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# 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:** 790
## 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
**What users like:**

- Users value the **seamless integration with SolidWorks** , enhancing efficiency with real-time updates and effortless data management. (83 reviews)
- Users praise OpenBOM for its **ease of use** , enabling quick adoption and effortless data management without complexity. (82 reviews)
- Users value the **seamless CAD integration** of OpenBOM, enhancing collaboration and functionality across platforms. (49 reviews)
- Users praise OpenBOM for its **ease of use and efficient features** , facilitating seamless project management and collaboration. (35 reviews)
- Users value the **collaboration features** of OpenBOM, facilitating efficient teamwork in managing product data. (33 reviews)
- Real-time Collaboration (23 reviews)
- Speed (23 reviews)
- Easy Implementation (21 reviews)
- Integrations (21 reviews)
- Users value the **intuitive interface** of OpenBOM, appreciating its ease of use and effective organization. (21 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users find the **learning curve steep** , particularly when transitioning from Excel or traditional PLM systems. (31 reviews)
- Users find the **learning difficulty** of OpenBOM challenging, especially for new members needing more guidance and tutorials. (28 reviews)
- Users report **missing features** in OpenBOM, including issues with file exports and challenging CAD integrations. (24 reviews)
- Users face **integration issues** with OpenBOM, finding it lacking in ERP connections and CAD software support. (23 reviews)
- Users find OpenBOM&#39;s **poor interface design** frustrating, citing a slow, clunky experience that hinders navigation and usability. (23 reviews)
- Users find OpenBOM&#39;s **difficult usability** frustrating, especially with data transfer and navigation challenges, needing better guidance. (18 reviews)
- Slow Performance (17 reviews)
- Users report **system freezes** when inserting links, which disrupts functionality and affects usability for serial production. (16 reviews)
- Data Management (14 reviews)
- Slow Loading (13 reviews)

## OpenBOM Reviews
  ### 1. Using OpenBOM with Solidworks for product development

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Great way to track lots of different properties for hundreds of parts and dozens of subassemblies.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

It doesn't always work how I expect it to.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It provides a good way to relay information between engineering and purchasing.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Thank you for your feedback and review! 

  ### 2. Great Tool, But Too Much Unnecessary Information

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

keeps all of the informatio I might want about our inventory in a searchable place

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

There's a lot of extraneous information that I don't personally need.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It mostly keeps track of inventory

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello and thank you for your review. I appreciate your comments, but curious to learn more about what extraneous information information you mean. Feel free to contact our support and discuss how we can improve OpenBOM. 

  ### 3. Excellent PDM/PLM Software for Companies Stuck Between Spreadsheets and Monster Enterprise

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM is easy to use, quick to pick up, but much more powerful than you realize at first glance. The team updates the software very regularly and even over the course of one year of using it, I have seen some hugely helpful and significant updates come onboard. Very nice to see a piece of software that keeps delivering new value.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Some of the features are locked at higher tiers, which can make sense, but can be disappointing at times. This hasn't been a big issue, though.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing engineering data, service BOMs, manufacturing BOMs, inventory data management

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Thank you very much for your review and feedback! 

  ### 4. PRATICALL

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Flory K. | Head of Administration, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The mother and child relationship between the bills of materials, please the customer support is efficient

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The loading time for each thumbnail , when doing a import from fusion

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

our abilities to generate work orders  and bills of materials

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Flory 

Autodesk Fusion recently had some issues in API, which was acknowledged by Autodesk as a regression bug. We provided a workaround. Please upload the new Autodesk Fusion add-in for OpenBOM to use it. 

Best, Oleg  

  ### 5. OpenBOM is a really useful software that is making managing equipment, stock and orders very easy.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

It is very useful in allowing anyone to see what is used to create a product, including quantities and manufacturing steps.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Making Changes to the lower levels of a BOM can cause the higher levels to lose connection to the changed parts.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is allowing for easy job costing and it is identifying what materials need to be order whenever a new order comes in for a product.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for your review and feedback. It would be very helpful to understand better a problem of disconnecting a lower levels - would you be open to contact our support and share more information? 

