--- title: OpenBOM Reviews meta_title: 'OpenBOM Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 814 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenBOM works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 814 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-10-01' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # OpenBOM Reviews **Vendor:** OpenBOM(Newman Cloud Inc) **Category:** [Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/product-lifecycle-management-plm) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 814 **AI Verified:** At least 10 G2 reviewers have confirmed using this product's AI features and functionality. ## About OpenBOM OpenBOM is a cloud-native Collaborative Workspace for engineering and manufacturing teams that connects design, BOMs, procurement, and production in one real-time platform. It delivers a unified combination of PDM, Digital BOM, PLM, and lightweight ERP capabilities built around a Product Knowledge Graph, enabling teams to manage product data, changes, costs, suppliers, and orders without spreadsheets or disconnected systems. OpenBOM helps engineering and manufacturing organizations: -Streamline CAD data management with built-in multi-CAD add-ins. -Automate EBOM/MBOM/SBOM creation and ensure accurate change control. -Improve procurement and production planning with RFQ, PO, and inventory tools. -Share data instantly with internal teams and external partners. -Transfer accurate data to ERP and maintain full lifecycle traceability. The result: fewer errors, earlier supply-chain visibility, lower operational cost, and a seamless digital thread from design to manufacturing. ## OpenBOM Pros & Cons Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews. **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of OpenBOM, enabling quick access and effortless management of product data. (106 reviews) - Users love the **seamless integration with SolidWorks** , enhancing BOM management with real-time updates and efficient collaboration. (96 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless CAD integration** of OpenBOM, enhancing collaboration and functionality in product development. (56 reviews) - Users love the **ease of use and quick onboarding** of OpenBOM, enhancing project management and collaboration effortlessly. (41 reviews) - Users value the **collaboration features** of OpenBOM, facilitating seamless teamwork and efficient inventory management. (37 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive interface** of OpenBOM, appreciating its ease of use and effective organization. (27 reviews) - Easy Implementation (25 reviews) - Integrations (25 reviews) - Real-time Collaboration (25 reviews) - Speed (25 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **learning curve steep** , especially transitioning from Excel or traditional PLM systems, complicating initial usage. (41 reviews) - Users experience a **steep learning curve** with OpenBOM, finding the interface unintuitive and guidance lacking for new tasks. (31 reviews) - Users often face issues with **missing features** , like incomplete exports and challenging integrations, affecting usability. (30 reviews) - Users find the **poor interface design** of OpenBOM frustrating, affecting navigation and overall efficiency in their workflow. (27 reviews) - Users face **integration issues** with OpenBOM, particularly with API connections and third-party software compatibility. (24 reviews) - Users find OpenBOM's **difficult usability** frustrating, especially with data transfer and navigation challenges, needing better guidance. (22 reviews) - Users report **system freezes** when inserting links, which disrupts functionality and affects usability for serial production. (18 reviews) - Data Management (18 reviews) - Slow Performance (17 reviews) - Confusing Functionality (15 reviews) ## OpenBOM Reviews ### 1. Responsive team! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chloe R. | Project Coordinator and Mechanical Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The customer support and onboarding really helped clarify any confusion about the tool & even fixed a bug. I was appreciative of all the feedback. I really like the CAD integration, and the ability to use catalogs & BOM to manage inventory & create orders. I think this will be particularly useful for us to have a centralized location with all this information **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I think our biggest challenge will be getting the whole team onboard with being comfortable using openBOM as a tool - however, I'm not sure the company can do much to assist with this as there are already many videos & tools online. Moreover, given we do many custom projects, there are limits to its use unless we upgrade to the company subscription Maybe some tools for the team lead to onboard a team would be helpful **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** openBOM is solving a couple main problems: A) we have to provide our clients with parts provisioning breakdowns with a lot of information, and this provides a space for this data to be stored and easily sorted by level and by catalog B) we don't currently have a good inventory management system for parts, given our products are typically custom. I am hoping that we can implement inventory management for the parts in openBOM. C) We will have two different product iterations (Think a MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro) so it would be helpful to have inventory management for the overlapping parts, while having accurate data and parts provisioning for each one **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Chloe R. Thank you for sharing information about your experience with OpenBOM. We are developing new tools that helping the team to onboard. As part of it, we are providing AI support tool that helps users to answer questions. Our support and service team can work with your to help. Please contact our support for more questions. Best, Oleg ### 2. Effortless CAD Integration, Needs Better Free Tier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David Robert L. | Chief Technical Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like OpenBOM's easy integration that includes an API. It allows us to develop in-house features that integrate with our Bill of Materials, which is very helpful. I also found the initial setup to be a breeze. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I don't like the cost factors, especially the lack of a decent free tier. It's only 14 days currently. I'd really appreciate an unlimited free tier for at least one project. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM for managing Bill of Materials in our electronic projects, and it integrates CAD software like Altium Designer, allowing us to develop in-house features with its API. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi David, thank you for your feedback! I appreciate your review and feedback. It is very much possible that you will like our 2026 pricing. However, do you mind to elaborate more about what you call a "project"? Do you mind to contact me and discuss? Thank you, Oleg ### 3. Great CAD Integration, But Interface Needs Modernization **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** itai b. | Mechanical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** This software is easy to use and features a SolidWorks plugin, allowing for integrated BOMs to be generated directly from CAD. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I find both the web interface and the desktop app somewhat outdated and more complicated than I would prefer. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Facilitate the integration of CAD work among designers, as well as between CAD, manufacturing, and production teams. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Itay Thank you for your review and feedback. Would you be open to get on a call to discuss more about your comments and what you found complex? Please contact me directly. Best, Oleg ### 4. Simple Yet Effective CAD File Management with Room for UI Improvement **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav B. | CAD-CA Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like that OpenBOM is simple and easy to install. It's also effective in doing what it is supposed to do. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The user interface can be more simple or easier to understand and more information friendly. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM for managing my CAD and CAM files so any teammate can access them remotely, even from home. ### 5. A modern and accessible approach to PLM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maor F. | Co-Founder and CEO, Manufacturing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** As a mechanical engineer, I’ve seen how complex managing product data can get, even for relatively small teams. Traditional PLM tools are often built with aerospace- or automotive-scale organizations in mind, which makes them heavy and intimidating for most companies. OpenBOM stands out by rethinking that model and making PLM much more approachable.

What impressed me most is its spreadsheet-like interface that feels familiar while still supporting advanced capabilities like multi-level BOM management, CAD integration, and real-time collaboration across teams and suppliers. The SaaS approach means it can be set up quickly without the long implementation cycles that usually come with PLM.

For any engineering or manufacturing organization looking to get control over their product data without drowning in complexity, OpenBOM looks like a strong, modern choice. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Like any powerful tool, it takes a bit of time to get familiar with the various features and capabilities it provides, but it's intuitive and easy + they have a very good service and support. Once you do, it’s very intuitive. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM simplifies BOM and product data management, reducing errors from spreadsheets and making collaboration with teams and suppliers much faster. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Maor, thank you very much for the review! ### 6. Seamless CAD Integration, Limited ERP Capabilities **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashwin R. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like the integration with SolidWorks, as it enables our Bill of Materials to get updated immediately when design changes are made in CAD. This makes the integration with our CAD tool very valuable to us. Additionally, the initial setup of OpenBOM was extremely simple. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** While CAD integration is great, OpenBOM cannot be used as a full ERP. We can’t use it to generate POs for procuring components or for production planning. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM to maintain our updated BOM from CAD and track inventory, linking design changes to procurement. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Ashwin Thank you for your review and feedback! Would you be open to discuss what problem you are trying to solve? Then we can recommend to you how to get the best out of OpenBOM. Best, Oleg ### 7. Great Functionality and Accessibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2026 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like best its functionalities and accessibility **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I think that May be UX could be improved **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Openbom decreases the complexity in data and systems integrations **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your review and feedback! We are continuously improving the UX. If you have specific comments, please contact our support. ### 8. Intuitive and Efficient Inventory Management Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John H. | Mechanical Engineering Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like that OpenBOM is easy to use and intuitive. The existing list of categories helps create new parts quickly and easily, and makes searching easy. The initial setup of OpenBOM is very easy, making it accessible for inventory management. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I think better instructions to convert from Excel to OpenBOM would be helpful to make use of the existing categories. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM for organizing hardware in the warehouse. It’s easy to use and intuitive. The existing list of categories helps create new parts quickly and makes searching easy. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello John Thank you very much for your feedback and review. A few months ago, we introduced the new improved Excel import I'm curious if you can share what was your experience with that? https://www.openbom.com/blog/heads-up-openbom-new-zip-and-image-importers-expanding-the-data-ingestion-framework https://www.openbom.com/blog/preview-new-openbom-unified-bom-import-and-future-ai-agentic-workflows More import improvements are coming. Best, Oleg ### 9. One the Easiest way to manage BOM's **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Babi A. | Senior Accountant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBom helped me bring all our product details, Bill's and change tracking into one easy to use platform. It really made managing every data and BOM's effortless. I loved how it connects directly with our CAD and keeps everything up to date in real time and allowed us to collaborate without confusion and mess **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It works very well overall. Sometimes large BOMs take a few extra seconds to load, but that's a small trade off for the accuracy and organization it brings to our workflow. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM has replaced our messy spreadsheets and outdated files with one reliable source for all product data. Now everyone works on the same information, mistakes are fewer, communication is smoother, and our product development moves faster **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Babi, thank you very much for your feedback and review! ### 10. OpenBoM simplifies the complexity of Supply chain **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** tejas t. | Transaction Processing Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** On OpenBOM we can manage BOMs, parts, and inventory from anywhere, and collaborate with distributed teams and suppliers in real time and also It eliminates the need for emailing spreadsheets back and forth. Also, BOMs Acts as a bridge to fill the gap between engineering and procurement **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** This will create a Navigation between catalogs, BOMs, and part references that can be confusing without training. Also, Some smaller teams feel the pricing tiers can be high. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** A effortless Cloud based BOM management that Everyone can see the latest and there will be no mismatches on the versions Also, OpenBOMs benefits in Inventory & purchasing which brings together the design and operations at one place **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Tejas Thank you very much for your review and feedback! OpenBOM provides a large number of educational videos online. We also work on product user experience improvements. If you have any specific feedback, please contact our support. Best, Oleg ### 11. Streamlined BOM Management with CAD Integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I appreciate how OpenBOM eliminates chaos in managing bills of materials and spreadsheets, centralizing everything for a single source of truth. I love the seamless CAD integration, which pulls part data straight from the design environment, and the real-time collaboration that speeds up decision-making. The ability to build and reuse part catalogs reduces repetitive work and ensures consistency. I enjoy the cloud accessibility and value how OpenBOM scales with my needs without forcing me into rigid workflows, offering more structure and accuracy than spreadsheets. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The user interface, while functional, can sometimes feel a bit cluttered, especially when managing large BOMs and catalogs. A cleaner, more modern layout could make navigation much easier. Additionally, I would love to see deeper integrations with ERP and purchasing systems out of the box. Right now, it's great for CAD to BOM, but bridging the gap to procurement and manufacturing software could make it even more powerful. Finally, although the documentation is solid, some advanced workflows could use more guided examples or templates to help new users adopt faster. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM to eliminate BOM management chaos, centralizing information for design and operations teams. It automates updates with CAD tools, saving time and reducing errors. It enhances collaboration, ensuring everyone accesses the same data, which speeds up decision-making. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, Thank you for your feedback and review. Our team is focused on improving the user experience for new users. If you’re open to a conversation, please contact our support team — we’d be happy to discuss what caused the issues for you. Best, Oleg ### 12. Great for collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2023 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Loved using it to manage BOMs through development **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Data management can be a little painful sometimes, but overall better than excel **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using OpenBOM to contain/update BOM information such as manufacturer part number, quantity, cost, etc **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for your review and feedback. We are making improvements in our user experience and training to make it easier to start using the tool. However, if you can contact us and tell us more about what specifically was "hard to get", it will help us a lot. Also, check our training library online. Best, Oleg ### 13. Easy to Use but Lacks MRP Integration **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like how easy to use OpenBOM is. I also appreciate being able to directly upload BOMs from SolidWorks, which makes the process smoother. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I don't like that OpenBOM does not directly communicate with our MRP, Katana. It would be nice if it did. The initial setup was fairly easy, rated about 3-10 in difficulty, but mainly because it doesn't directly integrate with Katana. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM for controlling BOMs and parts from SolidWorks to Katana. It improves communication between the two systems. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, thank you for providing your review and feedback. We have many Solidworks customers, so what you're saying it is very strange. I'd like to understand better what happened to you. My personal email is oleg@openbom.com. I appreciate if you contact me directly. Best, Oleg ### 14. Seamless Solidworks Integration, Fast Support—Needs Built-In Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Imran B. | Professional Services Manager - Manufacturing , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Easy to use and implement for our Solidworks customers. Customer support is great as well the team gets back to you quick and fast. The ease of integration into Solidworks is amazing. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I would like to see a storage component that is embedded into OpenBom so we don't have to connect to Drive or Box. This will make it a complete Saas solution. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our customers that are on SW do not have a way to manage BOM correctly they are manually using Excel spreadsheets to share data. With OpenBOM now our customers have a way to communicate the MFG BOM and CAD BOM in multiple views. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Imran, thank you for your review and kind words about OpenBOM. Regarding your question - OpenBOM does provide internal storage and you can store and manage files - no need Drive or Box. Right now we provide an unlimited storage to our customers. Best, Oleg ### 15. Effortless CAD upload from Fusion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ignacio M. | Ingeniero, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **AI Translated:** This review has been translated from Spanish; Castilian using AI. **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The ease of uploading CAD from Autodesk Fusion **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Sometimes the excess of columns present in the BOMs slows down the search process. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to have different BOMs according to the final product versions and keep everything organized. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Ignacio Thank you for your review and feedback. With regards to the columns, you can define "user defined views" in OpenBOM - they will eliminate columns you don't need. I hope it helps. Best, Oleg ### 16. Efficient BOM Management with a Few Growing Pains **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel B. | Senior Mechanical Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** What I really appreciate about OpenBOM is how easy it was to get started. The interface feels familiar—very spreadsheet-like—but with a lot more structure and flexibility. I especially like the real-time collaboration features, which have made it much easier for my team to stay in sync, even when we’re working remotely. The ability to integrate with CAD tools has saved a ton of time and helped us reduce manual errors. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** While the core functionality is solid, I’ve found that some of the more advanced features aren’t always intuitive. There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, especially when setting up integrations and understanding how to fully customize the data structure. I also ran into a couple of performance issues when working with larger assemblies, which slowed things down a bit. Customer support has been helpful overall, but response times can vary. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM has helped me get away from managing BOMs in spreadsheets, which was messy and error-prone. Now I have a centralized, cloud-based source of truth that everyone on the team can access and update in real time. It’s made our workflow more reliable and saves a lot of back-and-forth, especially when dealing with part changes or versioning. The integration with CAD tools has also cut down on redundant data entry, which used to take up a lot of time. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi Daniel, Thank you for your review. I’d appreciate it if you could share more details about your experience—especially around setting up complex structures, configuring the system, and the support response time. We know the Surgical Science team very well and work closely with them on every ticket and issue. Feel free to reach out to me directly at oleg@openbom.com. Best regards, Oleg ### 17. Streamlined production files and Excel BOM—when updates work smoothly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2026 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** It’s well organized, and it helps us get the production file without needing to convert files to PDF or XT. It also produces a great Excel BOM, which makes the workflow much easier. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Sometimes it doesn’t update correctly, and it ends up creating a big mess. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefit is that the entire company can use the same BOM. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your feedback and review. I'm curious if you can share what means "Sometimes it doesn’t update correctly". Do you have some specific examples? Our engineers would be happy to address them. ### 18. Catalogs of parts and assemblies available for our entire engineering team is powerful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James V. | President/Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** We uploaded our existing Excel BOMs into the catalogs and now all the parts we make, components we purchase, and sub-assemblies we make/purchase are all available with current costs to our entire engineering team-remote or on-site. Our 400-500 part, custom industrial machinery BOMs are readily available to duplicate and then customize for the next job and because they are linked to the catalog, current costs are available. Quoting is using the same system now so the materials part of the quote is much more accurate. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** We are still trying to navigate controlling revisions, versions, etc., it seems to be loose. There does not seem to be a function to make your change backwards compatible i.e. if you update a part in a catalog, do you want the new part to be referenced in prior BOMs or just new BOMs...if you rename a part through the Item Info screen, it breaks the prior BOMs using that pre-edit part number...Be careful after updating parts in catalogs or BOMs...there is no "save" function so reloading pages is a good practice but that does not always seem to update...close and reopen helps. Getting a formatted print out without exporting to Excel is not robust. Cost info in Excel exports is not numeric...has to be converted to numbers. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are closer to "one truth" about our parts and components we use. BOMs for prior jobs are much easier to find and access than with spreadsheets. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello John, Thank you for your feedback. I’d love to better understand your "renaming" use case — are you changing Part Numbers, renaming CAD files, or something else? OpenBOM traces relationships via Part Numbers and CAD file names, so it's important to understand the specifics. Also, we support multiple versions of Excel, and formatting issues can occasionally arise due to that. It would be great if you could contact our support team to clarify further. Best, Oleg ### 19. Effortless BOM Creation with OpenBOM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alyssa B. **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I really appreciate how easy it is to build my bill of materials with OpenBOM. It's accurate and much faster, which makes creating my bill of materials very helpful. The initial setup was fairly easy, and honestly, it's easier than any other program I've used. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Nothing at the moment. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find OpenBOM makes it very easy and faster to create accurate bills of materials from my projects. It's really helpful for my work. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for your feedback and review! I appreciate it. ### 20. Centralized Data Keeps Everyone Aligned and Up-to-Date **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bozena A. | QTY Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Single source of truth: Everything (parts, assemblies, revisions, costs, suppliers) is centralized and connected. It keeps everyone working with the latest data. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Learning curve: It can take some time to understand the full workflow — especially if you’re used to Excel or a traditional PLM system. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM helps streamline our product development process, saves time, and improves accuracy, allowing us to focus more on innovation rather than admin work. he benefits to me and my team include: Fewer mistakes and miscommunications between departments. Faster design-to-production handoffs. Real-time visibility into part costs, suppliers, and inventory. Less manual data entry and spreadsheet maintenance. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your review and feedback! I'd love to see how we can improve the workflow. What was the hardest part for you? Do you mind to reach out and share your experience? Best, Oleg ### 21. Managing the project easy by reducing the time between cross functional teams **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darsh A. | Free lancer for civil engineer projects, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Being a engineer, it easy for me to track material for my projects along with specs, vendor details, pricing, quantities, which reduces mistakes, wastages and rendering delays **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Since openBOM is cloud based, working offline isn’t smooth. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fixes communication gap between design and procurement, connects cad design to material estimates **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi Fred, thank you for your review- I appreciate your feedback. Do you mind to elaborate what is the need for you to work offline? Best, Oleg ### 22. Clean and easy to use design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like that there are updates on a regular basis that add value and improve my experience **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I would like to see online video tutorials to help understand new updates. I'm more of a visual person. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were previously using excel to manage BOMs. OpenBOM is a more elegant and streamlined solution. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, thank you for your feedback. Can you please elaborate more about integrations with Solidworks and what you would like us to improve? Thank you, Oleg ### 23. OpenBOM for effective Bill of Materials **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vasantha R. | Lead-Autonomous Systems, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is an easy-to-use BOM tool with custom integrations to CAD software for easier import and export of the components. On top of this, Open BOM APIs help to effectively leverage for the creation of standalone applications to interface with different **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Exports are sometimes tricky, with thumbnails getting exported in the Excel/ CSVs as standalone images **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** BOM Management of the entire old and new projects Product release mechanism to internal teams Production and Quality Management of Individual Components **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Vasantha Thank you for your review and feedback. The export dependent on the Excel application version. CSV doesn't support image at all. Google spreadsheets always put an image in the cell. Excel requires settings to do so. I hope it helps, you can contact our support if you have more questions. Best, Oleg ### 24. OpenBOM customer service has been helpful while evaluating it for our company **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM makes it easy to keep track of parts and BOMs in one place. The real-time collaboration is helpful, especially for teams, and the integrations with CAD tools save time. Since it’s cloud-based, you can access it from anywhere. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM can feel a bit overwhelming at first, especially with all the features and settings. The interface isn’t always the most intuitive, and there can be a learning curve. Also, since it’s cloud-based, you’re dependent on internet access, which might not work for everyone. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM helps keep BOMs organized and up to date without relying on spreadsheets. It makes collaboration easier by letting teams work on the same data in real time, reducing errors from outdated or duplicate files. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your reveiew and feedback. We would love to have an opportunity to learn more what was hard to learn in OpenBOM? Would you be open to get on a short call to discuss? Internet is getting better in this world. Please note, that OpenBOM PDM functionality is available even if your computer is disconnected from the internet. Best, Oleg ### 25. Easy Stock Keeping **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I really like the easy way to stockkeep, and I am also very impressed by the platform trying to improve for its customers/users. There are a number of features which I like. For example, comparing BOMs. It's easy to implement with my way of working. And it's easy to use as well. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I can't really think of anything. Slight things as that I don't like the lettertype sometimes. Or I don't really like the color palette. But you can't really blame that on OpenBOM, that's just individual taste. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me to keep a better visual of my stock. It's an easy way to keep track of how much things are left and gives a good impression on when I need to order new stock. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your feedback and comments. Appreciate your kind words! ### 26. Extremely helpful software for woodworkers (especially those selling plans) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James R. | Associate Pastor of Care and Discipleship, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM does an excellent job of mapping out a material list, allowing you to determine necessary materials before starting a job. This is particularly helpful for those selling plans who want to include a cut list or some derivative with their plans. I've had a lot of success using it personally to keep track of the cuts and odds and ends I'll need for a project built in Fusion360. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It is occasionally overkill for someone like me who is really just wanting a detailed and organized cut list. Some features can actually slow me down because I get a bit lost. I'd love it if OpenBOM came out with a lite version. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use OpenBOM exclusively to track parts and cuts for woodworking. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello James Thank you for your review and feedback! We are thinking about a simple "agent" that can help to streamline the interaction without additional complexity, configuration and customization. Watch our announcements next week. Best, Oleg ### 27. Amazing website to list my recipes and all additional info with them. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like how simple it is to add and remove components/items to a list in openbom. I like how everything works together. I like how easy it is to feel organized, it is very easy to implement items. I use the program more than twice a week to update stock. It was a great addition to add Openbom and integrate it with my workshop. Also integrating with Onshape was really easy and useful! I also like that they listen to the people using their site/app! I had listed something which was annoying and they listened and fixed the problem! **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I can't find a way to enable a dark mode function. Maybe this already exists but then it is hidden very well :( **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a better version of making my own spreadsheets with all items in my workshop. It is saving me a lot of time. And it makes everything super easy to find back. All my items I currently hold in my workshop I can look up in my openbom :D **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, Thank you for your review and feedback. I will discuss with our engineers how we can improve the refresh capabilities. Best, Oleg ### 28. More than a glorified spreadsheet **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I take the most advantage of the synchronization between our CAD systems and OpenBOM. We use OnShape and Solidworks and we have been able to quickly synchronize BOMs from CAD to OpenBOM as well as generate part numbers with the click of a button. It's a huge step up from trying to manually keep track of items on a spreadsheet that can very quickly get messy especially with our large assemblies. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The Change Order and Change Request processes are quite buggy and not straightforward. It doesn't allow us to make detailed change logs and doesn't track changed properties reliably as well, especially if the properties were changed in CAD (like Quantity). The approval process is also strange - you could easily "plagiarize" someone else's approval and sometimes mandatory approvers can't respond to a CO. You could even approve a change request without getting a sign off from other mandatory approvers. Currently to make the change order process work, we have to leverage other systems and that's not ideal. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a reliable up to date BOM independent of the CAD software. Allows us to make communicate with vendors and contract manufacturers with accurate lists of what we want them to procure. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your comment and feedback. Some of the things you're mentioned about change management sounds strange. I'd love to talk to understand what confused you about change management. If property has changed in CAD (eg. Quantity), you can update a BOM with these changed and then take an approval process to save an "approved" revision. There is absolutely no way to "plagiarize" someone else for the approval because everyone is getting a unique account. Although admins or people with "approve all" status can approve even if a mandatory approval doesn't. Maybe it was confusing you. If you can open your email and contact us, we would be happy to discuss more and and share some of the improvements we do. Please contact oleg@openbom.com - we would be happy to talk. Best, Oleg ### 29. Best hardware BOM tool in the regulated industry **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yongbo W. | VP of engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Graphic view of the BOM in assembly and sub-assembly **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Lacks the feature of bulk input from Excel or Google Sheets **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source of truth of the product assembly, BOM, and its change management **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Yongbo, thank you for your review and comments. OpenBOM new drag-n-drop import allows you to import from any Excel. The agentic features of OpenBOM AI coming to improve it even more. Stay tuned. ### 30. Great affordable tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Seamless Integration with Onshape OpenBOM works effortlessly with Onshape, making it easy to manage BOMs without disrupting our workflow. Simplified BOM Management Managing BOMs, including components like MCAD, ECAD, supplier information, costs, and configurations, has become smooth and efficient. All-in-One Solution OpenBOM consolidates everything—software versions, labor, configurations, and more—into a single platform. Streamlined Updates Unlike the previous clunky process with MCAD tools, making updates in OpenBOM is simple. Improved Productivity The platform has made our workflows faster, easier, and more reliable, ultimately boosting productivity. User-Friendly and Efficient Platform The overall experience of using OpenBOM is smooth, efficient, and straightforward. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The only thing I can think of is that it would be nice if, whenever you make a change in Onshape or Onshape detects a change, the page would automatically refresh to reflect the update. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before adopting OpenBOM, we relied heavily on MCAD tools to store all our information, including suppliers, costs, quantities, and even placeholders for items like wire harnesses and off-the-shelf parts. This approach was clunky and frustrating, especially when updates were required—it was difficult to manipulate and maintain accuracy. OpenBOM has completely solved these issues. Now, we can manage MCAD, ECAD, supplier information, costs, software versions, labor, and configurations all in one place. The platform is smooth, efficient, and integrates quickly into our existing workflows. OpenBOM has been a game-changer for us, streamlining our processes and improving productivity. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for your feedback and review! Appreciate sharing the ideas about Onshape. We are afraid to make changes automatically because it can cause every change to go to OpenBOM even those changes will be later removed as the design will move forward. We recommend to work using design gates - once you achieve a specific design maturity - update BOM / Item data from Onshape to OpenBOM. ### 31. My experience has been good, however some aspects such as revision management were not intuitive. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I really like the OnShape integration. It is quite easy to to import CAD files from OnShape into OpenBOM. I also like that you can update BOMs on the fly using the "Update BOM" button. I also like that you can map different types of parts in OnShape to different Catalogs which makes organizing parts within OpenBOM easy. I really like the automatic part number generation. This makes moving the data from OnShape to OpenBOM much easier as I don't have to apply all the part numbers at the very end. I like being able to map specific properties from OnShape into OpenBOM which adds customizability. Overall I think that OpenBOM has a bit of a learning curve but the basics are easy to pick up on quite quick. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The revisioning system is not very intuitive. I was able to understand it from the onboarding session where we walked through a live example, however I was not able to understand it from the videos alone. There was added confusion with regards to the "Revision" property which would get populated by the revision of the CAD model automatically. When importing a file from OnShape, it imports the mass with the "kg" on the end. This causes issues with the "Mass" property which prevents you from summing the masses of the components in the BOM without going through every component and deleting the "kg" from the end of every cell. I don't like that to get the total cost and weight of a BOM, you need to use the "Extended Cost" and "Extended Mass" properties. I feel it adds unnecessary columns to the BOM which creates clutter, and could easily be avoided by implementing a Sum Product function like in Excel. I found making custom views for catalogs and BOMs to be quite buggy. It seems there were multiple times when I applied a view and items I wanted to view were not shown or vice versa. Very minor point, but I cannot open catalogs/BOMs in different tabs by using Right Click+Open in New Tab. Instead I have to manually open a new tab, go to OpenBOM, and open the catalog/BOM that I want. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like having a database of all of my parts with how many of them I have in stock. It is also super helpful to have all of the BOMs all in one place so I don't have to go through a bunch of different Excel spreadsheets. Also having it integrated with OnShape makes it feel like one full system instead of two separate systems. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your detailed review and feedback! Our engineers will check your reports and see what can be improved. A few detailed comments: 1. We will check the mass property settings. You should not see any "kg" in the value. It would be helpful to see your Onshape settings, since they can impact what you see in OpenBOM. 2. Total cost - the property is needed because quantity is different for each line in each BOM. How would you doe SUM like in Excel if the cost (cell) depends on the quantity? It would be really helpful to discuss what you mean. 3. Item appearance in a view can be affected by a filter applied in a view. If you use filters in views, this is should be the first thing to check. 4. Clicks- curious what part of the application it is. If you can share with us, our engineers can check it. Thank you again for you feedback Best, Oleg ### 32. User-Friendly BOM Management with a Few Integration Hiccups **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamya S. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is intuitive and very easy to use, especially for small to mid-sized engineering teams. I appreciate how quickly it allows us to build and manage Bills of Materials without requiring a steep learning curve. The cloud-based collaboration is seamless, and it integrates well with CAD tools like SolidWorks and Fusion 360, saving a lot of time during the design process. Real-time updates and version control are especially helpful when multiple team members are involved. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The platform can sometimes feel limiting in terms of customization—especially when trying to adapt the UI or data structures to specific workflows. Performance can lag with very large assemblies, and occasional syncing issues with CAD plugins can interrupt work. It would be helpful if the reporting features were more robust and if offline access was improved for remote environments. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM helps us eliminate the chaos of managing Bills of Materials manually or through disconnected spreadsheets. It centralizes BOM data, automates part tracking, and ensures version consistency across engineering and purchasing teams. This has significantly reduced errors, improved collaboration, and shortened our design-to-production cycle. The real-time updates and integrations with CAD tools make it much easier to keep documentation aligned with design changes. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Kamya Thank you very much for your review and feedback. We are working on the improvements and your feedback is extremely helpful. Best, Oleg ### 33. Professional help coupled with fast response times to questions made the trial a great experience. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John W. | Mechanical Engineering intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The customer service team was stellar, Pedro helped me many times, setting up times to call so that we could work on implementation strategies. During these calls, we went over all the features that OpenBOM brought to the table, as well as how easy they are to use and to integrate into our company. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Setting up the categories can be tricky sometimes, having to balance between public and private categories and getting the property types to do what you want can be difficult at times. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to set up an inventory system for a prototyping warehouse so we can track hardware, streamline PO's and integrate our design process with what we have on hand. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello John, Thank you very much for your review and feedback. We’ve been introducing new methods to simplify administration and setup, so improvements are on the way. Best, Oleg ### 34. Great Material Categorization for Parts **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Balaji B. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** categorize of materials as parts from assembly to sub assembly **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Not much, but need to improve on projects name **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Yes for operationaly it solving the material needs that set in order **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your feedback and review. I'd love to understand better what "project name" improvement is needed. Do you mind to contact me and talk about it?Best, oleg ### 35. Smooth and Convenient **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** it is very centralized place to put all the inventory and organize the ordering. Help to streamline the order approve process and order receiving. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** there is a learning curve for getting familiar with. and lots of powerful but hidden functions that we know it is there but need some work to find out. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our organization, previously we were using the google sheet and form for order submission and approval, this works for small scale but as our company grow in size, the process becomes very inefficient and slow. introduction of openBOM solves the issue we are facing. it helps streamline the process and even more it can track the inventory, which was a big issue as we grew the size. Now before we are building a new BOM or place the order. we can have a look online instead of finding and counting the stuff in the lab. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your review and feedback. We are building tools to help new users discover the functions and features of OpenBOM more easily. On one hand, there is demand for a simpler workflow and concerns about “extra” features and buttons. On the other hand, some functions are hard to discover. We are also developing an AI support tool to help you learn more about OpenBOM. ### 36. OpenBom for small business **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The functionality of Openbom is exactly what we need where it allows us to create a flexible system to track components, labor and keep all associated information. It's relatively easy to modify and update to fit what we need. We've received very good support on addressing issue and it feels that they're listening to feedback and pushing updates frequently to address that feedback. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** We've found a lot of bugs with OpenBOM and its often not clear if its how it's supposed to be or a bug. The documentation is lagging behind the updates and while we appreciate the updates and changes its not always the most straight forward system to use especially in combination with what we've experienced to be a lot of bugs. The documentation is also difficult to track down how to do things with information being buried in the learning courses, forums, and other releases. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting our CAD to the rest of our systems, creating a single source of truth and allowing this information to be updated and shared amongst the company. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, Thank you so much for your feedback! While I’m glad to hear that the system does exactly what you need, I’m also concerned about the issues and bugs you mentioned. We take all feedback seriously, especially when it relates to potential problems. Working with complex CAD data—as I understand is your case—can sometimes introduce challenges. Messy or inconsistent CAD data is often a hidden source of complications, and we’re always here to help resolve them. We are working on multiple improvements in our documentation. As a many other SaaS platform, OpenBOM has monthly updates and we often introduce new features and improving existing ones. Once we do so, some of the materials online can become outdated, but we are updating them from time to time. OpenBOM community online (community.openbom.com) is the best place to get up to speed and our support (integrated in OpenBOM user interface) is another place to get help quickly. If you’d be willing to share your name and perhaps reach out to our support team, it would be incredibly helpful. That would allow us to investigate more thoroughly, address any issues you encountered, and support you more effectively with your data. Warm regards, Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO at OpenBOM ### 37. One of the Exceptional Tools for Collaborative BOM Management and CAD Integrated System **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diganth S. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like how easy the user interface is to create and manage multiple levels of BOM across different teams. I mainly use Solid Works and the integration of this CAD software makes it seamless to work on. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The problem arises only when I have to load a large assembly with multiple parts. The system lags for some time. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The centralized product data collection is what I find useful instead of me using an Excel sheet and emails. By the integration with the Solidworks software, the part tracking is very easy and automated. It is very efficient in managing data and reducing manual data entry errors. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Diganth , thank you for your review and feedback. Would you be open to share more information about the problem you discovered with large assembly? If you're using a system with SolidWorks, it might be taken a resource of your computers to produce derivative files using SolidWorks API. In any case, would like to learn more about your experience and see what can be improved. Best, Oleg ### 38. User friendly BOM management system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ray T. | Project manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Integration with other systems including most of the CAD. AI features are pending to explore. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Streamline automation process by learning daily operation **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** A simple method to share BOM information among a small group of colleagues, that reduces time of communication. Especially outsourcing parts that may keep version change in an assembly. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Ray, thank you for your review and feedback! Do you mind sharing more information about the limitations of the web-based system you see? I'd be happy to understand it better. Thank you, Oleg ### 39. Effortless Parts Management, But Catalog Needs Careful Oversight **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Our company has a ton of new parts that are constantly coming in. OpenBom makes it easy to search our "catalog" for parts we have and order new parts. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Without constant oversight, the catalog is hard to keep clean between team members. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing what parts we have ordered in the past. It is especially helpful for record keeping and keeping track of past shipments. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello and thank you for your review and feedback. Yes, data is getting messy. I'd be interested to learn more about what oversight you do and how possibly to improve the function of catalogs in OpenBOM. Please contact me directly - I'd be happy to brainstorm it together. Best, Oleg ### 40. good works **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sureshkumar M. | Automation & SPM Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Flexible and Customizable Data Model Unlike rigid PLM systems, OpenBOM allows users to define their own properties, catalogs, templates, and BOM structures. Supports nested BOMs, part numbers, vendor lists, cost rollups **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** 1. Limited Workflow & Change Management No built-in engineering change order (ECO/ECR) process like in traditional PLM systems. Users often have to manually track revisions, which can lead to version control issues. 2. Interface Can Feel Overwhelming or Non-Int **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** yes **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi Sureshkumar, thank you for your feedback. OpenBOM ECO process is customizable and allows to define approval for ECO / ECRs. I suggest you watch the video in our How To Youtube channel. If you have any questions, please contact our support. Best, Oleg ### 41. It took 5 minutes to save countless hours thanks to Open BOM. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler R. | Founder/Owner, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** So I had been plugging away for about a month on a half hobby/work machine design on Fusion 360. Being very new to CAD in general I was very much learning as I went. It wasn't until I was about 80% done with my design when I had the thought that a BOM was going to be necessary. After discovering fusion didn't have the capability built in, the panic began. A few minutes of frantically searching online for a solution (which felt like eons), I found open BOM. Within 10 minutes I had downloaded installed and configured open bom in fusion and had a BOM for a portion of my design. I can't speak to any advanced features or many of the functions, but from a completely green individual it was fast, Intuitive and made my life so much easier when it came time to order, and then inventory the several thousand individual parts to my creation. Also worth noting I'm notna frequent user, nor have I interacted with customer service. Thank you OPENBOM! **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The only negative I can recall was due to a major upgrade Fusion 360 did that changed the way Open BOM integrated with it. Being that this isn't a frequent thing, nor something new users will encounter its not much of a negative. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatic, rapid, and organized creation of BOMs from fusion 360 designs. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Tyler, thank you for sharing your story! We are working with Fusion. team how to prevent from getting issues with Fusion upgrade, so we hope to do it better in the future. Best, Oleg ### 42. Easy to use and very helpful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas R. | Digital Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** For me openbom has helped me sort and print out my parts lists, making the building that much easier. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Not much to dislike here honestly. I haven't really ran into anything I could complain about. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compiling and printing parts lists for my projects. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Nicolas, thank you very much for your feedback and review! ### 43. Excellent user-friendly software with world-class support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve . | Chief Mechanical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** It's laid out extremely intuitively on the screen, and is very easy to use. The level of support provided is outstanding, and the how-to videos really walk you through well how to do things in a clear, concise fashion. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** There is very little wrong with OpenBOM. Sometimes the defaults seem off-kilter, but the software itself works very well **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Through openBOM, we now have a better handle on how much of which parts we need to have in stock to build our locomotive, at both a sub-assembly level and full project level, making it easier to tie into fundraising efforts **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for you review and feedbcak! ### 44. Simple and User-Friendly, But Needs More Data Upload Flexibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Will A. | Electrical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** It's simple and easy to use. It is good for companies that have relatively simple assemblies and can conform to OpenBOM's way of organizing the data. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The simple interface also means there is a lack of flexibility in the ways you can organize data on OpenBOM. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving away from paper-based engineering change orders to a digitized system. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Will, thank you for your review and feedback. I'd love to learn more what lack of flexibility you're experiencing. Would you mind to contact our support and share more? Best, Oleg ### 45. OpenBOM Use for CAD Modeling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua Y. | Drivetrain Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM allows my team to easily share files with each other, keep them organized, and be able to be used over and over again by multiple members of the team. This is very helpful in keeping our large team files organized in a way where we can find them and use them when necessary, and the updating feature on the cloud is helpful to allow us to lock a CAD part when someone is working on it, and re open it when they are finished and have updated the part. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** A thing that I dislike about OpenBOM is how easily someone can mess up the system, in our case, one student uploaded their entire desktop to the OpenBOM storage obline, and we were unable to restore it back to its original state, so we had to create another one and get all of the files back. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM helps my team solve the problem of managing the files all at once. We have multiple subteams on our overall design team and need to be able to manage the cad and 3d models effectively and easily, so that everyone can access them and update them when needed. This helps us to focus on the actual project instead of how we are going to store the files because OpenBOM is overall easy to use and helpful for our team. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Joshua, Thank you very much for sharing additional information and your feedback. The issue with removing mistakenly synced files has been addressed. A fix will be deployed soon, allowing admins to delete files that were uploaded in error. Please feel free to contact our support team if you need further assistance. Best regards, Oleg ### 46. Best tool to manage my projects so far! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo R. | Supervisor de produção, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** What helps most is the ability to manage all types of files and information in one place. It makes our lives much easier, especially when managing projects with lots of technical details. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Wish it could be able to enter my data offline and the sync when I got the access to the network again. Sometimes the working areas are running out of internet signal. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficient BOM management, allowing to create and manage dynamic bills of materials, including revisions and versions. Supports different types of BOMs, such as structured (multi-level) or flat. Integration with Engineering Software, connecting to various CAD tools such as SolidWorks, Autodesk Fusion 360, PTC Creo, Onshape and others, facilitating automatic data transfer, also avoiding the need for manual exports to spreadsheets. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Eduardo, thank you very much for your review and feedback. You can keep your CAD files and use them offline, the sync data when connecting to the internet. But we are checking if an "offline" browser mode can be possible too. It is a complex tasks because of data dependencies. At the same time, the internet is getting better too :) ### 47. OpenBOM simplifying the procurement and inventory-management system in a startup environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM's tools makes the management of inventory in a fast-paced startup environment easy. With so much inventory constantly moving in and out, OpenBOM's robust technology makes it easy for all teams to work together and track items. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Occasionally the UI of the OpenBOM system can look clunky and a bit dated. Some processes like creating an order is difficult to figure out how to do independently without being explicitly walked through it. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a fast-paced prototyping environment, there is a constant stream of purchase requests coming from all teams. OpenBOM makes the purchasing review-process much more straight-forward for the operations team. It also makes it easier for technical teams to check what items have been purchased before and potentially verify the item's inventory in-house. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, Thank you very much for your review and feedback. We have plans to improve the ordering process, including the introduction of a new ordering dashboard. We’d love to work together and learn more about your experience. Please contact our support team and mention this conversation — we’re eager to understand what can be improved. Best regards, Oleg ### 48. Pretty good, still learning, wish some things were different **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh K. | CPO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2025 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Having a web app with my parts and BOMs has been great. We're a small shop and having this level of access has been helpful as we grow our product variations. The BOM export that includes drawings is very helpful. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Getting started was very slow. It took a long time for my MEs to figure out how to structure their SolidWorks files to do what they needed and work with the OpenBOM upload too. We've had issues working together on the OpenBOM website and syncing with the ME work. The distinction between items and BOMs is confusing. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We went from 2 SKUs to 8 for a new product we're building. When it was 2 it was easy to manage in a spreadsheet. Now we need something else - OpenBOM. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Josh Thank you for your feedback and review. I'm curious to learn more what was the problem with files in Solidworks and OpenBOM? Do you mind to share more? I can see the point about ITEMS and BOMs. In the coming release, they are coming in the same dashboard. The old BOM dashboard will be integrated in the ITEMS view which will provide a special filter for BOMs and Top Level BOMs. Best, Oleg ### 49. OpenBOM makes managing BOMs much more efficient! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arad E. | HW Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: G2 invite on behalf of seller:** Invitation from G2 on behalf of a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like the website layout, and how easy it is to change BOM lists! **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Most of the stuff are to my liking, maybe adding color themes and styles will be nice.. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM solves the huge problem of BOM management for PCBs and products. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Arad Thank you very much for your review and feedback? Do you mind to share more about the location and internet connection you're using- we would like to understand better the performance issues. Best, Oleg ### 50. Simple and fast PLM light with CAD connector **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David R. | Technical Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Out of the Box, yes, I said it and really simple to use. Simple workflows and easy setup of numbering schemes. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Missing edit rights per property and item view. **Recommendations to others considering OpenBOM:** Get a free trial, it's really worth to play around with it, especially with the great CAD integrations. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to buy an expensive and time-consuming PLM and it can grow with you and can export to a PLM if needed. In addition, we use some ERP functionality (orders, warehouse status). **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > David, thank you for your review. We are working on the feature of access rights per property in views. It will be available later this year. ## OpenBOM Discussions - [Is OpenBOM a competitor to CADBase platform?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-openbom-a-competitor-to-cadbase-platform) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [na](https://www.g2.com/discussions/openbom-na) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to organize Fusion 360 models to make grouping parts more intuitive.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-organize-fusion-360-models-to-make-grouping-parts-more-intuitive) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can I get free subscription plan for using OpenBOM personally at all times?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-i-get-free-subscription-plan-for-using-openbom-personally-at-all-times) - 3 comments, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to add BOM's to fusison360 drawings?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/51158-what-is-the-best-way-to-add-bom-s-to-fusison360-drawings) - 3 comments, 1 upvote - [View OpenBOM pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/openbom/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-10-01+21%3A15%3A22+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=822f8632-cf2b-41c4-9806-4a6d3c84cccb&secure%5Btoken%5D=2226b064d04c7f6fee30fc8ba99232efe4e498d9e03cc97734799a6cbe5553fe&format=llm_user) ## OpenBOM Features **Metadata** - Repository - Taxonomy - Types **New Product Introduction** - Ideation - Time-to-market - Cost estimating - Product approval **Data Management** - Version Control - Alignment - Workflows - Lifecycle **CAD** - CAD Models - CAD Options - Conversion **Collaboration** - Supplier alignment - Communication - Development - Document Management **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - AI Image-to-Text - Generative AI **Additional Functionality** - Document Automation - Revision History - Audit Trail - Data Visualization - File Management - Supplier Management - Customizable Templates - Compliance Management - Search/Filter - Activity Dashboard - Workflow Management - Data Synchronization - Collaboration Tools - Performance Metrics - Third-Party Integrations - AI Copilot - Document Management - Customizable Branding - Multi-Language - Bills of Material - Configuration Management - Template Management - Parts Management - Catalog Management - Drag & Drop - File Sharing - Change Management - Reporting & Statistics - Multi-CAD editing - For Manufacturers - Data Storage Management - Design Management - Content Management - Data Import/Export - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Product Lifecycle Management - Document Classification - Multi-Channel Management - Metadata Management - Cost Tracking - Requirements Management - Commenting/Notes **Product Data Management** - Product Metadata - Data Quality - Version Control - Approval Process Control **Bill of Materials** - BOM management - Multi-level BOM - BOM Types - BOM visualization - Data Visualization **Engineering Change Management** - ECR Workflows - Change Management - ECO Management - Lifecycle Management - Audit Management - Product Data Management - Task Management - Item Management - Production Management - Quality Management - Project Management - Workflow Management - Compliance Management - File Management - Portfolio Management - Calendar Management - Design Management - Requirements Management - Supplier Management **Simulation** - Virtual Testing - Analysis - Optimization **Analytics** - Reporting - Costing - Product Intelligence **Quality management** - Quality planning - Traceability - Compliance **Integration** - ERP - MES - PIM - Maintenance **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - AI Image-to-Text - Generative AI **Additional Functionality** - Bills of Material - Third-Party Integrations - Activity Dashboard - API - Document Storage - Role-Based Permissions - Data Import/Export - Status Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - AI Copilot - Prioritization - Progress Tracking - Milestone Tracking - Collaboration Tools - Customizable Fields - Audit Trail - Reporting & Statistics - Drag & Drop - Cost Tracking - Commenting/Notes ## Top OpenBOM Alternatives - [Teamcenter](https://www.g2.com/products/teamcenter/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (1,411 reviews) - [Autodesk Fusion Manage](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion-manage/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (108 reviews) - [Arena PLM & QMS](https://www.g2.com/products/arena-plm-qms/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (456 reviews)