Bill of Materials (BOM) Management
Comprehensive out-of-the-box product structure management that provides full digital associativity across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and service.
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What is Bill of Materials Management (BOM)?
BOM management involves capturing, configuring, and managing all product data developed throughout the lifecycle. Effective BOM management is critical to a manufacturer’s success, regardless of company size or the complexity of the part count.
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Your Digital Transformation starts with BOM Management
Most manufacturers struggle with speed and agility as product options and variants grow. Legacy tools and manual processes make it challenging to ensure the traceability and associativity of critical product information.
By adopting a part-centric approach to managing their bill of materials, manufacturers foster seamless collaboration—from product conception through manufacturing, device connectivity, and field service.
Benefits of BOM Management
Explore ten ways manufacturers can realize immediate benefits through a digital product definition. This approach ensures full connectivity across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and service.
Early Stakeholder Visibility
Ensures access to critical data from initial stages, breaking down silos and accelerating Time-to-Market.
Multi-Domain BOM Structures
Provides interconnected views for every department, ensuring full traceability across mechanical, electrical, and software components.
Seamless Configuration Management
Automates lifecycle management, ensuring continuous configuration transfer from concept to final mBOM.
Comprehensive Digital Visualization
Provides 3D models across the enterprise, streamlining part recognition and optimizing downstream processes.
Part and Supplier Optimization
Drives component reuse to reduce waste and costs, enabling rapid location of approved and preferred parts.
Change Governance and Traceability
Manages product evolution with full traceability, keeping all deliverables synchronized with engineering updates.
Secure Collaboration
Shares accurate real-time data to boost global productivity while strictly protecting corporate Intellectual Property (IP).
BOM-Driven Reporting
Empowers users with deep insights into the digital product definition, enabling cost, weight, and pattern analysis.
BOM Transformation Capabilities
Enables customized BOM views (eBOM to mBOM), allowing manufacturing teams to start planning well before drawings are finalized.
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Key BOM Management Software Features
Windchill provides comprehensive out-of-the-box configuration management for a model-based Digital Thread. Downstream digital content is associative (rather than copied), ensuring traceable and live links to manufacturing, service, and beyond.
Advanced 3D Visualization
View 3D configurations with on-demand loading and interference checking. Leverage Creo View models for process plans, work instructions, and AR.
Parts Classification
Streamline part discovery via graphical navigation or attribute search. Ensure standardization through classification-driven naming conventions.
BOM Transformation
Maintain associative views across eBOM, mBOM, and sBOM to streamline reconciliation with full textual and graphical transformation support.
Dynamic Editing
Manage designs with inline editing, autocomplete search, and spreadsheet imports, driving the BOM directly from the CAD data.
Options and Variants
Build configurable product platforms and generate automatic 3D deliverables for downstream needs, including MBOM and process plans.
Part Type Definition
Customize attributes, lifecycles, and access controls for different component types to meet specific business and regulatory needs.
Structure Comparison
Compare differences across BOMs, CAD files, and documents. Explore geometric and metadata variances directly within the 3D environment.
AML/AVL Management
Link supplier data to product design and define preferred vendors for commodities. Enable seamless supply chain and engineering collaboration.
History & Timeline
Track the complete evolution of components. Compare versions and structure changes directly from the integrated history table.
Replacements & Supersedes
Define interchangeability relationships, including alternates, substitutes, and technical obsolescence management.
Embedded Software Integration
Link software deliverables from SCM tools to the BOM to provide a holistic digital product definition including software.
Types of Bill of Materials
Engineering BOM (eBOM)
Enables product design to associatively create the EBOM from up-to-date CAD and PLM data, ensuring design integrity.
Manufacturing BOM (mBOM)
Empowers manufacturing teams to create the MBOM associatively from the EBOM and prepare manufacturing process plans and work instructions.
Service BOM (sBOM)
Enables service teams to associatively create the SBOM from the EBOM, managing service parts and establishing connected field service.
PTC Solutions for BOM
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Adote uma estratégia baseada em componentes para gerenciar suas BOMs com uma única fonte da verdade. Experimente a gestão integrada do ciclo de vida (PLM), conectando o conceito inicial, design, iterações técnicas e o lançamento estratégico ao mercado.
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