Boost production speed and efficiency

The bill of materials software is something that is often considered a simple thing. After all, what can be complex in a list of parts? However, as we can see in practice, manufacturing companies are usually underestimating the complexity and fail to manage it properly. BOM engineering is a complex discipline that requires sophisticated data management and if you’re trying to avoid it, the results can be brutal and painful. The results are usually very painful and coming faster than you can think – missed components, wrong cost estimation, delayed product deliveries, and frustrated engineers and customers running around trying to figure out where is the last and most updated bills of materials. At OpenBOM, we believe in openness and simplicity as the main drivers to help companies to get up to the speed with data management science behind the Bill of Materials. It should be easy to start using OpenBOM and discover how to do it step by step. The Bill of Material is a structure representing all items needed to make a product. Depending on the product and business it includes a different level of detail about how the product is engineered, manufactured, assembled, sold, and maintained. Every engineering and manufacturing business should be concerned if parts and assemblies, as well as any other related data, are not managed properly.

Very often companies are asked – what to include in the Bill of Materials. A very simple answer to this question is EVERYTHING. The idea of not having something in a BOM is bad and to hope that you will remember what is needed is a recipe for disaster. Very often, we’ve been asked about what is a typical data set of the Bill of Materials. Here is a quick summary of what I think is absolutely essential.

OpenBOM Bill of Materials core elements are represented using the Reference-Instance model and described by the following picture. You can see references (items) and their instances combined into parent-child relationships.

OpenBOM provides a super-efficient and easy-to-use user interface to view, control, and collaborates around the Bill of Materials.

OpenBOM creates and maintain a product knowledge graph that span across multiple domains – engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and support.

OpenBOM platform is different from many other existing PDM and PLM platforms. Here are 6 key differentiators of OpenBOM platform:

1. Multi-tenant data architecture.
2. Graph base data model queries and graph data science.
3. Real time data sharing and collaboration with simultaneous editing.
4. Global scale and connectivity.
5. Flexible real-time data schema and integration services.
6. Out of the box New Product Development (NDP) process support connecting engineering and procurement.

OpenBOM strategy and vision is to transform manufacturing company product lifecycle and operation using data. The value proposition includes removing of pain to data management and integration, collaboration and decision support.

OpenBOM solution strategy scales from New Product Development process support and extends into Decision support and future AI solutions.

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