Bill of Materials

       The Bill of Material system provides for the maintenance and
       analysis of information regarding the structure of manufactured
       items.  Maintenance is designed to be as efficient as possible,
       and a wide range of analysis reporting functions is provided.
       Inquiry displays and reports are generated dynamically at inquiry
       time so that the most current status of all pertinent inventory
       and product structure data is always available.
       Product structure maintenance is accomplished via a simple entry
       procedure which requires the entry of first level components
       only.  After entry of these single-level bills, the reporting
       functions have the ability to automatically explode all sub
       assemblies, regardless of the number of levels of sub assemblies
       and components involved.

       The data items to be shown on the reports and file maintenance
       screens may be selected by the user from a list of items relating
       to product structure, inventory availability, product costing,
       shop load, etc.  Each explosion function also has the capability
       to update the total costs and run hours of assemblies based on
       the current costs and run times of their individual components.

       In addition to its maintenance and reporting functions, the Bill
       of Material system makes product structure information available
       for Material Requirements Planning and automatic allocation of
       material to production orders.

       Bill of Material functions:
               File maintenance functions
               Single level parts list
               Phantom parts list
               Detail parts list
               Summarized parts list
               Single level usage list
               Phantom usage list
               Detail usage list
               Summarized usage list
               Drawing cross reference
               System management functions