Today’s trend in manufacturing is
customization of product; this is a big challenge for manufacturing companies.
It is very flexible and good to deal the things in mass-production companies,
when the target is to produce large number of items with predefined
configurations. Today, clients are thinking on how to customize, reuse, and
quick complete everything. Companies dealing with ETO type of business are
facing similar challenges.
Effective Bill of Materials
management system can address this challenge. If company have flexible BOM
management system allowing manipulating BOM structures and integrated with ERP
environment, few of below points are on the best way of handling BOM along with
CAD
2. Create your modular bills and create a planning bill for a specific product. This one will allow you to roll out cost and delivery time for a specific product order.
3. Identify part families or type of items like standard part (fasteners), engineering parts, processes components (Casting, machining to complete FG), consumable items etc. along with the Item fit to various configurations
4. Making Effective re-usability of items as per customer requirements queries & search
5. Keep the practice of both hybrid way bottom up and top down approaches depending on the organization business, product structure driven from CAD data vice versa
6. Keep use Top down bom approach from product structure driven for complex products along with concurrent design work
7. Configure and build to generate various quick reports of BOM, As per effectivity date, Vendor list report
8. Make practice of Revising CAD only
9. Make proper CAD attributes mapping with part info
10. Strong and effective Design review Processes to adapt form early phase of designs once preliminary BOM built
11. Include all reference documents, specifications to BOM parts
12. Filtering BOMs can be configured as built, as designed and As released
CAD Data management best practices
2. Have controlled versioning of CAD data,
3. Map and Built Part and Drawing templates
4. Work with common settings in collaborative environment, like libraries, templates, settings are same for all CAD users
5. Controlled Release process of CAD and go with preliminary reviews
6. Building Bottom up approaches recommended
7. Have robust design reviews cross functionally
8. Flexible processes to accommodate changes with timely notifications in Design changes
9. Practice of Concurrent design and Design in context method
10. Make a secured and shared one product wise repository to save the cad
11. Build CAD data as per design practices and parametric modeling
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