Case Study: Gates Underwater Products connects design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams with OpenBOM

Gates Underwater Products Uses OpenBOM To Connects Design Engineers, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Teams Together

Gates Underwater Products, a manufacturer of underwater cinematography equipment, faced challenges managing its product data as it grew. The company had outgrown its previous system of spreadsheets, which were unreliable and did not interconnect. They needed a single source of truth to capture bills of materials, manage inventory and costs, and enable team collaboration without relying on email.

The company implemented OpenBOM to create a centralized product data repository. The solution integrated seamlessly with their Solidworks CAD environment, ensuring design data was always synced. This provided a single location for their parts catalog, cost of goods sold, and assembly BOMs, allowing their engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to collaborate simultaneously. As a result, OpenBOM became the company's single source of truth, forcing process adherence and providing a right-sized solution at a great value.

Gates Underwater Products

John Ellerbrock

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