Bill of Materials (BOM)
The Bill of Materials (BOM) tool lists all physical materials needed to build a network segment. After you click a component, the tool runs a downstream trace and gathers information about all components. Further, the tool performs a difference analysis, comparing the proposed design to the as-built components in the GIS. With this information, the report categorizes components into Install and Remove.
In the following example, we will generate a BOM from this node in the network:
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Click the BOM
icon then click the node. The BOM displays.
TIP: Information regarding Housing To Housing Connectors is available only in a BOM report. -
If necessary, change the title of the BOM and add comments. Click Update when you are finished.
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Export the BOM to Excel by clicking the Export button.
IMPORTANT: When you click Close in the BOM dialog, any changes you made are not maintained. The only way to preserve changes is to export the BOM, and the changes are reflected in the Excel version.
The generated Bill of Materials is efficiently grouped by components. For example:
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Actives - such as nodes, inline equalizers
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Connectors - such as heat shrink, pin connectors, tap port terminators
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Passives - such as cables, taps, conditioning taps, conditioning tap plugins
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Structures - such as poles
Installation and Removal
When you need to track components in your design that have been added or removed, DHFC provides an in-depth Bill of Materials (BOM) that field crews can use for determining which components need to be ordered, installed, and removed.
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The Installation section of the BOM covers all of the new components that you added to the network.
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The Removal section covers any components that need to be removed in order to fulfill the current design.
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If you replaced an existing component, the original component appears under Removal and the new component appears under Installation.