Have you ever watched your team go from a perfect design to ordering the wrong part?
It starts with a drawing in Vault. Someone copy-pastes the BOM into Excel. Someone else uploads it to the ERP. A few days later, production begins… with the wrong bracket. Or the wrong length. Or a part that hasn’t even been ordered.
That’s what happens when your Bill of Materials has trust issues. And honestly, we get it — how can you trust something that keeps changing, that lives in different systems, and that relies on manual effort just to get where it needs to go?
That’s why this Summer Freshness Lecture is dedicated to giving your BOM some peace of mind — and making sure purchasing, production, and planning can finally relax, too.
Enter: powerGate.
While many companies still rely on basic exports, shared folders, or half-manual processes to push BOM data from Vault to ERP, powerGate offers something refreshingly different: a live, two-way connection that just works.
With powerGate, your BOM is no longer a risky spreadsheet or a hopeful upload — it becomes a real-time reflection of your engineering data inside the ERP. And when changes happen? They’re validated, compared, and confirmed before anyone clicks “Release.”
You’ll know if something’s wrong — immediately.
You’ll see if something’s changed — clearly.
And if something’s missing? It tells you before it becomes a problem.
Instead of relying on memory or double-checking Excel rows, engineers get a clear, color-coded view of what’s about to be sent. Green means good. Yellow means changed. Red means “you might want to look again.” Easy.
And this works not only for flat BOMs — powerGate handles multi-level structures effortlessly. Whether it’s a simple bracket or a full machine assembly, it loads every level, checks every item, and even creates missing ERP entries on the fly.
Even better? Engineers stay right inside Vault or Inventor.
They search ERP parts directly from their design tool.
They insert virtual components like purchased parts or raw materials.
And they release everything — BOMs, files, metadata — in one smooth move.
This is what trust looks like:
With powerGate, your BOM stops being a bottleneck and starts being the single source of truth it was always meant to be.
So, if you’ve ever had a project derailed by the wrong part, or a planning team chasing a version that doesn’t exist — this might be your sign to take a step back, breathe in some summer air, and let your BOM work better, not harder.
Because you deserve a summer without surprises.
And so does your production line.
Ready to stop second-guessing your BOM?
Let powerGate bring clarity, control, and confidence to your engineering-to-ERP flow.