Get your BOMs to production intact

BOMs that get exported, retyped and reworked lose items and drift between revisions. MaXXflow, with MaXXlink, carries BOM information cleanly into purchasing and production.

Once a BOM leaves engineering, it's out of your hands

You release a BOM. Then it gets exported, pasted into a spreadsheet, reformatted for purchasing and re-entered for production. Every step is a chance for it to be changed, copied wrong or read differently from how you meant it.

The risk isn't in the design. It's in what happens to the design data after you hand it over. Items get missed, quantities change, non-modeled items never make it across, revisions don't get communicated, and purchasing orders from an outdated version. Then the questions come back to your team, because the handover was never structured.

BOM errors rarely look like BOM errors

On the floor, a bad BOM shows up as wrong picks, rework, scrap, confusion over which revision is current, and "we built it this way last time" decisions.

Engineering wants controlled changes. Production wants clear instructions and parts that match what's in front of them. If changes don't flow through reliably, they still happen, just informally, and design intent is what gets lost.

A single error travels, too. A quantity typo becomes a purchase order. A superseded part number reaches a supplier. A missing fastener stops a line mid-shift. The problem in full is on BOMs don't reach production intact.

A design BOM doesn't tell anyone what to buy

The engineering BOM describes how the product is designed. Manufacturing needs to know how it will be bought, assembled and produced, which can mean non-modeled items, consumables, packaging, process items or a different grouping.

The move from engineering BOM to manufacturing BOM is where design information has to become manufacturing action, and in most businesses it happens by hand. EBOM vs MBOM explains the difference in detail.

MaXXlink prepares the BOM. MaXXflow puts it to work.

Where BOMs start in CAD or PDM, MaXXlink can complement MaXXflow. MaXXlink helps you structure, review and collaborate on BOM information, including the engineering BOM, non-modeled items and a manufacturing-ready structure.

MaXXflow then uses that structured BOM for material requirements, inventory checks, purchasing, work orders and production readiness. The MaXXlink BOM connector imports BOM information, assigns BOMs to products and controls what's ingested into MaXXflow, with its exact scope confirmed for your setup.

Engineering keeps control of the product definition, and the rest of the business works from it instead of from a copy. The combined story is on MaXXflow with MaXXlink.

Not using MaXXlink? BOMs can also be created or imported directly in MaXXflow, with dependency checks that protect records in use. Editing permissions and any read-only limits are confirmed for your workflow.

Your BOM decides whether a job is ready

Part of a job's readiness belongs to engineering: an approved, accurate BOM, and engineering changes that have been resolved. Products are set as made in-house or bought, and their BOM requirements are validated.

So the quality of what you release shows up directly in what purchasing orders and what production can start. MaXXflow is built for exactly that: BOM accuracy, and change control that reaches production. See bills of materials for how BOMs work in MaXXflow.

Four questions about your handover

Where does your BOM information come from today?
How does engineering hand BOMs over to purchasing and production?
Do you see missing items, non-modeled components, revision problems or manual BOM changes?
How do you know purchasing and production are working from the right version?

If BOMs are exported, copied into spreadsheets and changed by different teams before anyone buys or builds from them, that's the gap MaXXflow and MaXXlink are built to close.