Timeline for What exactly is a "Bill of Materials" (BoM)?
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 13:13 | comment | added | MSalters | ... and yet provide you with a working product. If you're going to deal with China, there are numerous companies who'll not ask questions. Resistor, value unspecified on the BOM? Ok, we have a bunch of 10K resistors that will fit, we'll use those. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 17:59 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | A proper BOM is something you can give to a turnkey manufacturer and not have them get back to you with part questions. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 17:43 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | Yes, its the type of BOM an inexperienced person would provide-- once. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 15:18 | history | edited | Ricardo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added title to naked link. Great post!
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 15:11 | comment | added | og1L | But that is more like a broken car. I know - one did not ask for a working car, but... I would expect to have enough information in a BOM that I could go away and actually build the final assembly. That means the information on the parts has to be good enough to identify them (manufacturer parts number or at least package, type of capacitor...). Which isn't the case in this example... | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 14:54 | comment | added | Enemy Of the State Machine | It is like someone asking you to give them a car. Here. Here is a car. Wrong car? This is, in fact, a BOM. There are many styles and needs, but this is a BOM. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | I'd expect much more on a BOM. This one does not list stuff like component package sizes. If I asked someone for a BOM, I'd expect something that will let me build an order containing components sufficient to populate a part, and this doesn't do that. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 14:36 | history | answered | Enemy Of the State Machine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |