Product Structure & Bill of Materials
Building product architectures and structures with precision - integrated management of bills of materials and synchronization with CAD models
Benefits
- Develop requirements-oriented products
- Create mechatronic product structures for systems engineering
- Configure variants with 150% BOMs
- Manage BOMs and ensuring compliance
- Use reliable interfaces between development and production
Develop requirements-oriented products
CONTACT's Requirements & Functions allows you to record and process requirements and monitor their fulfillment. This module links requirements with functions, components or tasks, which allows you to control changes and detailed elaboration during the development process directly in the virtual product instead of managing them separately.
Develop in accordance with the V model
CONTACT Elements requirements management capability provides comprehensive support for development in line with the V model for model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This enables you to ensure the transparency of all relationships and dependencies, identify the impact of changes and navigate requirements, functions and product structures with visual support and analyze them more quickly.
Develop requirements-oriented products
CONTACT's Requirements & Functions allows you to record and process requirements and monitor their fulfillment. This module links requirements with functions, components or tasks, which allows you to control changes and detailed elaboration during the development process directly in the virtual product instead of managing them separately.
Develop in accordance with the V model
CONTACT Elements requirements management capability provides comprehensive support for development in line with the V model for model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This enables you to ensure the transparency of all relationships and dependencies, identify the impact of changes and navigate requirements, functions and product structures with visual support and analyze them more quickly.
CONTACT's Requirements & Functions allows you to record and process requirements and monitor their fulfillment. This module links requirements with functions, components or tasks, which allows you to control changes and detailed elaboration during the development process directly in the virtual product instead of managing them separately.
Develop in accordance with the V model
CONTACT Elements requirements management capability provides comprehensive support for development in line with the V model for model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This enables you to ensure the transparency of all relationships and dependencies, identify the impact of changes and navigate requirements, functions and product structures with visual support and analyze them more quickly.
Create mechatronic product structures for systems engineering
Describe products based on their functional product architecture, which incorporates modular elements with concrete technical solutions. Then specify the solution components involving the disciplines mechanical engineering, E/E and software in a common product structure. At the same time, provide support for interfaces to leading CAx tools and state-of-the-art version control systems such as Git and implementations such as GitHub or GitLab in the context of the "software as a part" approach and its processes.
Create mechatronic product structures for systems engineering
Describe products based on their functional product architecture, which incorporates modular elements with concrete technical solutions. Then specify the solution components involving the disciplines mechanical engineering, E/E and software in a common product structure. At the same time, provide support for interfaces to leading CAx tools and state-of-the-art version control systems such as Git and implementations such as GitHub or GitLab in the context of the "software as a part" approach and its processes.
Describe products based on their functional product architecture, which incorporates modular elements with concrete technical solutions. Then specify the solution components involving the disciplines mechanical engineering, E/E and software in a common product structure. At the same time, provide support for interfaces to leading CAx tools and state-of-the-art version control systems such as Git and implementations such as GitHub or GitLab in the context of the "software as a part" approach and its processes.
Configure variants with 150% BOMs
Configurable BOMs allow feature-driven development. Benefit from the advantages of efficient variant creation thanks to over-defined maximum BOMs. Perform configuration by entering requirements in the form of values of characteristics and simply select the relevant items from the maximum BOM on the basis of rules. Take advantage of support when configuring 100% components and corresponding CAD model structures.
Configure variants with 150% BOMs
Configurable BOMs allow feature-driven development. Benefit from the advantages of efficient variant creation thanks to over-defined maximum BOMs. Perform configuration by entering requirements in the form of values of characteristics and simply select the relevant items from the maximum BOM on the basis of rules. Take advantage of support when configuring 100% components and corresponding CAD model structures.
Configurable BOMs allow feature-driven development. Benefit from the advantages of efficient variant creation thanks to over-defined maximum BOMs. Perform configuration by entering requirements in the form of values of characteristics and simply select the relevant items from the maximum BOM on the basis of rules. Take advantage of support when configuring 100% components and corresponding CAD model structures.
Manage your BOMs and data efficiently and ensure compliance
BOMs contain extensive data such as data on materials and semi-finished products, dimensions, weight and quantities. It forms the starting point for calculating costs, weights and quantities of harmful substances, planning material requirements and much more. CONTACT Elements Product Structure & BOM supports the automatic derivation of this data from CAD model structures, sample structures and 150% BOMs.
Compliance in process guarantees document validity
Cutting down on the number of manual operations involved in maintaining BOMs reduces errors and subsequent costs, for example in your procurement department. In combination with the automatic provision of relevant context information such as models and drawings, you can ensure that a product's documentation fully meets compliance requirements.
