Creating and Updating Fasten Steps

You can use the Create/Update Fasten steps command to retrieve all assigned parts on a selected Manufacturing Assembly or Installation and its predecessors, and all the fasteners that are joined to these parts, and automatically assign the fasteners on the correct positions in the MBOM graph.

Before you begin: Open your product and Manufacturing Assembly data in your app. An Item-Product scope is required.
Recommendation: Select the Use same Fasten step reference to implement fasteners in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Process Engineering > Fastened Item Definition > Fastened Items. That way, the same Fasten step reference is created for identical fasteners, for example fasteners that have the same diameter.
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About Fasteners and Fasten Steps
  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, click B.I. Essentials .
    The B.I. Essentials list appears.
  2. Select the Product Assignment Status B.I. from the list.
    The fasteners have the Not Assigned status in the tree as indicated by the orange colored squares next to the fastener nodes.

  3. Select a Manufacturing Assembly or Installation in the tree.
  4. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Create/Update Fasten Steps .
  5. Click OK in the dialog box that appears to confirm the selection.
    The Create/Update Log dialog box appears giving detailed information about the created Fasten steps.
  6. Click Close to close the dialog box.
    Note: You can save this log in a text file using the Export log to a file command.

The created Fasten steps are added under the Manufacturing Assembly or Installation in the tree.

Notes:
  • A Fasten step reference was created for fasteners that have the same diameter (in this example, four such references were created)
  • The Product Assignment Status B.I. shows you that the fasteners now have the Assigned directly status in the tree as indicated by the light blue colored squares next to the fastener nodes.