ERP-2-CAD Empowers Lean Manufacturing Initiative
Return on Investment
The Return on Investment of a BOMLink implementation is derived from every aspect of manufacturing. No progressive manufacturing process can afford to be uncompetitive relative to their competition. While BOMLink is deceptively simple to deploy and use, it impacts the entire manufacturing business process, as it automates graphic data, typically the weakest missing link in manufacturing. Every part has two components, the graphic design and its associated data. BOMLink keeps these together at all times. ERP2CAD ensures that all drawing data is pulled from the ERP into CAD. BOMLink functionality offers a natural extension of business systems in an intuitive, simple to understand, flexible and configurable framework at a relatively low cost.
TABLE SHOWING SAMPLE ANNUALIZED SAVINGS USING BOMLINK, OVER TIME
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| Deploys in a week! |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Net |
| Annual Savings |
125K |
150k |
150K |
150K |
575K |
| BOMLink Investment |
46K |
8K |
8k |
8k |
70K |
1. BOMLink facilitates intelligent smart drawings linked with your business- procurement and production system using a bi-directional connection. A reasonable estimate is that your organization will save between one to eight hours per assembly drawing. (Cost savings from eliminating typos, double entry, redundant labor and increasing efficiency and accuracy in Graphic-Data distribution.) BOM is the core of the business process, and numerous intangible benefits result from a significant increase in data accuracy.
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2. Faster Time To Market, Jobs And Quotes Completed Under Budget And On Time
In ETO companies, jobs executed without ERP2CAD Integration result in triple entry of bill of materials, expensive errors caught late in manufacturing, manual synchronization headaches, paper shuffling, redundancies and laborious catalog searches, to name a few. Most importantly, engineers are unable to leverage their intellectual assets hidden in drawings and metadata, forcing them to reinvent the wheel. |
3. Significant Increase in Engineering Efficiency and Reduced Overhead
(20-35%)
Efficiency improves when, instead of typing parts data, engineers can simply source and find the part in the database, and tag/select it. No more triple entry. No relying on Excel exports to communicate with purchasing. No more “ad-hoc” part numbers. For users with the BOMLink adapter to your ERP system, an engineer can make required parts and BOM data updates directly, which are immediately available to the entire organization. |
4. Fewer Production Errors (Rework, Old Revision of BOMs)
Direct integration of engineering and production means a single version of the truth. When a BOM is revised, not only does a manufacturer need the new BOM, but drawings which will use the changed components must be located (where used) and updated as required. Failure to propagate revised drawings and assemblies can cause havoc in production with rework and scrap. |
5. Reduced Administration (Data Entry Clerk, Eco’s, Print Errors)
Manual data entry is costly in both man-power and errors. BOMLink ensures accuracy by using “point and click” to associate current parts data in a drawing. When the database is updated, so is any BOM. Users experience a huge reduction in paper based workflow/form costs and actual reduction in ECOs/MCOs. BOMLink eliminates the source of manufacturing delay. |
6. Fewer Shipping Errors (Red Shipments, Rush Jobs, Shipping lists, Weight management)
When it is time to release a product, everything must be accurate. BOMLink allows any engineer or manager to check the BOM for accuracy, and tag the actual BOM with the intended shipping list directly from the source drawings. Mistakes occur frequently when rush orders bypass normal manufacturing procedures. |
7. Advanced Purchase: Right Parts, Right Time
When engineering specified parts are identified using part numbers pulled from a central database, duplicate parts and excess and incorrect purchases are reduced to a minimum. When a drawing changes with alternate parts, purchasing is aware of the change immediately, not days later. Many parts have lead times, and it is critical to know what has not been purchased. |
8. Better Control of Inventory and Visibility
One major inventory problem is caused when the same component or sub-assembly is in the database multiple times under different part numbers. Manufacturing needs a seamless integration from IT to engineering in order to ensure that all parts are unique, approved, and from preferred vendors. |
9. Seamless Workflow Between Engineering and Manufacturing: eBOM vs mBOM
When an engineer works on a change, it's one thing to send the paper to manufacturing, another to ensure it gets used at the right time. Manufacturing can utilize the BOM in real time, automatically incorporating any changes, so mistakes decrease significantly where it matters, i.e. downstream. |
10. Single Source of Master Data and Single View Across the Enterprise
(Eliminate Islands of data)
The single biggest source of confusion is that the same component may have a different part number in engineering, purchasing, manufacturing and estimates. Each department is used to working independently with its own shorthand, its own component libraries, and unfortunately, its own shortcuts in completing their work. BOMLink offers each department the ability to use the same part number throughout the organization, by the simple process of direct linking to the central business database (Engineering/ERP or PLM database). By using a central part number, each eliminate their own tower of Babel. BOMLink can also link to disparate, independent data sources, as many organizations do not have one single system, but two or more, through acquisitions, new purchases, etc. |
AimaSoft Inc. www.aimasoft.com 415-453-2063 sales@aimasoft.com |
