Bills of materials are important documents in the production process and must be available and up to date at all times.
The transfer of parts lists to an ERP system often slows down the process and is prone to errors, and the growing number of variants makes it increasingly difficult to maintain an up-to-date overview of the product structures. PRO.FILE supports you in creating, maintaining and updating the parts lists within your company.
PRO.FILE accelerates your processes through intelligent management of parts lists
Product structures represent the hierarchical structure of a product. The bill of materials is a detailed list of all components and materials required for its production. Together they provide a complete picture of the production process, from the largest component parts to the smallest nuts and bolts. This combination is essential for accurate planning, purchasing and assembly of products. PRO.FILE is the connecting link here.
PRO.FILE eliminates the need for manual BOM data entry. Bills of materials in Excel and manually entered into the ERP system is not desirable. It is an extremely time-consuming and laborious process. The PRO.FILE ERP integration synchronizes all relevant information and systematically prevents typos, different versions and the need to recreate entries. This saves considerably more time. Consistent parts lists – automatic comparison – error-free production.
BOM Management met de PRO.FILE modules
When producing products, multiple variants of the parts list are often used. The best known are the Engineering BOM (EBOM), the Manufacturing BOM (MBOM) and the Service BOM (SBOM). In fact, these are derived structures that change during the life cycle of the product.
Transfer of structures in an integrated representation of source and target structure, as well as in 3D model. The PRO.FILE xBOM editor allows the user to convert existing PRO.FILE BOMs in a 3D editor and save them as derivatives. Any number of target BOMs (e.g. mBOM) can be derived from a source BOM (e.g. eBOM).
The module compares two parts lists and displays the differences between them. The PRO.FILE parts lists give you complete insight into your product structures. You can compare differences between the parts lists with the BOM Compare Module from PRO.FILE. At a glance you have an overview of the differences between the versions and variants of a product.
Companies often receive data from third parties such as bills of materials or drawings where it is of great importance that they are documented in PRO.FILE in a structured manner. Manual entry of this data requires a lot of time and discipline. Especially for this purpose, PLM Xpert has developed the Import XL to automatically import documents, parts lists and projects into PRO.FILE. The Import XL is specifically designed for importing files and PRO.FILE objects into PRO.FILE from a Microsoft Excel file. The Microsoft Excel file contains metadata about the relevant objects such as classification, description and the file location according to a specific layout. A new import using the Import XL results in a structure in PRO.FILE with the corresponding files as desired.
What if you get lots of product data, structures and documents in Excel sheets and you need to get it into PRO.FILE? Import XL offers a fast and easy way of importing files and PRO.FILE objects in 3 easy steps.
The added value of PRO.FILE:
Document Management for document control en workflow
Product structures, articles en BOM's under controll
Process management to the PLM process level
Structure and manage your projects
Manage and automate PLM processes
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