How many different ways have you created a bill of materials? Whiteboards? Excel spreadsheets? Tables in CAD? The drafting board? These might get the job done, well, sort of, but they fall short in too many ways to count. With SolidWorks Manage, you can enhance your existing SolidWorks BOMs into full engineering and manufacturing BOMs. And when your SolidWorks models change, your enhanced bills of materials will be up to date with those changes. All so you can get more out of your bills of materials with SolidWorks Manage. During the development of our new miter saw, my team has built up some assemblies and drawings representing my CAD bomb. It's easy for my team to view the bomb from SolidWorks PDM as well, but I need to add some non-CAD items to finish my complete engineering bomb. I have all of my commodity components controlled and available in SolidWorks Manage, so I can quickly add a bottle of threadlock and a few feet of wire to the SolidWorks Manage bill of materials. I'll mark my task as complete to keep track of my time and my progress. Since SolidWorks PDM and Manage are connected, when I check in my bomb changes, the PDM file is checked in at the same time, giving me continuous control and design history. When an engineering bomb isn't quite enough, SolidWorks Manage has the flexibility to create bombs that are associated to the engineering bomb, but include unique characteristics and values needed for manufacturing, shipping, or service bombs. I need to create a manufacturing bomb for the SAW, but my different manufacturing centers in the US and Europe will have their own component suppliers in effectivity. First, I can make use of SolidWorks Manage bomb variants to create bombs for each manufacturing center. After creating the US bomb, I can simply copy it to the EU variant. Then I can use custom bomb fields to set unique suppliers and effectivity dates for each location. The packaging will be different in Europe, so I can simply swap out the original box for another. These variants still represent the new MiterSaw product, but now have their own unique values. That gives me the flexibility to keep my complex but related bombs together in one controlled bomb record. SolidWorks Manage also gives me the flexibility to import bombs from Excel. When I need to import from other business systems like configurators or electrical design tools, I can bring that data into a new bomb or update one with design changes. In this example, I've just imported the bomb for the printed circuit board that drives the motor controller and laser guide. If a new part is needed and isn't already in SolidWorks Manage, the bomb makes that visible. When I'm ready, I can then replace the bomb row with a newly created part or record, and all of my custom bomb fields keep their values. This means no more errors caused by manually typing bombs. Now, what happens with the inevitable change? Change to the SolidWorks parts and assemblies in PDM or other bomb line items? From records or kit bombs? SolidWorks Manage keeps my bombs updated with the latest component changes with no effort. But more importantly, SolidWorks Manage preserves the bomb history so I can go back to any revision to see exactly how it was built. Because SolidWorks Manage is connected to my SolidWorks designs as well as other records, all of my bombs stay in sync. All of my bill of materials data can start to get overwhelming, especially when designs are complex. First, using SolidWorks Manage, I can filter and search through bombs with ease. When I need to know what's different between bombs, I can go right to the Compare tool. I can compare revisions of the same bomb, product variants, or even compare between different SolidWorks assemblies. The color coding makes the differences crystal clear so I know exactly what will be supplied to everyone using this bomb. Finally, not everyone in my company wants to look at the bomb in software. SolidWorks Manage lets me quickly publish great looking reports that match the way we like to see our content. With SolidWorks Manage, you can complete your bills of materials faster in a single collaborative interface without heavy manual updates when changes occur. By the way, you can view and build bombs from the web client too. And now that my bills of materials are created, I can send them through their approval process so the right people can be notified, review, and collaborate. Reach out to your SolidWorks value-added reseller to learn how SolidWorks Manage can help you get more out of your bills of materials.