Case Study: MICRO streamlines complex museum BOM management with OpenBOM

MICRO Is Building A Fleet of 6-foot Tall Museums Using OpenBOM And Autodesk Fusion 360

MICRO, a company that builds compact, interactive museums, faced the challenge of managing increasingly complex product designs and bills of materials (BOMs) with a distributed team. Their existing tools were no longer sufficient to create trustworthy BOMs by hand, leading to potential oversights and inefficiencies as their products matured. They turned to the vendor OpenBOM, utilizing its integration with Autodesk Fusion 360, to professionalize their product definition process.

The solution implemented by OpenBOM provided a robust structure for BOM management, seamlessly integrating with MICRO's Fusion 360 design workflow. The OpenBOM for Fusion 360 add-in automatically extracts parts, quantities, and images, saving hours of manual data entry per BOM and eliminating errors. This resulted in compressed build times, optimized BOM validation, and gave the team confidence in their manufacturing process. The visual BOMs also improved internal communication, serving as an effective tool for reporting to company leadership.

MICRO

Tim Corbett

MICRO