OpenBOM™, a leading SaaS digital product data management, and collaboration platform announces a patent award for multi-member collaboration methods. OpenBOM develops SaaS PDM and PLM products to help manufacturing companies to solves the pervasive problems related to data management, data silos, and communication inside of a company and across supply chains. OpenBOM allows users to manage data, files, and related changes across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, contractors, and suppliers regardless of organizational and geographic boundaries.
The Invention (US Patent No. 11,315,08) enables multi-member collaboration and data management is focusing on the activity of people performing a specific set of collaborative tasks related to product structure and associated information. The method is allowing to control of user rights and tasks related to the contextual set of information and applies rules to define a set of associated operations and data based on each person's (or company's) settings.
“Manufacturing is in the midst of digital transformation. The influx of data, the distributed character of work, and the need to make better decisions faster are putting new pressure on manufacturers” says Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO of OpenBOM. “Data silos and the absence of a single source of product records are killing companies and processes. Data is often siloed in different physical locations — in engineering, procurement, supply chain management, customer-facing databases, legacy systems, and spreadsheets. This leads to miscommunication between engineers, contractors, and suppliers, causing mistakes, delays, excessive costs, lost orders, and other problems”.
“Before, we didn’t have a final BOM that was accurate or easy to share. We need a full product BOM. It was too much tribal knowledge. I absolutely love that now I can share accurate, complete BOMs with vendors, partners, customers and so many more. It is great for the team and great for the company” - Lead Engineer, Tomcar.
OpenBOM cloud-native PDM and PLM platforms allow data management across multiple sources and multiple companies, organizing and managing product data records, providing product data intelligence, and changing the way organizations work together. Multi-tenant data management provides a unique way to analyze data and connect people and processes.
