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Puro Lighting Optimizing BOM Management Process and Takes The Entire Process Of BOM Reuse from an hour to 5 minutes

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Puro Lighting Optimizing BOM Management Process and Takes The Entire Process Of BOM Reuse from an hour to 5 minutes They say timing is everything! Puro Lighting founders Brian Stern, Webb Lawrence, and Jim Colantoni had excellent timing when they founded their workspace disinfecting company in 2019. The Lakewood, Colorado company is a leading manufacturer…
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OpenBOM makes OKOS team 20% more efficient by helping to reduce inventory errors, costs, and streamlining supplier process

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OpenBOM makes OKOS team 20% more efficient by helping to reduce inventory errors, costs, and streamlining supplier process OKOS Founder, Hari Polu, says it best, “OpenBOM is a simple solution to a complicated problem.” OKOS, founded in 2010, was acquired in Nov 2020 by PVA TePla AG, Germany, and rebranded as PVA TePla OKOS. OKOS…
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Nexa3D Accelerates Product Development and Integrates BOM Management Process with Solidworks and Altium CAD using OpenBOM

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Nexa3D Accelerates Product Development and Integrates BOM Management Process with Solidworks and Altium CAD using OpenBOM Headquartered in Ventura, California, Nexa3D designs and manufactures a line of innovative laser sintering SLS and liquid photopolymer SLA 3D printing products directed at low to medium volume industrial market applications. And for the past two years, they have…
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OpenBOM Helps Dendra Systems To Manage a Cross-Functional Design and Integrating Information Delivery Across Company Users

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OpenBOM Helps Dendra Systems To Manage a Cross-Functional Design and Integrating Information Delivery Across Company Users Dendra Systems delivers environmental technologies for ecosystem restoration on a very large scale.   Founded in 2014 with offices in the United Kingdom and Australia, this company approaches habitat restoration in a highly systematic manner, outfitting drones with mapping and…
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Blaylock uses OpenBOM to manage multi-disciplinary BOM integrating information from Solidworks, Altium, Autodesk Fusion 360, Autodesk Eagle, and other data sources

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Blaylock uses OpenBOM to manage multi-disciplinary BOM integrating information from Solidworks, Altium, Autodesk Fusion 360, Autodesk Eagle, and other data sources Paul Blaylock is an experienced engineer and Owner/Principal Engineer at Blaylock LLC. He’s what you might call an Engineer for Hire who comes with his own set of tools! Paul uses OpenBOM to design…
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Vital Things Developed an Entire Engineering and Manufacturing Digital Design Flow Using OpenBOM Platform

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Vital Things Developed an Entire Engineering and Manufacturing Digital Design Flow Using OpenBOM Platform Norway’s Vital Things engineers contactless medical sensors for measuring human vital signs and OpenBOM is at the center of their design process. The company’s COO, Dag Brænd, leads the product development and is implementing an entirely new digital infrastructure along the…
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Chicago Based rf IDEAS Is Adopting OpenBOM SaaS Platform To Streamline Its Communication And Data Sharing With Contract Manufacturers

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Chicago Based rf IDEAS Is Adopting OpenBOM SaaS Platform To Streamline Its Communication And Data Sharing With Contract Manufacturers rf IDEAS is just outside of Chicago, USA, and designs and manufactures contactless authentication devices that deliver computer, print, and scan access management to the workplace, campus, and medical and hospital facilities. “Our primary use of…
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OpenBOM Helps Craitor To Take US Marine Corps 3D Printer From Autodesk Fusion 360 Design Concept To Reality

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OpenBOM Helps Craitor To Take US Marine Corps 3D Printer From Autodesk Fusion 360 Design Concept To Reality Our friends at Craitor have partnered with the United States Marine Corps through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop portable, rugged, 3D printers capable of being deployed with Marine’s expeditionary forces.  As the parent…
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Kuva Systems Drives Business Process Improvement, BOM, and Inventory Management Using OpenBOM

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Kuva Systems Drives Business Process Improvement, BOM, and Inventory Management Using OpenBOM Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Kuva Systems  literally keeps an eye out for methane gas leaks. Using novel spectral imaging systems, combined with powerful real-time algorithms, Kuva’s GCI360 Camera provides continuous monitoring of upstream and midstream oil and gas sites. By automatically alerting operators on the…
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Hive Lighting Moves From Spreadsheets To OpenBOM To Create Most Technologically Advanced Film and Production Lighting In The World

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Hive Lighting Moves From Spreadsheets To OpenBOM To Create Most Technologically Advanced Film and Production Lighting In The World Located in the Art District of Los Angeles and only a few minutes from Hollywood California, OpenBOM customer Hive Lighting designs and manufactures some of the most technologically advanced film and production lighting in the world.…
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Mechasys Reduces The Number of ECOs by 35% And Streamlines NPI Processes Using OpenBOM

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Mechasys Reduces The Number of ECOs by 35% And Streamlines NPI Processes Using OpenBOM Any construction site foreman or framing contractor will tell you the one most time-consuming activities on the job site is chalking out the floor layout. It's error-prone and takes tedious measuring and marking. Enter Canada’s Mechasys with a brilliant solution -…
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Bird Gard Improves Product Costing Management and Purchasing Process Using OpenBOM

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Bird Gard Improves Product Costing Management and Purchasing Process Using OpenBOM Bird control company, Bird Gard, purchased OpenBOM to answer the most important question any manufacturing company can have, how much does their product cost to build? While their existing Microsoft Dynamics ERP had many features, it could not answer that simple question, especially with…
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Tomcar uses OpenBOM To Deliver Full Product Definition Shared Globally With All Company Users and Manufacturing Partners

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Tomcar uses OpenBOM To Deliver Full Product Definition Shared Globally With All Company Users and Manufacturing Partners Founded in Israel in 1995 to support a specific military requirement, Tomcar evolved into a US-based company producing ultra-dependable, highly functional, all-terrain vehicles for private, commercial, and military use. These vehicles are awesome! Jonathan Drori is the US…
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Gates Underwater Products Uses OpenBOM To Connects Design Engineers, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Teams Together

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Gates Underwater Products Uses OpenBOM To Connects Design Engineers, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Teams Together San Diego California-based Gates Underwater Products has been a pioneer in underwater cinematography for over 50 years! They continue that tradition today delivering reliability and innovation their customers have come to expect. President John Ellerbrock attributes that success to their…
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Currence Robotics Is Using OpenBOM SaaS PLM To Meet The Company Demand For All Cloud Philosophy

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Currence Robotics Is Using OpenBOM SaaS PLM To Meet The Company Demand For All Cloud Philosophy. Norweigian robotics firm Currence Robotics has a strategic reliance on cloud technologies and that demand-led them straight to OpenBOM for cloud-based Saas PLM.  “We love how OpenBOM fits into our Engineering SaaS stack at Currence Robotics'' says Currence Robotics…
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Consumer Electronic (Fortune 500) Company Turns To OpenBOM to Support Agile New Product Development, Improve Collaboration and Purchasing Process

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Consumer Electronic (Fortune 500) Company Turns To OpenBOM to Support Agile New Product Development, Improve Collaboration and Purchasing Process There are many reasons why product development companies would create new products. One of the most critical elements of modern competitive situations is related to the need to have a stronghold in your niche market. This…
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FF Robotics Saves Times And Money by Standardizing 16K Individual Components and Optimizing BOMs

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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 fruit…
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FlyPyka is Replacing Google Spreadsheets with OpenBOM Managing One Source of Truth For Autonomous Electric Airplane Development 

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FlyPyka is Replacing Google Spreadsheets with OpenBOM Managing One Source of Truth For Autonomous Electric Airplane Development  Pyka is a leader in autonomous electric airplanes.  Their autonomous crop duster is a thing of beauty on the outside and a sophisticated engineering accomplishment on the inside and all of us at OpenBOM are proud to be…
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OpenBOM customers enjoy the benefits of tailor-made onboarding (Examples from ABB and FullCircleWater)

