Overview

A Bill of Material (BOM) contains the basic information and production details for BOM version. A BOM item represents any component or by-product of the production of parent item. These components and by-products must be defined as an item and assigned to an item to be a part of the BOM.

A BOM version specifies the components that are consumed to produce the parent item, any by- products of that production, and default values for several production settings. BOM item adds production-specific details for usage of the item in the current BOM version.

An item can contain multiple BOM versions, but you can define only one version as the preferred version. The preferred BOM version is used automatically whenever a process is defined to produce the parent item.
A BOM is created in the Wonderware MES Client, Order Management group, under the Items module. After selecting the item, a section in the Properties window is enabled, and a button called Configure BOMs opens for you to configure one or more BOM versions for the item.

Consumption Counters

Consumption counters are used to track the consumption of material for an entity. To view the Consumption Counters tab, select the Entity Can Run Jobs and Enable Consumption Counters check boxes in the General tab of the Operations Capability Object.

You can configure up to 20 consumption counters for an entity in the Consumption Counters tab of the Operations Capability Object. When you configure multiple consumption counters for an Operations Capability Object instance, all the job positions contain the same number of consumption counters at runtime.

Product Genealogy

Product genealogy refers to the process of tracking and recording changes made in every component used and created as they progress through a supply chain. This process is also known as traceability. Wonderware MES Software/Operations allows you to track and trace all products and by-products throughout an entire production cycle.

A manufacturing company must record the production process details to track the production status at any instant. Genealogy allows you to trace the complete history of any material lot (produced or consumed) that is managed by Wonderware MES Software/Operations. You can use genealogy to trace the origins of a contaminated or defective end product. You can use genealogy to:

• Track materials that are produced back to all the raw and intermediate materials used for production (genealogy). For example, this can be used to track the origins of contaminated or defective end products.
• Track the raw material or intermediate material to all materials that are produced using them (reverse genealogy). For example, this can be used to track the extent of contaminated or defective end products if the raw material is known to be contaminated.