About Manufactured Items

The software automatically creates a default root item under the PPR Context when you enter your app. This root item is usually a Manufacturing Assembly. However, you can also use other item types as a root item.

It is possible to add other root items, using contextual commands under the PPR Context.

At a lower level of the tree, it is possible to insert new and existing objects.

All created items have a type. This determines aspects of the item, such as what the item does and the type of allowed parent.

You can view the update status of an item with B.I. Essentials. B.I. Essentials computes the status of the selected items and its Resulting Product.

The Item Update Status menu option in the B.I. Essentials panel contains the following information about any type of item:

Color	Information
Green	The item and its Resulting Product fit the specifications.
Yellow	Unloaded or deleted objects indirectly impact the item or its Resulting Product.
Orange	Unloaded or deleted objects directly impact the item or its Resulting Product.
Pink	The item or its Resulting Product is removed.
Dark Blue	The Resulting Product of the item is not synchronized and does not fit the specifications. The status of the Resulting Product is based on its links and if the user has modified it.
Light Blue	The Resulting Product of the item is not of the latest revision and does not fit the specifications. The status of the Resulting Product is based on its links and if the user has modified it.

B.I. Essentials color codes the object tiles and the objects in the tree according to their configuration effectivity status. To compute the configuration effectivity status, B.I. Essentials takes into account Manufactured Items.

The Configuration Effectivity menu option in the B.I. Essentials panel contains the following information:

Color	Information
Yellow	The effectivity meets the evolution requirements.
Dark Blue	The effectivity meets the variants requirements.
Green	The effectivity meets both the evolution and the variants requirements.
Pink	The effectivity contains nonvalidated change criteria.
White	There is no effectivity.

The Manufacturing Assembly creates an assembly.

The Manufacturing Assembly allows creating a manufacturing assembly structure. It is usually the owner of at least one Provided Part.

You can insert all item types as predecessor.

The Provided Part consumes products, and has an implement link to the consumed product.

It is possible to create a Provided Part as a predecessor of a Manufacturing Assembly. In this case, the tree marks the Provided Part as the child.

It is also possible to create a Provided Part as a predecessor of a Transform or Remove Material type step. However, in this case, the tree marks the Provided Part not as the child but instead as the sibling.

This item type cannot have a predecessor: no creation is possible from a Provided Part.

The Transform step transforms the state of the input without adding or removing any parts. For example, cleaning or painting a part.

A Transform step does not implement anything.

You can insert all item types as predecessor.

In addition, when predecessors are continuous provides, you can define multiple continuous provides as predecessors to single or multiple transforms.

The Fasten step consumes fasteners, and has an implement link to the consumed fastener.

It is possible to create a Fasten step as a predecessor of a Manufacturing Assembly. In this case, the tree marks the Fasten step as a child.

It is also possible to create a Fasten step as a predecessor of a Transform or a Remove Material type step. However, in this case, the tree marks the Fasten step not as a child but as a sibling.

This item type cannot have a predecessor: no creation is possible from a Fasten step.

For more information, see Fasteners and Fasten Steps.

The Remove Material type steps transform the state of the input by removing part of the product.

For example, such a step could involve drilling holes or machining a part.

Remove Material type steps are as follows:

• Pre Drill
• Drill
• No Drill
• Cut
• Grind
• Bevel

You can insert all these types as predecessor.

The Manufactured Part implements a design part and realizes a Manufactured Part. The Manufactured Part does not belong to the product structure.

For example, a Manufactured Part can produce a drilled part from a design part.

You can insert Provided Part, Transform, and Remove Material type steps as predecessor.

For more information, see Manufactured Parts.

You can view the update status of a Manufactured Part with B.I. Essentials. B.I. Essentials computes the status of the selected Manufactured Part and its Resulting Product.

The Manufactured Part Update Status menu option in the B.I. Essentials panel contains the following information only about a Manufactured Part:

Color	Information
Green	The Manufactured Part and its Resulting Product fit the specifications.
Blue	The Manufactured Part or the Resulting Product do not fit the specifications because of the modified objects or business logics.
Black	The business logic prevents the update of the selected Manufactured Part.
Gray	The Resulting Product of the selected Manufactured Part is not present, so B.I. Essentials cannot compute the status.

The Manufactured Material conceptualizes the creation of a product out of nothing.

The Manufactured Material conceptualizes the item of creating an all-new product from its children to give an output with the correct semantic.