Thank you, Oleg 

  ### 6. Streamlined Collaboration, Real-Time Accuracy with OpenBOM

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dharmesh N. | Product Specialist, Business Supplies and Equipment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

I appreciate OpenBOM's real-time BOM management which ensures everyone sees the latest data without confusion, enhancing collaboration. The cloud-based access allows 24/7 availability. The CAD integration saves hours of manual entry, reducing errors and keeping BOMs accurate and updated. Transitioning from spreadsheets to OpenBOM has significantly improved accuracy, collaboration, and real-time updates, essential for design, manufacturing, and procurement teams.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

I would like to see optimization because it requires high-speed internet. This is something I feel needs to be addressed.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use OpenBOM to streamline collaboration between design, manufacturing, and procurement teams, ensuring everyone works with the latest data. It reduces errors compared to spreadsheets, saves me time with CAD integration, and keeps BOMs accurate and updated.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Dharmesh N.

Thank you for sharing your experience with OpenBOM. 

Your comment about internet speed and optimization is spot on. 

The last OpenBOM update in Sep 2025 we included the optimization of file transfers for CAD integrations. Now, the process of BOM creation and derivative file generation goes much faster. 

Read more about it here - https://www.openbom.com/blog/whats-new-in-openbom-september-2025

Best, Oleg 

  ### 7. Simple and organized product management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alon H. | Integration P. Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The thing I liked most about OPENBOM is the options and variety to organize my inventory in the ideal way for me, with minimal restrictions, which helps me a lot with product management.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Although they tried to make the interface accessible in a clean and simple way (a positive thing in many cases), here I sometimes find myself searching for an option or function more than I would like. I would be happy for future improvements in making as many options as possible accessible on the front.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My company uses OPENBOM to manage the inventory of our main product.
The implementation of the interface saves time and contributes to the organization and sharing of knowledge between the various departments.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Alon, thank you for your feedback and review. We have ideas and thoughts about improvements of user experience to make it easier and cleaner. OpenBOM is evolving and there is always a challenge in moving and changing pieces of interface. But we love to hear more ideas. I would love to spend more time with you about user interface improvements and ideas. Please feel free to reach out directly. Best, Oleg 

  ### 8. Nice product but needs some improvements

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Avishkar S. | administration, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

It has been helpful in managing stock and inventory and the manufacturing operations

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The interface needs to improve for a better user experience

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

inventory, stock, raw material management

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Avishkar, thank you for your review and feedback. Do you mind to share more information about what interface improvements? It would be great to get more details. Thank you, Oleg 

  ### 9. An extremely friendly tool for managing complex product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM is a easy to use and extremely friendly tool for managing product data. A useful cloud tool for collaborating with colleagues in managing product data and sharing unique information within company departments. Items management and BoM management are for sure some of the most important modules of OpenBOM. I appreciate the easy way to create a catalogue of items and to manage BOMs in a flexibile way. Also, I appreciate the availability of guidelines and video tutorial for speeding up the learning curve.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Being a cloud based tool, OpenBOM requires a stable internet connection and has limited offline functionality compared to onpremise solutions.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helped me in structuring product configuration and manage BOMs in a flexible way

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Thank you very much for your feedback, kind words, an review! I hope the internet will be getting better. I can see multiple initiatives worldwide how to get it embedded into every smartphone. 

  ### 10. Happy for robotics

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

File sharing across multiple people at different times

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Low storage space and high prices for plans

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My team needed to share CAD files to collaborate on a design. OpenBOM lets us sync the files and allows all of us to work on different parts of the design at once, while keeping the files up to date on all of our computers.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for your review! OpenBOM provides an unlimited storage - you just need to click on support button and ask to increase the storage. I hope it solves the problem.
I also would be happy to discuss more to learn about your price plan perspective. 

Please feel free to contact me directly. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 11. Flexible and effective PLM

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Keller W. | Vice President Of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM provides flexible and effective communication between our engineering team, purchasing, and manufacturing. OpenBOM provides a single source of truth so revision changes are easily managed.  it is customizable and integrates directly into SolidWorks. Support is responsive and software patches are frequent. OpenBOM is used by our engineering team daily as we are rapidly iterating on product. the implementation is light weight and can be up in a day.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The learning curve for our organization has been moderate to steep. some of the errors that can happen in the software are hard to troubleshoot, but once you know what the potential errors are, its easier to fix.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OpenBOM connects engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing streamlining process and reducing mistakes. it gives us a place to store datasheets and compliance standard certificates.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Keller 

Thank you very much for your feedback and review. 

