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SmartBOM Product Overview. www.mySmartBOM.com. The Challenge With over half of all components typically outsourced - precise and efficient collaboration around the BOM throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain is key to product success, time to market and time to profit.
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SmartBOM Product Overview www.mySmartBOM.com
The ChallengeWith over half of all components typically outsourced - precise and efficient collaboration around the BOM throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain is key to product success, time to market and time to profit. The Solution Electronic BOM creation and collaboration within the enterprise and across the supply chain, for efficient and secure product life cycle management
Incorporate your suppliers and OEM vendors into the product definition process from as early as the prototype stage, and through engineering changes (ECOs). Supplier Design & engineering Procurement Customer • Streamlines product development processes throughout the product life cycle and speed time to market by enabling ad-hoc product sourcing and collaboration across the supply chain. Allows companies to concentrate on their core business and reach out across the globe for the best components to competitively produce a best-in-class product. Increase customers satisfaction by providing them with direct access to projects which they have initiated!
Target Market • Every manufacturer that has a product to control • All Smart Team customers !!
Why SmartBOM ? Reduce Time-to-market SmartBOM enables companies to publish product content over the web easily, securely and directly to their supply chain partners. - The BOM is accessible from a non SmarTeam environment SmartBOM provides you with effective management of the BOM ensuring that: • The BOM is complete • Related documentation and resources are available to make the proper decisions Reduce Costs Respond Faster Eliminate Errors Utilize Resources Better
SmartBOM Functions • Incorporate your suppliers and OEM vendors into the product definition process from as early as the prototype stage, and through engineering changes (ECOs). • Immediate B2B exchange of product structure in a simple unified XML-based format with supply chain partners for added accuracy and efficiency. • Plan your future products on the BOM white board by creating a “what if” scenario, without affecting the SmarTeam database. • Online Collaboration of the BOM through mySmartMeeting
SmartBOM Features • Create a BOM package • from within a SmarTeam item tree or document tree. • White boarding - ‘What if ?’ scenarios, without influencing SmarTeam data (virtual BOM) • Packagethe BOM and its related information into a self-extracting, executable briefcase. • Customize the BOM fields to reflect specific business standard practices • Distribute the eBOM briefcase by Email, FTP, or publish it on the web using mySmarTeam or mySmartPublish.
SmartBOM Features (2) • View the eBOM briefcase in a wide array of viewing formats, including summary, multi level structure and color coding of change history. • Edit and redline the eBOM and its related documents, before downloading them. • Insert or replacedocuments inside the briefcase • Savethe eBOM briefcase onto a diskette for meetings and travel. • Compare eBOM data from different sources (suppliers), or two versions of the same BOM, with track changes options. • Consolidate two eBOM briefcases into one. • Synchronizethe eBOM briefcase back into a SmarTeam database
Technology SmartBOM is the first product that uses the SmartBriefcase and iXF technology.
Technology User Scenarios SmartBOM that uses the SmartBriefcase andiXF technology.
BrightIdea in R&D Needto create BOM in PDM Somepart # Missing Place Request For part number Y N Back to Manual/Excel Automatically Establish tree In PDM When ready Insert to PDM Proceed with R&D process Need to create BOM in PDM Bright Idea in R&D Some part # Missing Create BOM Using SmartBOM Sample Scenario 1- Creation The SmartBOM Way Request New PN Traditional Way
Design a new product Need to share BOM with subcontractor Send Spreadsheet + Drawings by e-mail Sub Contractor /Modify Design sub-assembly Automatically Establish tree In PDM Manual input Data to SmarTeam Send Spreadsheet back Redesign product With SmartBOM Design a new product Send BOM Package Create BOM Using SmartBOM Sample Scenario 2 - Collaboration The SmartBOM Way Traditional Way
BOM Synchronization BOM Editor/Viewer email eBOM Briefcase eBOM Briefcase Send Product Structure (Items Tree) SmartBOM Consolidation Wizard WWW Send eBOM Briefcase eBOM Briefcase Supply Chain BOM Editor/Viewer Corporate Database Enterprise BOM collaboration • Self-extracted • Zipped • Editor/Viewer embedded • BOM information • iXF format eBOM Briefcase SmartBOM Generation & Packing Wizard
Service Person Need to repair Product in field Download all relevant information In office Repair in field Need More information? Synchronize all information to SmarTeam View BOM with associated drawings Back in office Manual upload information Wait for information ……. Need to repair the product In the filed each machine has a SmartBOM package Sample Scenario 3 - MSOP The SmartBOM Way Traditional Way
BOM White Boarding The BOM Editor utilizes BOM White boarding technology. The BOM White Board processes and displays changes made to the BOM. It allows users to change the BOM and to display it in various views without influencing SmarTeam data. • BOM White Boarding Features: • Viewing • Editing • Redlining
Generate a BOM from a SmarTeam database Pack the BOM into an eBOM briefcase Send the eBOM to the supplier SmartBOM Generation Wizard
Compare two different BOM Packages Consolidate two BOM packages into one SmartBOM Consolidation Wizard
Synchronize the BOM Package changes into the SmarTeam database View differences between the BOM package and SmarTeam data in the database SmartBOM Synchronization Wizard
A zipped, self-extracting component forwarded to/from suppliers Contains SmartBOM editor/viewer, applicable BOM data and reference documents in iXF format. Can be opened, viewed and edited by any recipient at any location. eBOM Briefcase eBOM Briefcase
SmartBOMlicense key (Serial number & code www.mySmartBOM.com) SmartBOMlicense (Hasp Key) SmartBOMEditor license (Hasp Key) SmartBOM Packaging
SmartBOM Benefits • Streamlines product development processes throughout the product life cycle • Increases productivity and shortens time-to-market • Enables ad-hoc product sourcing and collaboration across the supply chain • Helps ensure product quality and reduce warranty and service costs • Facilitates effective trading relationships • Allows companies to concentrate on their core business and reach out across the globe for the best components to competitively produce a best-in-class product • Creates efficient, instant collaboration with business partners anywhere
iXF The Smart Standard
About iXF • Purpose: transfer data, metadata and related files from one iXF-enabled system to another • Best solution for moving SmarTeam data between two SmarTeam systems, or between a SmarTeam system and a legacy system • EAI technology enabler
iXF Features • Open, based on industry standards • Extendible in a decentralized manner by any party • Handles both relational-style data and object oriented data • Self-describing • Supports: • Versioning, Change tracking, object hierarchies and relationships, …
iXF Standards based iXF is based on existing standards: • ZIP as the packaging format • IETF RFC 1950 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt) • XML as the metadata format • W3C Recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) • W3C XML Schema language as the schema description format • W3C Draft (http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema) • SOAP as the encoding format • W3C Note (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/)
Contents of an iXF File An iXF file contains the following elements: • Description of the data in a standard manner • Mapping of B2B standard elements • The actual data (e.g. document properties, items, lookups, etc.) • Associated files (drawing, documents, …)
Usability enhancements • Supports all attributes : • Memo field • Boolean • Lookup • URL • Customizing View (Pricing the BOM) • Customizes export to Microsof Excel • Improved Find – searches on specific attributes • Additional Package information • Clears Change History records • Ability to synchronize from the SmartBOM Editor