Compared to a Transform function, it has no input. Compared to a Manufacturing Assembly, it modifies its children to create its output.

You can insert all item types as predecessor.

The Manufacturing Kit provides a group of items. The resulting kit is not an assembly because there is no physical link between its constituent elements: they are independent from one another. However, a kit is required to execute the next assembly stage properly.

The aim of the Manufacturing Kit is to deliver the group of items together and unsorted.

You can insert the following item types as predecessor: Manufacturing Assembly, Provided Part, Manufactured Part, Manufactured Material, and Manufacturing Kit.

The Installation provides the capability to manage the installation of components on a larger assembly.

A Manufacturing Installation usually has one input item and one or more output items. It can also contain one or more items. It is usually created between the input item and the output item and can also be created without any input item.

For more information, see About Manufacturing Installations.

Continuous Manufactured Material and Continuous Provided Material items have quantities such as length, mass, area, and volume.

There are two families of continuous items:

• Continuous Manufactured Material with:
  • Length magnitude: the created quantity measures as a length (m, mm, inch, and so on)
  • Mass magnitude: the created quantity measures as a mass (kg, pound, and so on)
  • Area magnitude: the created quantity measures as an area (m2, cm2, and so on)
  • Volume magnitude: the created quantity measures as a volume (m3, liter, and so on).
• Continuous Provided Material with:
  • Length magnitude: the provided quantity measures as a length (m, mm, inch, and so on)
  • Mass magnitude: the provided quantity measures as a mass (kg, pound, and so on)
  • Area magnitude: the provided quantity measures as an area (m2, cm2, and so on)
  • Volume magnitude: the provided quantity measures as a volume (m3, liter, and so on).

You can insert all item types as predecessor for both Continuous Manufactured Material and Continuous Provided Material items.

For more information, see Creating Continuous Manufactured Items.

You can create root items under the PPR Context using the New Content dialog box that appears when you select Add > Content.

The Item section of the New Content dialog box lists the available root item types.

If you right-click an item type, the Set attributes at creation command enables you to specify an explicit or implicit creation mode for each item type. User Preferences stores this information.

When the creation mode for the item type is explicit, an attributes dialog box appears. You can define attributes for the item and configuration in the tabs of the dialog box. For a Continuous Provided Material item, you can define the magnitude in a dedicated tab.

When the creation mode for the item type is implicit, the attributes dialog box does not appear and the creation mode creates the item directly.

Implicit creation of items occurs in the following cases:

• Enter Manufactured Item Definition with creation of a root item
• Create and update item structures
• Create and update Fasten steps
• Create and update Manufacturing Assembly structure
• Assign parts and fasteners using the Assembly Assignment Assistant, Drag and drop, Smart Zoom, or an assignment command.

For more information, see 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: Creating New Content.

You can create and store items as well as access them through libraries.

You can enrich a Manufacturing Assembly using a template, which you must make using a copy from a library.

Create the template and store it in a library. Then, you must use the Copy from Library command to enrich the service assembly with the content of the template.

Template reuse cannot be done using the Insert Existing item command. This is because the command requires that the service item you plan to insert has a scope compatible with the scope of the service item you plan to complete. This is to avoid violation of encapsulation rules.

This functionality exists for the insertion of a Manufacturing Assembly that possibly has links to implemented parts and a scope.

For more information, see the Design IP Classification User's Guide.

When the tree hides/shows an item, then the tree also hides/shows the products implemented by the item.

If the tree hides/shows an item that has multiple child items, then the tree hides/shows all the products implemented by the selected item and its children.

The possible Hide/Show statuses for item occurrences are:

• Shown: the tree node icon displays normally
• Partially Shown: the tree node icon is partially gray
• Not Shown: the tree node icon is fully gray.

When you hide an item using the Hide contextual command:

• The tree hides the selected item
• The tree hides the children of the selected item
• The tree hides the products linked with the selected item
• The tree hides the products linked with the children (and their children).

When you show an item using the Show contextual command:

• The tree shows the selected item
• The tree shows the children of the selected item
• The tree shows the products linked with the selected item
• The tree shows the products linked with the children (and their children)
• The tree shows the parents of the selected item with the tree node icon partially grayed
• The tree shows the products linked with the direct parents.

The Drill dialog box lets you define a drill's drill type, thread type, bottom type, and parameters.

The following types' values and parameters are available: