| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | bill of materials explosion | 物料清单分解 (The process of identifying the components, and their quantities, that are required to produce an item) |
| comp., MS | BOM explosion | 物料清单分解 (The process of identifying the components, and their quantities, that are required to produce an item) |
| comp., MS | data explosion | 数据爆炸 (The exponential growth in size of a multidimensional structure, such as a cube, due to the storage of aggregated data) |
| comp., MS | phantom explosion | 模拟计算 (The process of calculating the demand for the materials required for a non-stocked subassembly that is built during the production process of the parent component) |