Case Study: Blackbox streamlines open-source 3D printer BOM management with OpenBOM

Blackbox - Customer Case Study

The customer, Blackbox, faced the challenge of managing the complex product structure, items, and vendor data for their distributed team designing an open-source 3D printer. They needed a solution to replace inefficient manual processes like using Excel files and email to share designs and collaborate. They used OpenBOM to address these product data management and collaboration challenges.

OpenBOM provided a cloud-based solution with its Fusion 360 integration, enabling the team to automatically capture design data, create and maintain bills of material and part catalogs, and identify vendors directly from their CAD models. The results were streamlined collaboration for the distributed team and the powerful ability to share the open-source design data with the global community, allowing producers in different regions to localize their component sourcing directly from the provided OpenBOM catalogs.