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OpenBOM customers enjoy the benefits of tailor-made onboarding (Examples from ABB and FullCircleWater) OpenBOM’s unique approach to tailor-made custom-specific onboarding is yielding huge dividends for OpenBOM and its customers. OpenBOM annual subscribers are expressing great satisfaction with the individualized onboarding experience they receive with Team subscriptions and above.  OpenBOM’s exclusive, concierge onboarding sessions bring the…
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How Activate Games Bridges Autodesk Design Tools, Multi-Disciplinary BOM, And Purchase Orders Into A Seamless Information Flow

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How Activate Games Bridges Autodesk Design Tools, Multi-Disciplinary BOM, And Purchase Orders Into A Seamless Information Flow Activate Games designs and delivers an extremely unique set of physically interactive game rooms with over 30 different immersive games that provide hundreds of difficulty levels. They rely on OpenBOM for more than just BOMs. Activate's games are…
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Grand-Craft Shares Their OpenBOM Premium Onboarding Experience

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Grand-Craft Shares Their OpenBOM Premium Onboarding Experience Legendary mahogany boat manufacturer, Grand-Craft, leverages the OpenBOM Onboarding Experience to quickly modernize their BOM and manufacturing process. “We just moved into an expanded facility and needed to quickly update and revise our Bill of Materials process and methods”, says Jeff Podhajsky, Vice President of Operations at Grand…
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OpenBOM to drive product configurations and real time BOM cost estimations for successful eCommerce business

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OpenBOM to drive product configurations and real time BOM cost estimations for successful eCommerce business When a leading eCommerce company wanted to put their products into their customers' hands faster they turned to OpenBOM! The competition is hot and the customer doesn't want to disclose the name. We're publishing the story without mentioning customer's name,…
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Acorn Furniture Relies on OpenBOM and Onshape to Manage Accurate Cutting Lists for Planning and Production

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Acorn Furniture Relies on OpenBOM and Onshape to Manage Accurate Cutting Lists for Planning and Production North Wales furniture maker Nick Lumb, who trades as Acorn Furniture, relies on OpenBOM to create accurate material cutting lists for his one-of-a-kind bespoke products.   Working primarily in British hardwoods and to specifications developed together with the customer, the…
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Building36 Simplifies Smart Home Products Design Using OpenBOM

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Building36 Simplifies Smart Home Products Design Using OpenBOM Building36 enables leading HVAC, plumbing, and electrical trade companies to deliver cutting-edge smart home solutions. The Massachusetts-based company moves quickly and delivers new products often, when their previous methods no longer supported their velocity of change, they turned to OpenBOM. The Building36 team is focused on design.…
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Iowa, USA based Anyglide Improves Engineering, RFQ, and Purchasing Processes Using OpenBOM

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Iowa, USA based Anyglide Improves Engineering, RFQ, and Purchasing Processes Using OpenBOM Iowa, USA, based Anyglide is a manufacturer of very high-quality, versatile, cargo storage systems for ATV, UTV, Trucks, and other rugged applications. Founded in 2019 by a team of experienced engineers and innovative business folks, the company’s products quickly gained adoption in industrial,…
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ConsultR provider of ERP solutions for manufacturing and retail relies on OpenBOM to deliver engineering and BOM data management solutions

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ConsultR provider of ERP solutions for manufacturing and retail relies on OpenBOM to deliver engineering and BOM data management solutions Atlanta, Georgia, based ConsultR was formed in 2012 as an IT consulting company and has since grown into a digital products and services organization specializing in ERP for manufacturing and retail. With offices in Argentina…
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Questum E-Mobility Uses OpenBOM to Convert Medium Sizes Trucks From Diesel To Electric

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Questum E-Mobility Uses OpenBOM to Convert Medium Sizes Trucks From Diesel To Electric Since its founding in 2014, Questum’s E-Mobility division, Atmovum, has been developing technology for sustainable urban mobility and OpenBOM is an important part of their success. Based in Monterrey Mexico, I recently sat down with José Elías Gallegos Arguijo (Elias), the company’s…
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OpenBOM Helps Kapsch BusinessCom To Manage Sales Process For Configurable Custom Developed Products Reducing Engineering Time by 30%

