Model Driven Approaches for Design and Development of Creating e-BOM Efficiently

The comprehensiveness of functionality, controllability of processes, and advancement of technology are important in enterprise digitalization systems, but convenience and user-friendliness are even more crucial. Especially during the initial stage of implementing a digitalization system for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, the creation of foundational data, particularly e-bill of material(e-BOM), plays a vital role. The ability to create the required e-bom determines the feasibility of running the digitalization system, and the efficiency of e-bom creation determines when the system can be operational. This paper proposes two approaches for batch creating material information based on relevant industries and application scenarios, which significantly improve efficiency compared to traditional methods. Among them, the batch creation approach for material information is particularly suitable for industries such as hardware, furniture, and injection molding, where the same component has different statuses. It improves the efficiency of material information creation by several times or even dozens of times. The intelligent batch creation approach for derivative materials, on the other hand, is especially useful for the creation of product information in industries such as ceramics (e.g., sanitary ceramics, dinner ware), hardware ware (e.g., faucets, showerheads, accessories), and stationery (e.g., erasers, pens, rulers), where the same product has different forms, specifications, colors, grades, trademarks, and other attributes. It improves the efficiency of material information creation by tens or even hundreds of times.