Manufacturing bill of materials

Effectively and efficiently managing the manufacturing bill of materials has recently become more complicated for many manufacturers because of the need to maintain consistency with the EBOM and the growing customer demand for product choices and variations. An individual product definition and manufacturing BOM for each variant quickly grows to an unwieldy data set, and keeping all variant manufacturing BOMs individually up to date with any design changes is unacceptably time-consuming. Manufacturing BOM software addresses these difficulties by delivering effective bill of materials management throughout planning, development, and manufacturing.

Manufacturing BOM software provides a common source of bill of materials information across the manufacturer's organization. It allows manufacturers to coordinate upfront planning of available product options and features. It connects the product definition to partners and suppliers needing manufacturing, service, and support knowledge.

Manufacturing bill of materials software features:

• Flexibility in MBOM definition and management built on a common, accurate product definition, up-to-date across design, development, manufacturing, and service
• Reconciliation of the MBOM with the engineering BOM (EBOM) to ensure that engineering and manufacturing BOMs correctly correspond to the current product design or process changes
• MBOM configuration management enables a single definition of variability, which can be leveraged throughout the product lifecycle
• MBOM change management that tracks changes as they are being made and automatically enables traceability between change and product data and coordination of the impact of change on the bill of materials
• Design and context management to search and filter product and MBOM information for each user's particular needs
• MBOM visualization that allows stakeholders across the enterprise to interact with an accurate 3D representation of the MBOM