Are Excel BOM Templates Right For YOU?: Want More Info On BOM Management?
Are Excel BOM Templates Right For YOU?: Want More Info On BOM Management?
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Features
BOM Where-Used Poor Excellent It can be difficult to tie multiple product BOM spreadsheets together to analyze and understand
assembly relationships, and making repetitive and tedious data entries wastes time. With Arena, it
takes no time at all to view immediate and top-level assembly relationships for an item or assembly.
With Excel it's difficult to track changes and determine the overall impact a change has on other
BOM Redlining Poor Excellent assemblies. Arena provides manufacturers with a way to view differences between adjacent or
discontinuous revisions of a specific assembly, and track changes to quantity, name, number,
reference designators and more.
Comparing multiple Excel BOMs can be a challenging and time-consuming process. Because Arena is
built on a relational database, it's easy to compare differences like quantity, reference designator,
BOM Comparison Poor Excellent and substitute items between an item’s BOM and any number of other items’ BOM.
Pulling cost data from an Excel BOM spreadsheet is a laborious and frustrating process. Arena
Costed BOM Poor Excellent provides a way to track your fully costed BOM and/or product for prototype and production costs on
assemblies and products. Manufacturers can use quotes or estimates to calculate the percentage
costs of various components or assemblies for complete products within Arena as well as view price,
target cost and standard cost for each item.
With Excel BOMs, it's difficult to identify which spreadsheet file is the latest version and whether the
Versioning Poor Excellent revision is correct. In Arena, manufacturers can visually track item, assembly and product status as it
moves from concept to design to production.
When BOMs are built in a spreadsheet, there are limited ways to manipulate the data, and it can be
BOM Views Poor Excellent difficult to create personalized views for everyone who needs access. Arena offers role-based views
of the product structure (e.g., indented, flat, sourcing, custom) based on a user's specific business
needs.
With Excel, product revisions are tracked with spreadsheets and controlled file shares. BOM
BOM History Poor Excellent management capabilities in Arena help manufacturers retain product history with redline
comparisons between current and previous revisions. This allows complex product history and
changes to be viewed quickly and easily.
Spreadsheets can be locked and password protected, but the data can be edited and re-saved easily,
Security Poor Excellent putting intellectual property at risk. With Arena, you can control who has access to the product data,
as well as how much access and interaction each user has.
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Column Name
Multi-Level BOM
Example
BOM Level
Part Number
Part Name
Revision
Description
Quantity
Unit of Measure
Reference
Designators
BOM Notes
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Content Description
This example shows a multi-level BOM for a GPS product. Each subassembly is listed along with the components that make up
that subassembly. An individual part may be listed in the BOM multiple times if it is included in more than one subassembly.
BOM Level shows the hierarchy of the parts and assemblies in the BOM. Level 0 (zero) is the top assembly being described.
Part number lists the unique company part number. Do not place manufacturers part numbers here.
Part Name is the unique part name.
Revision is the revision of the part used in this assembly.
A detailed description of the part.
Commonly, quantity is the number of parts needed in the assembly or subassembly. However, when used with the unit of
measure, it can describe the amount of something needed- like 2 inches or 3 pints.
Unit of measure describes how you use or buy the part. Most commonly UOM is each, but it can also be standard measures l
feet, inches, pints, drops, box…
Used with PCBAs, this lists the location on the board of the part on the BOM.
This is an open note field to describe part information which is specific to this BOM.
Assembly Number:
Assembly Name:
Assembly Revision:
Approval Date:
BOM
Level Part Number Part Name Revision
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Unit of Reference
Description Quantity Measure Designators
BOM Notes
Revision Summary of Changes Made Approval Date
Assembly Number: 20-0001
Assembly Name: EveryRoad GPS, Shippable, US Model 300
Assembly Revision: B
Approval Date: 24-Jul-10
BOM
Level Part Number Part Name Revision
4 40-0043 1k Resistor A
4 40-0044 1.0uF Ceramic Capacitor, 1206 A
4 40-0056 1M Resistor A
4 40-0062 3k Resistor A
4 40-0063 Exclusive Or Gate single A
4 40-0064 Speaker w/drive circuit 3-15volts A
4 40-0066 Signal Diode A
4 40-0067 2M Resistor A
4 40-0068 P-Chan MOSFET SOT-223 A
4 40-0069 HE 2 Channel solid state relay (B form) A
4 40-0070 Schottky Diode, 320mV@1mA A
1 30-0085 Packaging A
5" x 5" x 5" white box packaging with large EveryRoad logo
on top of box. See files tab for artwork to be put on box. 1 each MTS
Hook & Loop (Velcro), Black, 2" wide Adhesive backed 2 inch OTS
Reference
Designators BOM Notes
U2
J4
C15,C6,C10-12
R1,R5,R11,R12,R1
4,R16,R23,R24
VR1
R44
R4
R8,R13
Q5,Q9
Q2,Q4
R15
C9
C1,C4,C8
VD1
R40
R2,R9
C5,C7
R3,R17
Q1,Q8
Q6
R29
U1
P1
D8,D10
R7,R30
Q12
RY1
D1,D2
J1,J3
R41, R42
X1
SW1
Q3
LD1
J2
IR1,IR3
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