Hi,
We often deal with repairs of products. The scenario is:
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A product comes back because of a defect in one of its components.
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In the repair process, the same product enters and leaves the production.
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Additionally, some replacement components are consumed.
So in practice:
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Input: the defective product + some components.
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Output: the same product, now repaired.
Now with the new Support disassembly BOM, I was wondering:
- Could this new feature be used (or adapted) to cover our repair use case?
We also thought about modeling a repair as disassembly + assembly:
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First, disassemble the defective product into all its parts.
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Then, assemble it again with the good parts + new replacement parts.
But we are not sure if this makes sense in practice, especially for cost and usability, as in repairs the product cost shouldn’t be updated.
So I would like to know if you think the new disassembly type can cover repair needs?
Thanks beforehand.