Automatically creating an MBOM from an EBOM

Teamcenter provides you with several automatic methods to create a manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM) from an EBOM (engineering bill of materials).

• Create an MBOM from a recipe

Create an MBOM from a template that contains a recipe for searching the EBOM for required parts. The recipe can contain a variety of search attributes such as an attribute search, spatial search, ID search, or combinations of search criteria. This type of creation mechanism works well for make to shelf industries where the products are standardized such as the automotive or home appliance industries.

• Use the me_create_mbom utility

The me_create_mbom utility creates an MBOM based on a specific EBOM but replaces make parts or phantom levels in the EBOM with manufacturing-specific parts and directly copies over buy parts. Your administrator can take advantage of user exits in this utility that allow you to embed your own logic into the utility. Your administrator can take advantage of user exits in this utility that allow you to embed your own logic into the utility that specify:

What constitutes a make part using the USER_create_or_ref_item user exit (exposed in Business Modeler IDE using the BMF_ITEM_create_or_ref_id operation on an Item object).

How to synchronize equivalent lines and align properties using the USER_synch_item user exit (exposed in Business Modeler IDE using the BMF_ITEM_sync operation on an Item object).

What constitutes equivalent lines if there is no in-context ID or occurrence thread using the USER_item_find_equivalent_line user exit (exposed in Business Modeler IDE using the BMF_ITEM_find_eqv_line operation on an Item object).

Which action to take on a released MBOM Item Revision object during update using the USER_item_action_on_release user exit (exposed in Business Modeler IDE using the BMF_ITEM_action_on_release operation on an Item object).

For more information, see Integration Toolkit Function Reference. Your administrator can create a workflow to run this utility using the ME-create-mirror-AH and the ME-update-mirror-mbom-AH action handlers. This type of MBOM creation method works well for configure to order customers such as heavy machinery.

Note

Neither of the methods to create MBOMs supports part replacement through propagation.