As-built bill of materials

Capturing the build record of your physical product

Benefits Summary • Improve reliability and Teamcenter® software’s as-built functionality for bill of materials manage- safety by tracking part ment establishes the official build record of a physical product as assembled, design to physical parts, enabling you to support product verification, document deviations, warranty application of parts, and claims and environmental compliance. As-built functionality is especially software configuration for valuable for managing information about increasingly complex products statistical analysis comprised of hardware, electronics and software components with unique • Effectively support configurations that pertain to different product models and different market regulatory and compliance segments. audits by meeting product history and disposal Value of as-built BOM management requirements Even “simple” products can be very complex with a mixture of hardware, • Improve recall and warranty electronics and software components, each designed to work in multiple processing by leveraging product configurations. The Teamcenter as-built functionality for bill of detailed knowledge about materials management enables you to manage data inside your physical products in your management (PLM) environment by closing the loop the field, including their between product engineering and production. serial, lot and configuration • Facilitate better impact Teamcenter is able to planning by leveraging an track traceable parts accurate record of the by serial and/or lot product from engineering numbers – as well as through manufacturing manage the actual • Improve value chain synergy resources in your by facilitating part manufacturing process. traceability and providing a These capabilities record for your as-built provide accurate build products records of the assem- • Support test article and bled product that you prototype build and context can use to accelerate documentation for product and process development records improvements and drive your quality analysis, material consumption, manufacturing verification and conformance/compliance initiatives.

Teamcenter enables you to create a “should build” product structure that can be compared against the as-built record to identify alternate, substitute and preferred parts for your manufacturing process, as well as missing parts

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As-built bill of materials management

Benefits continued and document variations from the planned • Streamline your recon- product. The captured as-built configura- ciliation and validation tion establishes a product record that can process by ensuring that support your industry compliance and the as-built configuration warranty claim validation initiatives. The complies with allowable product record also can identify delivered configurations, documen- and allowable configurations and usage tation and approved for in-house and supplier parts. deviations • Improve data integrity You also can use the as-built record to by providing a neutral deliver configuration-specific product configuration structure that documentation and support safety, envi- multiple teams can leverage ronmental impact and reliability analyses. to define common product Variations in the build record are subject product, helping manufacturers deal with models and variants to processes for the capture and warranty claims and pass through supplier approvals of deviations to assembled claims that ultimately reduce Features products. costs. Manufacturers can leverage build • information in strong “where-used” from product planning/ Basic as-built functionality searches that facilitate intelligent product definition to as-built product The Teamcenter as-built functionality recalls. This efficiency greatly reduces the configurations enables you to generate, capture and manufacturer’s bottom-line part and labor • Neutral product structure manage: costs and protects the reputation of its support that ensures • Com plete build record of individual brand. accurate applicability of parts products, traceable components, to product variants and assemblies and systems, including Teamcenter provides advanced as-built retrieval of baseline design software, prior to and at delivery functionality that enables engineering structure in variant and • Part data that you can use to track and manufacturing teams to visualize the effectivity context in-house and supplier component as-built structure through the use of 3D • across installation and support warranty claims JT™ data. Product teams leverage these the complete product and conditions visualizations to verify the configuration lifecycle • “Should build” reference product and ensure build integrity for test, proto- • Ability to define multiple part structures that you can use to verify type and final build. Teams are able to types including traceable the assembled product compare any physical product with the (serial, lot), neutral • R eference links to engineering design “should build” product definition or (expected), alternate, information, including alternate and compare different physical products and substitute types substitute part definition with automatic identify problems or variations in the • Configuration of lot and validation that indicates when they assembly process. These capabilities facili- serial definitions are used tate systematic and repeatable feedback to • Structure management • Ser ial and lot number part definitions engineering for ongoing product improve- capabilities including neutral • Com pliance standards and regulatory ment and planning. (should build), physical and requirements that each physical product discipline structure views; must satisfy As a component in the Teamcenter bill generation of physical • Pr oduct context at first failure that of materials management solution, the structures from neutral you can leverage to track part usage, as-built functionality takes advantage of structures; structure links; improve product quality and support all Teamcenter capabilities to provide a import/export of structures accurate recalls scalable and secure PLM environment and data from MES via that supports today’s global enterprise PLMXML; and structure advantages initiatives. The Teamcenter as-built baselines Manufacturers can leverage the functionality is tightly integrated with and Teamcenter as-built functionality to fully extensible by other Teamcenter solutions document their delivered products with to provide a unified end-to-end PLM the actual configuration using traceable environment that reduces product devel- parts identified by serial number, lot num- opment cycles and costs while minimizing ber or a combination of both. In-house and total cost of ownership. supplier parts can be tracked to the end TEAMCENTER

Features continued Use cases • Structure comparisons of as-built BOM to another Documenting the physical product as-built BOM and as-built Key industries, such as health care and BOM to neutral BOM aerospace and defense, have compliance definition (to clearly show requirements that must be satisfied by deviations, configuration documenting the record of the exact differences and any physical product configuration. The missing parts) Teamcenter as-built functionality allows • 3D visualization of as-built manufacturers to document the physically product with preferred assembled product by lot numbers and/or part, alternate, substitute serial numbers for traceable components and missing part such as mechanical life-limited parts, identification during and electronic components or circuit boards teams to easily identify the usage of alter- after the build process and software versions. These as-built nate, substitute or preferred parts, locate • Deviation workflow records are linked to approved engineering missing parts and confirm variances in the configuration and configurations so that variations can be build that must supported by approved processing discovered and documented as approved deviations. or corrected deviations. Global support The Teamcenter ability to Improving product quality With the provide engineering and manufacturing Teamcenter as-built functionality, early teams with secure web access to the latest, failures or questionable components can most accurate product information be analyzed, documented and traced to improves operational productivity and product installations to facilitate rapid product quality. Product configurations can correction of engineering, manufacturing be validated between engineering and or service work. Knowledge about the manufacturing regardless of location. The exact configuration of a product’s assem- Teamcenter single source of knowledge bled parts enables manufacturers facilitates compliance with export controls to reduce product costs by: (such as the International Traffic in Arms • Minimizing the number of unit recalls Regulations and Access Control Lists) and • Pr ocessing customer warranty claims delivers the performance required to meet more efficiently today’s time-critical information demands. • R apidly passing warranty claims through to their suppliers

Visual verification of the final product The Teamcenter as-built functionality supports 3D visual comparison and valida- tion of the as-built record of the product against the “should build” product base- line. These capabilities enable product

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