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OpenBOM Helps Kapsch BusinessCom To Manage Sales Process For Configurable Custom Developed Products Reducing Engineering Time by 30% Vienna, Austria’s Kapsch BusinessCom has over twenty years of successfully implementing international projects quickly and easily, making global presence possible for their clients. All of us at OpenBOM are happy to partner with them as they lead…
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OnQ is saving up to 50% of the time to engineering and purchase team to manage BOMs and Purchase Orders using OpenBOM

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OnQ is saving up to 50% of the time to engineering and purchase team to manage BOMs and Purchase Orders using OpenBOM OnQ, headquartered in Hayward, Calif (outside of San Francisco) with manufacturing and distribution facilities in Ohio, lists many of the leading essential retailers amongst its clients. OnQ chose to partner with OpenBOM to…
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Northumbria University Newcastle – OpenBOM for Smart Home Assets Management During Ph.D. Study

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Northumbria University Newcastle - OpenBOM for Smart Home Assets Management During Ph.D. Study Graham Coulby is a Computer Scientist and Ph.D. student from Northumbria University, sponsored by Ryder Architecture to research personalized approaches for measuring indoor environmental quality, health, and wellbeing.  With a strong focus on Building Information Management (BIM) and digital architecture, he uses…
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Dongguan Based Contract Manufacturer EPower Corp. Uses OpenBOM to Manage Multiple Project BOMs and Change Orders

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Dongguan Based Contract Manufacturer EPower Corp. Uses OpenBOM to Manage Multiple Project BOMs and Change Orders EPower Corp is an American and Hong Kong owned contract manufacturer with a 150,000 square foot facility in Dongguan, China. They specialize in manufacturing consumer electronics and consumer good products for startups and SME’s. These products usually consist of…
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Thunder Basin Engineering Uses OpenBOM To Manage A Complete Project Delivery To Customers

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Thunder Basin Engineering Uses OpenBOM To Manage A Complete Project Delivery To Customers Founded in 2020 by Karl Neu, Thunder Basin Engineering offers its clients a wide range of engineering and design services, from prototype one-off performance items to highly configured, high-volume manufacturing equipment. As Thunder Basin’s client list grew, Karl had to grow his…
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Public Invention Uses OpenBOM™ To Manage Development of Open and Free VentMon To Help Developing Ventilators For Rural India and South America

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Public Invention Uses OpenBOM™ To Manage Development of Open and Free VentMon To Help Developing Ventilators For Rural India and South America The Non-profit 501c3 was incorporated in 2018 for the purpose of inventing open-source devices that serve the public good. A noble cause that has since served many folks in need around the world.…
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Northern England’s Display Technologies Skips Excels and Grows Business Using OpenBOM Backbone Platform To Support Design To Shipment Process

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Northern England’s Display Technologies Skips Excels and Grows Business Using OpenBOM Backbone Platform To Support Design To Shipment Process Northern England’s Display Technologies LTD. is a manufacturer of high-end theater room projector screens and related equipment for high-end residential audio/video installations.   According to the company’s Technical Director Simon Ridley, “our customers are the people who…
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OpenBOM Onboarding Service Leads To Fast and Successful Customer Adoption (Examples of Puro Lighting, Monarch Tractors and Stone Aerospace)

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OpenBOM Onboarding Service Leads To Fast and Successful Customer Adoption (Examples of Puro Lighting, Monarch Tractors and Stone Aerospace) Modern PLM systems change the way manufacturing companies are adopting software. Earlier this week, during the Demystifying Modern PLM online webinar we discussed the new onboarding experience that became possible thanks to new SaaS platforms, online…
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Radica Software Integrates Electrical CAD Software with OpenBOM

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Radica Software Integrates Electrical CAD Software with OpenBOM Perak, Malaysia and Boston, Mass. – June 3, 2021 -- Radica Software, the developer of Electra Cloud electrical CAD software, has partnered with OpenBOM to integrate their online collaboration solutions. The integration creates a new feature that allows users of Electra Cloud to export and convert bills…
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RD Tucker Design Uses OpenBOM To Deliver Full Custom Equipment Spec To Customers

