Generic BOMA Processing System for Assembly-To-Order Production

0　IntroductionTraditional production management systems are often designed to support manufacturingbased on a limited number of product variants,where production planning can be carriedout by employing part numbers and maintaining a particular Bill-of-Materials (BOM) foreach individual product variant.However,with the emerging trend of producingcustomized products to meet diverse customer' s needs,namely customer-drivenmanufacturing(Wortmann et al.,1 997) ,product variants increase exponent…

Generic BOMA Processing System for Assembly-To-Order Production

This paper discusses integrated product and production data management for assembly to order production, which is characterized by a large number of product and process varieties. A data structure, called Bill of Materials and Assemblies (BOMA), is proposed for the purpose of unifying BOM and assembly routing data in order to accommodate a wide range of product variability and production variations. A generic BOMA concept is put forward to deal with variety effectively. A prototype system of the proposed generic BOMA is implemented using object oriented modeling.