Video - Bill of Manufacturing Overview
What does the bill of manufacturing do for you?
The bill of manufacturing (BOM) stores item manufacturing specifications and provides the following features and benefits:
•Unlike a bill of materials, which is limited to components, the bill of manufacturing encompasses all manufacturing specifications, including revisions, routing, components, and outputs.
•The bill of manufacturing fits almost any type of product, including standard items, subassemblies, batch type items, one-off custom items, byproducts, co-products, disassembled items, and remanufactured items.
•The bill of manufacturing provides all the specifications needed to drive MRP and shop control.
•Revisions provide engineering control and enable you to track specifications for current, pending, and past product versions.
•The routing lists all labor and subcontract service processes and associated details in sequential order and is the basis for product costing, work center scheduling, labor tracking, and job subcontracting.
•Multiple outputs accommodate byproducts, co-products, and disassembled items and are ideal for disassembly and remanufacturing jobs.
•Each BOM’s multi-level product structure is displayed in indented and tree view formats.
•You can attach documents, files, or web links to BOM parents for automatic linking to jobs, which can be used for spec sheets, engineering drawings, images, safety data sheets, QC data collection sheets, training and safety compliance videos, CAD drawings, and website links
•Rapid BOM creation is facilitated by standard work center and subcontractor processes and the routing generator and speed entry functions.
•BOM components can be imported from CAD programs and other sources.
•The bill of manufacturing includes notes and task details within labor sequences that print on the shop traveler and provide process instructions out on the shop floor.
•Bills of manufacturing enable you to transfer process knowledge from key production employees to your database so that it is preserved and protected and can be accessed by anyone who needs it.
•The bill of manufacturing provides extensive process documentation, augmented with the ability to attach documents to items for automatic linking to jobs, which can help you comply with ISO-9000 and other documentation requirements.
Our design is optimized for small business
We’ve designed our bill of manufacturing so that it can be successfully used by companies of any size, especially small businesses, for these reasons:
•Many small businesses make complex products and need BOM capabilities that go beyond the simple component lists provided by light manufacturing systems.
•The bill of manufacturing drives our “Total Control” process workflow, which eliminates all manual processes and is the easiest and most efficient way to run the manufacturing side of your business, no matter how small it may be.
Who is this guide for?
This guide is for the benefit of managers, product engineers, production planners, and anyone who wants to learn how a bill of manufacturing works or is considering using DBA as a manufacturing solution.