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RD Tucker Design Uses OpenBOM To Deliver Full Custom Equipment Spec To Customers Rob Tucker is the owner and lead engineer at RD Tucker Design, a boutique engineering firm specializing in automated equipment design. You would know his work, from heavy-duty industrial equipment to elegant, high-speed coffee lid dispensers, and everything in between. Rob’s work…
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OpenBOM Helps Woodworkers using Autodesk Fusion360 To Manage Complex Multi-Level Component Models

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OpenBOM Helps Woodworkers using Autodesk Fusion360 To Manage Complex Multi-Level Component Models Gerry Gehrmann is a craftsman who describes himself as “a 35-year-old software developer who loves woodworking.” In 2020 he turned to woodworking and embarked on a few projects that would become a beautiful piece of furniture, and he did it with Autodesk Fusion…
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Colorado-based Durango Driveshaft and Machine Uses OpenBOM To Organize Part Numbers and Manage Cut Lists For Custom Products

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Colorado-based Durango Driveshaft and Machine Uses OpenBOM To Organize Part Numbers and Manage Cut Lists For Custom Products Colorado-based Durango Driveshaft and Machine is a bespoke manufacturer of highly custom, high-performance, automotive and marine driveline components, primarily for racing applications.  While their products are, for the most part, one of a kind, Durango Driveshaft and…
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OpenBOM helps Build With Robots to find a sustainable path for product development, manufacturer interactions, and lifecycle management

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OpenBOM helps Build With Robots to find a sustainable path for product development, manufacturer interactions, and lifecycle management “Build With Robots takes the danger and drudgery out of mundane and awful tasks while elevating workers.” A bold statement from Build With Robots and one that all of us at OpenBOM share. Founded in 2017 with…
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SMARTEC Leads OpenBOM Implementation For Nandan GSE To Manage A Single Multi-Discipline BOM With Autodesk And Solidworks CAD Systems

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SMARTEC Leads OpenBOM Implementation For Nandan GSE To Manage A Single Multi-Discipline BOM With Autodesk And Solidworks CAD Systems Nandan GSE delivers bespoke made-to-order innovative Aviation GSE manufacturing & Hydraulic Lifting System products on time and on budget using a variety of design tools relying on OpenBOM to bring them all together for the customer.…
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Intelon Optics Makes Product Data Easy Available Across the Organization Using OpenBOM

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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…
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Team Waterloop Using OpenBOM To Organize and Socialize Design Data and BOMs

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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…
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Shredlights uses OpenBOM to developed a set of master BOMs to define and manage combo kit configurations

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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…
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The University of Wisconsin-Stout is using OpenBOM for Industrial Design Class

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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…
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Culligan Rochester Eliminates BOM Mistakes and Enable Real-Time Team Collaboration with OpenBOM

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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 design and install in leading manufacturing sites across the United States. So,…
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EA Manufacturing relies on OpenBOM and Autodesk Fusion 360 to solve a major manufacturing issue for a leading provider of massive outdoor structures

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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 Fusion 360 collaborate to solve leading outdoor structure designers' major problems! By Brian’s admission, he uses OpenBOM in an “unusual” way which I…
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OpenBOM Helps Auto Modality To Track Product Configurations Based On Serial Numbers

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OpenBOM Helps Auto Modality To Track Product Configurations Based On Serial Numbers [/vc_column_text]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…
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Pierson Workholding Is Using OpenBOM For A Complete Design To Manufacture In-house Process 

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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 rotary, pallet, vacuum, and other applications.  Pierson Workholding customers demand quality and reliability.…
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Stone Aerospace is tracking BOMs, RFQs and Purchase Orders using OpenBOM

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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 future exploratory mission to the Jovian moon, Europa. This autonomous underwater…
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IMBU B.V. – We Like The Simplicity And Portability of OpenBOM. It Just Works!

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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.   “We felt very strongly about the ability to have a plug-and-play installation for Ariel…
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Nyriad Super Charging the Internet – OpenBOM Customer Story

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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 between the CPU, GPU, Memory, and Storage to create…
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