Recon supports the core elements of contract manufacturing projects:

• Design
• Pricing
• Production
• Quality Assurance
• Support

Design - You can define an unlimited number of Bill of Material (BOM) assemblies within Recon. Often, BOMs contain hierarchical information, with the top-level BOM describing a list of subassemblies. While the design process starts well before the creation of the BOM, it is the end product, extracted from the design documentation and drawings. The pricing and production modules are enabled by the creation of the BOM.

Pricing - Say, for example, that your customer wants pricing on the production of X, Y, and Z quantities of WIDGET. With a BOM in place, Recon lets you build a BOM Estimate for each of these quantities. On a per-estimate basis, you can examine and adjust cost factors for raw material, labour, subcontracting, shop supplies, machine time, freight, duty, brokerage fees, and miscellaneous overhead. Each of these cost components can be marked up independently to drive out a total selling price to the customer.

Production - Production is driven by entering a customer order for WIDGET into Recon. All of the required production work orders are generated, including work orders for each subassembly. Supply, demand and inventory levels determine production requirements. The creation of these production work orders may generate demand for required raw materials, and this may in turn generate related Purchase Orders and/or Vendor Pricing Inquiries. Technicians are responsible for updating the work order with actual parts used and labour time spent on each work order as it moves through the BOM workflow.

Quality Assurance - Once the assembly or subassembly is complete, it is placed into the QA area in Recon. Recon can be customized to capture test result data that is linked to the work order. Completion of the work order moves the finished goods into stock, where it becomes available for other work orders and customer orders.

Support - A repair, exchange, or calibration program can be set up to support returns. Repair activity can be analyzed to identify defect trends or potential optimizations to support continuous improvement of the manufacturing process.