Would you be able to contact us directly and share more information about learning curve and mistakes that can be avoided? 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 12. OPEN BOM experience

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Yash w. | Design engineer, Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The main thing I love is that the bill of material can be generated instantly & easily.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The integration. Although maybe it's because of Altium software, I felt the integration was a little bit more complex.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use Altium for design of electronics equipment. Now the in-built BOM generation of altium is a mess. The Excel file will be messy. You need work on the excel file for at least one day. You need to have a deep understanding of excel file to make the automatic generated file proper. 
Where as the OPENBOM generated excel file is clean & tidy. I don't need to work on the excel file after generation through OpenBOM. This is main problem we faced with altium , and we are solving it through OpenBOM.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Yash, thank you very much for your review. I'd love to learn more about what can be improved with the Altium integration. Please contact our support -we would be happy to discuss. Best, Oleg 

  ### 13. Its easy to use and the technical support is great

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Henrique F. | Egineer Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Its extremelly easy to synchronize the BOM generated inside my CAD system with the BOM inside OpenBom. Also, whenever I have a problem, their technical support is really quick and responsive.

Implementation is quick. There is virtually non-existent time spent on deplying it and learning is also easy.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Some aspects of the user interface are not completelly intuitive. I got some time getting used to the dynamic between Catalog and Bom, as, visually, they are extremelly alike. Also, I would like to have a more refined control over users administration, like specifying which properties they can edit, for example.

**Recommendations to others considering OpenBOM:**

Try it out with the CAD software you use before purchasing it. I believe it will work better with other than Inventor.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Using it helps us decrease a lot the time on creating BOMs and we ensure that the relevant information is correct, as the properties for the parts are filled automatically. It helps us reach our project goals in therms of schedule and costs.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Henrique

A lot of features where updated in OpenBOM since the time your reviewed it for the first time. 

Would you be open  to contact our support and discuss the current integration update? 

Thank you, Oleg 

  ### 14. A flexible/configurable BOM tool to support product development

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM excels at having a high number of CAD integrations to sync and aggregate into a project BOM environment, to support concurrent engineering. The platform enables high collaboration by offering a web-interface, giving access to product data multi-site and to those that are not using said CAD programs.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Requires 100% thought and planning to configure it. Currently, no out-of-box (best practice) solutions for part number, catalog setup, etc. as in other PLMs I have setup. It would be helpful to have a few template setups available as many small- to mid-size businesses have yet to adopt best practices that larger corporations have.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OpenBOM is setup in our company to support Product Data Management. Since we are a medical device company, we have to use a Part 11-compliant Quality System for Product Lifecycle Management.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello, and thank you for your OpenBOM review and feedback! I appreciate your comments about the out-of-the-box part number schemas. I’d love to discuss further what you expect to see in this area.

OpenBOM can be fully configured using Part Number settings and catalog creation, with properties that are completely flexible. Each company prefers its own unique settings, which is why OpenBOM is designed to be so adaptable. However, we’re always eager to learn more about your specific needs.

Please feel free to reach out to us—we’d love to have a conversation!

Best regards,
Oleg

  ### 15. BOM Management

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mohit G. | IT Application Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

CAD integration is the best part of G2.
Easy to use and good customer support.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Some features are missing need improvement.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Create ECN and parts

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Mohit 

Thank you very much for your review and feedback. Do you know OpenBOM has a community forum. Please post there about features you're missing or contact our support. OpenBOM new releases are coming monthly and we are introducing new features all the time. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 16. OpenBOM Review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Austin B. | Purchasing Processing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The UI is simplified and easy to use. I was easy able to find the major areas of interest.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Some of the functionality did not quite seem to fit the versatility I was looking for. For instance, the component settings screen seemed a bit too simplified to input the desired level of detail.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Providing scalable BOM management solutions.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Austin 

Thank you for your review and feedback. 

I'd love to learn more about what component settings are too simplified for you? What the desired level of details you need? OpenBOM can be easy extended with additional details and attributes to keep any information. 

