Case Study: Hive Lighting reduces BOM maintenance time by over 50% with OpenBOM

Hive Lighting Moves From Spreadsheets To OpenBOM To Create Most Technologically Advanced Film and Production Lighting In The World

Hive Lighting, a manufacturer of advanced film and production lighting, faced significant challenges managing its complex product data. Before implementing OpenBOM, the company relied on a disorganized system of sprawling Google spreadsheets. This made maintaining an item master and over 100 Bills of Materials (BOMs) for thousands of parts a highly time-consuming and error-prone process, especially when a single component was used across multiple products.

By implementing OpenBOM, Hive Lighting replaced its manual spreadsheets with an interlinked system that organizes its data and manages part references across all BOMs. The OpenBOM platform provided crucial features like revision control, change reports for the ECO process, and professional PDF exports. This solution reduced the time required to build and maintain their Item Master and BOMs by over 50%, drastically cut errors, and saved the company money.

Hive Lighting

Ivan Aristov

Mechanical Design Engineer