A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Bill of Materials

27 January, 2015

We live in the era of smart products. Modern smartphones is a good confirmation to that. The average person today...

17 December, 2014

Bill of Materials (BOM) is a central part of everything in product development. Sometimes, people call it product structure. Manufacturers...

27 November, 2014

MBOM (Manufacturing BOM) is a tough problem. Initially, you might think about it as an easy problem. Especially, since companies...

25 November, 2014

Data ownership is an interesting topic. Our life is getting more digital every day and we are asking many interesting...

10 November, 2014

Engineering.com article by Verdi Ogewell earlier today is introducing a next step of PLM vs. ERP battle for ownership of...

15 October, 2014

Bill of Material topic is getting more attention these days. No surprise. BOM is a center of universe in manufacturing...

9 October, 2014

The only thing that is constant is change. This is very much applies to everything we do around BOM. Engineering...

18 August, 2014

Time is running fast. It has been two years since I posted GrabCAD: from Facebook for engineers to PLM. If...

27 June, 2014

For me, Google is one of the symbols of simple software design. Therefore, Google developers event is always a good...

24 June, 2014

Product development and manufacturing is getting more complex every day. The complexity comes from both direction – product definition complexity...

12 May, 2014

My last post about Manufacturing BOM raised few interesting comments online and offline. One of them by Jos Voskuil  was pretty...

22 April, 2014

Excel and Bill of Materials. What can be better to start a discussion? One of my favorites blogging buddies and...

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