Please contact our support - we would be happy to help you 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 17. Easy, works and functional

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Pedrinbeep S. | Technical Support, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2023

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The integration with Autodesk Fusion 360 and other softwares help a lot to know the parts, files and inventory of a product

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Need some time to understand how to use it but is something that any engineer have in mind

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

When Covid arrives, was very difficult to know where to find parts individually. With an easy BOM of parts, all the companies just import it in their data base to let you know where to buy

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Thank you for your review! You can learn more about OpenBOM features in our training library (help.openbom.com) 

  ### 18. Does what it says

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bradlei T. | Continuous Improvement Manager/Digital Transformation Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

It helps organize BOMs in ways that is accessible for an end user. It has one of the best and most seamless integrations with our CAD.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

I didn't really see any value add using this over directly linking to SAP. It didn't seem to be worth the price.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is not solving problems. We stopped using it once the trial ended.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hi Bradlei,
Thank you for your feedback and review — especially your comments about CAD integrations.

While I agree that SAP offers a strong solution for a specific group of customers, most OpenBOM users — particularly in the SMB space — are not using SAP. For them, OpenBOM delivers a seamless engineering-to-purchasing workflow.

As for SAP solutions, I’m not convinced that connecting CAD directly to SAP solves the broader challenges of managing multiple BOM types, engineering configurations, and revision control. And of course, CAD integration with SAP typically isn’t free either.

There are nuances — the devil is always in the details.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!

Best,
Oleg

  ### 19. Intelligent BOM Management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arunkumar S. | Product Development Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Cloud based BOM management and effective data retrieval

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Initial contact to know details about the openBOM source is difficult

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Manual part number management is solved

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Arunkumar 

Thank you for your review and feedback. 

I'm curious what was difficult in the communication with OpenBOM? Did you try to contact our support? Please let us know - we would love to improve it. 

Thank you, Oleg 

  ### 20. I love OpenBOM idea and implementation!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** M L. | Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Very clean and fast website user interface!

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Date format sometimes confusing but no big deal..

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Management of system assemblies and product states.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello M.L, Thank you very much for your feedback and review! We would love to learn more about what confused you with the date format- please contact our support. Best, Oleg 

  ### 21. My Experience Using OpenBOM in a Small Manufacturing Setup

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gajanan B. | Lead Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

We deal with big assemblies with many sub-assemblies. OpenBOM gives BOM in parent-child format. This makes it easy to explain the design to production or procurement.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

had to spend some time learning the basics before becoming comfortable.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Before OpenBOM, we used Excel to manage BOMs. Now everyone works on the same cloud BOM. No version mix-up. Easy to update and share.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Gajanan,

Thank you very much for your review and feedback! Could you please share more about what we can improve to help users learn the basics faster? We are currently working on AI support tools and hope they will make it easier and more comfortable for customers to learn OpenBOM.

Best,
Oleg

  ### 22. OpenBOM has the potential to solve a long standing pain point in our drafting processes

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Johnathon N. | Systems Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The integration with CAD tools like Fusion 360 and SolidWorks has been seamless, enabling us to generate structured BOMs directly from our designs with just a few clicks. This has significantly reduced manual entry, minimized errors, and improved traceability across projects.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Lack of integrations with other software, like SAGE 100

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Creation of BOMs for our shop drawings

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Jonathon 

Thank you for your feedback and review. 

OpenBOM integrates with any other ERP software. Some of them are out of the box and some custom. We can deliver any ERP integration in 1-2 weeks.  Please contact us and we help you. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 23. Practical Insights and Evaluation

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gajanan B. | Lead Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

What I really appreciate about OpenBOM is how straightforward and user-friendly it is, making BOM management a easy. The integration with CAD systems and real-time collaboration features are fantastic for team coordination.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM could improve is in its pricing, which might be a bit steep for smaller teams or SMEs.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OpenBOM simplifies complex BOM data management, reducing errors and improving accuracy.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Gajanan, thank you very much for your feedback and review. Please contact our sales team. We are interested to learn more about your sales / pricing ideas. Best, Oleg 

  ### 24. Instant Part Number Generation, But BOM Needs Improvement

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

allows to generate part number instantly

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

BOM is messy, prices dont reflect properly

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

part number organization

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for contacting us and providing a review. 

