Osen
Mechanical
- Sep 19, 2019
- 9
The company I work for makes a lot of products that are high-mix low-volume type. An example would be a cable with connectors on both ends. For any particular cable you can have a custom length and then each end could be terminated by several choices of connecors/ferrules etc.
So variant examples could be something like:
- CABLE1-CON1-CONA
- CABLE1-CON1-CON1
- CABLE1-CONA-CONB
- ETC
What are some best practices for making assembly instructions for products with lots of variants like this? Are instructions in one document based on the chosen cable and then sections for the connectors? Is every variant just a new product and making unique sets of documents is just inevitable?
Now there may be some special software for electrical cables in particular, but that was just an example. The company I work for has other products that are configurable. Managing the BOMs and work instructions is becoming tedious and so I'm not sure what a good solution is for this small company.
Thanks!
So variant examples could be something like:
- CABLE1-CON1-CONA
- CABLE1-CON1-CON1
- CABLE1-CONA-CONB
- ETC
What are some best practices for making assembly instructions for products with lots of variants like this? Are instructions in one document based on the chosen cable and then sections for the connectors? Is every variant just a new product and making unique sets of documents is just inevitable?
Now there may be some special software for electrical cables in particular, but that was just an example. The company I work for has other products that are configurable. Managing the BOMs and work instructions is becoming tedious and so I'm not sure what a good solution is for this small company.
Thanks!