About BOMwiki

BOMwiki is a free encyclopedia of bills of materials. It maps 3,646 products into 127,414 parts and assemblies (27,966,200 parts counting quantities). Every part has its own page showing what it contains and which machines use it. There is no paywall and no account.

The vision

A bill of materials is the recipe of a product: every part, every quantity, organised the way the product is assembled. It is the first document anyone learning manufacturing should read, and it is almost never public. BOMs live inside PLM systems and supplier contracts. If you want to know what is inside a washing machine, there has been no place to look it up.

BOMwiki's goal is a public BOM for everything humans build, so that the structure of any product can be looked up the way a word can be looked up in a dictionary.

Why manufacturing

Everything you own was manufactured. The knowledge of how — which parts, which materials, which machines — is concentrated in a small number of companies and countries. More people who can read a BOM means more people who can make things, and making things is where most of the physical economy's value is created. BOMwiki tries to lower the first step: seeing what products are actually made of.

Who builds it

BOMwiki is built by Shashank Dixit (@protosphinx), founder of erp.ai and Deskera. He has worked with manufacturers for over fifteen years.

In his words

Corrections and contact

For corrections or product requests, message @protosphinx on X.

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