Case Study: Team Waterloop organizes design data and BOMs with OpenBOM

Team Waterloop Using OpenBOM To Organize and Socialize Design Data and BOMs

Team Waterloop, a student team from the University of Waterloo, faced the challenge of managing complex design data and Bills of Material for their Hyperloop pod project using inefficient spreadsheets. They needed a better way to organize this data and enable seamless collaboration across their large, multidisciplinary team. They turned to OpenBOM to implement a centralized platform for their product data.

By implementing OpenBOM, the team replaced spreadsheets with a cloud-based system that provided easy data sharing and assured everyone was always working with the latest design version. The solution's integrations with SolidWorks and Altium streamlined BOM creation. OpenBOM freed engineers to focus on design, simplified onboarding for new team members, and provided an easy-to-learn system that supported the team's rapid pace of development as they worked toward building a full-scale prototype.

Team Waterloop

Krista Porter

Team Waterloop