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(43) Pub. Date:
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ABSTRACT
Systems and methods associated With digitized and auto mated product management provide for a holistic represen tation of a product throughout its lifecycle, including physical and non-physical components thereof. More particular fea tures include generation of unit bills of material and applica tion of non-physical components, eg., control parameters, to product units. Features for managing bills of material involve
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templates are also provided and 'combined vvith the mapping
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to generate an order-specl?c bill-of-materials, after Wh1ch
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point a unit bill-of-materials can be created. Features for
(21) App1_ NO; 13/171,964 (22)
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trol parameters, involve establishing a plurality of non-physi cal components, eg control parameter de?nitions, and data base relationships between control parameters and products
Jun_ 29, 2011 Publication Classi?cation
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(19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. N0.: US 2013/0006408 A1 Zakrzwski et a]. (54)
(43) Pub. Date:
AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR DIGITIZED
(52)
Jan. 3, 2013
US. Cl. ..................................................... .. 700/107
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
(57)
(75) Inventors: giz??llg?g Johnson ’Greer SC’ (Us) Allen' C Gaulden’ Ta lo’rs SC Mark‘ Edward heal/{mail Sim so’nv?le SC (US)_ Ketan suri ’Sim gem/me ’SC (US; Stefan Pie "er Elfnsbuerel’l (DE) Dina’kara somashal’lkaraiah ’
ABSTRACT
Systems and methods associated With digitized and auto mated product management provide for a holistic represen tation of a product throughout its lifecycle, including physical and non-physical components thereof. More particular fea tures include generation of unit bills of material and applica tion of non-physical components, eg., control parameters, to product units. Features for managing bills of material involve
Dodda atti anabbe Greenville SC
providing a pre-established mapping of technical feature
(Us) sgam gth K N’ara anan ’ Greeiwine PSC y ’
rules that relate commercial feature options for a product to different combinations of technical functions and parts for
’
potential use in a product. Pre-established manufacturing
(73) Assigneez GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY’
templates are also provided and 'combined vvith the mapping
Schenectady NY (Us)
to generate an order-specl?c bill-of-materials, after Wh1ch
’
point a unit bill-of-materials can be created. Features for
(21) App1_ NO; 13/171,964 (22)
Filed;
digitizing and applying non-physical components, eg con
trol parameters, involve establishing a plurality of non-physi cal components, eg control parameter de?nitions, and data base relationships between control parameters and products
Jun_ 29, 2011 Publication Classi?cation
Within a network accessible database. Interfaces may be pro
vided for changing selected aspects of the control parameters, 51
Int. Cl.
and the P arameters are ultimately P rovided as direct inP ut to
G06F 17/50
(2006.01)
a product.
COMPUTER-READABLE MEMORY/MEDIA DEVICE
301
PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (PLM) APPLICATION
300
=
N
ws/v /. v
302
NEW PRODUCT V312 INTRODUCTION (NPI) CREATION INTERFACE
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ENGINEERING
PRODUCT
MODULE
MODULE
UNIT BILL OF MATERIALS
CONTROL PARAMETERS
(BOM) MODULE
MODULE
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V314
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/' M304
‘V316
REQUISITION APPLICATION
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTATION
INTERFACE
INTERFACE
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