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005: Managing the PLM BOM — Today and In the Future

Jun 19, 2019

Digital Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization.  Discussion among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitalization principles forward for the future of product development and lifecycles.

 

On this episode of the Digital Enterprise Society podcast Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Chandru Narayan,CEO and principal architect of SEAL PLM to discuss his understanding and experiences about the PLM BOM.  From managing early product ideas to product engineering, mass producing, manufacturing, servicing and aftermarket, there are multiple BOMs that have to be handled on any given product. Chandru shares his insights into why it isn’t ideal to have one master BOM, how to best manage BOMs, and what the future of virtual planning might look like.  They discuss augmented reality and artificial intelligence and Chandru shares his opinion on where exactly the future of Industry 4.0 is going to take place. Their conversation highlights the need to help the next generation of workers understand the importance of taking advantage of these tools in order to continue positive growth.

 

On today’s podcast you will learn:

 

Management of PLM BOMs

  • Why are there so many Bill of Materials for products at so many different stages?
  • Should they be consolidated into one master BOM?
  • What are the benefits of having multiple BOMs for one product?

 

Multiple reasons that BOMs exist

  • To assist the design group in making sure requirements and standards are being met.
  • To assist the manufacturing planning group in building a product.
  • To assist the maintenance group in maintaining a product.

 

Virtual Simulation Planning — A look into the future

  • Why smaller companies aren’t utilizing artificial intelligence — yet.
  • How service BOMs could be streamlined with virtual planning.
  • Tools and applications and how they are going to work for the next generation.
  • The importance of introducing these tools at a high school level.

 

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