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# OpenBOM Features

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## Metadata (3)

Repository

Maintain a single repository for all product data and manage access rights

Taxonomy

Define product taxonomies, categories, and other types of classification

Types

Manage multiple kinds of product metadata such as descriptive, administrative, and rights management

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## Data Management (4)

Version Control

Tracks versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out

Alignment

Aligns product data from various sources such as ERP and PLM

Workflows

Include workflows and approvals to define who is responsible for which type of data

Lifecycle

Manages product data across its lifecycle phases such as as-designed, as-planned, and as-built

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## New Product Introduction (4)

Ideation

Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements

Time-to-market

Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products

Cost estimating

Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements

Product approval

Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features

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## CAD (3)

CAD Models

Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems

CAD Options

Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE)

Conversion

Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM)

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## Collaboration (4)

Supplier alignment

Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects

Communication

Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate

Development

Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities

Document Management

Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files

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## Product Data Management (3)

Product Metadata

Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company

Data Quality

Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date

Version Control

Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out

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## Bill of Materials (4)

BOM management

Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order

Multi-level BOM

Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs

BOM Types

Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM)

BOM visualization

Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment.

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## Engineering Change Management (3)

ECR Workflows

Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR)

Change Management

Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle.

ECO Management

Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch

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## Simulation (3)

Virtual Testing

Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics

Analysis

Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses

Optimization

Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development

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## Analytics (3)

Reporting

Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle.

Costing

Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities

Product Intelligence

Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources

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## Quality management (3)

Quality planning

Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle

Traceability

Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes

Compliance

Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications

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## Integration (4)

ERP

Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions

MES

Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

PIM

Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software

Maintenance

Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM)

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## Generative AI (4)

AI Text Summarization

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

AI Image-to-Text

Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.

AI Text Summarization

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

AI Image-to-Text

Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.

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