Bill of Material (BOM) is a list that explicitly represents the quantities of parts and the parent-children relationships between parts necessary to produce one unit of the final product. BOM is widely used to store and organize the product-related in...
Bill of Material (BOM) is a list that explicitly represents the quantities of parts and the parent-children relationships between parts necessary to produce one unit of the final product. BOM is widely used to store and organize the product-related information, such as drawing, product specification, packing list & spec., after-service record. etc. Also, the information derived from BOM is used in almost every stage of production, such as material requirement planning, production process control and production planning. Therefore, effective control and generation of BOM is important for productivity improvement. This paper aims at presenting a method of automatic generation of BOM by using the case-based reasoning techniques. specifically, the representation of BOM as case, case retrieval and reusing methods are presented.