631 results about "Bill of materials" patented technology

A system and method for unassisted enterprise-level unassisted customer shipping is described providing for payment of shipping and item costs in a single transaction. In one configuration, a customer utilizes a kiosk to process a shipping bill of materials for presentment at a point of sale terminal.

A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in the display. Errors in the selection of certain selected components for the communications network are identified by their attributes or frequency characteristics as well as by their interconnection compatability for a particular design. The effects of changes in frequency on component performance are modeled and the results are displayed to the design engineer. A bill of materials is automatically checked for faults and generated for the design system and provided to the design engineer. For ease of design, the design engineer can cluster several different preferred components into component kits, and then select these component kits for use in the design or deployment process.

The inventive approach provides a dynamic data system and computationally efficient method to uniquely identify a product of interest and by means of querying any number of databases for pertinent transaction data, create a complete product history (lifecycle) as well as the current product state. The inventive method provides a means for rapidly assigning a unique identifier to specific instances of a product or component. The invention also provides for the elimination of duplicative or obsolete lifecycle data, generating a current picture of product data (denominated, by reason of the method of creation, a “transactional bill of materials” (T-BOM™) for every product component or composite product. The invention provides a method supportive of improved product uptime as well as other advantages including improved customer service, reduced costs to provide customer service, and profitability management.

A generic, integrated, parametric, automated product configuration system for parametric configuration of products such as offices on a building space plan. The system can produce bills of materials, costings and manufacturing drawings in real-time at the request of a user as the user specifies and configures the product components and parameters values. The system provides for real time three-dimensional visualization and editing of the product as it is configured. It also includes a rule engine for validating the product and automatically incorporating missing necessary components in a configuration in real-time as the user configures a product.

The invention relates to an aircraft assembly data visualization method based on Web. The method comprises four steps as follows: step 1, setting up system architecture and development environment; step 2, visualization AO (Assembly Order) designing; step 3, assembling process simulation; and step 4, using in an assembly site. The method is used for realizing visual online browse of data such as BOM (Bill of Material), AO, product information and the like, and the assembly quality and the working efficiency of aircrafts are increased. The method has a better practical value and a wide application prospect in the aircraft industry.

A componentized operating system is separated into multiple different components. In certain embodiments, a bill of materials (BOM) identifies at least one component that is installed (or is to be installed) for an operating system image on a computer. Each component includes one or more files and has a corresponding manifest that identifies which other components (if any) the component is dependent on. During an installation or upgrading process, the manifest for a component can be accessed to determine which additional components (if any) are to be installed even if they are not explicitly identified in the BOM.

A method for representing the structure of an article of manufacture having a plurality of design variants includes defining a plurality of positions corresponding to different predefined locations on the article of manufacture and assigning at least one variant to each position. Each variant identifies a specific part that may be used in the respective position or a specific type of connection between a pair of parts. In any given position, at most one part or connection variant can be selected. Code rules are defined for each variant which indicate when a particular variant should be used in accordance with specified design options. The position and variant representation can be implemented as part of a bill of materials used for manufacturing resource planning. Improved methods for defining the code rules, for evaluating the code rules in the bill of materials to determine manufacturing parts requirements for a plurality of orders, and for generating documentation for manufactured variants of the article are also disclosed.

A method of storing and managing BOMs of different owners in the same environment. One or more BOMs have an owner. An owner's BOM includes may include confidential information such that unrestricted access to the confidential information is limited to the owner and any designates of the owner. In particular, one embodiment of the invention and maintains a list of items that include the items in the BOMs of the different owners. A unique identifier is used for each item of the list. The item identifiers thus form one namespace. BOMs of different owners share data including confidential data within the same namespace.

A system and method of receiving orders, placing orders in an order matrix, determining potential production periods for an order, rescheduling orders, and generating a bill of materials. The method receives an order having one or more tokens out of a set of possible tokens. Each token is a combination of a characteristic and a value of the characteristic. The orders are placed in an order matrix. An order restriction matrix for the orders is generated based on certain selection conditions. The method then examines the restrictions that apply to the order and derives an order derived production restriction matrix for the order, which is evaluated to determine possible production periods for the order. The order matrix may also be used to generate a bill of materials.

The present invention relates to a system and method for a product process route, which is a computer simulation system and method for a product production process, including a file reading module, a basic data module, a custom attribute module, a product process model module, a route simulation module and The production scheduling optimization module, among them, the file reading module is used to read the data of the product design system and put it into the product process model module; the basic data module is used to set the status data of the production site; the custom attribute module is used to It is used to maintain the attributes of the calculation parameters that constitute the product bill of materials and product process; the product process model module is used to manage the product process model for establishing product process routes; the route simulation module is used to calculate the process route according to the product process model, and to process Routes are managed; the production scheduling optimization module is used to change the process route replacement conditions of the route simulation module to obtain the optimal scheduling result. The system simulates or optimizes the product process route, saving cost, time and effort.

Systems and methods for leveraging a preliminary plant model to create a detailed physical plant model are presented. The system stores instances of component primitives, and can utilize stored geometries of the component primitives to identify a plurality of physical components to form a physical plant model. The physical plant model can realize at least a portion of the component runs based on equations and mapping definitions that establish relationships among the geometries of the equipment and piping. The components of the physical plant model can be mapped to catalog items based on the geometries of the components. After translation, a bill of materials listing the physical plant model components can be produced.

The present disclosure features methods and systems for creation of a dynamically configurable product design, sometimes referred to as business driven assemblies. Such product designs may be referred to as driven by a bill-of-materials (BOM) or selection of options by a customer, sales representative, or vendor, and may be performed responsive to a product lifecycle management (PLM) plan. The system allows a customer to define specifications of a product, and then dynamically generates a CAD model responsive to the defined specifications or selected options.

Systems and methods associated with digitized and automated product management provide for a holistic representation of a product throughout its lifecycle, including physical and non-physical components thereof. More particular features include generation of unit bills of material and application of non-physical components, eg., control parameters, to product units. Features for managing bills of material involve providing a pre-established mapping of technical feature rules that relate commercial feature options for a product to different combinations of technical functions and parts for potential use in a product. Pre-established manufacturing templates are also provided and combined with the mapping to generate an order-specific bill-of-materials, after which point a unit bill-of-materials can be created. Features for digitizing and applying non-physical components, e.g. control parameters, involve establishing a plurality of non-physical components, e.g. control parameter definitions, and database relationships between control parameters and products within a network accessible database. Interfaces may be provided for changing selected aspects of the control parameters, and the parameters are ultimately provided as direct input to a product.

A management server has a file server containing operating systems and software packages utilized by typical computers in an enterprise. The management server also includes a bills of material module having bills of material that identify the roles of computers used by typical enterprises,, and one or more templates specifying the operating systems, software packages, and configuration files utilized by the computers in different roles. The management server can instantiate managed computers of a particular bill of materials using the templates, thereby creating computers functioning in the specified roles. The managed computers share the set of files on the file server. When a managed computer attempts to modify a shared file, the file server creates a new copy of the file, maps all requests from the managed computer to the new copy, and allows the modification to proceed. The management server tracks the changes.

A bill of materials (BOM) sourcing system includes one or more data storage locations that store BOM sourcing criteria. The system also includes a sourcing engine that receives a BOM that includes a plurality of part identifiers. The sourcing engine identifies one or more part identifiers included in the BOM and searches supplier data to obtain pricing information associated with the identified parts. Furthermore, the sourcing engine receives sourcing criteria and determines which supplier should be used to supply each identified part based on the pricing information and the sourcing criteria. In addition, the system includes a transaction execution module that receives from the sourcing engine a part identifier for each identified part and the identity of the supplier to be used to supply each identified part. The transaction execution module generates one or more transaction documents based on this information and communicates the one or more transaction documents to the associated suppliers.

The invention relates to a processing method and a device of tree type data. The method includes obtaining a father node and child nodes of the tree type data; displaying the structure of the tree type data in a set mode according to the subjection relations between the father node and the child nodes and between the child nodes; and starting from one side of the boundary of the set at the outermost layer to number boundary points of each set sequentially, wherein the numbers at two sides of the boundary of each set are used for limiting the range of the set. According to the method and the device, the problem of insufficient structural management of the tree type data in the prior art is solved, the management of the tree type data is more efficient, the query performance is higher, simultaneously, limit of the tree type data hierarchy is eliminated, and the method and the device are particularly suitable for the management of mass tree type data such as a family tree, a gene spectrum and a bill of material (BOM).

The invention discloses a visualization detection method of electronic product electronic design automation (EDA) design manufacturability. Printed circuit board (PCB) three dimensional (3D) simulation of an EDA design document is conducted, PCBphysical parameter detection, PCB assembling ability, PCB welding quality detection and Gerber bill of material (BOM) coordinate detection are conducted in sequence, and specific error positions and types of former four steps of detection are displayed in visualization mode on a PCB 3D figure. On the basic of complete actual production experiences, the visualization detection method and a system of the EAD design manufacturability are developed according to international standard of information processing center (IPC), the PCB physical parameter detection, the PCB assembling ability, the PCB welding quality detection and the gerber BOM coordinate detection which are all designed by EDA are integrated, the various actual problems which are the contradictions of manufacture and design of PCB and are faced by enterprises are resolved, and efficiency and quality of electronic manufacture in particular to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) are improved.