You can use Teamcenter’s BOM managementcapabilities to understand how productdefinitions and configurations evolve across anentire product lifecycle. These capabilities allowyou to maintain the accuracy of the product’sBOM information, manage engineering changesacross multiple configurations, synchronizedownstream BOMs and manage BOM changesacross product variants.

Teamcenter enables you to relate and consolidaterepresentations that contribute to yourproduct definition as these definitions evolveacross the entire product lifecycle. This provides your product teams with total visibility into youras-designed, as-planned, as-built, as-manufactured and as-delivered product configurations.

Teamcenter’s data neutral BOM management tools enable you to structure and link all types of datato your product lifecycle. You can use Teamcenter to consolidate the definition of multiple productofferings by leveraging their commonality, thereby providing a basis for your re-use initiatives. Productteams can use Teamcenter’s BOM markup and rollup capabilities to determine the real-time effect ofdesign changes or configuration selections.

Design teams can also define allowable alternate and substitute parts so that manufacturingteams can select a defined alternative and keep the assembly process going when the primary partis unavailable.

You can use Teamcenter to support traditional BOM business management objectives – such asreleasing parts to production – as well as to extend BOM management to other lifecycle activities,including requirements definition, simulation, manufacturing, sourcing and maintenance, repair andoverhaul (MRO).

Teamcenter auditing tools facilitate accountability and completeness checking by providing visualfeedback about what product information is complete and what information is still in progress.

Teamcenter for bill of materials managementManaging BOM-related product definitions across the entire product lifecycle

BenefitsEnable product teams to meetquality, time, market and costrequirements by providing totaland accurate visibility intoyour BOM product definitionsand configurations

Facilitate flexibility and re-use byproviding product teams with fullunderstanding of overarchingproduct platforms that supportmultiple options, variantsand derivatives

Improve speed-to-market bysynchronizing upstream anddownstream BOMs, therebyenabling better cross-disciplinecoordination

Improve team and personalproductivity by ensuring lifecycleparticipants that they are workingwith the right configurations andright working versions of the rightproduct definitions

FeaturesProduct configuration andBOM management

Manage BOM structure and link anytype of data to the product lifecycle

BOM markup and rollup capabilitiesallow users to visualize the effect ofdesign changes and configurationselections in real-time

SummaryTeamcenter® software’s bill of materials (BOM) management capabilities help you manage increasingly complex products by providingtotal visibility into your product definitions and configurations and the way this information evolves throughout the product lifecycle.Teamcenter enables all lifecycle participants to leverage BOM information relevant to their functional needs. Especially valuable whenused in conjunction with Teamcenter’s configuration and change management capabilities, BOM management lets you manage productplatforms, variants and derivatives essential for improving your product customization and re-use.

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You can use Teamcenter’s where-used/where-referenced capabilities to make certain thatlifecycle stakeholders understand the full impactof proposed design changes.

You can leverage BOM management inconjunction with Teamcenter’s contextmanagement capabilities to enable individualproduct team members to “view” the productconfiguration within a time or feature-basedperspective unique to their task or role.Teamcenter facilitates this by tying productconfigurations and their definitions to real-world work breakdown structures.

Equally important, Teamcenter enables team members to understand how their “views” and functionalroles pertain to views and roles of other teams and lifecycle participants.

Business challengesTurning a product into profitable reality is not easy.You need to coordinate the efforts of many peopleto meet a common goal.Today’s companies deal with increasing levels of product complexity, includingthe need to support segmented markets, personalized consumer preferences and rapidly risingtechnology advances.

Your company needs to coordinate parts, assemblies, subsystems and systems developed, manufacturedor supplied by different groups using different software. Coordinating these deliverables forms the basicelements of a product in the terms of its offerings, systems, assemblies and basic parts, as well as itsmanufacturing. Managing the bill of materials is a critical element for any company.

With increasingly complex products, shorter lead times, and more advanced and varied productofferings, it becomes progressively more difficult to maintain the accuracy of your BOM information.Managing engineering change across configurations, keeping downstream BOMs synchronized andmanaging BOM changes across variants adds to product complexity.

BOM management is a critical part of designing and manufacturing any product.Your teams needtailored visibility to central product information by role, and extended configuration managementbeyond the bill of materials to include a richer product definition.This leaves companies struggling toimprove their quality and time to market, while reducing development, manufacturing and productlifecycle costs in order to remain competitive.

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Features continueAlternate, substitute and spare partmanagement enables allowedalternatives to be specified duringdesign, thereby preventingunavailable primary parts fromstopping production

Process-specific data structure anddata management

Traditional business BOMmanagement can be extended toproduct lifecycle stages beyonddesign and engineering

Alignment capabilities link thecontent of multiple representations,thereby reducing duplicate work

Lifecycle representation management

Revision management and effectivitycapabilities accurately control andconfigure product information asit evolves

Auditing tools provide visualfeedback on what productinformation is complete and whatstill needs to be done

Advanced where-used and where-referenced tools facilitate theunderstanding of change impact

Context management

Advanced context managementcapabilities allow stakeholders toview product definitions andconfigurations in a time or feature-based perspective relative to theirlifecycle function

Accountability tools enable productteam members to understand howthe content of their product “view”relates to, is common to or isuniquely different than otherproduct “views”

Open application and systemsmanagement

Support integration with otherenterprise applications, like ERP, topass BOM information back andforth between PLM and ERP toeliminate errors of re-entry

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