OpenBOM Reviews & Product Details

So I had been plugging away for about a month on a half hobby/work machine design on Fusion 360. Being very new to CAD in general I was very much learning as I went. It wasn't until I was about 80% done with my design when I had the thought that a BOM was going to be necessary. After discovering fusion didn't have the capability built in, the panic began. A few minutes of frantically searching online for a solution (which felt like eons), I found open BOM. Within 10 minutes I had downloaded installed and configured open bom in fusion and had a BOM for a portion of my design. I can't speak to any advanced features or many of the functions, but from a completely green individual it was fast, Intuitive and made my life so much easier when it came time to order, and then inventory the several thousand individual parts to my creation. Also worth noting I'm notna frequent user, nor have I interacted with customer service. Thank you OPENBOM! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only negative I can recall was due to a major upgrade Fusion 360 did that changed the way Open BOM integrated with it. Being that this isn't a frequent thing, nor something new users will encounter its not much of a negative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenBOM allows my team to easily share files with each other, keep them organized, and be able to be used over and over again by multiple members of the team. This is very helpful in keeping our large team files organized in a way where we can find them and use them when necessary, and the updating feature on the cloud is helpful to allow us to lock a CAD part when someone is working on it, and re open it when they are finished and have updated the part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A thing that I dislike about OpenBOM is how easily someone can mess up the system, in our case, one student uploaded their entire desktop to the OpenBOM storage obline, and we were unable to restore it back to its original state, so we had to create another one and get all of the files back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenBOM has been a great way to organize all of our parts, assemblies, and drawings. It's super useful to have all of that information in one place, and have it be easy to search through. It's also a great way to link the engineering department and the purchasing department. As an engineer, I can request a part to be purchased, and someone from purchasing can go into OpenBOM and get all the information they need to purchase it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't always send the step files and drawing files when I want it to. It also crashes Solidworks sometimes when trying to push large assemblies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What helps most is the ability to manage all types of files and information in one place. It makes our lives much easier, especially when managing projects with lots of technical details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wish it could be able to enter my data offline and the sync when I got the acess to the network again. Sometimes the working areas are running out of internet signal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Control of stock is simple and can be directly consumed buy opperations linked to sales and manufacture. Implementing the stock and items is as easy as using excel or google sheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linking to other active products such a Xero is limited but is in the pipeline for development and there is still a huge amount of products that do integrate well so you need if your starting fresh you need to make sure you pick the right tools that all link together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For a startup like ours, OpenBOM has really helped us to manage our bill of materials and stock control. The system is easy to work with, organise or parts list and update them with without fuss. The user-friendly interface allows us to get the job done in a few steps for those who are new to BOM management like me.

One of the nice features is the ability to attach images to items which makes it much easier to find and identify what we are looking for. This saves a lot of time compared to typical text-based searching alone. It provides confidence for the part you have selected.

Additionally, the support from the OpenBOM team has been excellent. They respond to queries quickly, are knowledgeable in providing solutions to problems, and provide assistance to help understand the workflow of the system. Their assistance has been top-notch.

We have also developed a simple, independent interface for a simple goods in/out using OpenBOM’s API. The API documentation really helped us to create the system and deploy quickly and achieve what we have wanted to do.

OpenBOM is a great tool for inventory management at our small scale. It is reliable, easy to use, has a modern interface and I highly recommend for anyone managing parts and assemblies, particularly at a small scale as a startup like ours. I highly recommend this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lack of high-level workflow guidance in the system where there is not quite a logical flow of buttons in the process, for example, the production planning purchase orders, all components are filled up with the expected amount automatically, but more often than not, parts come in separately, even from the same vendor so you have to set all the values to 0 for quantity received, then start counting your incoming items and then enter into the system. Simple issues but once you know where they are, the process works.

A form of integration with Xero would also be very welcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The leveled BOM was the biggest feature that makes it far better than others we were looking at. They use their own leveling coding and that required me to work with ChatGTP to come up with a macro to make it convert 1, 2, 3 , 4 to codes like 1. 1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.2.1 etc. I do not program but once I had that working and a few other import tricks, I was uploading large BOMs that were fully leveled all in one shot. The compare tool makes it easy. Right click-where used is great. Perusing up and down the BOM levels is a snap. It was easy to setup and we were browsing our data quickly once it was imported. Customer support has been good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TBD about what customization is necessary for frequent syncing with Netsuite. Daily sync does not seem to be common or standard offering. We anticipate that other departments will be interacting with NS daily and we are not sure what will be needed to have their updates captured by OpenBOM. We will likely contract to make this more frequent. Support hours have been good but due to European time zone, it is early calls for PST and not every day are they available. The updates I was seeing in Solidworks did not appear to capture the changes real time after ECOs and part changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After reviewing a few options we decided to go with OpenBOM to manage a couple of hardware projects we're developing at our start up. OpenBOM has been really easy to set up and use and they provided a bunch of hands on support as we were getting started. The support team typically responds in less than a day and I couldn't be more happy with how much support was provided for our set up into the system.

I've come from a non-production planning background and the education that OpenBOM has provided has also been really valuable, both over video calls with Pedro and their online resources.

We're using the system for regular product lifecycle management as well as some basic production planning for our low volume manufacturing and it serves this purpose well enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate that OpenBOM incorporates features that enable some basic production planning and inventory management capabilities in addition to hardware version control. It would be great if OpenBOM improved these features further so that inventory movements could be more easily audited and so that production planning had more logic associated with it. But these are non-core 'nice to haves', so I can't complain about the state of the system today!

There have also been the occasional bug in the system - but I believe these are addressed quickly as they appear given the speed and quality of support provided by the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Onboarding was extremely smooth and the OpenBOM team was knowledgeable about all topics covered about the software we use and how to integrate along with best practices

- OpenBom helps us bridge the gaps between teams and streamline the flow of information from design to production

- Very light to use, no software required, all online making integrating easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no dislikes at the moment, we are new to using the software. Some features are lacking, but OpenBom gave us a timeline in which they had already planned to solve these gaps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast and efficient, the free option is great, it is a real alternative to the other premium platforms. The integration, features and implementation are very easy to use with the youtube chanel. It is really a useful tool to work every week on it. And, the customer support is really comprehensive and fast. So its really helpful for team works in modelisation. And I use it everyday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lot of upgrades because of the development so there is some issues sometimes. But it still userfriendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.