Master bill of materials creation

摘要

Master BOM creation may include extracting BOM data from first and second BOMs, and determining which BOM extracted data is greater. If the first or second BOM is a CAD BOM and the other BOM is a non-CAD BOM, the CAD BOM and non-CAD BOMs may be respectively used as a first and a second source BOM data for a master BOM table. If the first and second BOMs are non-CAD BOMs, or both of the first and second BOMs are CAD BOMs, the greater and lesser of the first and second BOM extracted data may be respectively used as the first and as the second source BOM data. A master BOM may be created based on mapping of the master BOM table to the second source BOM data.

主权项

1. A master bill of materials (BOM) creation system comprising:
a memory storing machine readable instructions to:
extract BOM data from a first BOM;extract BOM data from a second BOM;determine if the first BOM extracted data is greater than the second BOM extracted data;if one of the first and second BOMs is a computer aided design (CAD) BOM and the other one of the first and second BOMs is a non-CAD BOM, use the CAD BOM as a first source BOM data for a master BOM table and the non-CAD BOM as a second source BOM data for the master BOM table;if the first and second BOMs are non-CAD BOMs, or both of the first and second BOMs are CAD BOMs, use the greater of the first BOM extracted data and the second BOM extracted data as the first source BOM data for the master BOM table and the lesser of the first BOM extracted data and the second BOM extracted data is designated as the second source BOM data;determine a list of parent identifications (IDs) from the master BOM table;for each parent ID of the list of parent IDs, obtain a corresponding part number or material number from the second source BOM data; andcreate a master BOM based on mapping of the master BOM table to the second source BOM data; and a processor to implement the machine readable instructions.