--- title: OpenBOM Reviews meta_title: 'OpenBOM Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 791 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: 791 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-19' 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:** 791 ## 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's **poor interface design** frustrating, citing a slow, clunky experience that hinders navigation and usability. (23 reviews) - Users find OpenBOM'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. Works well overall but the user experience could be improved **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** - The simple to use layout - The offline functionality **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** - Not always clear if I have the most recent version of a project when working with many team members on the same design. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM allows us to keep track of product revisions/updates and makes sure that we always have a backup file in case a local one gets corrupted. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your feedback and review. For checking if you have the most recent version, did you try to check 'compare' function and report in Workspace Manager? Check the documentation online for more. Best, Oleg ### 2. Product review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** organize product data. It provides a centralized hub for all components, assemblies, and related documentation, eliminating the need to search through multiple files or spreadsheets. This level of organization not only saves time but also reduces the risk of errors caused by outdated or inconsistent information. By keeping everything in one place, OpenBOM fosters a more efficient and collaborative product development process **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I can't think of anything specific. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** organizing and keeping track of a lot of details **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, thank you for your review and feedback. Looking forward to see you organizing your processes and growing using OpenBOM! ### 3. Good tool with attractive price **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** karim b. | Functional architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** the ease of use of the application as well as all the functionalities covered **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Bill of material guided, therefore limit the management of other aspects such as the calendar and project management **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage codification process of finished product and unsure the operation excellence during all process phases. Including communication simplification, traceability and integration with other information systems **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Karim Thank you very much for your review. I have some good news- with recent enhancements of OpenBOM data model and introduction of custom data objects and links, the management of projects, tasks and other data will be soon in the reach. I'm curious what is needed for a calendar management. Please don't hesitate to contact directly. Best, Oleg ### 4. Amazing plataform, helps a lot with the management of our products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefano M. | Engenheiro mecânico, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Amazing plataform, helps a lot with the management of our products, it has differents integrations wich helps more. The integration with our cad system helps a lot. We have been using this integration a lot nowadays to organize everthing in a better way, standart way. So mush ease to use and to implemant. the cusntom support helps every time that we need. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Som intregation with Onshape is not ast easy to do, we needed to plan a process to avoid problems. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The integration with the cad software. The product managemet as well. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Stephano , thank you very much for your feedback and review! I'd be interested to learn more about difficulties with Onshape. We are planning a significantly updated Onsahpe add-in. Best, Oleg ### 5. Easily create parts and cut lists with diagrams. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Really easy to help visualize your project and create a project sheet with all the info you need, pulled directly from your CAD file. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Nothing to dislike. It all works smoothly. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me organize my woodworking projects and prevents waste. Cut lists and diagrams make it easy to go from design to production. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for your review! ### 6. Quite a steep learning curve but worth it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** After getting through the initial learning phase of the software, it becomes much simpler to operate and the advantages it offers are undoubtedly worth the effort. I predominantly use the Fusion 360 plugin and the installation process was effortless. It enables me to export cutting lists with ease, which has helped me save on the amount of wood I need to purchase. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Although I consider myself proficient in learning new software, I found this one slightly confusing to use. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cutting lists, purchasing amounts and exporting labels for the cut wood. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your feedback! I wonder if you can share more what was confusing. Also, curious if you used other PLM systems before. In general, engineering is not the simplest disciplines. But our goal is to make it simple. Please contact me directly (oleg @ openbom dot com). I'm happy to discuss and learn more about how we can simplify OpenBOM. Best, Oleg ### 7. I've been using it for about 3 years, and I find it reliable and very easy to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Open BOM is low cost and very easy to use, we are a small team working on product development. Since the software doesn't have many features (compared to SAP or something) it allows you to be very flexible, outside of creating BOM and tracking ECOs **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It doesn't have lifecycle for the revision of documents. (We don't pay for the change management subscription, so I can't comment on this). **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Part number creation, and controlling any changes to the part numbers through tracking of ECOs **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your feedback and review. OpenBOM allows you to manage file versions using Design Projects. Please reach out to our support@openbom.com - we would be happy to help. Best, Oleg ### 8. OpenBOM helps structurize our work. