Method and system for generating a bill of materials and a corresponding bill of processes for a product

Abstract

For generating a bill of materials and a corresponding bill of processes for a product, a natural language processing module maps at least one document specifying a product into a latent representation, which is an embedding in latent space. A bill of materials generator receives the latent representation as input and generates a bill of materials for the product. A user interface detects user interactions with the generated bill of materials and creates a curated bill of materials depending on the user interactions. A bill of processes generator receives the latent representation and the curated bill of materials as input and constructs a bill of processes for the product. The method and system, or at least some of their embodiments, provide semi-automatic generation of the bill of materials and bill of processes for a product, using an AI engine. Compared to manually setting up a bill of materials and/or bill of processes within a software-system, the approach of using AI for generating this information can significantly speed up the process of calculating costs and sustainability values of a product. In this way the time from request for quotation until submitting the actual offer can be lowered significantly.

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