Is Your Manufacturing Intelligence Stuck in Excel?
Somewhere in your production pipeline, a spreadsheet error is making a six-figure decision—and no one knows it yet. For all the innovation inside your 3D CAD models, the way many manufacturers manage BOMs hasn’t changed in decades. Excel still calls the shots: controlling what gets purchased, what gets fabricated, and what data flows into your ERP. The result? High-tech design shackled to low-tech operations. The Real Price of Spreadsheet Dependency Spreadsheets seem harmless—until they aren’t. Teams often don’t recognize the damage until late-stage failures expose the cracks. And by then, it’s expensive. Where Things Go Wrong: Version Mismatch : Design revisions happen fast. Excel doesn’t auto-sync. Teams downstream are often working off stale or incomplete BOMs. Manual Workload : Engineers waste hours formatting spreadsheets for different stakeholders—procurement, suppliers, finance—introducing new errors with each pass. Lack of Structure : There’s no native way to enforce h...