Creating and Updating the Manufacturing BOM (mBOM)
Leverage information from engineering into manufacturing
What is a manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM)?
The manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM), also referred to as manufacturing BOM is a detailed list of all the materials, components, and subassemblies needed to manufacture a finished product. It is essential for production planning and inventory management and provides the necessary instructions for assembling the product. The mBOM includes information on the quantity of each material required, the sequence of assembly operations, and other relevant details necessary for manufacturing the product. The different components in the mBOM can either be consumed, destroyed, produced, or disassembled by the operations group in the related process plans.
Why is a manufacturing BOM important?
The mBOM is crucial for ensuring that the manufacturing process runs smoothly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. It helps manufacturers keep track of inventory, avoid shortages, and ensure that the final product meets quality and design specifications. The mBOM drives manufacturing, operations, purchasing, and logistics for a product. The information from the mBOM feeds the business systems used to order parts and build the product. These include enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions.
How does a manufacturing BOM differ from eBOM?
The mBOM is tailored for the factory and the manufacturing process, ensuring that all necessary information for production is included. The eBOM is tailored for the design process, ensuring that the product is correctly specified and documented from an engineering perspective. Both are crucial for different stages of the product lifecycle and must be carefully managed to ensure consistency and accuracy across the product’s development and manufacturing.
How does manufacturing bill of materials software work?
MBOM software centralizes and manages data on components, assemblies, and materials for product manufacturing. It supports BOM creation, version control, and integrates with ERP and CAD systems. The software handles change management via engineering change orders (ECOs). With mBOM software you can:
Manage costs and inventory
Aid production planning and scheduling
Provide reporting and analytics
Facilitate collaboration across departments and with suppliers
Ensure compliance and documentation
Enhance efficiency and accuracy in manufacturing
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Demonstration: How Polaris creates their mBOM
Transforming an engineering bill of materials (eBOM) into a manufacturing bill of materials is a key component of the manufacturing process. See how the as-planned, or manufacturing BOM is created, including manufacturing process plans.
Customer stories
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Enable manufacturing teams to associatively create the manufacturing BOM from the eBOM and prepare process manufacturing plans.
Encourage Collaboration
Share eBOMs earlier to gain feedback from others based on validating and optimizing preliminary versions of BOMs
Manage Engineering Change
Automate updates to the mBOM, and created associative BOMs for manufacturing, service, and others
Create a Digital Thread
Associate product and manufacturing data across the value chain, leveraging multi-system data orchestration, and release to ERP/MES
Enable Scale and Performance
Easily manage large data sets, configurations, and variants with our flexible PLM data model