvest-ready…
OpenBOM Supports HIPEERLAB To Fight COVID19 HipeerLab grew out of a group of students at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) with the goal to help the local medical community respond as the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact their country. The team assessed the local need and quickly settled on a 3D printer ready face…
Shredlights uses OpenBOM to developed a set of master BOMs to define and manage combo kit configurations San Diego California based Shredlights designs and sells innovative lighting systems to meet the needs of today’s action sports enthusiasts. Their products offer a unique product and user experience required by today’s 24/7 outdoor enthusiasts. OpenBOM is happy…
The University of Wisconsin-Stout is using OpenBOM for Industrial Design Class When the University of Wisconsin-Stout Industrial Design (ID4) class of 2020 needed to “think” about how their capstone project would be manufactured, class lecturer and professor Kerstin Nye went looking for some way to introduce her students to “real” manufacturing & planning…. She chose…
Culligan Rochester Eliminates BOM Mistakes and Enable Real-Time Team Collaboration with OpenBOM Culligan Rochester is a 3rd generation business reinventing itself as a leader in the Culligan franchise industry. CEO Andrew Holden has a thirst for product innovation which radiates through his organization and is evident in their industry-leading water purification and softener systems they…
EA Manufacturing relies on OpenBOM and Autodesk Fusion 360 to solve a major manufacturing issue for a leading provider of massive outdoor structures Brian Kraut and EA Manufacturing of Florida, USA, rely on OpenBOM and Autodesk Fusion 360 to solve a major manufacturing issue for a leading provider of massive outdoor structures. OpenBOM and Autodesk…
OpenBOM Helps Auto Modality To Track Product Configurations Based On Serial Numbers In a private airport hangar in San Rafael, California, Auto Modality builds a “drone with a mission!” What does that mean? It means their unique inspection drone literally flies a mission using its own intelligence and problem solving rather than being guided by…
E::SPACE: OpenBOM gives us a structure and discipline to keep track of our important designs David Robson and Rick Silver founded E::SPACE Labs as a technology incubator with the goal of providing folks in the Bend Oregon area access to engineering and design tools and services and to foster and promote high-tech innovation in the…
Pierson Workholding Is Using OpenBOM For A Complete Design To Manufacture In-house Process If you need to hold a piece of material for any type of CNC/Manufacturing operation then you need to contact Pierson Workholding in Simi Valley, California! At this one facility, Pierson designs and manufactures a wide variety of innovative work-holding solutions for…
Stone Aerospace is tracking BOMs, RFQs and Purchase Orders using OpenBOM The folks at Texas-based Stone Aerospace are modern age explorers! Their team of seasoned expeditionary scientists and explorers develop the tools needed to explore, survive and work in the most extreme environments imaginable. The SUNFISH® vehicle was developed in collaboration with NASA for a…
IMBU B.V. – We Like The Simplicity And Portability of OpenBOM. It Just Works! IMBU has been monitoring and analyzing compression equipment in the most remote places on the planet for years and provides a proven solution which works under the toughest conditions. As such, IMBU is all about reliability and operation under tough conditions. …
OpenBOM is definitely my first choice and is miles ahead of other BOM/PDM software OpenBOM is definitely my first choice and is miles ahead of other BOM/PDM software. Evan Livingston. Lead Hardware Engineer Designated Driver
Nyriad Super Charging the Internet – OpenBOM Customer Story New Zealand’s Nyriad LTD is a software company at the nexus of computational storage infrastructure. Together with OpenBOM and their partners, Nyriad develops technology that will enable a more robust, energy-efficient and secure Internet. They have spent the last 5 years carefully connecting the underlying threads…
How CATIM is using Autodesk Fusion 360 and OpenBOM to achieve outstanding quality CATIM Bill of Materials requirements is as diverse as their products! According to CATIM Solution Architect, “Combining BOMs from disparate design systems was next to impossible using Excel”. Creating Automation and Technology In Motion – that’s what www.catim.co is all about. CATIM…
Mena Harron (Medical Device Manufacturing Consultant) “I must say, as great as OpenBOM is with all the flexibility, the absolute best feature it has is outstanding support! This is by far the best customer experience I had with any product I have interacted” – Mena Harron (Medical Device Manufacturing Consultant)
Darren Saravis X-naut. iPad Cooling Solutions Learn more about Darren Saravis and X-naut iPad Cooling System he built with the help of OpenBOM. X-naut designs iPad cooling solutions which enable people to work and play in extreme temperatures, and when X-naut needed to keep up with their rapidly evolving Bill of Materials and vendor management…
Marc Schömann, Blackbox – Multitool 3D Printer Learn more about Marc Schömann and the LayerShift project he built using Autodesk Fusion 360 and OpenBOM. Marc Schomann is versatile as the products he designs. His projects include a variety of innovative designs from a soft-touch robot hand to an innovative kinematic coupler (learn more about Marc…
VarTech Systems We love OpenBOM, is had helped solve many issues! It helps catch mistakes, and fix them easily. One thing we love is we have a reference catalog that will prompt us of incorrect/duplicate part numbers, and point us to the correct one. It also has caught many revision numbers inconsistency’s.
