Bill of Materials Management (BOM)
Optimize Your Product Development Process with BOM Management
Streamline Your Product Development Process with Bill of Materials Management
Revolutionize your product development process with comprehensive out-of-the-box product structure management that offers full digital associativity across all product lifecycle stages. From engineering to supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and service, Windchill ensures seamless management of all product data.
As BOM management plays a crucial role in capturing, configuring, and managing all product data throughout the product lifecycle, it’s essential for manufacturers of all sizes. With Windchill’s effective BOM management capabilities, you can ensure the success of your manufacturing operations, regardless of the number of parts in your product.
Improve product quality
BOM ensures that the correct components are used in the production process, reducing errors and defects.
Increased efficiency
Manufacturers can streamline their production process, minimize waste, and reduce costs.
Faster time-to-market
Speed up the product development process, enabling companies to get their products to market faster.
The Benefits of Moving from Paper-Based to Digital BOMs
Customer story
Lifetime Products, founded in 1986, is a company that manufactures polyethylene blow molding and metal forming technology to create a variety of consumer and industrial products. In a recent interview with Brady Buchanan, Director of PLM, he shares the step-by-step approach that Lifetime Products took in implementing their BOM management system and the tangible benefits they achieved. The company’s shift to digital BOMs enabled them to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve collaboration across teams.
Effective BOM management boosts product development efficiency and speeds up time to market, providing a competitive edge for companies.
Why BOM Management?
Here are ten ways manufacturers can realize immediate benefits from a digital product definition that provides full connectivity across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and service.
- Provide early visibility to stakeholders
- Comprehensively manage configurations
- Improve component and supplier management
- Optimize downstream utilization
- Create BOM-based reports
- Support a range of BOM structures
- Enable pervasive visualization
- Ensure change management and traceability
- Enable collaboration and IP protection
- Make BOM transformation a reality
Key BOM Management Software Features
BOM management software allows users to visualize product configurations in 3D, edit and manage product designs, compare product structures, define part relationships, classify parts for easy navigation, build configurable product platforms, and tie supplier part information to product design.
The software also supports associative engineering, manufacturing, and service BOM views for streamlined reconciliation and provides part history and timeline comparisons. These features enable efficient and effective product development, supply chain management, and collaboration among various teams and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
Explore the BOM Management
Bill of Material Buyer’s Guide
Implementing a digital BOM can improve maturity of BOM processes, help with personalization, collaboration, and efficiency, and support organization-wide digital transformation efforts. The Tech-Clarity Buyer’s Guide to BOM Management covers the benefits of digitizing BOM management, functionalities, service options, vendor requirements, and the importance of looking beyond current needs to support the digital future. Use this guide to improve the maturity of your own BOM management practices.
Webinar Series: BOM Management
Improving the maturity of BOM-related processes helps to manage complexity, increase product personalization, improve efficiency, prevent mistakes, and enhance collaboration across departments and the supply. Our experts produced a webinar series about BOM Management that presents a practical to power your operation.
- Webinar 1 | Manage your CAD to eBOM Process
- Webinar 2 | Manage eBOM to mBOM to Work Instruction Process
- Webinar 3 | Bill of Materials Management in Windchill
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