Did you contact our support to check the issue with price calculations? I'm pretty sure there is a mistake in the formula you created. 

Thank you, Oleg 

  ### 25. Good tool for file management and PLM like functionality

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Good vision on product Lifecycle management and product data management mentioned on their website and posted on socials.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Support also simple ways of working like working with copies of drawings

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Synchronising our CAD files from different locations.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello, thank you for your feedback and review. We recently provided many enhancements to cloud file management files. You can read about them here- https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-design-projects-how-collaborative-workspace-versions-lock-and-smart-sync-replaces-old-fashion-check-in-check-out-files

We would be happy to assist you if you have any questions.

Best, Oleg 

  ### 26. My experience

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Siddanth B. | Graduate Engineering Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM seems like a game-changer for product data management and team collaboration with its real-time updates and seamless integrations.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Some potential drawbacks of OpenBOM include a learning curve, limited customization in certain areas, integration complexities, and cost considerations.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Viewing my product inventory and sorting things have been made simple and easy

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Siddanth. 

Thank you for your review and feedback. Do you mind to elaborate what integration complexity and limited customization you mean? We are continuously improving OpenBOM and can be really helpful. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 27. Awesome timesaver

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Pascal  G. | Project Manager & 3D Visuals, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

I've been using OpenBOM for a while now, and it's quickly become an essential tool in my workflow. What I appreciate most is how seamlessly it integrates with my CAD software, making it so much easier to manage and share BOMs across the team. The real-time updates and collaboration features have genuinely improved our efficiency; everyone is always on the same page, which cuts down on miscommunications and errors.

The learning curve was a bit steep at first, especially since I wasn't used to such a comprehensive BOM management tool, but once I got the hang of it, the software became incredibly intuitive. It's also quite flexible, adapting well to the specific needs of our projects. Overall, OpenBOM has been a game-changer for us, streamlining our processes and making product data management far less of a headache.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Still need to find this out. Been happy using it for a couple of days in Fusion.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Tracking my BOM in Fusion with many revisions and parts (maritime design)

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Pascal, thank you very much for you review and feedback. Looking forward to see you're expanding your use of OpenBOM. Best, Oleg 

  ### 28. Best practice to keep BOMs and storage control

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Walter C. | Mechanical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Helped me and my company to ensure that our company was working correctly, and following an specific guide line.
The control of parts and revisions are very interesting and helpfull.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Sometimes it can be confusing on where to look at, takes time to get used to the interface.
Doesn't have an un-do functionallity.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

BOM control and storage keeping
Project history and development.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Walter, thank you for sharing your feedback and review. Would you be open to share more about what was "confusing"? We are continuously improving OpenBOM and it can help us a lot. Thank you! 

  ### 29. Enigmatic, Functional

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

There is an easy to use search field and numerous pieces of accessible information for the engineering end user.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The program seems to be counter intuitive, the UI does not appear clean, and the inventory team dislikes this overall.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Being able to synchronize the inventory and engineering team for products.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 
Thank you for your review and appreciate your feedback. I'm curious if you can contact our support and speak about specific examples what inventory team dislikes? 
Appreciate your feedback. 
Oleg

  ### 30. Good PLM software for small teams

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

I like that using OpenBOM has been great for my small business. When you don't have the budget for tens of thousands of upfront fees and server costs, having an efficient document and engineering source of truth is invaluable.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

I generally like OpenBOM, I wish the UI was a bit more user friendly, I don't like how hard it was to get started and understand where all the buttons were. Once it was set up it was easy.

I also think more tutorials and use cases would be helpful to understanding the full power that some small businesses can relate to.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OpenBOM is helping me solve the data issue we had in our engineering department. We can handle our releases and have a single source of truth. We had too many times where we had incorrect parts make it to production, but now the correct revision and revision history is always shown.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for your feedback and review. 

There are quite a lot of tutorials online available here - help.openbom.com. 

Also, our support is always ready to answer questions. 

