Automatic BOM management
Efficient BOM management is the key to a streamlined production process and short time-to-market. Baseboard automates the translation from EBOM to MBOM, allowing you as a work planner to spend time where your knowledge is of real value.
In the world of high-tech mechanical engineering, efficiently managing Engineering Bills of Materials (EBOM) and Manufacturing Bills of Materials (MBOM) is essential. Manually correcting these bills of materials, especially with concurrent design changes, often requires a lot of time and effort from work planners and process engineers. They spend upto half their time keeping parts lists up-to-date in tools such as Excel or ERP systems, which is not only time-consuming but also error-prone. Baseboard offers a solution to this problem through a smart algorithm that automatically converts the EBOM into a MBOM, which not only eases the administrative burden, but also significantly reduces the risk of errors and production delays. In other words, BOM management for the factory of the future.
Compare old and new bills of materials
One of the major challenges in managing bills of materials is keeping track of changes between different versions. After all, with every design change, the work planner must be sure that it is correctly implemented in production. Baseboard makes this easy by automatically comparing old and new EBOM versions and clearly displaying the differences. This allows work planners to see at a glance which parts have been added, changed or deleted, without having to manually go through lists in Excel or ERP. This reduces the risk of errors and ensures that all relevant changes are incorporated into the production process on time.
Suggestions based on your processes
In addition to automatically converting the EBOM to the MBOM, Baseboard offers smart suggestions tailored to your company's specific manufacturing processes. The algorithm learns from previous actions and makes suggestions that support the work process, leading to smoother and more efficient parts list management. This automated support not only helps engineers save time, but also allows process steps to be optimized to make production faster and more accurate. As a result, companies can better respond to customer-specific requirements and quickly react to design changes.
Allocate parts directly to an assembly step
Baseboard makes it easy to assign items within the MBOM to specific parts of the manufacturing process, such as a submodule or subassembly, or to specific process steps. This provides clearer BOM management and a better connection between engineering and production. Work planners can structure and organize specific items within the system with a few clicks, which not only streamlines production preparation but also promotes collaboration between different departments. With Baseboard, the translation from design to production is direct and error-free, leading to a more efficient production process without unnecessary administrative actions.
