A Guide to Optimizing Your Bill of Materials (BOM)
No matter how simple or complicated, every manufacturing project, whether it’s a unique one-off product or repeat process production, has a Bill of Materials (BOM), which is crucial to effectively organize and communicate the details of your project to others.
Consider the following tips to improve communication, slash costs, and avoid bad design decisions along the journey from the planning stages to production.
Be Very Detailed
Your documentation needs to be so detailed that it will allow every employee who has never read or seen your design files before to recreate products from scratch without hiccups, including quality control specifications. If they find that impossible to do, your documentation is not up to par.
It’s important to review and add in your own specifications in order to make sure you’re as thorough as possible, and your employees make the product consistently and adhere to the design specs.
Avoid Ambiguity in Your BOM
Ideally, you want to […]