We recently released the best practices guides for OpenBOM - https://help.openbom.com/process/

Best, Oleg 

  ### 31. Diamond in the rough

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Integration with Onshape CAD. Cloud based vs. on-premice.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Onshape integration isn't as smooth as advertised. ECO process while extremely flexible, requires a lot of manual set-up and lacking pre-populated templates.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing BOMs for our products and partially helping in inventory management

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello,

Thank you for the review and feedback. I appreciate your points about the complexity of ECO. We are actively working on streamlining and simplifying change management, which is inherently a complex process—especially as both engineering and manufacturing teams require a great deal of flexibility.

Would you be open to contacting us to discuss the challenges you’ve experienced between Onshape and OpenBOM? It would be very helpful for us during the May–June timeframe as we work on improving change management.

Best,
Oleg

  ### 32. OpenBOM review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Excel-like UI, real-time collaboration, affordable

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Overly simplistic, not sure if it is scalable or sophisticated enough to accommodate specific use case

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Establish a BOM for a product 
Collaboration among teams that are working on the same project
Purchase planning
Same time, increase efficiency

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello, thank you for your review. I'm curious what sophistication or scale you need to achieve? Do you mind to contact our support? 

  ### 33. Works pretty well, slow in fusion but great in onshape

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Part number generation and the ability to have multiple teams add to the same BOM

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The fusion integration can be very slow. Also we sometimes have parts not show up in the BOM. It will make duplicate part number some times though which will mess with top level boms.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The biggest problem it solves for me currently is generating multiple custom part numbers. If I have mechanical parts and electrical parts I can have multiple numbering schemas that openBOM will take care of.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for your feedback and review. 

The Fusion integration has two options (use Autodesk cloud and use local Fusion API). If you use cloud option, depending on the cloud access, location and your account, it can take longer time. If you contact our support, we would be happy to advise you how to optimize it. 

The part might not show in the BOM if you don't define them as components. It happens in Fusion, since you have bodies and components. Please contact our support -we will help you. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 34. Easy to use, very useful

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Lennart J. | Retired hobbyist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Precise information i.e. cutting lists. Also useful to find erros in design when studying the cutlist

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

I could't create templates when exporting to excel. However I did not check that with support so there might b a solution on that.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Precise and accurate cutlists

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Lennart 

Thank you for the review and feedback. 

You can create template when exporting data to PDF. 

We are planning to provide templates for Excel too in the future. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 35. OpenBOM review by Bri

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** brian w. | Deployment Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBOM makes it easy to share drawings with the engineering team and have everything in one place.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The ERP and PLM functionalities weren't useful for our team.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Product management and help with collaboration amongst team memebers.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Brian 

Thank you for your review and feedback! 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 36. Great customer service

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Furniture | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

From the initial contact, OpenBOM has been pro/reactive with customer service.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

As a first-time user of CAD, it took me a while to figure things out. But that’s not necessarily a reflection on OpenBOM.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Generating cut-lists

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for your feedback and review. 

It would be helpful if you share what took your time at the beginning. 

Best, Oleg 


  ### 37. Great experience and software compare to the competitors

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Guy P. | Practical Mechatronics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The organize of everything,warehouse order and SKU's and even drawing of the part.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Sometimes you need to "dig" to find an SKU you are looking for into projects themselves and the search doesn't work correctly.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Organization of items and assmeblies. OpenBOM combines 2-3 software for an organization into one.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Guy
Thank you for your review and feedback. 
Would you be able to talk to our support directly about the search issue? A quick tip - to get an exact match in search, just use a quotes "engine" or "P242423-20". 
I hope it helps.  
Best, Oleg 

  ### 38. Excellent customer service

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Excellent customer service, extremely responsive.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

There is room for upgrades, but customer support is always improving functions and open to suggestions

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have a system to manage our inventory and production orders

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello, thank you very much for your review and feedback. We appreciate your kind words about our support! I will pass it to our team. 

