Bill of process

The bill of process reflects close collaboration between engineering, manufacturing, and execution through manufacturing process planning software within a company’s PLM solution. Manufacturers use the PLM’s workflow, change management, and configuration capabilities to create the bill of process. The PLM also enables process planners to standardize and reuse manufacturing processes in the bill of process across multiple plants.

Manufacturing and assembly planning software tools enable users to create processes and operations with the bill of process to represent the sequence of steps in their assembly plans. They can assign relevant parts and assemblies from the manufacturing bill of materials to specific operations, along with tools and resources from the bill of equipment (BOE) or through a library of classified objects. When creating or maintaining a bill of process, the user can:

• Reuse existing rules and templates
• Use a logical part assignment command to assign parts that will be consumed in different operations automatically
• Use an auto-completion tool to reference parts, resources, and visual aids that will populate electronic work instructions
• Generate plant-specific bills of process from the product bill of process
• Trace commands between plant bills of process and the product bill of process
• Update the product bill of process to reflect any design changes
• Automatically perform an accountability check of processes and workstations affected by each change and address identified conflicts

These functions result in full traceability and visibility of the bill of process throughout a product’s engineering, manufacturing and design evolution. A bill of process built on manufacturing process planning software allows the manufacturer to leverage existing product and process information, share cross-departmental workflows, capture shop floor feedback, and manage changes effectively.