In the News

December

Desktop Engineering, December 2001
Spreadsheets are not the BOM
“True design chain integration has been a long-term goal for many manufacturing and design companies like Metallic Power. With bom.com’s collaborative bill-of-materials management system, that goal is within reach.”…read more

iSource Business, December 3, 2001
It’s Da bom
“…these features were created so hardware design and manufacturing businesses could streamline supply chain information management and make strategic sourcing decisions throughout the development process.”…read more

CADALYST, December 2001
bom.com charts design costs
“From the beginning of product design, it is critical to track changes and organize all relevant vendor data to ensure a smooth hand-off to manufacturing once the design is completed and approved. bom.com is an elegant tool that tracks and organizes data generated in the early stages of product development and simplifies handoff to manufacturing.”…read more

Computer-Aided Engineering, November / December 2001
Open for business: Online manufacturing consultants
“bom.com focuses on generating detailed bills of material for projects and includes functions that can slice and dice a BOM's information in revealing ways.”…read more

 

November

Manufacturing Computer Solutions, November 23, 2001
IDEO engineering design consultancy gets smart about its BoMs
“IDEO, the innovation and design consultancy famous for its work on US Amtraks high-speed Acela train and the new Handspring PDAs, says it expects to greatly streamline its distributed product development processes with bom.com”…read more

Cool Tools for Purchasing, November 2001
Big Results with Little Money
“…at $1000 per user per year [bom.com] is very inexpensive considering that 90% of a product’s cost structure is locked in during the design phase. You could be saving thousands and thousands of dollars by accurately projecting your new product margins upfront.”…read more

CIO, November 19, 2001
New Deals: Outsourcing Contract Updates
“bom.com has announced a deal with IDEO to centralize product information and deliver real-time data access to all teams within IDEO”…read more

Computer Graphics World, November 2001
Web-based product manager
“The bom.com application…helps users share, manage, organize, and access product data, including CAD drawings. An Internet connection and a standard Web browser are the only requirements for running bom.com.”…read more

EBN Magazine, November 9, 2001
Start-up finds a useful tool from bom.com
“[S]tart-ups still face the burden of linking supply chain partners, communicating bill of materials data, and sharing engineering specs. Westwave Communications, a two-year-old midsize telecom infrastructure company based in Santa Rosa, Calif., automated some of those processes with a tool from bom.com, Mountain View, Calif”…read more

EDN Magazine, November 8, 2001
Project-coordination tools: Get your act together before
you take it on the road
“Subscribers to bom.com receive access to a relational database that manages the often-complex and-confusing relationship among part names, part numbers, manufacturers, suppliers, prices, leadtimes, part CAD files, and status of parts.”…download now

 

October

MCAD Magazine, October 2001
bom.com - Bill of Materials Takes Control
“The seemingly innocuous Bill of Materials represents the current state of a product in development, so why not use it as a key to collaboration — oops, someone already has. Al Dean reports on a new web-based service that promises much: bom.com”…download now

PDM Report, October 2001
bom.com’s new module
“bom.com is ideal for small and medium-sized companies because of its versatility and cost effectiveness.”…register now

ASME Orange County Linkages newsletter, October 2001
Industry News Update: bom.com
“…because suppliers access data directly from the manufacturer’s bom.com Web site, they always have access to up-to-date information.”…register now

Electronic News, October 17, 2001
bom.com launches collaborative module
“bom.com…last week announced Supplier Access, a module designed to allow customers to give their trading partners a direct window to relevant product information throughout the development process.”…read now

Knowledge Management, October 2001
Ways and Means: New Products
“The bill of materials is the framework of this Web-based collaboration tool for hardware designers and manufacturers. With it, users can share real-time product information securely, gain access to past product designs.”…read now

 

September

Information Week, September 10, 2001
bom.com helps product developers meet milestones
“bom.com offers [a] hosted application that lets manufacturers share product development information with suppliers online.”…read now

 

August

Extranet News/mfg, August 6, 2001
Seeing the end from the beginning
“Seeing the end from the beginning’ is one of Steven Covey's ‘Seven Habits of Highly Successful People’. bom.com is a company with a Web-based collaborative service that embodies that ‘habit.’…By focusing on the bill of materials as a collaborative framework, everyone can ‘see the end from the beginning’--or as much of it as has been established at any point in time.”…read now

 

July

Design News, July 16, 2001
bom.com helps manage BOMs
“Another alternative came along in June 2001 — a new Internet service called bom.com, which gives design and manufacturing organizations a web-based workspace to create and manage BOMs for a subscription fee of $100 per month.”…read now

Internet World, July 15, 2001
Forging 21st-Century Value Chains
“Manufacturers on a more limited budget can also consider subscribing to a service called bom.com, which lets you create, manage, and share a Web-based bill of materials”…read now

 

June

eWeek, June 25, 2001
A cost-tracking system to fill the bill
“bom.com, which creates a central online workspace where data is
stored, managed and shared at any time from any place, is targeting midtier manufacturers. The system captures complex relationships
among materials, including part names, part numbers, manufacturers, vendors, prices, lead times and CAD files, from the earliest stage of R&D.”…read now

InfoWorld, June 15, 2001
Avoiding Design Snafus
“bom.com, in Mountain View, Calif., this month introduced a service that is designed to provide hardware-design and manufacturing organizations with a centralized workspace for storing, managing, accessing, and sharing all the data that defines their products.”…read now

I.D. Magazine , June 2001
bom.com Debuts Shared Bills Of Materials
“Product manufacturers who have been plagued for years by scattered documents and expensive client-server solutions for managing bills-of-material (BOM) now have an alternative. Starting this month, companies can manage product information online at bom.com”…read now

Product Data Management Report, June 2001
PDM for parts lists
“Neither PDM systems for file management nor enterprise-resource-planning software can keep track of part costs and specifications during product development as well as a new Web-based application from bom.com.”…register now

Internet Week, June 7, 2001
bom.com Debuts Shared Bills Of Materials
“While Westwave couldn’t justify the cost of implementing a software-based supply chain management app, the company will use a new subscription service from bom.com that collects all of this data and lets manufacturers and their suppliers share BOM information via the Web”…read now

VentureWire, June 5, 2001
Hardware Manufacturing Software Firm bom.com Launches
“bom.com, which provides a Web-based software application for hardware design and manufacturing organizations with a centralized workspace for storing, managing, accessing, and sharing all data, announced it has launched its first product”…read now

 

March

Electronic Business, March 1, 2001
Silicon Valley’s crushing costs
“bom.com (incorporated as OpenSpec Inc.), which develops software that lets people use the Web to collaborate in managing bills of materials”…read now

 

February

CADServer.co.uk, February 18, 2001
bom.com centralises BOM management
“bom.com has unveiled plans to solve the crucial BOM management issues central to product design and manufacturing businesses…read now

Electronic News, February 12, 2001
bom.com Brings Collaboration to SMBs
“…A new company has popped up to help automate component development for small- and medium-size manufacturing businesses (SMBs). bom.com was born in response to the need for technology that can manage the product development cycle…read now