  ### 39. Simplify the BOM Process with real time management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gurjot S. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Open BOM helps to improve the Inventory management and BOM process.
The best part is that it syncs the data  in real time and update the BOMs as changes are made. Which helps everyone to get hold of the latest information.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The only drawback is that it requires reliable internet connection as there are not much options availabe while working offline as it is cloud based. 
For small companies the cost of OpenBOM adds up as there is a minimum number of licenses each company has to buy to start.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We can access our BOM in real time from any part of the world. Which allows remote teams to get access of everything with just a click.
 Open BOM has few templates and workflows which help the user a lot escpecially at the leraning stage.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Gurjot 

Thank you for your feedback and review! OpenBOM Design Projects synchronizes the data and allow to users to work offline using files that later will be synched. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 40. OpenBom review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jordan V. | Product Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The most useful thing about OpenBOM is the access to many features.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The biggest drawback is that it's a bit unintuitive and difficult to use for non-technical individuals.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Helping manage and automate most of our manual processes.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Jordan, thank you very much for your review and feedback, Would you be open to get on a meeting to discuss what you found difficult in OpenBOM? Thank you, Oleg 

  ### 41. Unified our BoM documentation

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Martin C. | Senior Electronics Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

I migrated all of our BoM documentation which was previously on disparate spreadsheets into openBoM. We now have a single source of truth for our fabrication documents. Importing our exisiting BoMs was straight foward, as openBoM allows for freedom in how you structure the properties for each part. It is useful to be able to easily apply version control to parts and assemblies as well as being able to do "where used" queries on parts.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

None - Oleg was quick to respond to any queries

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easily link parts and subassemblies together without having to manually edit multiple spreadsheets. Is a single source of truth for 3D CAD drawings, electronic BoMs, and firmware for our product. Allows for releases/version control to be applied to our product; which assists with CE/RED, and compliance obligations.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Martin, thank you very much for your feedback, review and kind words about our support! 

  ### 42. Great software to manage products

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Easy prodcut management and good collaboration with teams.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Did not find anything worth mentioning. Software is good

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I can manage products and product numbers. You can have different layers.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Thank you very much for using OpenBOM, your review and feedback!

  ### 43. OpenBOM for automation in metalworking industry

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

User friendly interface and a great demo. To start using OpenBOM I do not need to call the company. I can just log in online into the environment and start using it immediately.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

It is OK. 
Nothing to dislike. The solution seems user friendly.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We adopted OpenBOM in our metalworking company here in the Netherlands, and honestly, it has been a game changer for how we manage our product data, inventory, and collaboration. Before OpenBOM, we were juggling spreadsheets, emails, and a bunch of disconnected systems, which led to errors, delays, and a lot of frustration. Now, everything is streamlined, and we finally have a system that actually works for us rather than against us.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Thank you very much for your comments and review! I'm glad to hear that you were able to start easily and improve data management and processes.

  ### 44. Fastest CAD sharing service there is!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Joseph T. | Chief Engineer for a College Club, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

It is a fast and responsive product. It is also easy to use once you understand all of the different procedures. The more you know about it the easier it is to solve some problems others may have.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The impossible problem to deal with of having only one person being able to checkout a part and wanting to upload something. Possibly implementing a quene for parts.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is solving our problem of sharing CAD files. Normally when wanting to change something on a CAD file you would have to delete what you already have but the ittertativeness of OpenBOM allows for the ability to easily share the files without a headache of opening the file and seeing if it is the correct one.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Joseph, thank you for your feedback and review. We are going to support a simultaneous updates without checking files out by multiple people. Combined with locking mechanism it should solve the problem you mentioned. If you have questions, please contact our support. Best, Oleg 

  ### 45. The end of EXCEL based bill of material

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Robert C. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2020

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Ease of use across multiple CAD programs (i,e. SolidWorks and Onshape).

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Repairing multiple circular reference found from files I inherited from a client. The files contain parts and assemblies with the same part numbers. Customer support is available exclusively via email. Unfortunately, there is no phone number for immediate assistance. As a result, resolving issues through email may take several days, compared to a quick five-minute phone call.

**Recommendations to others considering OpenBOM:**

The BOM I create from my CAD  can be used bidirectional to update custom properties.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Time required to create and maintain Excel based bill of material extracted from CAD models. The ability to create a PO from a BOM with total quantities required per vendor.

  ### 46. OpenBOM is a very good web based tool!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ziv Z. | Product Ops Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

Fast item searching.
Cross platform user interface.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Web interface colors are too bright for me.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing stock in our warehouse.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hi Ziv

Thank you very much for your review and feedback! We will check the dark color. 

