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BOM as the single source of truth ➡️ faster launch
In today’s fast-paced manufacturing environment, the ability to quickly adapt to market changes and customer demands is more critical than ever. Manufacturers across industries are continually seeking ways to reduce the time it takes to bring products from concept to production. One of the most impactful strategies to accelerate time to market is implementing an end-to-end Bill of Materials (BOM) management solution that acts as a single source of truth for the entire product lifecycle.
The power of an end-to-end BOM
An integrated enterprise BOM solution ensures that every part of the product—from requirements and initial design to final manufacturing—is accounted for in a unified system. This approach minimizes miscommunication, reduces errors, and ensures alignment between departments, helping organizations avoid the costly delays often associated with product development and change. By creating a single source of truth, manufacturers can ensure that data remains consistent across all stages of the product lifecycle, from design BOM (DBOM) and engineering BOM (EBOM) to manufacturing BOM (MBOM) and Bill of Process (BOP).
Teamcenter’s BOM solutions help organizations streamline their BOM management, improving efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness to customer needs. A standout example of this transformation comes from ENERCON, a global leader in wind energy.
ENERCON’s BOM transformation journey
ENERCON, based in Aurich, Germany, faced the challenge of managing complex, highly configurable products in an increasingly competitive market. To remain agile and responsive to customer demands, they sought a solution that would allow them to manage their BOM data seamlessly across their entire value chain. This led them to Teamcenter, which has become the backbone of their BOM and configuration management strategy.
ENERCON’s end-to-end BOM solution in Teamcenter serves as a single source of truth, enabling them to manage product variability with greater ease and accuracy. By unifying their change management processes across DBOM, EBOM, MBOM, and BOP, ENERCON has significantly reduced the time and effort required for BOM translation and change implementation.
Highlights of ENERCON’s Teamcenter BOM adoption
⏩ 75% reduction in EBOM to MBOM translation time
By leveraging Teamcenter’s BOM management, ENERCON reduced the time to translate the EBOM to the MBOM from four weeks to just one week. This efficiency gain allows them to respond to changes faster, aligning their production processes more closely with engineering and design.
🏃♀️➡️ Accelerated time to market
The end-to-end BOM solution has been instrumental in reducing their time to market. With all product data centralized in a single system, they can quickly incorporate customer requirements into their product structures.
🔄️ Seamless change management across departments
ENERCON’s solution enables real-time visibility into changes. For instance, if there’s an engineering change order, the production team can immediately see the update, eliminating the information silos that previously slowed down operations.
Flexibility to adapt to customer needs
One of the key benefits of using a single source of truth for BOM management is the ability to maintain flexibility, a necessity for manufacturers offering customizable products. ENERCON leverages Teamcenter Product Configurator to manage product variability across the entire value chain, ensuring they can meet diverse customer requirements without sacrificing speed or quality.
This holistic approach has given ENERCON the flexibility to respond quickly to changing customer demands and market conditions, which is essential in the renewable energy sector but equally critical in industries such as electronics, automotive, and consumer goods.
The digital thread competitive advantage
For ENERCON, having the entire value chain represented within their Teamcenter environment creates a robust digital thread backbone, providing full traceability from design through manufacturing. The digital thread enables their teams to maintain a top-down view of the product structure, ensuring maturity and completeness at every stage. This approach not only shortens development cycles but also mitigates risk by reducing the likelihood of errors.
In their own words: “With the help of Teamcenter, we now have a top-down design approach, which allows us to have an overview of the product structure maturity level from the beginning. This is very helpful because we can reduce time-to-market and speed up the product development process,” says Sebastian Heinzel, Senior Process Manager PLM.
The path forward: accelerating product development across industries
While ENERCON’s success is rooted in the renewable energy sector, their experience with Teamcenter’s BOM management solution demonstrates how manufacturers in any industry can benefit from a centralized, end-to-end BOM solution. By creating a single source of truth for product data, companies can reduce time to market, increase operational efficiency, and stay flexible enough to meet evolving customer needs.
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