Visual Bills of Materials tool

What is a visual Bills of Material (BOM) tool? A BOM is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product. [1]  This provides structure needed to understand parent/child hierarchies for machines, which facilitate improved reliability and supply chain practices for operators.…

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Visual BOMs for Maintenance Planning

Maintenance Planning Maintenance Planners typically use a CMMS to plan a course of action to maintain or repair equipment.  Included in these tasks are: planning, scheduling, and gathering the parts and tools required to work on the asset.  In this process, parts are selected from a material master or a bill of material (BOM) and…

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