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas F. | Principal Product Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like the overview and how easy it is to collaborate with the team. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** We have not used it for a long time and until now I have not found any downside for using OpenBOM. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps with the structure and how all pieces of the puzzle fits together. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thomas, Thank you very much for your feedback and review! We look forward to seeing you expand your use of OpenBOM in the future. Best regards, Oleg ### 9. Great support team to help mold OpenBOM to our needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The support team is very helpful and readily available to troubleshoot our issues. The features are great for implementing with various CAD software. The team is constantly rolling updates and keeping us informed on when things will be changing. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It's somewhat of a high learning curve to implement OpenBOM at start, but there are a lot of features to use once you get used to it. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM is helping us store our parts and quickly upload all of our part information from CAD to develop detailed BOMs for our assembly team. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for you review and feedback! Appreciate your kind word about our support. I will pass it to the team. Best, Oleg ### 10. A file storage system that doesn’t let you delete **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** It is very intuitive to use. Integrates into your file explorer. It very simple to use and reminiscent of grabcad. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** For some reason, delating files is pretty much impossible. Everytime you delete a file and push, it will be gone until someone who still has the file in their openbom pushes, putting the files back on everyone's computer. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to share cad and important files easily between team members. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your review and feedback. The use case you described resulted from an effort to prevent files from being mistakenly deleted by one of the members. Currently, a file must be deleted from each location individually. We acknowledge this as an oversight and agree that a better mechanism should be provided. Improvements have since been implemented. A new special flag can now be added to a file to "Exclude" it from sync. Once flagged, the file can be safely deleted. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. ### 11. Great Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** It helps organize the inventory and create purchase orders. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Take a while to learn. Sometimes features are hard to understand. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** transition our product data from soft copy to digital. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your feedback and review. Do you mind to contact me directly and share more about features you had hard time to understand. Best, Oleg ### 12. Things we like **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Ordering has been alot easier since we started working with OpenBom. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Having to use the program exactly the way it is. There is no way to keep track of inventory except for hand adjusting each component. Having to click the up or down arrow to move a field is clunky. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to see if something has been ordered, when its due, who is the Vendor, ect.. makes ordering quicker and easier. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for submitting your review and providing us with the feedback, OpenBOM automatically adjust inventory by using two commands - Receive PO and Production Release. Is it possible that you missed that in our training? Please contact our support and we would be happy to help. Read more in our documentation - https://help.openbom.com/my-openbom/planning-boms-and-purchase-orders/ Best, Oleg ### 13. OpenBOM helps managing and structuring BOMs of our work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suhail J. | Electronics Engineer, Biotechnology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Accessibility and its simple UI, and good customer service **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Can't complain, but it would be better if they could improve their export aspect when exporting BOM into a spreadsheet **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM solves managing Bill of materials of projects **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Suhail Thank you for your review and feedback. I'm curious if you can share more about you comment related to spreadsheet export. OpenBOM support multiple options for export basically allowing you to export any piece of data in OpenBOM to a spreadsheet with a pre-configured set of attributes, sorted, in csv/excel format, also with zip option to include files. Do you mind to share more about what is missing? Thank you, Oleg ### 14. Very good Concept, The UI need to be improved **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like the simplicity of the solution. The implementation of the Data from the CAD or Excel are good enough, I would like it to be improved even more :) **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The UI needs to be improved and to be "Newer", need to make the client more "Stupid Proof" **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It benefits me to keep the manufacture team in line with the latest version, while still have understanding about the product. it is like Excel but better with easier functions. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, Thank you for your feedback and review. You're right "stupid proof" is a good goal. We are working towards that, but we also want to keep product flexible. These two goals are hard to keep together. If you are open to contact us and speak more about specific issues, it will help us a lot. Best, Oleg ### 15. Powerful BOM Integration for Engineers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Florian U. | Project Engineer (Technical Documentation Aerospace), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM was able to provide a quick and easy way to create a BOM for my project inside OnShape CAD (Cloud). It was easy to integrate via the OnShape "App Store" and linking the license was quick and straight forward. The export of the components into the BOM was customizable and allowed me to also extract basic dimensions. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** While OpenBOM is mostly intuitive and straight forward, I initially struggled to find the right name/label for the parameters I wanted to be extracted. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to automatically generate a BOM and extract the parametric data from the individual components. And I was able to automatically update the BOM after changes have been made to the CAD project. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Florian, thank you very much for your feedback and review. OpenBOM Get Part Number option can help you to solve the problem of naming components. I recommend you to use it, If you're still experiencing problem with names, feel free to reach out support, We would be happy to help you asap. Best, Oleg ### 16. Ease of use, makes BOM management simple. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** The one click to create a multi level BOM for subassemblies and assemblies. Makes large assembly BOMs much easier to tackle. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Unsure if this is something I dislike, or did not explore fully. I would love the abililty to export BOMs to ERP systems. I did not do enough digging around to find a feature like this. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducing the time I spend creating BOMs, ensuring part number accuracy, and improving exporting BOMs for purchasing. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello OpenBOM provides multiple ways to export data to ERP systems. You can read more about it here- https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-erp-integration-best-practices-and-tools Best, Oleg ### 17. New user, particularly using it for Altium integration **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Easy to setup. Very responsive and fast customer support. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Some functionality does not always seem mature. Very buggy. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** BOM management. Integration to ECAD solution. Purchasing management. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for your feedback and review. Our vision is continuously to develop OpenBOM and add features and improvements. Do you mind to share what functionality is not mature or lacking. Best, Oleg ### 18. Open BOM for a small company **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I love the ability to creat Engineering BOMS with images of the parts used to build the product. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The naggng buy me now screen during the evaluation period. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** NOT using a spreadsheet for BOM management **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your review and feedback. Sorry you've been disturbed by our marketing and sales. We realized people need a small "push" to move forward :) Best, Oleg ### 19. very good experience recomencded **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** efi z. | mechanical Eng., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Ease of use, intergation, many features, simple and intuitive platform **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** still a new user, hopping will not encaounter dislikes in the future **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** managing the PMD of our poducts and helipng in PLM for our system manufacturing flow **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you very much for your feedback and review! Looking forward to hearing more from you. ### 20. Still feeling out the user interface, but seems intuitive overall. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** In addition to maintaining part libraries and BOMs I have document retention and revision of needs. OpenBOM does moderately well at all of these. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It's a bit clunky adding, retaining and revision ing documents. I would like a feature to export retention documents as a link rather than just a zip file. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm aiming to build out a PLM using OpenBOM. I'm still working out the details of how to do this. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your feedback and review. I'm curious if you can contact us to clarify about export of the document as a link vs zip. ### 21. Great Software. Very useful. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Materials traceability has helped us stay focused, control costs, and provide process. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** No complaints. However, cost is always something that needs to be low for our operational purposes. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Materials tracking **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you very much for you review and feedback! I'm happy you're enjoying the software and found it useful. Best, Oleg ### 22. Easy to use software that worked great for my engineering classes. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I appreciate the ease of use of OpenBOM. I found it very easy to install and integrate into Fusion360. Within Fusion360 it was additionally very intuitive to use and it quickly and easily produces BOMs for my projects. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I've had some inconveniences with editing the auto-generated BOM. If I want to make any edits to the BOM once it is produced, I find it mildly frustrating that if I accidentally delete the wrong item I can't determine how to undo that action. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM has been useful in quickly and easily creating BOMs for projects in engineering school. I am currently an engineering student and I have been required in my coursework to produce a BOM in studio classes dealing with the design and fabrication of various mechanisms. OpenBOM has helped me keep track of my project as well as efficiently communicate the necessary materials to be ordered for the fabrication stages of my projects. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello and thank you for providing your feedback and review! Concerning undo function, we do provide an improved undo/redo function capable to combine multiple operations. You will find it useful. Best, Oleg ### 23. A game changer for detailed BOMs in Fusion360 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam G. | Head of Products, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is a fantastic plugin for Fusion360 and completely supercharges the capability to build out parts lists and price up projects. The additional time saving rapidly provides a great ROI. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Potentially could do with a little more inline user guides in the plugin (eg mouse overs or quick start guide) but this is a minor quibble. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating detailed part lists with associated pricing per project has been challenging in the past. OpenBOM rapidly speeds up this process. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi Adam, Thank you for sharing your feedback and review! Appreciate your ideas about improving inline "hints" and support materials. We will discuss it with our engineers. Best, Oleg ### 24. I found OpenBOM helped me do all I needed to complete my tasks within Fusion. Excellent results! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas I. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Seeing and knowing what the results were on the finish product. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Just a small learning curve to understand what was necessary to use it within fusion. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting proper list **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thomas, thank you very much for your feedback and review. I'm curious what can improve the learning curve? Please contact me-I'm curious and want to learn more. ### 25. Really nice with one or two bugs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josephine W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** So easy to share files with others, especially if you're using solidworks. All the parts can be downloaded at once so you don't have to download 50 things. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** If you make a new part with the same name, it won't let you complete the sync. Maybe add an option to overwrite files with the same name. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes sharing files so much easier and keeps my computer storage free of unecessary clutter from downloading extra files. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Josephine, thank you very much for your review. We just released support for duplicated file names. Thank you for your feedback! Best, Oleg ### 26. Excellent service for hobby projects. Definitely has potential for commercial projects as well. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar K. | Magnetics Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I loved the fact that it will integrate into online CAD programs to directly pull relevant data and files and present in an optional multi level BOM. I use it for personal projects and SOLIDWORKS for work projects but I definitely see a value in moving to Open BOM for work in the future. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Nothing that I have found yet. I'll need to use the software further to understand what it is missing. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creates a good part list so I never loose sight of what needs to be done for each part before beginning assembly. Often I have forgotten to finish a part before beginning final assembly only to have to abandon it to finish what I forgot. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Sagar, thank you for your review! ### 27. Easy solidworks integration and workflow managment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giorgio L. | Mechanical designer/draftsman, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is exeptional at menaging the part lists and keeping record of the activities and projects **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I wold like to have a full control of revisions and windows explorer managment system like other competitors, thus they ain't free **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on many different projects at the same time, OpenBOM is helpful at keeping track of each product and not messying with other active projects **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi Giorgio Thank you very much for your feedback and review. OpenBOM gives you file locking mechanism that prevent people from changing files in the cloud and also locally when you attempt to do it using CAD system. The add-in support is currently only for Solidworks, but other systems will be supported too. You can watch the video about how it works online. https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-design-projects-live-demo https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-design-projects-deep-dive-in-smart-sync-and-lock-mechanism ### 28. Worthy to further exploration due to its intuitive interface and visibility of the design intent. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM has a fresh look with features that are quick to implement to many types of industries. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** There are many help guides and videos that give a look into answering an issue, I prefer a more manual/book style that could be read. Whenever I have a question or perseved issue, OpenBOM support has been very quick to acknowledge and respond with direction where to read up on it more. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM has worked it's way into replacing a PLM that was outdated and not as flexible to our growing company. Integration has been very good as long as you have defined what data is captured. Along with what data, how do you want to capture it and use said data. That is the flexiblity OpenBOM provides to everyone. The visibility of the design intent (of multiple product lines) along with the associated data is searchable in a few clicks. You the user can make it as complex or simplistic as needed based on company needs. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for sharing your experience and feedback! I'm sure it will be helpful for others to read. Also, I appreciate your kind words about our support. We are exploring multiple opportunities how to help people to get most updated information about OpenBOM functions and features these days. Mentime, help.openbom.com and our blog and Youtube are the best combination of information sources. ### 29. Overall Good Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like how organized and straigh forward it is to set up. It is used for every project going forward. I especially like that you can add pictures to each item. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Sometimes very slow and laggy to load in. Can be slightly confusing for first time users, however there is good documentation on how to learn. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are solving the issue of tracibility and accountability as well as cost tallying. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Josh, thank you very much for your review and feedback! I appreciate if you contact our support with examples with slowness? Was it slow in the browser or CAD integrations? Thank you, Oleg ### 30. great tool to keep your BOMs organized **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Its an online tool, and is UX/UI is clean and easy to use **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It is limited for few people in one use, I wish it could identicate the same metirial and easlly be fixed (so we wont have two parts under different numbers **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping a list for all our metirial in one place- its comes in benefit when going to mass production **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello, Thank you for your review and feedback. OpenBOM is not limited by the number of users. You can use it for an unlimited number of users, though it depends on the number of seats and your subscription level. At the Design level, you have access to a free service with an unlimited number of seats. For the Team level, you start with 3 seats, and for the Company level, you start with 5 seats. I hope this helps. Please contact us if you need any assistance. Best regards, Oleg ### 31. organization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I was responsible to look for tracking software for a small home business that has temporary employees on holiday times. They needed something they could share with employees to look up what products were in the packaged item for shipping without having prepackaged products. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** From what I have found the only issue is the mobile interface isn't very editable from phone. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps track of production materials. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you very much for your review and the feedback! We are working on a mobile browser support user interface for the next OpenBOM release. Together with QR code support, it will be very useful. Best, Oleg ### 32. Contribute to efficiency **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** In the time using the addon on Fusion, it makes the work easier. The program was easy to install and I use it to get individual elements properties of a project, making it it easy and fast to export this information to a table. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It could be that sometimes I need to wait more than I expectect to get the information but is not critical. Outside of that I use it without problems. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Give me more information that Fusion not gives by default, on the other hand it gives you the summary table of that information that makes the properties extration more easy. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thanks for your review and feedback! We are about to introduce a new and much improved Fusion interface in the coming release. Best, Oleg ### 33. Good solution to build BOMs, keep data structured and search for properties. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitry F. | Mechanical Engineering Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Easy to start test usage with free account, intuitive workflow, cloud based. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Working with complex and big BOMs often lead to performance issues and bugs, which sometime become very annoying and even critical (rare cases). Tending to increase license cost. No cloud storage offered for CAD data. Lack of approval workflow. Uncertain data security. **Recommendations to others considering OpenBOM:** Great tool for those who cannot spend thousands on PLM from first line vendors, though trend on increasing license cost can kill that advantage, **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lack of enterprise PDM system, which is not feasible to deploy for one or two designers. Building BOMs in specialized software is much more comfortable and efficient comparing to spreadsheets. ### 34. Little bit of confusion setting up, but then smooth sailing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kendal M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I like how fast the CAD files share in the cloud. The Design dashboard has been most useful to me. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I disliked how difficult it was to find out how to log out of being an active user. Being on the free license, my team can only have 3 users at a time accessing our shared CAD files. It was a little difficult to figure out how to not be active anymore. We eventually figured out you can just log out of everything, but it would be more simple if there was just another option. Also, signing up and joining a team/project was a little complicated. We had members join on their own and then had to delete their account because they could not easily join a project with a pre-existing account. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM is helping my team figure out a fast way to share and organize designs and quickly collaborate. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hi Kendal Thank you very much for sharing your experience and feedback. We are improving Design dashboard and it is a new product. So, you comments are valuable and we are going to improve the registration process next week. Also, you have an unlimited number of users (not only 3). You need to contact support and the number of sets can be increased. We are working on making this process automatic too. Best, Oleg ### 35. My experience with BOM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David S. | Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I could easily on board to my work place **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** Hard to navigate through some of the features **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data organization and sharing with colleagues **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello David Thank you for your review. Do you mind to share more about navigation complexity. Please contact me directly- I'm interested to learn what can be improved. Best, Oleg ### 36. Accessibility and for human interaction **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ISMAEL C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The whole process of going component by component and give you recap information is very useful and time saver. The fact that I downloaded the fusion 360 version and within minutes I was using it without any experience really expreses its simplicity and even though I never considered a BOM for my project, I did not needed to start over or even do any setup, it just worked at even the last phase of development. I see it very manageable to use it from now on on any of my projects since it is the most efficient way to do it. Also everytime I had any problems the customer support was really responsive. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The whole exporting with filters and exporting in general is sometimes very unresponsive. It sometimes logs out of the user but not that often. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I am designing my 3D models I see that I work with multiple components that share other components, finalizing in a big assembly that has lots of repetitive components and a bunch of different stock components. I see OpenBOM as a tool that gathers all the different parts and allows you to display them in a very customised fashion, allowing you to see for example, how many M3 bolts there are in the whole assembly. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Dear Ismael, thank you very much for your review and feedback. Do you mind to contact our support with the problem you experienced with filters and export? We would love to learn more and improve / fix issues. Best, Oleg ### 37. OpenBOMreview **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham K. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2022 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Multi-level BOMs can be built using OpenBOM level by level. Both top-down and bottom-up methods are acceptable. Therefore, you can record a list of software components at any time and add it to any assembly level in the current BOM. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** When tapping on Onshape, Open Bom doesn't recognise any geometry-related elements. Some aspects, such as engineering change requests and revision workflows, need to be improved. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** For years, my business has utilised an Excel-based BOM. Both upgrading and maintaining it have been difficult for us. We will be able to transfer our BOM requirements without too many problems, in my opinion, based on my experience utilising OpenBom thus far. We expect that the integration with Solidworks will significantly alter our situation and get us closer to a completely automated BOM. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback and comments. The engineering change request and approval mechanism were introduced earlier this year and continue working on improvement and enhancements. It would be great to get in touch via our support to learn what is missing. Best, Oleg ### 38. New Admin Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** So far, seems far more intuitive to use than a few of our sheets solutions. It has a lot of native features that you would assume require a little more input or parameterization to get things to work, but's it's surprisingly easy, even for a new user. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The learning curve! It always takes time to learn a new product, but OpenBOM does have a lot of great self-learning resources to assist new users with onboarding and new admins with team training. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** For us, it's helping us explore and experiment with what is a completely new inventory system. We are a young robotics company, and we are using OpenBOM to explore all of the ways we can manage our product inventory. There are many different ways we can set up catalogs and items in a way that helps benefit clarity on what we are running the risk of running out of and how to source those items. Plus, I love the ease of image integration. It seems small, but so many of our employees can benefit from having the quick reference during purchasing. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Jonathan, thank you very much for review and feedback. Please contact us with your comments about parametrization you need to do. I'd be happy to explore it. Thanks, Oleg ### 39. Great BOM management software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon K. | Mechanical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Integration with different softwares like Solidworks **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** PDM cloud management could be more intuitive **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing PDM for product devlopment **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Simon Thank you for your review and feedback. Please note that we just made several improvements in OpenBOM PDM functions (Design Projects) . I'd love your feedback on that. See these links - https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-design-projects-how-collaborative-workspace-versions-lock-and-smart-sync-replaces-old-fashion-check-in-check-out-files https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-design-projects-deep-dive-in-smart-sync-and-lock-mechanism Best, Oleg ### 40. Easy plug and play CAD cloud storage solution **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zack H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM was extremely easy to setup and was a drop in solution to replace GrabCAD workbench. The customer success team was very supportive and walked me through any questions I had, and I was up and running within an hour or so. The software is very easy to use, and is so seamless that I rarely (if ever) have to actually interact with discrete OpenBOM features. It really does feel like it's just a part of my file explorer. I am fundamentally only using the CAD cloud storage aspect of Kenesto, not the online PDM service, so am only utilizing a fraction of OpenBOM's potential. The team is also proactive about reaching out and informing me about any upcoming software updates and periodically checking in to make sure that the program is functioning as expected. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is essentially an online PDM service that is pasted over Kenesto. I've had pretty poor experiences interacting with Kenesto in the past, and have found their software to be buggy. I wish that OpenBOM had been more transparent in telling me about the Kenesto integration, instead of me finding out when I noticed the Kenesto logo buried in the desktop version of the OpenBOM app. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM has provided us with an easy to use cloud storage solution for our CAD files at a fraction of the cost of many of our competitors. We are a small company and don't require the full feature set of SolidWorks vault or WindChill, and OpenBOM has been a perfect fit ofr us. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Zack, thank you for your feedback. I appreciate your transparency and direct comments. OpenBOM uses some Kenesto tech in our Drive product. I'm happy you're happy about the integration and overall experience with OpenBOM. Please feel free to contact me directly. I'm happy to discuss how we can help. Best, Oleg ### 41. Project management at ease and available everywhere. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrian F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** My experience with OpenBOM has been transformative for our collaborative product development journey. The cloud-based platform's real-time updates have significantly improved communication among diffrent group project teams, ensuring everyone works with the latest data. The seamless integration with CAD systems has eliminated the headaches of manual data transfer, minimizing errors in the process. OpenBOM's version control and customization options have empowered us to manage complex product structures with ease. The platform's cost tracking features have proven invaluable for financial analysis. OpenBOM's scalability has effortlessly accommodated our growing product portfolio. Overall, OpenBOM has become the cornerstone of our efficient and centralized product data management strategy. The download is very simple and you can get started in minutes. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** As a first time user of OpenBOM its quite hard to get a hang of everything and you should really consiter have someone teach you. So that you can utelize the program the best way. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a student in idustrial mechanics we have lots of projects. We produce parts for companies and gather the money to a class trip fund to go to the usa. This software is helping us to ceep track of projects, such as billing the companies, tracking material cost and more. It also helps our theachers to ceep track of what students do what and grading based on work. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Adrian Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I'm sure it will help to others. We are continuously improving our learning materials and brining new training course and videos. If you have some specific questions, you can always contact our support directly. Best, Oleg ### 42. By far the best BOM tool for construction SMBs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sadie B. | Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is easy to use and set up, but above that, it integrates so well with our other tools. It can literally edit our inventory seconds after someone fills out a form or enters a purchase, etc. So, considering that we rely solely on it for our inventory work, it's been a relief to have it perform so smoothy. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The 14 day trial period isn't really enough in my opinion. When we were first explring it, it looked good but we could only properly look at it for a couple days and we couldn't extend the trial so we practically had to roll a dice on it. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it mainly for managing our inventory, but it's also done a lot of good for our related areas like fulfillment as well. But we mainly use it to track what comes in and what goes out, and it's definitely been a good tool to use for that. Before implementing it, we were essentially tied to hand-edited spreadsheets which were very very inefficient, but since then, we can now see and monitor our stock company-wide without having to edit a single thing sometimes. I can wholehartedly get behind OpenBOM for managing your bill of materials efforts. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Thank you for your review! If you need an extension of you 14 days trial, please contact our sales (sales@openbom.com). Best, Oleg ### 43. We've Been Using OpenBOM for the past 2 months with great results **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is the simplest and most affordable way to get all the features of a larger PDM. It's customizable to work for you and since they are not a huge company they will setup a google meet with you to review new features as well as help with problems you encounter. Implenting OpenBOM has been easy for us since we had our "catalog" in Microsoft Excel prior. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The only downsides for us are the software integrations, but most of that revolves around our existing processes and systems, but will take time to flush out on our end. I believe some of the issues we encounter could be solved by paying for a more integrated solution. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before OpenBOM we didn't have a Bill of Materials that easily integrated with our purchasing processes. With OpenBOM it's one click and all the information we need for an RFQ is readily available to hand over to the procurement team. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Jonathan, thank you very much for your review and feedback. I'd love to learn more about your integrations and what can be improved. Please contact me directly- I'm happy to discuss. Best, Oleg ### 44. Good product, needs some development for Onshape **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Very nice and easy to use. It provides a lot of data from the model. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** For Onshape, openBOM could automate some more part info, such as prompting for part info after part creation/import. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM streamlines the engineering to production process by making data available in an easy to use bill of materials. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you for your feedback and review. We are about to introduce a new, much improved Onshape integration in the next release. I'm curious about your comment regarding entering data after part creation / import. Technically, OpenBOM can capture any data you entered into Onshape. Are you looking for a prompt to enter data to OpenBOM bypassing Onshape? Please contact me directly, I'm interested to discuss. Best, Oleg ### 45. Good product overall, but not so easy to administer. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** Low cost and really good and fast customer support. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** It is really easy for a user to messed up the database by creating loop between the BOMs and items. It`s difficult for a new administer to maintain and clean. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The bill of material that compose the product and some of the inventory. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello and thank you for your feedback. I appreciate your comment about difficulties to administer. We are aware that flexibility can backfire. But we still believe in the power of flexibility. We are planning to improve some of the use cases. Especially circular references. ### 46. Useful but limited **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM's best traits are that it is easily accessible and has a sleek, easy to use interface **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** OpenBOM is limited in function and is not as powerful in file storing function as many other solutions on the market. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM helps us to monitor where files are used which helps with ease of organization. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Thank you very much for feedback and your review. Do you mind to contact our support team and speak about additional features you're looking for? We are rolling out new features on a monthly basis and we would be happy to prioritize additional functions. Best, Oleg ### 47. Tool that improves my reports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oscar C. | Engineer Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The order, the presentation of the components, and the ease of customizing the information **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** For my activity, I have had no objection. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The clear generation of the components' information **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Oscar, thank you for your review and comments! ### 48. OpenBOM has delivered a worthy PLM solution which continues to innovate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared P. | Marketing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** There really is quite a lot I can go into, but for someone that was totally new to this space, I required ground up training. I found It to be uncommonly easy to pinpoint the exact information I needed to learn, without all the fluff or related wasting any time in their training section. OpenBOM has made a new user experience undeniably comprehensive.subject I need to target for learning most pressing for me. training topics, I need to learn mention one area that helped me get started quickly was their huge training video library. I like how easy it is to find answers to questions. OpenBOM **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I haven't found anything to dislike- its capabilities have been perfect for my needs. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily inventory, buy, and reuse materials used in customer orders. It helps me to accurately calculate cost. ### 49. Perfect free Grabcad replacement with an exceptional customer support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathanael M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** The free version is a great alternative to GrabCAD. The best feature for my needs is the ability to collaborate on a 3D model. We can share our designs with our partners and work on them together. Another surprising aspect was the exceptional customer support I received while using the free version. I reached out for debugging assistance and to my astonishment, I received a prompt response from the CEO within minutes. Finally, implementing, using, and integrating are all made easy with the active OpenBOM YouTube channel, which has published several tutorials about these topics. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** The interface undergoes frequent changes with updates, which occasionally leads to some issues. However, it gradually improves over time. The updates enhance user-friendliness, making it a hidden blessing. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBOM facilitates smooth teamwork on 3D models by enabling seamless collaboration within a team. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Nathanael, than you for your review and feedback! ### 50. Useful tool to make a wood cutting list. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik v. | Proto Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBOM?** I'm using it to create cutting lists for furniture projects. It let's me easily create a list for all parts of different materials. **What do you dislike about OpenBOM?** I had some difficulties when I added 7 subassemblies, this was not automatically shown as a combined part. **What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automate creating a part list with relevant information such as dimensions. **Official Response from Oleg Shilovitsky:** > Hello Erik Thank you very much for your feedback and review. You can create a top level BOM that includes all 7 subassemblies. Do you mind to contact our support@openbom.com, so we will be able help you? Best, Oleg ## 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=6§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-19+18%3A25%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=57709130-926b-4462-9c8d-cf2ece31d5de&secure%5Btoken%5D=fdcf7802106193a95eaa9832cf90d99946e536c03a8e02e5da9dfe47436fe62e&format=llm_user) ## OpenBOM Integrations - [Acumatica](https://www.g2.com/products/acumatica/reviews) - [Allegro](https://www.g2.com/products/allegro-media-design-allegro/reviews) - [Altium 365](https://www.g2.com/products/altium-365/reviews) - [Altium Develop](https://www.g2.com/products/altium-develop/reviews) - [Aras Innovator](https://www.g2.com/products/aras-innovator/reviews) - [AutoCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) - [Autodesk EAGLE](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-eagle/reviews) - [Autodesk Fusion](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion/reviews) - [Autodesk Vault](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-vault/reviews) - [Box.com Amped](https://www.g2.com/products/box-com-amped/reviews) - [CATIA](https://www.g2.com/products/catia/reviews) - [Creo](https://www.g2.com/products/creo/reviews) - [CREO](https://www.g2.com/products/creo-creo/reviews) - [Designcenter](https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter/reviews) - [Designcenter Solid Edge](https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter-solid-edge/reviews) - [DM Valid](https://www.g2.com/products/dm-valid/reviews) - [Dropbox](https://www.g2.com/products/dropbox/reviews) - [ENOVIA](https://www.g2.com/products/enovia/reviews) - [ENOVIA SmarTeam](https://www.g2.com/products/enovia-smarteam/reviews) - [Epicor for Manufacturing](https://www.g2.com/products/epicor-for-manufacturing/reviews) - [Event Cadence](https://www.g2.com/products/event-cadence/reviews) - [JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing and Engineering](https://www.g2.com/products/jd-edwards-enterpriseone-manufacturing-and-engineering/reviews) - [Jira](https://www.g2.com/products/jira/reviews) - [KeyCreator](https://www.g2.com/products/keycreator/reviews) - [KiCad EDA](https://www.g2.com/products/kicad-eda/reviews) - [Leo](https://www.g2.com/products/leo-ai-leo/reviews) - [Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central/reviews) - [Microsoft Dynamics CRM Adapter for SAP CPI](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-dynamics-crm-adapter-for-sap-cpi/reviews) - [Microsoft OneDrive for Business](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-onedrive-for-business/reviews) - [NetSuite](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-netsuite/reviews) - [Odoo ERP](https://www.g2.com/products/odoo-odoo-erp/reviews) - [OneKloudX](https://www.g2.com/products/onekloudx/reviews) - [Onshape](https://www.g2.com/products/onshape/reviews) - [Open Text Corporation](https://www.g2.com/products/open-text-corporation/reviews) - [Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-jd-edwards-enterpriseone/reviews) - [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 - [Teamcenter](https://www.g2.com/products/teamcenter/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (1,265 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 (445 reviews)