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.

OVERVIEWConfigured 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.

HIGHLIGHTSKey features and capabilities include:

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 lower-level 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.

Key Benefits:• 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.

EBOM EditingAn 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 VisualizationCollaborative 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.

Product Development Change Processes 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 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 AssembliesMultiple 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.

Reporting 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 multi-level 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.

Product ConfiguratorConfigured 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-to-order (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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