Bill of Materials helps reduce your engineering costs by providing you with the vital base of product information you need to support your engineering and manufactured requirements. This is accomplished by relating parent and component item numbers in a way that accurately reflects your product’s structure.

The Bill of Materials worksheets are easy to maintain, and are equipped with ‘built-in inquiry’ abilty to to save engineering time and ensure validity. You can attach operations to the actual component records to eliminate phantom or artificial levels in the BOM.

Bill of Materials allows you to enjoy the benefits of just-in-time operations when used with MES and Planning if you link your material delivery locations and schedules directly to the work schedule being executed on the shop floor.

Finally, TCM also offers you the matrix Bill of Materials functionality, which supports tabulated drawing and bill of materials conventions. Using this method, you can uniquely select specific components and subassemblies at any level of assembly based on your customer specific options and/or engineering rules. Unique bill of materials quantities may also be calculated on an order-by-order basis using RBC (Rules Based Configurator), simplifying your ability to accurately quote and provide more customized services.

Multi-level Bill of Materials

Here’s an example of a multi-level bill of materials. You can see all the components for this projector listed here.