Material dosage throwing system

Abstract

A material consumption transfer system is configured to access a product life cycle management system and an enterprise resource planning system, and comprises: a processing device; the product life cycle management system stores a first material form, and the processing device waits for a data change requirement sent by a first user to the product life cycle management system, reads data content established or modified by the first user to the first material form, and sends the data content to the product life cycle management system. And waiting for a second user to check an engineering change form containing the edited data content, and adjusting a second material form of the enterprise resource planning system according to the engineering change form by the processing device when the engineering change form is approved, so that the data contents of the two material forms are the same.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present case relates to a data conversion system, in particular to a system for transferring data of a material form. Background Art

[0002] In today's industrial informatization, enterprises have set up various management systems to improve operational efficiency. For example, a product life cycle management system that manages information generated in each production link of the product life cycle to ensure R & D quality. And an enterprise resource planning system that integrates information from departments such as R & D, production, and marketing of the enterprise, and assists in establishing processes and systems to improve the competitiveness of the enterprise.

[0003] In order to enable enterprises to more flexibly adjust the product production process, synchronously integrating the product life cycle management system and the enterprise resource planning system of upstream and downstream can enable enterprises to more quickly allocate the resources and materials required in the product production process according to customers. However, due to the different management focuses of the product life cycle management system and the enterprise resource planning system, it is easy to make mistakes when integrating the two systems. For example, although there are bills of material files describing the product composition stored in both the product life cycle management system and the enterprise resource planning system, in the enterprise resource planning system, there is an additional step of integerization in the pre-designed calculation method of material usage, so that the material usage in the final bill of materials generated by the enterprise resource planning system is inconsistent with the actual material usage required in the production link, resulting in the enterprise being unable to correctly conduct procurement or cost estimation, etc., and the operational efficiency is not good. Therefore, how to correctly connect the bill of materials in the product life cycle management system with the bill of materials in the enterprise resource planning system has become one of the problems to be improved in this field. Summary of the Invention

[0004] The purpose of the present invention content is to provide a material quantity transfer system, which operates in an electronic device. The material quantity transfer system is set to be accessible to a product life cycle management system and an enterprise resource planning system. A first material form is stored in the product life cycle management system. The first material form includes at least one material, at least one lower-level material of the material, the material number of the material, and the quantity of the lower-level material required by the material. A second material form is stored in the enterprise resource planning system. The second material form includes at least one material, at least one lower-level material of the material, the material number of the material, and the quantity of the lower-level material required by the material. And the material quantity transfer system includes: a processing device; and a storage medium, which can be accessed by the processing device and a transfer program is stored in the storage medium; wherein, when the transfer program is executed by the processing device, the following steps are carried out: S10: The processing device waits for a first user to send a change data request to the product life cycle management system, reads the data content established or modified by the first user for the first material form, and aggregates it into an engineering change form; S15: The processing device waits for a second user to review the engineering change form. When the engineering change form is approved, step S20 is executed. When the engineering change form is not approved, step S10 is executed; and S20: The processing device adjusts the second material form of the enterprise resource planning system according to the engineering change form, so that the second material form has the same data content as the first material form.

[0005] In some embodiments, the product life cycle management system is set to be able to store the documents generated in the finished product manufacturing process, and the product life cycle management system is provided with a first user interface. The user edits the documents through the first user interface, and the documents include the first material form.

[0006] In some embodiments, the documents further include the description document of the finished product, the drawing file of the finished product, and the tool data for manufacturing the finished product.

[0007] In some embodiments, the enterprise resource planning system is a downstream system of the product life cycle management system, and the enterprise resource planning system is provided with a second user interface. The user processes the data of the second material form according to the business of the department through the second user interface to generate business documents, and the business documents include the final material form.

[0008] In some embodiments, the business documents further include the data of procurement cost, annual budget, and sales statistics.

[0009] In some embodiments, when the second user opens the front-end interface, the product life cycle management system displays a query message asking whether to approve the engineering change form, and sends the engineering change form to the material quantity transfer system when the engineering change form is approved.

[0010] As described above, the material quantity transfer system of the present invention executes the transfer program through the processing device, transfers the first material form data changed by the user in the product life cycle management system to the enterprise resource planning system, and adjusts the second material form with this data, achieving correct data docking between the two systems, enabling the enterprise resource planning system to generate a final material form with correct material quantities based on the second material form, and thus enabling more effective management of the enterprise's production resources. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0011] To make the above and other objects, features, advantages and embodiments of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the content of this case can be better understood when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

[0012] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device in an embodiment of the present invention.

[0013] Figure 2 is a flowchart of transferring bill of materials data in an embodiment of the present invention.

[0014] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the component material structure of a finished product in a bill of materials in an embodiment of the present invention.

[0015] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the component material structure of a finished product in a bill of materials in an embodiment of the present invention.

[0016] Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the component material structure of a finished product in a bill of materials in an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

[0017] To describe in detail the technical content, structural features, achieved objectives and effects of the material quantity transfer system of the present invention, the following examples are hereby cited and described in detail in conjunction with the drawings.

