Engineering BOM

The Engineering BOM form shows engineering items and parts that are part of the engineering item selected on the Engineering items form. Usually, the BOM will include engineering items for customer-specific components and parts for standard parts from the Parts module, such as fastening materials.

In principle, the BOM of engineering items is the same as the BOM in the CAD or PDM application when you copy data from the CAD or PDM application to the engineering items. You can, however, manually add BOM lines, for example for packaging material that must be included in the product delivery, but that is not drawn in the CAD document. The External check box shows whether BOM lines were created either manually, or automatically using the CAD integration functionality.

You synchronize the engineering item including the BOM with a production file.