About Synchronization Manager

Synchronization Manager assists the manufacturing planner to synchronize status between EBOM and MBOM. After manufacturing planning, the product designer may add/remove/modify design data and they may want to know the current status of design data. In this case, the Synchronization Manager detects what kind of changes are made on the design product, and then synchronizes MBOM.

See Also
Creating Manufactured Item for New Design Product
About Using the Synchronize Production Drawing and BOM XML

Launching the Synchronization Manager , the Synchronization Manager panel appears in the left side bar. It has a tree view that shows all of the loaded design products in the session with the name/icon in the expanded state.



See also Scope Link Creation on Assembly Item.

To collapse a specific row that has children rows, double-click a cell in the EBOM column. You do not want to execute Compute, all columns show Unknown except for the EBOM column. To advance to the next steps, Compute is required. Synchronize is disabled by default the first time.

The columns:

  • MBOM: This shows the name and icon of the corresponding implementing Manufactured Item if it exists. If not, None and displays the expected icon. The other columns fill up depending on this column.
  • Status: There are 5 possibilities:
    • New: Corresponding Manufactured Item does not exist.
    • Deleted: Design part does not exist in the session but the corresponding Manufactured Item exists.
    • Modified: Simple modification on design part or attribute change, which DELMnOSynchronizePLMAttributes.CATRule determines.
    • Revised: Design part has a version. To detect the version status, the option Check Versioning for Synchronization Manager in the Preferences, upper right corner in the dialog box widget has to be selected.



      See Synchronization Manager for Resulting Product scenario's.

      This option is to detect the revised design product during computation. If this option is OFF, a new status appears for the revised design product. The Deleted status appears for the Manufactured Item of the previous revision product because the implement link does not exist.

      Synchronize Production Drawing: This option is cleared by default. Production Drawing which is attached to a manufacturing assembly update by the Synchronization Manager when this option is ON.

      Synchronize BOM XML: This option is cleared by default. When this option is ON, the BOM XML that is attached to the manufacturing assembly refreshes by the Synchronization Manager. This is referring to the Consider Direct Children Only option of Production Drawing.

      Rule based MBOM Generation

      Rule for Creation: Defining this rule, the Parent Manufactured Item and its Manufactured Item Type automatically defines it by this rule for the new status row after computation.

      Rule for Attribute: This rule applies attributes to the newly created Manufactured Item after synchronization.

      • Catalog Browser , the text appears Select or search an object or Press ESC to exit. In the Search window, select Catalog from the list window. Type your catalog name or type catalog.



        All of the catalogs appear in the search tab window.



        Double-click a catalog, example DrawingCatalog-2, this opens the catalog.



        A Catalog is a tree structure consisting of the following elements:

        • Chapters: A chapter references other chapters or items. Use to classify items by category.
        • Items: An item is a reference to an external document or PLM Object. Items describe them with keyword values.
        • Keywords: A keyword is an attribute describing a chapter or item. The Librarian can associate keywords to a chapter or item, and assign keyword values to each item. Search by keyword values to filter its content.

      • Libraries classify standard objects according to user-defined attributes. A Library consists of Classes, which categorize the objects in the Library hierarchy. Items are the actual objects that they manage.

        Library to navigate, search, and select an item with better view and performance. The Library has a class and a description by an item.



        The keyword in the catalog replaces by an attribute in the library and the filter updates accordingly.

        After a resource selection, the positioning information and auxiliary viewer updates with the resource and selected manufacturing assembly.

  • Action: Determines status column and performs two behaviors; Execute/Ignore.

    Status Action - Execute Action - Ignore
    New Create

    Manufactured Item creates under the parent Manufactured Item that defines the Parent column.

    Implement link creates between newly made Manufactured Item and design product.

    		None
    Deleted Delete

    Manufactured Item that does not have implement link anymore, deletes.

    		None
    Modified Acknowledge

    Resulting Product updates based on design product.

    		None
    Revised Revise

    New revision of current Manufactured Item creates.

    Replaces current Manufactured item by newly revised Manufactured item and implement link reroutes.

    		None
    Up To Date None

  • Parent: This is for New status and shows Manufacturing Assembly name/icon if you choose the father Manufacturing Assembly. In the case of the root node, father is the root Manufacturing Assembly by default. To choose father, right-click a cell in the Parent column then the Manufactured Item Tree Dialog appears. Then you can select the parent Manufacturing Assembly on this panel.
  • Compute: Synchronization Manager starts to compute the status for the selected product node in the panel. If there is no selection, then all loaded design products in the session compute.
  • Synchronize: Synchronization Manager starts to synchronize the MBOM status based on EBOM status and determined action.
  • Filter box: As soon as you put a keyword on the filter box at the top of the Synchronization Manager panel, the EBOM column filters for the piece parts.
  • Customization Dialog is located next to the filter box and it is meant to customize columns in the Synchronization Manager panel. If clicking, the Customization Dialog, which consists of check boxes with the titles of PLM attributes, appears. Within this, you can use the Filter Pop-Up to filter the other columns by (Select All), Modified, Up-To-Date, Unknown, Revised, New, and Deleted. When clicking these header columns, all the values of the current column lists on the pop-up, and then you can filter the column by selecting a value. For the date type column, the Synchronization Manager panel provides the user with a different filter pop-up, Custom Filter. There are two modes for filtering the date type column:
    • Manual - Filter pop-up shows a date/time tree to select the date and time manually, the hierarchy is Year-Month-Day-Hour-Minute-Second.
    • Custom - Put a specific date and time value as filtering keywords. And you can customize the filtering condition by using two dialogs and And/Or operators. The format of the keyword must be the same as month/day/year or month/day/year hour:minute:second. If there is no time value, then it fills with the default time (00:00:00). Clicking the Calendar, select a date from the calendar to define the filter keyword. As soon as you select a date from the calendar, the keyword box fills with a selected date and default time (00:00:00).