Your digital transformation starts with BOM management
Most manufacturers are grappling with speed and agility in the face of growing numbers of product options and variants. Homegrown tools and processes make it very challenging to find and ensure traceability and associativity of the right product information.
By adopting a parts-centric approach to managing their bill of materials, manufacturers can foster collaboration from the point of product conception through manufacturing, device connectivity, and field service.
Transform your bill of materials for organizational improvements
By utilizing BOM management software, you reduce the risk of errors and rework by eliminating the reuse of obsolete data. Not only does this save time in development and industrialization, it also ensures that suppliers, factories, sales, and service are always aware of changes with automated synchronization between the respective bills of materials. The result is faster time to market, higher operational efficiency, greater component availability, and lower costs of non-quality.
Comprehensive BOM management and transformation functionality
With PTC’s BOM management and transformation solution, product designers create and manage a part-centric digital product that can be leveraged at every step of the product lifecycle. Now mechanical, software, electronic parts and related artifacts can be integrated into the engineering bills of materials. This provides organizations a single interface for collaboration between domain systems such as CAD, PLM, and ERP. The PLM system ensures that everyone from the shop floor worker to the service technician to the seller configuring a customer order are using the correct product information.
Key BOM management software features
Comprehensive out-of-the-box configuration management for a model-based digital thread. Downstream digital content is associative (not copied) with traceable links to manufacturing, service, and more.
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Visualization: See product configurations in 3D including loading components on demand, perform interference checking, color coded search and visual compare in Creo View, while fully leveraging these viewables in downstream in process plans, work instructions, catalogs, AR, etc.
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Editing: Create and manage product designs including inline editing, autocomplete search, save-as, import from spreadsheet, and driving BOM built from CAD
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Compare: Compare product structures including differences in parts, bill of materials, CAD, documents, etc. View differences and explore in 3D
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Part replacements and supersedes: Define relationships of interchangeability including alternates, substitutes and part obsolescence
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Part classification: Define attributes that streamline finding parts using graphical navigation or attribute searching. Ensure part standardization through classification driven naming
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Options and variants: Build configurable product platforms and create configurations and 3D deliverables for design and downstream needs such as MBOM and process plans
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Part AML/AVL: Tie supplier part information to product design and allow definition of preferred suppliers for commodity parts. Enable part request process for supply chain and engineering collaboration
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Integration for embedded software: Link software deliverables from SCM tools to BOM to provide a complete product definition including software
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Transformation: Associative engineering, manufacturing, and service bill of materials views to streamline reconciliation; support for textual and graphical transformation
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Part types: Define parts definitions that help describe and capture different business needs with varying attributes, lifecycles and access control.
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Part history: Timeline history; compare information and part structure directly from history table
Customer stories
Learn how these companies have adopted a parts-centric approach to managing their BOMs in order to drive their digital transformation.
Learn more about Windchill
Explore PTC’s Windchill enterprise PLM solution. With its breakthrough PLM capabilities, Windchill enables you to adopt a parts-centric approach to managing your bill of materials with a single source of truth to all product data. Experience true closed-loop lifecycle management from early concept through all iterations, design cycles, and stages until your product is fully released.
A Getting Started Guide to a Part-Centric BOM
Learn why shifting to a part-centric way of developing products is a step in the right direction towards digital transformation.