Mark Nah, Response Biomedical (Canada) When I get into forums discussing the end of life issues with Part and Vendors (P&V), no one was able to identify a suitable replacement. There is an opportunity here to enter forums specific for ex-P&V users to market OpenBOM. I find OpenBOM a very suitable replacement for Parts and…
Old Retired Fellow using Autodesk Fusion360 preferred to stay anonymous I’m just an old retired fellow tasked with building a tiny house for my lovely spouse…I use Fusion 360 for all my CAD work in the shop, but since it doesn’t create materiel lists the way I prefer I figured I’d have to go with…
Pexraytech Finland, R&D I admire how OpenBOM and Onshape work together. Wycliffe Raduma, Lead Mechanical Design Engineer and Project Manager, Pexraytech Finland, R&D
Stewart Teaze (Roboticist) “Thanks – I really like your openbom application…I worked for a large contractor of UAVs here in the San Diego area, and this tool is much better than the tools we were provided to create and manage Parts/BOMs.”
Ayalytical Instruments Inc. “I love how quickly I was able to generate a BOM from my Fusion 360 assembly” ~ Vaidotas Staugaitis
Alan Brennan, Favour Solutions “I have to say that I am very impressed with your follow up and the entire experience you have delivered. The magnitude of work thought, and planning that has been put into this product and its marketing and support are astonishing, to say the least.” ~ Alan Brennan, Favour Solutions
Elmin Hadzikadunic, 3D Design Engineer at BME Industrial Group I’m really thankful for your support, and I do like your OpenBOM program. Will share it to the rest of my friends” ~ Elmin Hadzikadunic, 3D Design Engineer
Bruce Bartlett, Designer of Farm Machinery, Australia Best way to add costings in is to use @openbom. You can add it as an extra tab then link to the Onshape BOM but will allow for extra columns and formulas. ~ Bruce Bartlet, @babartl1977 (via Twitter)
John Hyslop, Visual Projections “I found your App in the Autodesk Inventor App Store. I like the way you make thumbnail images of the parts in the BOM. Very clever… “
Scott Lelievre, Stone Aerospace “I don’t know what your team did but my OpenBOM Catalogs open extremely fast now, in under 10 seconds. Thank you!”
Mykhaylo Dubov, Optoscribe “I came across OpenBOM through the Autodesk Fusion app-store. I needed to simplify my job of making the shopping list and the Mass estimate for the optical systems I build. The built-in capability of the Fusion360 to find the Mass and the Centre of Mass position is great, so OpenBOM have accurately…
Scott Krueger, AMP Robotics “I found OpenBOM because I needed a solution to roll up quantities in our complicated multilevel robotic equipment BOMs, something I could not do in Excel. I found OpenBOM’s Flatten feature to be EXACTLY what I was looking for. I wish I would have found it months ago!”
An OpenBOM experience. “When the student is ready…” digitalcarbon’s focus its to model everything. This is an attempt to have projects assemble like big “kits”, reducing the amount of RFIs & angry words generated during typical construction. I was asked to start providing BOMs in addition to my modeling. I thought, “Sure, just push a…
Joe Bassett, Dawn Equipment Practical shift to digital – Streamline network coordination between engineering and production. The main goal of all manufacturing companies is to deliver the product on time to the customer. Sounds simple… yes, but it is not. You can create the greatest design, but it will be worthless if it includes expensive…
David Anderson, Verdetech Products “My first impression of OpenBOM was “Yay, No More Excel. Period!” My company is lean and mean and feels that records and process keeping are necessary to a level that is required to make our company efficient…. And no more. Most of the available tools are too much. To much cost.…
John Conaghan, Engineer at an emerging new company “I would like to make a quick testimonial. I recently had a small issue with a task I was trying to perform. I was overwhelmed with the support and advice I received from Oleg and his team. They went out of their way to help me resolve…
Terry Teague, Engineer Bell-Everman “Oleg, just wanted you to know I am now using OpenBOM instead of Google sheets. I especially appreciate being able to select “single level bom” and the fact that it automatically inserts it’s the location in Onshape indented under the drawing it is attached to. Also the BOM is generated from…
Tomáš Majcher, RF Elements “So far OpenBOM works like a charm and it seems to be the right solution for our company.”
Iain Prosser Greg Rowe, LTD “Having one BoM that is directly linked to the CAD data is really helpful as it eradicates a lot of the human errors that occur when managing BoMs manually.”
Rami Rintaluoma, 3dcad.fi “Thanks to OpenBOM, I can easily and quickly create cutting lists in Onshape saving me time and reducing errors; design changes are automatically updated by OpenBOM – this is awesome!”
e.mod Kitchens “OpenBOM is a great time-saving alternative to manually creating and updating cutting lists, helping me prevent errors and wasted time.”
Kirstaps, Mechanika Engineering “OpenBOM is the best BOM app available for Onshape. It offers great features and lightning fast support.”
Jackson King, RRDCS “OpenBOM provides an awesome alternative to BOM spreadsheets; I don’t need to use spreadsheets any longer. I love the seamless integration OpenBOM has achieved with the Onshape environment, it saves me time and effort creating my BOMs.”
Simon Ridley, Technical Director, Display Technologies Ltd. “Along with Onshape, OpenBOM is allowing us to transform the way we handle our manufacturing!”
Joe Bassett, Dawn Equipment “OpenBOM seems the best solution I have come across for decent BOM management without all the other ERP and MRP feature I don’t need.”
Nick Lumb, Acorn Furniture “Onshape is amazing for woodworking but manually creating a cutting list is time consuming and altering it after a design change is error prone! openBoM makes creating and updating cutting lists simple, accurate and painless saving us time, effort, and errors.”
Ola Kyrkjebø, HY5 “OpenBOM support gets 10 stars! Thank you for the quick response and effective help.”