Manage your BOMs and data efficiently and ensure compliance
BOMs contain extensive data such as data on materials and semi-finished products, dimensions, weight and quantities. It forms the starting point for calculating costs, weights and quantities of harmful substances, planning material requirements and much more. CONTACT Elements Product Structure & BOM supports the automatic derivation of this data from CAD model structures, sample structures and 150% BOMs.
Compliance in process guarantees document validity
Cutting down on the number of manual operations involved in maintaining BOMs reduces errors and subsequent costs, for example in your procurement department. In combination with the automatic provision of relevant context information such as models and drawings, you can ensure that a product's documentation fully meets compliance requirements.
BOMs contain extensive data such as data on materials and semi-finished products, dimensions, weight and quantities. It forms the starting point for calculating costs, weights and quantities of harmful substances, planning material requirements and much more. CONTACT Elements Product Structure & BOM supports the automatic derivation of this data from CAD model structures, sample structures and 150% BOMs.
Compliance in process guarantees document validity
Cutting down on the number of manual operations involved in maintaining BOMs reduces errors and subsequent costs, for example in your procurement department. In combination with the automatic provision of relevant context information such as models and drawings, you can ensure that a product's documentation fully meets compliance requirements.
Supply ERP and production with reliable data
The automatic and reliable transfer of BOMs to sourcing, process planning and production engineering in the ERP system completes the development. The challenges here are the early scheduling of long-runners in mechanical and plant engineering, the integration of subsequent technical changes and the mapping of logistical concerns such as plant-specific material uses and structures suitable for production or assembly. CONTACT Elements Product Structure & BOM and the xBOM Manager make it possible to master these challenges reliably.
Easier synchronization of engineering and manufacturing BOMs
The mapping of design changes to manufacturing BOMs and other structures such as service, spare parts or maintenance BOMs is a central challenge. With CONTACT's xBOM Manager you support production planning with the fast and secure synchronization of engineering BOMs with manufacturing BOMs and any other structures. In this way, you ensure stable processes and controlled product data at the interfaces between development, production and service.
The automatic and reliable transfer of BOMs to sourcing, process planning and production engineering in the ERP system completes the development. The challenges here are the early scheduling of long-runners in mechanical and plant engineering, the integration of subsequent technical changes and the mapping of logistical concerns such as plant-specific material uses and structures suitable for production or assembly. CONTACT Elements Product Structure & BOM and the xBOM Manager make it possible to master these challenges reliably.
Easier synchronization of engineering and manufacturing BOMs
The mapping of design changes to manufacturing BOMs and other structures such as service, spare parts or maintenance BOMs is a central challenge. With CONTACT's xBOM Manager you support production planning with the fast and secure synchronization of engineering BOMs with manufacturing BOMs and any other structures. In this way, you ensure stable processes and controlled product data at the interfaces between development, production and service.
ON DEMAND WEBCAST
Marel's Digital Highway - a reference case
Learn more about Marel's IT architecture project "Digital Highway"– and thus about next-generation PLM, enterprise architecture integration, and cross-system collaboration and efficient communication.
ON DEMAND WEBCAST
Marel's Digital Highway - a reference case
Learn more about Marel's IT architecture project "Digital Highway"– and thus about next-generation PLM, enterprise architecture integration, and cross-system collaboration and efficient communication.
ON DEMAND WEBCAST
Marel's Digital Highway - a reference case
Learn more about Marel's IT architecture project "Digital Highway"– and thus about next-generation PLM, enterprise architecture integration, and cross-system collaboration and efficient communication.
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The easier way from requirements to product
Implement requirements in a comprehensible and function-oriented way
Make use of requirements directly within the project and product context
Link requirements and present a clear overview of interrelationships
Monitor the degree of fulfillment and take corrective action
Accelerate product development through intelligent management of simulation data and processes
Make simulation processes available company-wide with best practices
Automate processes without programming effort
Save time and reduce errors by integrating the CAD and CAE process chains
Effective frontloading for variable product design
Determine the variability in product management and engineering
Define complete variant models quickly and easily
Supply the correct items, BOMs and model data automatically to downstream processes
Fast and reliable synchronization of engineering and manufacturing BOMs
Efficient interaction between development and production planning
Fast and safe elimination of quantity differences
Synchronization with other parts lists for service, spare parts and maintenance
Reliably evaluate deviations directly in the 3D model
Be better informed and make faster decisions with 3D product data
Better processes with model data at the push of a button
Visual analyses and decisions with the 3D Cockpit
Easier sharing of model data for team collaboration
3D-PDF, JT & STEP: More possibilities with standards
Digital mockups accelerate product protection
High-end DMU functions at every workstation Validate technical changes with automated geometry comparisons Collision calculations for optimal decisions on variant-specific geometry High-quality image data for documentation or marketing directly from CAD models
High-end DMU functions at every workstation
Validate technical changes with automated geometry comparisons
Collision calculations for optimal decisions on variant-specific geometry
High-quality image data for documentation or marketing directly from CAD models
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