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The manufacturing companies are not what they used to be. In fact, there often isn’t a single company anymore. The...

One of the goals behind the new OpenBOM licensing model is very simple:make it easy to start, even if you...

Every engineering team and manufacturing company is using Excel. For years, we thought Excel was a technical problem. But I...

At OpenBOM, design integrations are not treated as optional add-ons or isolated utilities. They are a core part of how...

I’ve spent a lot of time this week rereading notes from past conversations about ECOs, AI, and collaboration, and one...

Engineering change is quietly outgrowing the systems we built to control it. On paper, ECO and ECN processes still look...

Boston, MA — January 2026 — OpenBOM today announced a new pricing and licensing model for 2026, designed to lower...

When customers succeed, their products grow. And when products grow, product data grows with them. Over the past year, we...

How product memory transforms engineering workflows to introduce AI agents  When I talk to engineering and manufacturing teams, the conversation...

Looking back at 2025, it’s hard to ignore how loud the conversation around AI became. Every platform rushed to position...

When customers speak about AI in PLM, they don’t talk about AI at all. It sounds like a paradox, you...

If you run a manufacturing company, you already know the uncomfortable truth: the “integration problem” is not really about integration....

Most manufacturing companies struggle because they lack process connection between siloed environments. Engineering and Manufacturing is a great example of...

For a long time, APIs in PLM systems lived in an awkward place. They existed, protected by software vendors to...

Welcome to the final OpenBOM release of 2025! This December update reflects many of the patterns we consistently see when...

“Can you just send me the files?” This is one of those questions that sounds almost trivial, yet it keeps...

In the previous article, I introduced OpenBOM Review as a way to bring comments and discussions from emails to the...

PLM, as an industry, has never suffered from a lack of awards, quadrants, or analyst graphics. What it has struggled...

When I look back at 2025, what stands out most is not a list of features or releases, but the...

For years, I have been watching the same pattern repeat itself across engineering and manufacturing teams. The BOM lives in...

In the last few posts, I started with the limits of PDM and file-based workflows, then gradually moved toward collaborative...

Looking back at 2025, it is clear to me that this was a year of tightening the foundation. Many of...

This is the last post in a series of 30 blogs about OpenBOM. That matters less as a milestone and...

Engineering and manufacturing organizations rely on product information that is accurate, accessible, and shared across teams. This is easy to...