To solve the difficulty in describing the generic bill of material (GBOM) with the conventional tabular structure in a relational database system,a novel XML-based approach is presented to represent GBOM. It can repre...To solve the difficulty in describing the generic bill of material (GBOM) with the conventional tabular structure in a relational database system,a novel XML-based approach is presented to represent GBOM. It can represent and maintain one generic structure that encompasses all variants of a product. With the combination of product-oriented notation,this approach further gives a high degree of flexibility to support the user in the product variant specification task. The generic BOM system is then introduced for the particular product variant,and a prototype system has been developed. It is indicated that the presented approach is feasible.展开更多
文摘To solve the difficulty in describing the generic bill of material (GBOM) with the conventional tabular structure in a relational database system,a novel XML-based approach is presented to represent GBOM. It can represent and maintain one generic structure that encompasses all variants of a product. With the combination of product-oriented notation,this approach further gives a high degree of flexibility to support the user in the product variant specification task. The generic BOM system is then introduced for the particular product variant,and a prototype system has been developed. It is indicated that the presented approach is feasible.
