Sama™
sama - evenness, things brought into balance · formerly BOM Synchronization
Engineering, manufacturing, service, and software BOMs kept in step as designs move.
At a glance
- Category
- BOM Synchronization
- Theme
- Traceability & Product Data
- Industries
- Automotive, Manufacturing, Technology
- Capabilities
- 5 composed
- Pairs with
- Anvaya, Shilpa
Who it is for
- Automotive programmes ramping new platforms
- Configuration management and PLM teams
- Aftermarket and service teams working from stale BOMs
Systems it sits on
Teamcenter · Windchill · SAP · Oracle PLM
Also used in
Pairs with
Anvaya · Shilpa
Explainer
Sama in two minutes
A narrated walkthrough of the problem, how Sama works, and what changes. Captions are available in the player.
Sama is a command centre for keeping bills of materials aligned across a programme. It brings engineering, manufacturing, service, and software BOMs into one dashboard, tracks discrepancies, visualizes dependencies, and keeps every downstream BOM in step as designs evolve. It is built for fast navigation across complex, multi-domain parts data, and it removes the manual reconciliation work that usually causes costly mismatches between engineering intent and what actually ships.
The problem
Each function keeps its own bill of materials, so engineering intent and what actually ships drift apart, and the mismatch is discovered on the line or in the field.
The outcome
Every downstream BOM held in sync with engineering as designs evolve, with discrepancies surfaced rather than reconciled by hand.
How it works
How Sama works
- 01
Bring the BOMs together
Each domain BOM is read from its own system of record into one comparable structure.
- 02
Detect divergence
Differences between domains are surfaced continuously rather than found at a build or a warranty claim.
- 03
Trace the cause
Each discrepancy is linked back to the design change or plant variation that produced it.
- 04
Propagate the change
Approved changes are pushed downstream so service and software stay aligned with engineering.
Module 01
Multi-Domain Dashboard
Engineering, manufacturing, service, and software BOMs brought into one comparable view.
- 02
Discrepancy Tracking
Mismatches between domains surfaced with the change that caused them.
- 03
Dependency Visualization
How a part change propagates across variants, plants, and downstream BOMs.
- 04
Variant & Option Governance
Configuration and option complexity managed without a separate BOM per permutation.
- engineering, manufacturing, service, software
- Four domainsengineering, manufacturing, service, software
- not reconciled by hand
- Surfacednot reconciled by hand
Integrations
Ideal for
- Automotive programmes ramping new platforms
- Configuration management and PLM teams
- Aftermarket and service teams working from stale BOMs
- Software-defined product teams aligning hardware and firmware
Capabilities
Sama composes these capabilities from the shared Agent Platform layer. The same atoms power the rest of the portfolio, so adopting a second accelerator reuses the integration work rather than repeating it.
Composition
Sama is assembled from shared platform atoms. Hover a partner to see what you reuse on the next deployment.
- System Connectors
- MCP-connected reads and writes against the ERP, MES, PLM, CRM, and warehouse systems already in place.
- Anomaly Detection
- Deviation found in high-volume signal without a human defining the threshold first.
- Root-Cause Reasoning
- Symptoms traced back through system, process, and genealogy relationships to the change that caused them.
- Workflow Orchestration
- Specialist agents coordinated across a multi-step process, each handing structured context to the next.
- Evidence & Audit Trail
- Every input, decision, and action captured as tamper-evident evidence a regulator or auditor can follow.
Ingest
Reason
Reason
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Govern
FAQ
Does Sama replace our PLM?
No. It reads from PLM, ERP, and MES and provides the cross-domain comparison those systems do not give you in one place.
Does it handle software BOMs?
Yes. Aligning embedded firmware against the hardware BOM is one of the workflows it was built for.
How does it pair with Anvaya?
Sama keeps the definition of the product correct; Anvaya records what was actually built against it.