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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Bill of Material Lifecycle

In last blog, I discuss on BOM concept. There I men on various Bill of Material aspects in various stage of product and their dependency. It is
interes ng to discuss on BOM lifecycle and its evolu on from conceptual stage to full fledge manufactured product to maintenance. In this blog I will
explain through life cycle of BOM across the product life cycle done as in house development. The BOM lifecycle can varies based on overall process of
company for example some company might only manufacture as order hence they As Build design BOM and they directly CREATE Manufacturing BOM
from it.

Concept BOM

As the product is visualize based on input from various source like client, sales, technology advancement etc, the Bill of Material crea on started. The
concept BOM can be created either from scratch or derived from exis ng BOM. This BOM can be generated from CAD if the product is more
engineering rich product or non CAD if it more features bases products where CAD might be subset of overall product. This BOM are used for proof of
concept and goes through various itera on for design feasibility, cost considera on, compliances etc. Once concept phase is completed and decided on
basic design and feature of Products, it moves product design.

Design BOM

Design BOM usually driven from concept phase. Design BOM can be derived from concept BOM or can be created completely new based on maturity
of concept BOM. BOM are either created Top Down or bo om up. Top down BOM as name suggested design by defined from top like modules or
assembly level and defined detail part in advance stage of product development, where as bo om up come to picture where design is done from parts
or component level. Usually func onal driven product development is done top down where systems or subsystems are defined first and then boiled
down to detail design of Bill of Material. Complex product is usually designed through Top down design like Space Cra , heavy automa c machine etc.
Teamcenter has Modular BOM func onality to support Top down BOM. Design BOM is usually CAD driven with physical and geometric aspect is
modeled in CAD so ware and related data manages in PLM which is usually integrated with CAD package. Design BOM evaluate from basic CAD design
to sophis cated CAE for Analysis BOM. Typically CAE BOM is derived for detail design BOM and is cross link through BOM management so ware. Once
Design BOM is release for mul ple itera ve process and analysis, it handed over to manufacturing department for manufacturing the product from
Design BOM. Manufacturing again realign the BOM from manufacturing aspect and create MBOM.

Manufacturing BOM:

Manufacturing engineer create MBOM (Manufacturing BOM) from Design BOM. The basic difference between Design BOM and MBOM is that design
engineer look the Product in development from perspec ve of end product with detail of parts and components where manufacturing engineer look it
from perspec ve of manufacturability of the product. Hence manufacturing view of BOM component and there sequence might be different from that
of designer. For example designer might look two components for the given assembly as direct child of assembly, where as manufacturing might look
same two components as parent child of each other from assembly sequence perspec ve. Similarly same component in the design BOM might be
shown as two parts in manufacturing BOM. For example T plate might be single part for the designer but for manufacture engineer it two parts with
welding opera on. Apart from component reorienta on manufacture engineer also add informa on in MBOM related to tools, fixture etc to
encapsulate complete informa on for manufacturing the product. MBOM can be either created in PLM system or ERP like SAP PP. MBOM is usually
required CAD assistance for aligning the design part and adding resource like tools and fixtures. Also most of manufacturing are done through NC
(Numeric Control) machine, hence NC programming is also create from the given geometry informa on of part in MBOM. This NC programming is feed
in to machine through series of opera on informa on also called rou ng or Bill of Process. Rou ng or BOP (Bill of Process) is a detail opera on
sequence to produce or assemble a given Part or Product. The BOP is created in context of Manufacturing BOM and BOM component can be related to
one or more opera on in BOP. Rout

ing or BOP is usually done in ERP like SAP, but now PLM vendor also provide very good functionality for Routing which tightly integrate by
MBOM and CAD\CAM and NC. Teamcenter provide Part Planer which provide tight integration with MBOM, BOP and NX CAM. This type
integration provides better leveraging of information in one place. The below diagram depicit the complete lifecycle of BOM and relation

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