Automated system for digitized product management

摘要

Systems and methods associated with digitized and automated product management provide for a holistic representation of a product throughout its lifecycle, including physical and non-physical components thereof. More particular features include generation of unit bills of material 414 and application of non-physical components, eg. control parameters, to product units. Features for managing bills of material 414 involve providing a pre-established mapping of technical feature rules that relate commercial feature options for a product to different combinations of technical functions and parts for potential use in a product. Pre-established manufacturing templates are also provided and combined with the mapping to generate an order-specific bill-of-materials, after which point a unit bill-of-materials can be created. Features for digitizing and applying non-physical components, e.g. control parameters, involve establishing a plurality of non-physical components, e.g. control parameter definitions, and database relationships between control parameters and products within a network accessible database. Interfaces may be provided for changing selected aspects of the control parameters, and the parameters are ultimately provided as direct input to a product.