Manufacturing BOM (MBOM) is an interesting topic. After all design and engineering operation, MBOM defines how product is going to be actually manufactured. While most of PLM / ERP debates about MBOM are going around “who owns what”, the most fascinating part that I found in MBOM is related to the…
There is no person in manufacturing universe that can underestimate the importance of right Bill of Material information. However, I can see people responsible for material management in a special league for the context of material management and BOM. Doug Wallace of Life Cycle Engineering (www.lce.com) speaks exactly about that in…
BOM Management. Multiple BOM Views. These topic are always drives lots of discussion in a real life and online. There is no question about importance of BOM in product development, engineering, manufacturing… Literally, you cannot do anything without Bill of Materials. Few weeks ago, I came with the topic that…
I’d like to continue discussion I started in my earlier post – Seven Rules Towards Single Bill of Materials. So, what are possible collisions on the way to the single bill of materials?. So, let’s take design, engineering and manufacturing bills. When I look on opposite sides – design and…
In my previous post “Search for the right BOM – I’m feeling lucky? “, I started to discover possible ways to handle Bill of Materials in the organization and extended enterprise. Thank you all for your comments. I think we had a good conversation, so I’d like to continue now in…