Best, Oleg 

  ### 47. Very nice plugin for Fusion

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mohamed I. | Senior Industrial Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

It made the industry very easy and handsome, ease of use and reliability

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

Nothing for now, I can make many tasks with this awesome plugin

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It facilitates many tasks for me, which are I can't make without it

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Mohamed
Thank you very much for your feedback and review! We are glad you liked OpenBOM for Fusion! 
Best, Oleg 

  ### 48. The job is very comfortable and clear, it's easy to arrange and organize the equipment.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Aviad V. | Production, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2025

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

The ability to provide details about each product and keep relevant files.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

There is no ability to leave comments on things.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Creating organized equipment lists that can be shared with the entire company in a uniform way.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Aviad, thank you very much for your feedback and comments. You post an interesting question about "comments on things". We are developing some new capabilities in OpenBOM - BOM Chat and BOM Review. Can we reach you out and talk? Please contact my email directly. 

  ### 49. Super user of OpenBom, administrator setup.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

OpenBom integration with Solidwork CAD is seamless.  The number of feature such as thumbnail image and ability to use formula within the OpenBom user interface is a plus.  Import and export BOM is easy to use.  Customer support is awesome, you get the help and answer from expert right away either through email for phone call.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

The ECO change process is hard to understand.  It would be nice if you have a flowchart to show how ECO is created.  Also if you have a training to show the ECO process for the initial release of the BOM and subsequence changes.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

All mechanical and electrical BOM are easily stored in OpenBOM.  Materials inventory, cost, and revision control are a good feature in OpenBom.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello 

Thank you for your review and comments. 

I'm interested to learn more about the problems with change process you experienced. 

Would you be open to reach out and discuss? Please contact me directly. 

Best, Oleg 


  ### 50. A great PDM and PLM software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Hamidreza H. | Director of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2024

**What do you like best about OpenBOM?**

We use OpenBOM every day in our Engineering Design, Fabrication, Manufacturing and Automation departments. The software is very straightforward and user-friendly. Integration with SolidWorks is very helpful, responsive and in one word it's amazing. The cloud-base nature of the software makes implementation easy. The catalogue and BOM modules enable the users to customize the propertiese which is an impresssive option.  The PDM workspace works as expected. The customer support is just one-click away.

**What do you dislike about OpenBOM?**

I like evertything OpenBOM offers and am excited to see barcode integration for implementation of further automation in inventory management.

**What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use openBOM for PDM, Design Collaboration, Deign Transfer, Design Review, Revision Control, ERP, Manufacturing Automation, Fabrication Management, and Inventory Management.

**Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:**

> Hello Hamidreza, thank you very much for your review and feedback!  As you probably seen, we are introducing QR code automatic generation at OpenBOM - (https://www.openbom.com/blog/introducing-openboms-new-feature-automatic-item-qr-code-generation) coming in the next release.  We would love to discuss barcode requirements with you to understand better the needs and types of barcode you're using. Please contact us directly. Best, Oleg 


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  - [Oracle Netsuite Analytics](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-netsuite-analytics/reviews)
  - [OrCAD PCB Designer](https://www.g2.com/products/orcad-pcb-designer/reviews)
  - [Parallels Desktop for Mac](https://www.g2.com/products/parallels-desktop-for-mac/reviews)
  - [Pattern PXM](https://www.g2.com/products/pattern-pxm/reviews)
  - [Propel](https://www.g2.com/products/propel-propel/reviews)
  - [QAD Adaptive ERP](https://www.g2.com/products/qad-adaptive-erp/reviews)
  - [Revit](https://www.g2.com/products/revit/reviews)
  - [Slack](https://www.g2.com/products/slack/reviews)
  - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews)
  - [SolidWorks PDM](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks-pdm/reviews)
  - [Teamcenter](https://www.g2.com/products/teamcenter/reviews)
  - [Windchill+](https://www.g2.com/products/windchill/reviews)
  - [Xero](https://www.g2.com/products/xero/reviews)

## 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

**Product Data Management**
- Product Metadata
- Data Quality
- Version Control

**Bill of Materials**
- BOM management
- Multi-level BOM
- BOM Types
- BOM visualization

**Engineering Change Management**
- ECR Workflows
- Change Management
- ECO 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

## Top OpenBOM Alternatives
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