Multi-level structures
Build a bill of materials to any depth. Each line is its own record carrying quantity, unit, reference designator and notes, so the relationship holds data of its own.
In the APIBills of materials
Multi-level structures where the line between parent and child is a real record, not a text field.
Where-used
Open any component and see the items that consume it, its direct parents in a bill of materials. This is the question that decides whether a change is safe.
In the APIStructure planes
Keep several structures against one item — engineering, manufacturing, packaging. One plane is primary and drives every rollup and explosion; the rest stay readable and authorable beside it.
Approved alternates
Record the parts that may stand in for a component, with the approval behind each one. The alternate is part of the data, not a note in a comment thread.
Scoped substitution
Swap one component for another across the parents you choose, not blindly everywhere. Review the affected list before you commit the swap.
In the APIComponent-wide edits
Change a line attribute everywhere a component appears in one operation, and see which bills of materials it could not touch and why.
In the APIFormulas and multi-output BOMs
For process manufacturing: one input set producing several outputs, with co-products, by-products, per-output yield and absolute yield.
Quantity and cost rollups
Roll any numeric field up the tree as the sum of each child times its raw quantity. Critical-path rollups take the longest path instead of the sum, for lead time.
In the APIParts summary
Explode a structure to a flat parts list with exact and gross quantities. It works against an order or against a bare item, with no order needed.
In the APIStructure baselines
Freeze the whole tree under a root and name it. Compare any later state against that baseline and read the added, changed and removed lines.
In the APIBOM compare
Put two structures side by side — two items, two revisions, two baselines — and read the difference line by line.
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