Generate Manufactured Item for Normal Part

You can generate an entire MBOM from the selected product, or create a new manufacturing assembly under the selected manufacturing assembly as the parent of the MBOM.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Prerequisites for Creating a Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM) for Heavy Industry Structure Fabrication

Generate MBOM for the Entire Product

You can generate manufacturing assemblies for all of the parts of the root product.

Click Play to watch the video:

  1. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Generate MBOM .

    This video is based on the user interface in an earlier release, but the concepts described are still valid.

    The Generate MBOM panel appears.

  2. Select the root product node in the tree.
    The selected product appears in the Generate MBOM panel.
  3. Select the root manufacturing assembly in the tree.
    The selected manufacturing assembly appears in the Generate MBOM panel.
  4. Click OK.
    A progress bar appears in the Generate MBOM panel as the entire MBOM is created under the root manufacturing assembly.

Generate MBOM with Additional Manufacturing Assembly

You can generate an additional manufacturing assembly and assign selected parts under this manufacturing assembly.

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  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, click App Options .
    The App Options panel appears.
  2. Click Generate New Manufacturing Assembly and close the App Options panel.
  3. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Generate MBOM .
    The Generate MBOM panel appears.
  4. Select as many piece parts/products as required in the tree.
    The selected parts appear in the Generate MBOM panel as they are selected.
  5. Select the parent manufacturing assembly in the tree.
    The selected manufacturing assembly appears in the Generate MBOM panel.
  6. Change the name of the new manufacturing assembly.
  7. Click OK.
    A progress bar appears in the Generate MBOM panel as the MBOM is creating. Creating a new manufacturing assembly with the defined name under the parent manufacturing assembly, and the MBOM is under the new manufacturing assembly.

Generating for each piece part, a new manufacturing assembly and assigning the piece part as a manufactured item.

Generate MBOM with Rules

You can generate MBOM based on Rules.

  1. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Generate MBOM .
    The Generate MBOM panel appears.
  2. Click Show Preferences on the panel.
    Preferences Panel appears on the Generate MBOM panel.

  3. Define the rules.
    • Creation Rule: rule to decide the parent of theManufactured Item to be created and to decide the type.
    • Attribute Rule: Rule to apply modification to the Manufactured Item to be created.
  4. Or click;
    • Search Physical Product or Catalog .

      The text appears Select or search an object or Press ESC to exit. In Search select Catalog, and enter your catalog name or type catalog.



      All of the catalogs appear in the search tab window.



      Double-click a catalog. An example, DrawingCatalog-2 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.



      Replaces the keyword in the catalog by an attribute in the Library and the filter updates accordingly.



  5. Select a product to generate and click OK.
    Rule based MBOM Generation List panel appears and the result computed by the Rule for Creation.

  6. Click Finish.
    Manufactured items are generated corresponding to the result of the Rule based MBOM Generation List.
    Note: If the Parent column is Unknown, then the Manufactured Item creates with the same structure as the product.

    If the Mfg Item Type column is Unknown, then Manufacturing Assembly creates for the assembly product and the Manufactured Part creates for a piece part. And the Modification Rule applies for each Manufactured Item it creates.



Generate MBOM with Make-Buy Option

You can generate MBOM with the Make-Buy option.

  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, click App Options .
    The App Options panel appears.
  2. Click Generate based on Make-Buy and close the App Options panel.
  3. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Generate MBOM .
    The Generate MBOM panel appears.
  4. Select some design data that has MAKE or BUY keywords in the title.
    The selected parts appear in the Generate MBOM panel as they are selected.
  5. Select the root manufacturing assembly in the tree.
    The selected manufacturing assembly appears in the Generate MBOM panel.
  6. Click OK.
    A progress bar appears in the Generate MBOM panel as the MBOM is created.

    Notes:

    • Customizing Make or Buy processing by the CATRule (DELMA_VPMReference_MakeOrBuyDefault.CATRule) available by default and located in the ..\resources\knowledge\scripts folder.
    • MBOM Generation with Rules and Make-Buy option cannot be used at the same time. In this case, only the MBOM Generation with Make-Buy option is executed.