Manage and Control Product Definition Throughout the Lifecycle.

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With increasingly complex products, shorter lead times, and more advanced and varied product offerings, it is progressively more difficult to maintain the accuracy of your bill of materials (BOM) information. You are challenged to manage engineering changes across configurations, synchronize downstream BOMs, and extend BOM changes across variants. This leaves your company struggling to improve your quality and time-to-market, while reducing development, manufacturing and product lifecycle costs in order to remain competitive.

Bill of materials management is a critical part of the design and manufacture of any product. If you work for a leading company, you understand this and are, on average, two-times more likely to leverage centralized product data to improve product configuration management. Through effective BOM management, you can provide tailored visibility to central product information by role, and extend configuration management beyond the BOM to include a richer product definition.

The results speak for themselves. According to a 2007 AberdeenGroup report, leading companies that employ an effective BOM management solution are more able to hit product development and lifecycle targets that drive product profitability, on average, 89 percent or more of the time, versus 30 to 40 percent of the time for laggards.

Teamcenter Manages Product Complexity and Variability

Teamcenter’s bill of materials management solution allows you to effectively manage essential product definition beyond design and engineering, throughout the product lifecycle. Teamcenter provides a single source of structured product and process information, enabling every user to derive the right BOM information relevant to their needs. Coupled with powerful capabilities to manage product complexity and variability, you can more easily manage product offerings, platforms and options.

Teamcenter offers as-built management capabilities to capture and manage the physical build record of products, prototypes and test builds with traceable parts to support verification and compliance. This allows visual comparison of build to design or other builds, and the capture of documentation/results for each specific build.

Teamcenter also offers a special bill of materials management solution that enables automotive and transportation OEMs to effectively manage their complex BOM information by offering business BOM globalization and BOM-driven digital mockup (DMU).

Teamcenter helps eliminate BOM fragmentation globally, thereby improving collaboration and re-use, reducing cost, errors and time-to-market, and ultimately increasing productivity. By managing the various configurations of your BOMs, you can hit your product development targets twice as often as your poorer performing competitors.