Modelling Product Structures by Generic Bills-of-Material

摘要

The way in which products and their Bills Of Material (BOM) are represented intypical Material Resource Planning (MRP) based Production Control Information Systems (PICS) is described and the role they play for the major important business functions is characterized. The basics of coordinated goods flow control are described, different production control environments are typified and the requirements they place on product data and BOM are characterized. The problems of representing products and their BOM are characterized. The problems of representing products and their BOM in the case of large product variety are explored. A framework for specifying products and obtaining their BOM, and a number of recently developed concepts and systems which support parts of this functional architecture are described. The Generic BOM, a new concept in BOM theory, is described. A case in which the new set of concepts and terms is applied to describe a dedicated solution developed by a company with an enormous product variety is described.