configured bom management

CONFIGURED BOM MANAGEMENT
OBJECTIVE
Configured BOM Management is used by manufacturers of low volume and highly
complex products to define and manage configured bills-of-material (BOMs). This
option, used in conjunction with Product Engineer, enables users to create product
configurations and validate that the proper parts have been assigned and included in
the resulting BOM when the product configuration is applied.
Key Benefits:
OVERVIEW
Configured BOM Management provides advanced capabilities
to define, navigate, filter and update configured BOMs using
“Product Unit Effectivity (PUE)” and / or “Feature Option”
effectivity. Configured BOM Management works in conjunction
with CATIA® and synchronizes with CATIA configured products,
resulting in an enhanced product development experience
where users can apply product configuration filters to the 3D
product structure, configured BOM or both, verifying design
and BOM information together.
With Configured BOM Management, companies can address
key product development business challenges including:
• Errors due to managing unique EBOMS for highly
variant products.
• Errors during the manual transformation of each product
configuration to a resolved design and EBOM structure.
• Errors during manual translation of customer orders
to production orders for variant products.
• Incomplete impact analysis and discontinuity in engineering
change propagation.
HIGHLIGHTS
Key features and capabilities include:
• Helps companies with highly configurable
products manage a global product BOM that
contains all possible variations.
• Enables engineers to create product
configurations for design analysis or to validate
supported product options.
• Applies multiple product unit or product option
effectivity expressions directly to the BOM
structure or synchronized from the CATIA
configured design environment.
• Synchronizes configured BOMs with CATIA
configured 3D designs providing both configured
3D geometry and configured BOM product views.
• Enables design and BOM verification and impact
analysis for configured products.
• Applies effectivity for the definition, approval
and implementation of a configured BOM
structure’s changes.
• Provides configured BOM related reporting
capabilities tailored to meet the needs of multiple
functional areas such as configured BOM compare,
where used and change management.
Configured Part Management
In order to manage product variants, Configured BOM
Management adds configured part management to Product
Engineer. Configured parts are used for authoring configured
BOMs. The advantage of configured parts is a single part
number can represent multiple configurations. Configured parts
can be identified by a unique auto-numbering scheme or by
user-entered names.
Configured EBOM Management
Configured BOM Management provides global development
teams with a single, persistent definition of a configured
BOM. A typical complex product BOM would have configured
parts at high levels and unconfigured parts at lower levels.
Configured BOM Management enables users to plan, manage,
and track changes to specific sets of customer product
units and product configurations. These configurations are
supported by leveraging product unit effectivity (PUE) and
feature option effectivity. Product unit effectivity determines
unit configurations and is used in conjunction with other
BOM configuration management techniques such as “latest
released revision” part effectivity in order to better reuse lowerlevel un-configured assemblies and equipment provided by
external suppliers. Feature options effectivity is used to define
EBOMs specific to product variants with specific feature options
defined in the system.
EBOM Editing
An intuitive EBOM markup tool allows users to markup,
approve, and apply configured BOM changes. Comprehensive
BOM editing capabilities include the ability to copy parts to
and from existing assemblies, and replace, add, remove, and
re-sequence parts in the BOM. Differences between specific
unit or product configurations can be generated by applying
effectivity filters to the configured BOM. Results are displayed
in an intuitive highlighted side-by-side format. Multi-level
where used capabilities enable users to quickly determine
affected items, raise change requests and perform complex
mass change operations such as replace, add, remove, or edit.
Synchronization with Design Work-in-Progress
and Visualization
Collaborative Innovation enables synchronization between
the configured EBOM and configured CATIA product
structure, thus providing a consolidated document and
EBOM views independent of the authoring tools used. Parts
and assemblies can be visualized in Configured BOM
Management with 3DPlay, which is available as part of the
3DEXPERIENCE® platform.
Reporting
Configured BOM Management is delivered with engineering
“best practices” from the experience of some of the world’s
largest manufacturing companies. Standard and repeatable
global engineering change processes exist for configured
assemblies, managed with product unit effectivity or feature/
option based engineering change orders (CO/CCA).
Configured BOM Management has reporting capabilities
tailored to meet the needs of managing configured BOMS. The
Configured Bill-of-Material (BOM) Comparison report improves
part reuse and product quality by providing the ability to
compare configured BOM differences. The report has many
comparison options, including basis of comparison, attributes
to display when a difference occurs, BOM levels to compare and
configured BOM effectivity filters. Results can be displayed in
either a printer-friendly view or Excel format for external view.
The Part Where Used report provides a part’s single or multilevel parent usage. Configured BOM Management enables
where used effectivity filters which will result in displaying
specific parent parts based on the effectivity filter applied.
Where used reports are very useful in analyzing the scope and
impact of engineering changes.
Configured BOM changes are managed by a CO and the
implementation is done by a CCA (Configured Change Action).
A CCA is automatically created by the system, when the CO
is created with effectivity and associated BOM changes. The
governing CO can also be used for changing un-configured
EBOMs. CO and CCA “approval and notification” templates
can be configured for any change process to accommodate
different classes of change, which require different levels of
oversight, review and approval.
Select Effectivity for Multiple Models and Unit
Ranges (MPUE)
The “MPUE” change capability greatly reduces the amount
of time to perform a change, which would otherwise require
separate change processes for each unique product unit range
combination. In addition, ECOs that have common product
unit effectivity ranges for configured part changes are grouped
dynamically, which is referred to as “mod stacking.” The mod
stack information is presented to the user when assigning
CO effectivity, so the CO can be assigned to existing design
solutions applied to other COs. This minimizes the number of
unique design solutions and modifications for a given product.
Engineers use this information to analyze how many unique
sets of changes exist for a given product serial number. When
changes are made, they can also be assigned to specific
serial numbers to better control diversity across all product
serial numbers.
Parallel Change Processes for Configured Assemblies
Multiple engineering changes that have common affected parts
can be evaluated in parallel. Dependencies between CO/CCAs
that need to be released in sequence are created automatically.
The result is an optimized set of pending changes that allow
ECOs with no dependencies to be released in any order, and
those with dependencies to be released in a specific order.
Product Configurator
Configured BOM Management helps companies with highly
configurable products meet market customization needs. Sales
engineers alongside their customers can collect the product
customization requirements using a configurator interface.
All standard and default option choices are highlighted for
the user during the product configuration session. Engineers
can use the product configurator for design analysis or
feasibility improvements. In addition, system engineers can
create partial configurations for further refinement by other
functional groups.
Automated EBOM Generation
With Configured BOM Management, users can also define a
generic variant product architecture that is used as a framework
for generating different kinds of BOMs. A BOM can be generated
based on a specific product configuration for engineering-toorder (ETO) business models. A precise bill of materials (PBOM)
is a flat list of parts based on a specific product configuration
for build-to-order business models. During BOM generation,
engineers can preview the selected standard parts based on
the selected configuration choices. Engineers can replace
standard part selections with custom parts to satisfy custom
order demands.
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