Analyzing your BoM for Restricted Substances or Sustainability

Granta MI has two optional reporting and analysis modules, MI Restricted Substances and MI Sustainability, that can be used to analyze and run reports on Bills of Materials using the BoM Analyzer tool in Granta MI.

If Restricted Substances or Sustainability analysis is enabled on your Granta MI system, then in Creo, NX, Teamcenter, and Windchill, you can right-click an assembly or component in MI Materials Gateway to analyze it in BoM Analyzer.

Tip: Alternatively, you can export the BoM and its assignments as a Bill of Materials file that can be saved and then reopened in BoM Analyzer. This may be useful if you don't want to analyze the BoM immediately, or if the BoM analysis will be run by someone else. (Note that exporting a Bill of Materials file from Gateway does not require a license for MI Restricted Substances or MI Sustainability.) See Exporting assignments as a file.

To view and analyze an assembly or component in BoM Analyzer:

  1. In the Assignments panel, right-click the component that you want to analyze. This can be the root assembly (to analyze the entire BoM) or a sub-assembly or part.
    Note:
    • In Creo, analysis and reporting features are only available when you are viewing a hierarchical BoM - that is, when you have opened MI Materials Gateway from the main toolbar in Creo Parametric. See Creo Parametric.
    • In NX, analysis and reporting features are only available when you are working in BoM mode. See NX.
    • In Teamcenter and Windchill, you can also analyze the results of a 'Where Used' search.
  2. From the context menu, choose View in BoM Analyzer
  3. If your organization has a license for more than one analysis package: Choose the type of analysis you want to carry out: either Restricted Substances or Sustainability.

BoM Analyzer opens in a new browser window, showing either a Restricted Substances analysis or a Sustainability analysis of your BoM.

The BoM is analyzed based on either the mass (where available) or the volume of each component:
  • When exporting a BoM from Creo, NX, or Teamcenter, a mass is calculated for the part wherever possible, based on the part’s (or body’s) volume in the host CAD application and the Density value of the material assignment. If the part mass is unavailable, then the part volume and a 'Mass per Unit of Measure' value are included in the BoM instead, as described below for Windchill.
  • When exporting a BoM from Windchill, the part volume and a 'Mass per Unit of Measure' value for the part (based on the Density of the material currently assigned in Windchill) are included in the BoM.
    • The part volume is displayed in the Quantity column, and the unit of volume is displayed in the Unit of Measure column.
    • The 'Mass per Unit of Measure' value for the part is displayed in the Mass per UoM column, and the unit for this value is displayed in the Mass unit column.
    Note: If the Windchill Gateway has been configured to support parts with Quantity specified in other units (such as length), this information is shown in the same way.

In BoM Analyzer, you can also modify the BoM and re-run the analysis, assign additional types of data (such as secondary processes for Sustainability), and download reports. See Analyzing Bills of Materials .