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Offline hutschTopic starter

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Software for handling BOMs / Product Lifecycle management
« on: February 01, 2012, 03:26:22 pm »
Hi all!

I'm currently searching for a software for a more sophisticated way of handling the bill of materials (BOM) lists of our products (pcb assemblies and complete products).
At the moment I handle everything with Openoffice spreadsheets. Well, it works but is somehow not very professional and error prone. Not to mention the versioning/revision/fork problems.

Is there anybody out there that uses affordable or maybe opensource software for this? I know there are full-blown ERP/CRM solutions out there but they somehow seem to me a little overkill and mostly the BOM styles do not take account of some electronics needs (columns for symbol, case, manufacturer, manuf.part...)

Well, i know that it is possible to export BOMs from EDA-Tools like Eagle but i don't want to have the bare electronic parts but also all other things related to product  like assembly workload, lables, cases, manuals. Revision handling would also be nice.

Any ideas?

Somebody using xTuple, EleLa, OpenBravo, OpenERP?

Heiko
 

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Re: Software for handling BOMs / Product Lifecycle management
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 06:26:11 am »
Love OpenERP.

OpenBRAVO starts of looking fabulous, but when you have to start modifying it from standard, that is where I think OpenERP is amazing, and OpenBravo is a nightmare. Open ERP has a great opensource community, and you can actually do quite a lot of table modification, field editing in forms, and data logic without touching programming language at all.

Never heard  of EleLa. I did look at xTuple ages ago. I probably rejected them as you have to run a GUI client. I tend to reject any DB package that doesn't have a great web page client. Also, I am not sure how good the open source xTuple is compared to the commercial version.

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Re: Software for handling BOMs / Product Lifecycle management
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2014, 02:30:40 pm »
You did notice that this is a 2 year old thread?
 

Offline reagle

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Re: Software for handling BOMs / Product Lifecycle management
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2014, 03:27:44 pm »
Try www.aligni.com
We ended up settling on that after looking for a while. It has its quirks but handles most of the things we need relatively inexpensively.
They also have a free version for open source projects

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Re: Software for handling BOMs / Product Lifecycle management
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2014, 05:22:00 pm »
You did notice that this is a 2 year old thread?

Unlikely that a spammer would be all that bothered tbh.
 

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Re: Software for handling BOMs / Product Lifecycle management
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2014, 11:52:11 pm »
You did notice that this is a 2 year old thread?

Unlikely that a spammer would be all that bothered tbh.

It is still relevant information , maybe not for OP by there are a lot  of other people here.
Who may find this topic by google or eevblog search.
Freelance electronics design service, Small batch assembly, Firmware / WEB / APP development. In Shenzhen China
 


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