PLM-Seminar at Gardermoen: How the idea of single BoM can fit variant and configuration management

Oleg Shilovitsky @ Beyond PLM
Copyright © Beyond PLM 2015
How the idea of single BoM can fit
variants and configuration management?
http://www.infuseit.com/oslo2015?EMTID=duZdjrxtTBlD9q5QFhY9

Who am I?
1990s: Selling and developing Autodesk apps in Israel
2000s: SmarTeam, Enovia, Dassault… platform and applications for PDM and PLM
2010-12: Inforbix (acquired by Autodesk): Developed tech for cloud search and data analytics
2012-14: Autodesk: joined the team working on PLM 360 and search technologies
2015… Beyond PLM consulting and social media
After 20 years with SmarTeam, Dassault Systems and
Autodesk, I’m consulting engineering and manufacturing
companies about PLM and technologies

Beyond PLM

Beyond PLM…
I started to blog in 2008 and didn’t stop…
For the last 6 years I wrote ~1800 blogs about PLM and
related topics - technology, engineering, manufacturing...
It is more than 1’000’000 words …and I learned a lot:
What I learned about PLM from six years of daily blogging

Why BOM is a boring topic to present?
This is really cool stuff you would like to present
image source: 3dprint.com, electrical-cars.net

Why BOM is a boring topic to present?
image source: microsoft, SAP
These pictures are less cool…

BOM is everywhere…
….because you cannot do much without BOM
image source: http://www.macobserver.com/

Even “simple” products are complex today

Demand for mass customization
Customers’ demand custom-build product for the mass production cost

Examples of Configurable Products
Picture credit: McKinsey article – How technology can drive the next wave of mass customization

True & Co. - customer driven configurations
picture credit: https://trueandco.com

Value chain economics
Build to order, speed, engagement with consumer

Supply Chain
MRP, ERP, PLM ... Where is “The BOM”?
Manufacturing Design & engineering
Sales & Marketing
material procurement
shopflow planning
product control & planning
material planning
demand and scheduling
Design
Product planning
Engineering
Contract manufacturing
Sales configuration
Compliance & regulation
BOM
MBOM
EBOM
XBOMSBOM
BOM connects all engineering and non-engineering processes

Design Eng Mfg Service Refab
Product Lifecycle
Disciplines
Mechanical
Electric
Electronic
Software
Services
ECR
ECO
ECN
Changes
CAD and other content creation tools…
Data and lifecycle tools
(PDM, PLM, MRP, ERP, SCM….)
BOM
Multiple dimensions of BOM complexity

Bill of material and product lifecycle
Design Engineering and Manufacturing Physical
product
Require
ments
Design Engineering Planning
Planning
Planning
Ordering As-built
As-Built-SNMBOM
Support
Kit
Spec
How to synchronize BOM data across the product lifecycle chain?

● Complete data representation
● Unique part numbers
● Synchronized changed
● To use only “part numbers” (no doc#...)
● Include all scheduled items for mfg
● Decrease # of levels
● Complete approval process
What about “single BOM” idea?
http://beyondplm.com/2009/10/14/seven-rules-towards-single-bill-of-material/
“Single”
BOM
Design
BOM
Engineering
BOM
Supply
BOM
Regulation
BOM
Production
BOM
Support
BOM

Why industry invented 150% BOM?
Reasons:
Variant structure
Configurable BOM
BTO process
Also:
Custom development

Duplication is inefficient
Variant 1 Variant 2 Variant 3

Generic BOM with modules, classes, options
Configurations:
Products
Modules
Classes
Options
Rules
...
Generic BOM Custom BOM

Vision of single “Configurable BOM”
CONFIGURABLE BOM
RESOLVED BOM
GENERIC BOM

Why companies are not ready for “single BOM”?
http://beyondplm.com/2012/12/19/why-companies-are-not-ready-for-single-bom/
Multidisciplinary design tools No agreement to shareData controlling behavior

3 important questions about BOM
Q1: How to share configured BOM?
Q2: How to stop syncing BOM between silos?
Q3: How CAD, PLM and ERP will share BOM ?

Got a question? Call me…
Thank you!oleg@beyondplm.com

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