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BOM Management

BOM Management

Customer challenge

OrangeWorks designs and manufactures equipment for the food processing industry: from production and storage solutions up to complete production lines. Each bill of materials (BOM) is unique which results in a challenge during the purchasing and production process. In every design phase or release cycle, a new or updated parts list needs to be submitted to ERP. As a result, long lead items are pushed to the ERP system relatively late, only when engineers have finished their design. Also, the company wanted their own production to get started at an earlier stage. Once the Engineering BOM is released, the work planners have to schedule manufacturing operations and sequence for a production order. This took a lot of time and delays and had to be done better and faster.

Project goals

Several critical project goals were identified: 1) Save time on pre-production process​es 2) Improve business workflows with less manual work resulting in less mistakes​ 3) Evolve from E(ngineering) BOM to M(anufacturing) BOM​ 4) Ensure work activities and routings are set by experts and re-used to gain efficiency​ 5) Eliminate the need for access to high-cost ERP systems​ 6) Re-use data for cost calculation (parts, material and work)​ 7) Work more efficiently 8) Create a faster design process 9) Experience less failure costs 10) Implement a formal release procedure with project-specific Engineering data captured

Solution

1) Autodesk Inventor for the design process of equipment and process flow in the food industry 2) Autodesk Vault Professional for item BOM management, revision and lifecycle management 3) Autodesk Vault Publisher for automating repetitive tasks like the publishing of PDF/STP/DXF used by production and purchase 4) Add-on for Inventor and Vault Professional that enables to enrich the engineering 3D model (automated by feature recognition) with Manufacturing methods and routings to get included into the Bill of Material

Business outcome

"The Bill of Material / Item list exported to ERP by Business Connector definitely saves time during the pre-production process​. We now work more efficiently, smarter and have secured processes in our systems. And the information we use is richer than before as our systems contain more knowledge and data." - OrangeWorks

Conclusion

Arkance Systems helps companies in the manufacturing industry to work smart, fast and cost-effectively. Our focus always lies on the design and production process. A SMART 3D model forms the basis of improvements, not only in design and manufacturing, but also in the commercial process, and in service and maintenance. "Experts really think along and understand the way we work. Our project manager from Arkance Systems, for example, is a mechanical engineer with a sharp eye for the process. He knows what challenges play in our industry and can translate excellently into a suitable solution." - OrangeWorks

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 360
  • 2021-01-05

    Autodesk solutions

  • Inventor
  • Vault Professional

    Services provided

  • Custom Application Development
  • System Integration

    Customer industry

  • Design & Manufacturing
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