摘要 |
A central information processing system and method create and maintain a bill of materials (BOM) for design and manufacture of a product linking by receiving a BOM, assembled to a predefined point of completion adequate for processing by a reviewing party, automatically communicating feedback to the reviewing party indicating the BOM is ready for processing and iteratively: processing the BOM by the reviewing party and automatically communicating feedback to the originating party for editing, then automatically notifying the reviewing party that the BOM is ready for processing. While processing the BOM, the method determines a level of collaboration review for each component part of the BOM based upon the chronological stage of the design and whether the component part has a pre-existing manufacturing part number. Further processing is dependant upon the level of collaboration.
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