Case Study: Building36 simplifies smart home product design with OpenBOM

Building36 Simplifies Smart Home Products Design Using OpenBOM

Building36, a Massachusetts-based company that provides smart home solutions for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical trades, faced a challenge with its product design process. Their previous method of manually tracking Bill of Materials (BOM) changes across various tools was inefficient, unreliable, and could not support their rapid pace of new product development. They needed a more accurate and streamlined system and sought a solution from OpenBOM.

OpenBOM provided a streamlined solution that integrated directly with Building36's existing design tools like Altium and Fusion360, allowing for easy one-click BOM export and management. This created a single, master multi-level BOM that could be shared across design, planning, and manufacturing teams, ensuring everyone worked from the correct version of specifications. The OpenBOM implementation was quick and easy to use, requiring minimal training, and it provided the reliability and accuracy the company needed to support its fast-paced product development cycle.

Building36

Neha Godbole

Product Management Associate