Component Analysis
Considering all the incoming "change notifications" from your component suppliers on a day by day basis can be challenge as many notifications have wide reaching impacts. This stems from the scattered information sources for component information systems. Zuken’s solution allows an easy to check analysis of where the component is being used and what kind of second sources are defined, based on company, division or project level. The engineer also has access to criteria available to rate second source components for their order of usage.
During the lifecycle of your products you are faced many times with changes and this leads to impact analysis activities.
One of the very first questions is always:
- What type of change is raised?
- For what reason?
- Where is this material being used?
- Which project is being affected by this change?
- Is this a single source component?
- Do we have second sources available?
- How is the PPL Status impacted after switching to the identified second source material?
The built-in functionality within Zuken’s e-PLM solutions allows a “1click” push button activity to identify the projects which are using this material.