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The Bill of Materials (BOM)

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BOM (The Bill of Materials), as the core manufacturing document, undergoes demanding activities. The requirements put on it are utterly diverse. During each phase of product development, various participants of the manufacturing process seek various information.

For instance, in the creating of a CAD model, the development engineer ordinarily prepares multiple auxiliary elements among which only a small selection retains in the final model.

Considering the diversity of required information, and particularly, in order to preserve the continuity of various activities, the Bill of Materials is simply to be centralized.

In addition, the centralized Bill of Materials must be transparent to all participants in the manufacturing process and also during all phases of a product lifecycle.

This is exactly what the 3DEXERIENCE platform offers – smart Bill of Materials management; besides the assessability of the centralized Bill of Materials model, data access is achievable in real-time which eliminates possible misunderstandings, ‘idling’ and expensive errors.

The Bill of Materials can be changed during the manufacturing process according to concrete requirements of the participants and organizational rules.

 

A centralized organization of the BOM data model:

  • improves the work quality of all participants of the process
  • reduces the possibility of errors that occur due to ill-timed information

 

Although different presentations of the Bill of Materials in process illustrate one and the same object, eventually the product, a Bill of Materials may typically be distinguished by its aim during the product lifecycle: 

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Engineering (CAD)
Supplies the development engineer with all necessary information on the accomplishment of all given functional requirements for the product.
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Supplying
Entails all necessary information on the acquisition of materials or finished semi-manufactured products from different vendors. Usually applied for connecting with other systems (e.g. ERP).
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Manufacturing
Entails all necessary information on manufacturing and assembling of finished product components - or even whole products - with the required intermediate processing steps.
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Production
Production - For a better way of process monitoring, most often organized according to the product status: As Built’ - components that assemble the final product, As Maintained’ - changes that occur during product exploitation, As Is’ - current product state.

The upper does not bring a complete list of all Bill of Materials forms that may occur in a manufacturing process. A range of other Bills of Materials are engaged it their own way in the accomplishment of activities during the product lifecycle, such as:

  • Customer requirements Bill of Materials,
  • Functionality Bill of Materials which articulates required product functionalities,
  • Intermediate Bill of Materials with data on physical locations, and others.

Thus, it is quite clear that a centralized Bill of Materials data model is necessary indeed to facilitate a fluent and efficient manufacturing process.

Frequently, data are required to be monitored from more than one Bill of Materials, for instance, during the preparation to be aware of which functions are carried out in which location and the like.

 

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform establishes a central data model for process monitoring and activity organization on products, which facilitates matters and accelerates the organization of production. Communication between the participants is faster, more precise, and clearer, which simply reduces any possibilities of error occurrence or disharmony between activities.

The functionality of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables you to clearly monitor and control all changes on the Bill of Materials.

 

Key functionalities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform are as follows

Centralized Bill of Materials data model
Real time changes on Bill of Materials
Different Bill of Materials types according to assignment and process organization
Flexible view definition for different purposes.

The following are the principal benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Systematic monitoring and control of Bill of Materials
Quick and accurate exchange of information between the participants in the process
Enhanced efficiency in collaboration between the participants in the process
Reduction of error occurrence possibilities
Centralization of data facilitates the connection with other systems (MES, ERP).

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