[0018] Please refer to Figure 1 , as Figure 1 shown, the present invention discloses a material quantity transfer system 200, which runs in an electronic device 100 and is used for data conversion between a product life cycle management system and an enterprise resource planning system.

[0019] The electronic device 100 can be a desktop computer, a notebook computer, an industrial computer or any device with similar functions.Figure 1 These are merely examples of the electronic device 100, and the electronic device 100 may include more or fewer components than those shown in the figure.

[0020] The material usage transfer system 200 inside the electronic device 100 is configured to be accessible to the product life cycle management system and the enterprise resource planning system. The product life cycle management system stores a first material form, which includes at least one material, at least one lower-level material of the material, the part number of the material, and the usage amount of the lower-level material required for the material. The product life cycle management system further stores the documents generated during the product manufacturing process, which include the first material form, the description document of the finished product, the drawing file of the finished product, and the tooling equipment for manufacturing the finished product. The product life cycle management system may be a system that can record various documents in the production process of the finished product or a system with similar functions.

[0021] The enterprise resource planning system stores a second material form with the same data as the first material form. The enterprise resource planning system is a downstream system of the product life cycle management system and stores the business documents of multiple departments. The business documents include the final material form, procurement costs, annual budgets, and sales statistics. The enterprise resource planning system may be a system that can integrate the business documents of various departments such as manufacturing, finance, procurement, sales, and human resources or a system with similar functions. The above-mentioned final material form includes the final usage amounts of all the materials required for the finished product in a product order. Each department can use the final material form to carry out corresponding business activities. For example, the warehousing department can use the final material form to estimate the quantity of materials to be prepared, and the procurement department can use the final material form to determine the quantity of raw materials to be purchased.

[0022] The product life cycle management system and the enterprise resource planning system are independent of each other and each has an independent front-end interface and user management permissions. Users with the permission to use the product life cycle management system (hereinafter simply referred to as User A and User B) can add a new set of materials, update the upper and lower level relationships between materials, or modify the usage amounts of materials in the first material form through the front-end of the product life cycle management system. Users with the permission to use the enterprise resource planning system (hereinafter simply referred to as User C) can process the data in the second material form according to the business of the department through the front-end interface of the enterprise resource planning system to generate the business documents.

[0023] The material quantity transfer system 200 includes a processing device 10 and a storage medium 20 to complete the conversion of material data between the product life cycle management system and the enterprise resource planning system. The storage medium 20 can be accessed by the processing device 10 and stores one or more programs that can run on the processing device 10. In this embodiment, the storage medium 20 stores a transfer program.

[0024] Please refer to Figure 2 , as Figure 2 shown, after user A opens the front-end interface of the product life cycle management system, the processing device 10 automatically executes the transfer program. When the transfer program is executed by the processing device 10, the following steps are performed: S10: The processing device 10 waits for user A to send a change data request to the product life cycle management system, reads the data content established or modified by user A for the first material form, and aggregates it into an engineering change form, and displays an inquiry message asking whether to approve the engineering change form when user B opens the front-end interface.

[0025] S15: The processing device 10 waits for user B to review the engineering change form. When user B approves the engineering change form, step S20 is executed. When the engineering change form is not approved, step S10 is executed.

[0026] S20: The processing device 10 adjusts the second material form of the enterprise resource planning system according to the engineering change form so that the second material form has the same data content as the first material form. In practice, the processing device 10 sends a change data request to the enterprise resource planning system and transmits the data content established or modified by user A for the first material form to the enterprise resource planning system so that the data in the second material form is synchronized with the first material form.

[0027] The following is an example: As Figure 3 shown, in the first material form BOM1 and the second material form BOM2, the finished product P is composed of multiple materials such as material A, material B, and material C. Among them, material A and material C are respectively composed of materials a1 to a5 and materials c1 to c2. The materials a1 to a5 are the lower-level materials of material A, and the materials c1 to c2 are the lower-level materials of material C. Material A and material C are semi-finished products, which can be physical items at stages of the production process or virtual labels functional in the production process. Setting the above virtual labels can package the data of materials a1 to a5 (or materials c1 to c2) so that the usage of materials a1 to a5 remains consistent before and after data transfer.

[0028] Please refer again to Figure 4 In the figure, it shows that user A starts to edit the materials or processing procedures required for the finished product P in the first bill of materials BOM1. At this time, a material AA is added as one of the component materials of the finished product P, and the lower-level materials aa1 to aa3 of the material AA are added at the same time. The amount of the material AA required for the finished product P is 0.0007 units, the amount of the material aa1 required for the material AA is 1 unit, the amount of the material aa2 required for the material AA is 2 units, and the amount of the material aa3 required for the material AA is 4 units.

[0029] When user A edits the first bill of materials BOM1, step S10 is triggered. At this time, the material transfer and throwing system 200 of the present creation is triggered by the behavior of user A editing the first bill of materials BOM1. And when user A establishes the data of the material AA in the first bill of materials BOM1, the product life cycle management system collects the data of the material AA established by user A as the engineering change form.

[0030] Then at step S15, the product life cycle management system waits for user B to review the content of the engineering change form, and sends the engineering change form to the material quantity transfer and throwing system 200 when the engineering change form is approved. The processing device 10 receives the engineering change form and executes step S20.

[0031] When performing step S20, as shown in Figure 5 In the figure, the processing device 10 establishes the material AA in the second bill of materials BOM2 according to the data content and structure established by user A in the first bill of materials BOM1 and stores it.

[0032] Through the above material transfer and throwing process, it can be ensured that the data in the first bill of materials BOM1 and the second bill of materials BOM2 are consistent. Therefore, after user C creates a product order in the enterprise resource planning system, the enterprise resource planning system calculates the final amount of materials required for the finished product in the second bill of materials BOM2 according to the quantity of the finished product in the product order and a preset rule. The preset rule is that the value obtained by calculating and rounding up the first digit after the decimal point to an integer is the calculation result. Then the enterprise resource planning system generates a final bill of materials containing the final amount.

[0033] Continuing with the above embodiment, when the enterprise wants to count the material resources required to produce 2,000 finished products P and generate the final material form for the finished product P, user C issues an instruction to the enterprise resource planning system to generate the final material form. When the enterprise resource planning system receives the instruction to generate the final material form, it calculates all the materials required for the finished product P in the second material form BOM2. Taking the material AA as an example, the initial value obtained by multiplying 2,000 by 0.0007 is 1.4. Then, according to the preset rule, after unconditional rounding up of 1.4, the final usage of the material AA is 2, the final usage of the material aa1 is 2, the final usage of the material aa2 is 4, and the final usage of the material aa3 is 8. Next, the enterprise resource planning system generates a final material form containing the final usages of the material AA and the materials aa1 to aa3.

[0034] The processing device 10 has components or devices with functions such as data access, data calculation, data storage, or the like, for example: a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), or other programmable logic devices, etc., but is not limited thereto.

[0035] The storage medium 20 can be a mobile hard disk, a computer memory, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), or any entity or device that can store and carry the program code and data of the throwing program, but is not limited thereto.

[0036] In summary, for the material usage transfer system described in the present invention, the processing device executes the transfer program, enabling the enterprise resource planning system to generate a final material form with correct material usage. The information in the final form can provide the correct material order quantity to the purchasing department of the enterprise, and also provide correct information for the material preparation actions of the warehousing department and the cost estimation actions of the financial department, enabling more effective and accurate control of the production resources of the enterprise.

[0037] Although the present case has been disclosed as above with embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present case. Any person with ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present case pertains, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present case, may make some modifications and refinements. Therefore, the protection scope of the present case shall be subject to that defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A material dosage throwing and rotating system, characterized in that: The material quantity transfer system operates in an electronic device, and the material quantity transfer system is set to be accessible to a product life cycle management system and an enterprise resource planning system. A first material form is stored in the product life cycle management system. The first material form includes at least one material, at least one lower-level material of the material, the part number of the material, and the quantity of the lower-level material required by the material. A second material form is stored in the enterprise resource planning system. The second material form includes at least one material, at least one lower-level material of the material, the part number of the material, and the quantity of the lower-level material required by the material. And the material quantity transfer system includes: a processing device; and a storage medium that can be accessed by the processing device and stores a transfer program; wherein, when the transfer program is executed by the processing device, the following steps are performed: S10: The processing device waits for a change data request sent by a first user to the product life cycle management system, reads the data content created or modified by the first user for the first material form, and aggregates it into an engineering change form; S15: The processing device waits for a second user to review the engineering change form. When the engineering change form is approved, step S20 is executed. When the engineering change form is not approved, step S10 is executed; and S20: The processing device adjusts the second material form of the enterprise resource planning system according to the engineering change form so that the second material form has the same data content as the first material form.

2. The material dosage throwing and rotating system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The product life cycle management system is set to be able to store the documents generated in the finished product manufacturing process, and the product life cycle management system is provided with a first user interface through which a user edits the documents, and the documents include the first material form.

3. The external signal connector assembly according to claim 2, wherein: The documents further include the description document of the finished product, the drawing file of the finished product, and the tool data for manufacturing the finished product.

4. The material usage throwing and rotating system according to claim 2, wherein: The enterprise resource planning system is a downstream system of the product life cycle management system, and the enterprise resource planning system is provided with a second user interface through which a user processes the data of the second material form according to the business of the department to generate business documents, and the business documents include the final material form.

5. The material usage throwing and rotating system according to claim 4, wherein: The business documents further include the data of procurement cost, annual budget, and sales statistics.

6. The material dosage throwing and rotating system according to claim 2, wherein: When the second user opens the first user interface, the product life cycle management system displays an inquiry message asking whether to approve the engineering change form, and sends the engineering change form to the processing device when the engineering change form is approved.

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