iRobot's Journey to Product Nirvana
To ensure stakeholders were receiving maximum value from bill of materials management, iRobot adopted a quick-win approach to deploy projects in three- to six-month increments.
Hear the StoryBOM management is the capturing, configuring, and managing of all product data that is developed throughout the lifecycle of a product. Effective BOM management is critical to a manufacturer’s success no matter the size or the number of parts in the product.
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.
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.
This white paper provides additional details on the ten ways an organization can gain immediate benefits from a digital product definition with a comprehensive BOM.
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.
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.
Editing: Create and manage product designs including inline editing, autocomplete search, save-as, import from spreadsheet, and driving BOM built from CAD
Compare: Compare product structures including differences in parts, bill of materials, CAD, documents, etc. View differences and explore in 3D
Part replacements and supersedes: Define relationships of interchangeability including alternates, substitutes and part obsolescence
Part classification: Define attributes that streamline finding parts using graphical navigation or attribute searching. Ensure part standardization through classification driven naming
Options and variants: Build configurable product platforms and create configurations and 3D deliverables for design and downstream needs such as MBOM and process plans
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
Integration for embedded software: Link software deliverables from SCM tools to BOM to provide a complete product definition including software
Transformation: Associative engineering, manufacturing, and service bill of materials views to streamline reconciliation; support for textual and graphical transformation
Part types: Define parts definitions that help describe and capture different business needs with varying attributes, lifecycles and access control.
Part history: Timeline history; compare information and part structure directly from history table
Learn how these companies have adopted a parts-centric approach to managing their BOMs in order to drive their digital transformation.
To ensure stakeholders were receiving maximum value from bill of materials management, iRobot adopted a quick-win approach to deploy projects in three- to six-month increments.
Hear the StoryDiscover how Lifetime Products evolved from manual processes to digital traceability and collaboration in a series of short projects.
Watch the VideoLearn how Nidec was able to improve product quality by taking a parts-centric approach to BOM management.
Learn MoreEnable product design to associatively create the EBOM from up-to-date CAD and PLM data.
Enable manufacturing teams to associatively create the MBOM from the EBOM and prepare process manufacturing plans and work instructions.
Enable service teams to associatively create the SBOM from the EBOM. Prepare work instructions, manage service parts and information, and establish connected field service.
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Give stakeholders throughout your organization quick and easy access to product data. Windchill, PTC’s product lifecycle management solution, helps break down organizational silos leading to:
Windchill offers organizations the performance and scale they need to manage large data sets and with subscription pricing, you only pay for what you need. Plus, with easy integration to the ThingWorx IoT platform, data from smart, connected products in the field can be leveraged for a digital twin.
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