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Electronic components are constantly changing, causing parts to go EOL (End-of-Life) for various reasons: companies go out of business, component product lines change hands, old technology is updated with new. Electronic product manufacturers must be agile to keep their product BOMs (bill of materials) up to date and keep their supply chain humming. Fortunately for them, Zuken’s DS-CR customers leverage component and design data relationships to tackle the problem.
![Creating Automatic Bill of Materials and Wire/Connector List Reports in E3.series](https://www.zuken.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/e3-automatic-bill-of-materials-featured-img-510x310.jpg)
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This tech tip explains how to create automatic bill of materials (BOM) and connection or wire list reports. E3.series has the built-in capability to generate these reports, and users can choose to either create standalone reports in Excel format for use with other applications or build the reports into their current E3.series projects as additional sheets.
![A digital wireframe silhouette representing the dynamic and interconnected nature of PLM and PDM system release points](https://www.zuken.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/control-plm-release-points-featured-img-510x310.jpg)
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There is one thing that all design engineers will agree on: creating and gathering all the required data for PLM is error-prone and can be a royal pain. We all understand the value of releasing our design data to the corporate PLM system but our design process dictates multiple release points, and each one has a different purpose and data requirements.
![Interlocking gears with a technical drawing, the intricate process of configurable electrical designs and the detailed planning that goes into their creation](https://www.zuken.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/electrical-design-configuration-featured-img-510x310.jpg)
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The automation or configurability of designs is a goal every team wants to achieve, but most teams haven’t seen success mainly due to not having the right tool to get the job done. Electrical design tools that were once used by a vast number of companies originally came as extensions of mechanical design tools, or were very often just basic drafting tools. The ability to create exceptional designs without errors and do it in a fraction of the time required by other tools is the major reason why E3.series is so effective in helping design teams.